Over £5m approved in March 2020’s grants round
In our second Committee of 2020, our Committee approved grants totalling just over £5m. This comprised 41 grants, large and small, supporting organisations that reach those in London in greatest need.

Bridging Divides
Advice and Support | |
Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust |
£200,000 over five years towards the salary and on costs of a Senior Welfare Rights and Benefits Worker in London. |
Just for Kids Law |
£100,000 over three years of core support for JFKL’s holistic casework in London, including rent and core expenditure. |
Age UK Merton |
£248,000 over five years towards the costs of a full-time advice worker, management costs and associated running costs. |
Disability Law Service |
£100,000 over five years towards core costs. This funding is for a maximum of one third of the organisation’s unfunded core costs, reflecting the proportion of its beneficiaries that are Londoners, which is c.30%. |
Connecting the Capital | |
Council of Somali Organisations |
£145,000 over three years towards a salary and associated costs of a project to support SCVOs in influencing decisions affecting Somalis in London. |
Upswing Aerial Limited |
£96,000 over three years for Homemade Circus workshops in residential care homes and to update an associated Toolkit. |
Young Camden Foundation |
£135,000 over three years as core funding to support the Young Camden Foundation’s work for voluntary sector organisations working with children and young people. |
Castlehaven Community Association |
£143,000 over three years towards the salary and associated running costs of the Greenworks Co-ordinator plus project running costs. |
Children Ahead Ltd |
£250,000 over five years towards the costs of psychotherapeutic and other mental health support to young people, both boys and girls. |
Froglife Trust |
£244,200 over five years for the salary of a Project Manager and running costs for the Leaping Forward for Dementia project. |
Kentish Town Community Centre |
£31,000 over two years towards the costs of a Support Worker, Project Manager and related resources for Kentish Town Community Centre’s weekly classes for older people. |
Sported Foundation |
£275,000 over three years toward the salaries of the Project Manager, Regional Manager, and Member Engagement Manager, plus evaluation and other running costs to launch the Connected Communities London model. |
St Margaret’s House Settlement |
A grant of £104,960 over three years towards the salary, running and project management costs of the arts programme for disabled adults. |
Cripplegate Foundation |
£95,000 over 2 further and final years towards staffing and operational costs of the Saturday Socials older persons programme delivered through Islington Giving. |
Wac Arts |
£100,000 towards the capital costs of improved access facilities to the Old Town Hall. |
St Paul’s Church West Hackney |
£105,000 over 3 years towards the Posh Club Co-Ordinator’s salary, Kitchen Manager’s salary and towards associated running costs to deliver TPC events per annum for older people. |
Rushey Green Timebank (RGTB) |
£323,500 over 5 years towards a Director of Lewisham Local plus associated running costs for the development and consolidation of Lewisham Local. |
ETNA Community Centre |
£5,000 for an access audit. |
Rushey Green Timebank (RGTB) |
£94,000 over 2 further and final years towards the salary of a Co-ordinator and freelance sessional staff and associated costs of maintaining and developing the community green space. |
Docklands Sailing Centre Trust |
£2,520 to meet the costs of an access audit along with the provision of 1‑day disability equality and awareness training for staff. |
Inspire St James |
£4,500 for an independent access audit and design appraisal. |
Pleasance Theatres Trust Ltd |
£2,500 towards the costs of an access audit and equalities training for Pleasance Theatres Trust’s Islington site. |
Sound Minds |
£63,000 over five years for core costs to underpin the successful running of the organisation through and beyond the recruitment and hand-over of a new CEO. |
Havering Theatre Trust Limited |
£100,000 towards capital access improvements to the public foyer, entrance, auditorium, backstage, and learning and participation areas. |
Leaders in Community (LiC) |
£2,000 to provide an eco-audit. |
Positive Transitions | |
Kids Can Achieve |
£183,600 over three years towards the salary of one Family Worker; individual and family therapy sessions and a contribution to building and organisational running costs. |
BritSom |
£44,000 over 2 further and final years for the salary of the Women’s Support Worker and for the costs of delivering ESOL Classes to Entry-level and level 1 standard. |
Chaos Theory |
£89,900 over two further and final years for a full time Senior Violence Interrupter and associated running costs. |
School-Home Support |
£108,500 over three years for the salary and associated costs of a School-Home Support Practitioner to support the positive transitions of young people with mental ill health in Alternative Provision. |
Spinal Injuries Association |
£248,200 over 5 years for a Project Support Officer and associated running costs to provide support, advice and advocacy for people experiencing spinal cord injury in London. |
Jewish Women’s Aid | £248,700 over 5 years for a Domestic Abuse Worker and associated costs for its London service. |
Aurora Foundation for People Abused in Childhood | £28,400 made up of £18,400 over one year towards therapists’ fees, clinical supervision, premises and management costs and £10,000 to develop a robust fundraising plan and develop better links with local statutory providers. |
Chinese Mental Health Association |
£260,900 over 5 years for a Co-ordinator, Support Worker, volunteer expenses and running costs for the Chinese Wellbeing Service. |
Graeae Theatre Company |
£260,400 towards the salary costs of the Training and Learning Co-ordinator and associated costs of the Rollettes, The Young Company and The Ensemble Intensive training programmes. |
Generate Opportunities Ltd |
£117,500 over three years towards the salaries of two Generate Voices Co-ordinators and associated project running costs. |
Macular Disease Society |
£85,000 over three years towards the salary and on-costs of a London Regional Manager, volunteer costs, direct management and related running costs. |
Urban Partnership Group |
£150,000 over three years for an ESOL tutor; Volunteer training; a contribution to creche facilities; exam registration and project management and administration costs. |
Free2B Alliance |
£93,760 over 5 years for the salary, travel, management and clinical supervision costs for the Free2Talk service for young Londonders. |
Big Red Bus Club Charlton |
£29,500 over three years towards the staffing and related running costs of pre-entry level group ESOL stay and play sessions for parents of under-fives. |
Alliance for Inclusive Education |
£109,700 over two further and final years towards an Inclusion Champion post, the Policy Co-ordinator and a proportion of the Director’s time and the Communications Officer, as well as the costs of developing the e‑hub, and training and capacity building costs. |
Small Grants – Bridging Divides | |
Talitha Arts |
£6,700 for the salary of an Artistic Director to deliver therapeutic arts sessions to aid the recovery process for traumatised women. |