Our year... 2024 - 2025

• We were proud to receive a ‘good’ Foundation Practice Rating alongside 100 of the largest UK foundations for our good practice in diversity, accountability and transparency.
• We hosted a gathering of property owners and developers, hearing from Knight Dragon, Grosvenor and British Land about ways to collaborate across the sector to maximise social impact.
• Our team of 36 runners raised over £50,000 taking part in the London Marathon.

• The Adobe UK Community Fund, in partnership with Adobe Foundation, opened for applications. 12 grassroots disability and community organisations received two-year grants totalling £432,000.

The Evening Standard launched the Show Respect campaign to support 12 grassroots community organisations tackling violence against women and girls, with grants of £500,000 to highlight the issue of misogyny and unhealthy relationships in schools.

• Wimbledon Foundation celebrated their 10th anniversary at The Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Young people representing grantees from Wimbledon Foundation Community Fund took part in the coin toss in the finals.
• CCLA Investments hosted the launch of the latest round of our Youth Futures Fund. They provided match funding to help us raise over £400,000 for community organisations supporting young care leavers in London.

• We surveyed our network of community organisation in response to the UK riots. We received 181 responses with 80% reporting their community had increased concerns around safety and mental health.
• TV personality and Comic Relief ambassador Oti Mabuse visited Somerville Centre – one of 41 Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) projects funded by Sainsbury’s Nourish the Nation. The programme, in partnership with Comic Relief, distributed £400,000 in grants across London over the summer.

• Outgoing Deputy Mayor Sophie Linden joined us at an event for the 36 specialist community organisations supported by the MOPAC Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Grassroots Fund at Sadlers Wells Theatre.
• A new round of the Wimbledon Foundation Homelessness Fund opened for applications on the same day as the latest round of Wimbledon Foundation Community Fund closed.

• Our Director of Development and Communications Harbi Jama had the opportunity to speak with professional advisers at the national Financial Planning Conference in Manchester.
• Representatives of the community organisations supported by grants of £210,000 from Women’s Fund for London came together to meet each other at Luminary Bakery in Camden.

• We celebrated the conclusion of JPMorganChase’s £2million Pathways to Economic Opportunities with an event at their offices in Canary Wharf.
• Representatives of four other community foundations supported by Sainsbury’s Nourish the Nation (in partnership with Comic Relief) joined us for a learning and knowledge sharing session, with a view to strengthening the partnership for future years.
• Newly appointed Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime Kaya Comer-Schwartz visited Rahab Project – one of the organisations supported by MOPAC Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Grassroots Fund.
• To round off a busy month, The London Community Foundation office moved from Borough just down the road to Bermondsey.

• New funding opportunities were launched for Lambeth Wellbeing Fund, Deptford Challenge Trust Open Programme and Lambeth Mental Health Inequalities Fund.
• Godin Legacy Fund gave an unrestricted £50,000 donation in recognition of our commitment to supporting women in the capital through our wide grantmaking programmes and projects.

• Chief Executive Paul Buchanan received an MBE for services to charity in the King’s 2025 New Year’s Honours list.
• Lord Bassam of Brighton hosted our community of endowment holders for a special afternoon tea at the House of Lords.

• Grosvenor’s Greener Futures Fund opened for another round of applications, taking the number of grants offered for environmental projects in Westminster to almost £650,000 since it launched in 2021.

• Sainsbury’s donated a further £400,000 to extend the Nourish the Nation (in partnership with Comic Relief) HAF programme for summer 2025.

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