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Supporting the people of London

We’re City Bridge Foundation, a world-class bridge owner responsible for five Thames crossings, and London’s biggest independent charity funder

About City Bridge Foundation

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

Standing with Londoners – our funding policy

Standing with Londoners sets the direction of our funding over the next decade

Standing with Londoners

Meet our poet-in-residence

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

Poet-in-residence

Latest updates

The Foundation Practice Rating – helping charitable foundations do better

The Foundation Practice Rating assesses 100 UK grant-making charitable foundations every year in terms of their practices on diversity, accountability, and transparency. This year, for the first time, we achieved an overall A grade. We are really pleased with this result but we see it as an important milestone rather than an endpoint.
  • Published: 18 March 2026