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Supporting the people of London

Our rolling grants programmes are currently closed to new applications. We will open a new funding programme to applications in autumn 2025. Our new funding policy, Standing with Londoners, was announced in March 2025.

Standing with Londoners

Bridging London, Connecting Communities

We are a world class bridge owner responsible for five Thames crossings, and London’s biggest independent charity funder.

Learn more about us

Funding closed to new applications

We closed our rolling grants programmes to new applications in October 2024.

Funding closed to new applications

Standing with Londoners – our new funding policy

City Bridge Foundation has a new ten-year funding policy, called Standing with Londoners. We aim to launch the first of our new funding programmes in autumn 2025.

Standing with Londoners

Meet our poet-in-residence

Cecilia Knapp is our first ever poet-in-residence, celebrating our bridges, our history, our funding, and the work of the many organisations we support

Poet-in-residence

Supporting you to succeed

We are with our grant holders at every step, offering further support to make your project a success.

More about available support

Latest updates

Programmes and Partnership Manager – Propel

We are recruiting a fixed-term Programmes and Partnership Manager to work on Propel, a long-term, collaborative funding initiative.
  • Deadline: 27 October 2025, 12pm
  • Location: Hybrid
  • Salary: £47,620 — £53,310 Inclusive of inner London Weighting

Funding Portfolio Manager – two opportunities

We are recruiting two Funding Portfolio Managers who will play a critical role in managing a portfolio of grants. These are fixed-term contracts of two and three years.
  • Deadline: 27 October 2025, 12pm
  • Location: Hybrid
  • Salary: £47,620 — £53,310 per annum inclusive of all allowances

Board Member

We are seeking to appoint a Co-opted Member to our Board with expertise in bridge-building/maintenance, from an engineering or construction perspective.
  • Deadline: 30 October 2025, 12pm
  • Location: Hybrid
  • Salary: Unremunerated