Our year... 2023 - 2024

Ever wondered what a year looks like at The London Community Foundation? Read on to see a glimpse of our last financial year - a year of making a difference to London, where it matters most...

April 2023

• MOPAC committed £1m of emergency funding for the Violence Against Women and Girls Cost of Living Fund.
• The Lambeth Wellbeing Fund, in partnership with Lambeth Council, awarded over £180,000 to 29 organisations across the borough.
• Our team of 25 runners raised £20,000 taking part in the London Marathon.

May

• Barclays hosted a Skill Up Step Up event to celebrate the first 15 months of the programme, which helps train young people and connect them with future jobs and apprenticeships.
• The Lambeth Health Inequality Community Fund was launched with £160,000 committed to reduce health inequalities by engaging residents in conversations about improving health and wellbeing.
• In partnership with Lendlease and Southwark Council, the Elephant and Castle Community Fund returned for an 11th round of funding awarding £75,000 in grants to projects in the area.
• The Grosvenor Greener Futures Fund awarded £200,000 to support community projects in Westminster, inspiring the community to take local climate action.

June

• The MOPAC Violence Against Women and Girls Grassroots Fund was celebrated in style with an event attended by representatives of the 41 specialist VAWG organisations as well as Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Sophie Linden.
• Greenwich Peninsula Community Fund, in partnership with lead developers Knight Dragon, was launched. With an initial round of £100,000 funding. The fund is the first part of £1.9m commitment over fifteen years to the development.

July

• Gowling WLG Community Fund awarded £10,000 to two Southwark-based community organisations including TheChoirWithNoName, who were featured on this year’s ITV Pride of Britain Awards.

August

• Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, renewed his commitment to tackling violence against women and girls, with a further investment of £3m to form the MOPAC Violence Against Women and Girls Grassroots Fund 2023-2025. The announcement was made during a visit to one of the groups from the fund’s previous cohort.
• The Home Office VAWG Specialist Support Services Fund, a two year programme aiming to ensure continuity and quality of frontline VAWG services, awarded £1.2m in grants with an extra £57,000 match funding from MOPAC for organisational development.
• The Stanhope Foundation awarded nearly £450,000 in grants to six organisations providing employability programmes.

September

• The third round of our Youth Futures Fund launched, focusing on tackling misogyny and violence and promoting healthy relationships.
• Six organisations supporting children and young people in Lambeth received investment thanks to £98,000 of grants awarded by Lambeth Youth Opportunities Fund.

October

• We launched the Women’s Fund for London, raising £170,000 from a pool of individual and corporate donors. The fund will support organisations who promote financial resilience for women and their families across London.

• JPMorgan Chase hosted a round table event for their Pathways to Economic Opportunities programme (investing in Black and Minoritised Ethnic community Led By and For organisations who provide specialist employment, enterprise and financial health services) to explore different models and approaches to organisational development for community-based organisations.

November

• Deptford Challenge Trust launches £250,000 of funding, after a two-year break, for community organisations in Deptford.

December

• Hackney Foodbank Community Fund was launched to tackle food insecurity in the borough, with £400,000 distributed to 24 organisations.
• £242,000 was awarded to 16 Lambeth-based organisations via the Lambeth Community Fund, in partnership with Lambeth Council.

January

• The Cockayne Foundation celebrated the 10th anniversary of Grants for the Arts with £2m in funding, including ten anniversary grants of £100,000 each.

February

• Grants totalling £50,000 from Regent’s Place Community Fund took the total awarded by British Land to £180,000 across their three campuses. In August Broadgate Community Fund awarded £100,000 and in September Paddington Central Community Fund awarded £30,000 to local community groups.

March 2023

• Long term partners, Wimbledon Foundation, celebrated their 10th anniversary. Throughout 2023/24 they have awarded £750,000 to community organisations in Merton and Wandsworth. There have been three rounds of the Wimbledon Foundation Community Fund and Community Fund + as well as the Wimbledon Foundation Homelessness Fund.