Antoin Akpom Foundation is a charity set up to continue the legacy of Antoin Akpom, a football coach who started a community business (AAA Strike 4 Success) using arts and sports as a platform to help young people develop skills, enabling them to achieve their goals and aspirations. The Antoin Akpom Foundation is an innovative platform that will enable us to capture and nurture the creativity within individuals, which will allow us as a Foundation to enhance and direct their energies in a positive manner, thus developing self-esteem, self-awakening leading to self-empowerment enabling individuals to take a positive role within their society. As a means to achieve the main object to deter young people from engaging in street crime.

Where we can, we combine pro bono and community investment contributions with financial support.

All our partners donate to the Allen & Overy Foundation which, in FY19, amounted to £1.59m. This allows us to give grants to over 150 non-profit organisations around the world, providing a comprehensive package of both financial and pro bono support.

Our Global Charity Partnership brings together the skills and resources of the entire firm to have a lasting impact on the work of one charity. As well as fundraising, we use the professional skills of our lawyers and support staff to benefit the charity in the long-term.

We provide grants to projects in the UK which focus on children and young people who are disadvantaged. We are local to people in all corners of the UK and support small and large organisations which empower children and extend their life choices.

We are currently supporting over 3,000 local charities and projects in communities across the UK. The projects we fund help children facing a range of disadvantages, for example, poverty and deprivation; children who have been the victims of abuse or neglect or disabled young people. BBC Children in Need currently awards grants at six points during the year and funds two types of grants. The Main Grants Programme is for grants over £10,000 per year to support projects for up to three years. Meanwhile, the Small Grants Programme supports projects for up to three years, and includes grants up to and including £10,000 per year.

The Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent charitable foundation seeking a just and peaceful society which recognises the equal value of all people. Largely working in partnerships with others, we use all our resources – our grants, our people and our name – to bring about structural change, thus increasing social justice and equality.

We’re an independent charity whose grants help to connect people and places, empower communities and transform lives in Wandsworth and Lambeth. We fund projects that support local communities, create new opportunities and make our neighbourhoods even better places to live.

City Bridge Trust is the funding arm of Bridge House Estates. It was established to make use of funds surplus to Bridge requirements and provides grants totalling around £25m per year towards charitable activity benefiting Greater London. The City of London Corporation is the sole trustee of the Bridge House Estates and members of its Court of Common Council form the City Bridge Trust’s Grants Committee. We award grants totalling £20m per year, the majority of which will be awarded through our Bridging Divides scheme which has a number of programmes & priorities. The City has a proud tradition of philanthropy dating back to the Middle Ages, led by Livery Companies and the Mayorality. We are working to inspire, support and amplify great philanthropy i.e. the giving of money, time, skills or assets. Up to 20% of our annual budget is set aside for strategic initiatives which go beyond traditional grant making. These include research, feasibility studies and conferences, and are often undertaken in partnership with other bodies.

In conjunction with cultural activities, the Foundation fulfils its mission through innovative programmes that develop pilot projects and support, by providing scholarships and grants for other institutions and social organisations. For the period 2018-2022, the three priority areas are: – social cohesion and integration, sustainability and knowledge – which are reflected across the whole intervention strategy.

Camden Giving is an independent charity ending local poverty and inequality. Based on a notion that everyone has something to give, be that time, skills, money, we channel those resources into support for local people, such as food banks, winter night shelters and activities for vulnerable young people.

Church Urban Fund is a charitable organisation set up by the Church of England in 1987 designed to assist in deprived and impoverished areas of the country. Operating in partnership with faith organisations working at the local level, the charity aims to provide a range of support to help these groups to serve their communities.

Cloudesley is an independent charitable trust that makes grants to people, organisations and churches within the London Borough of Islington. With a current grants budget of £1million a year, the charity is able to have a significant positive impact on Islington people’s lives. Through our health grants programme we give grants to address physical and mental health issues and financial hardship. We give small grants to Islington residents who have health problems, or who are disabled and in financial need, and also fund organisations and projects that support them. Our church grants programme supports the Church of England churches in Islington, helping to repair the buildings and maintain services within them. We work closely with other local funders and are one of the core partners of Islington Giving.

Comic Relief predominantly funds registered charities. We will ask for evidence of registration during the application process.

We will always prioritise applications from organisations that are registered in the country where the work will take place. Applicants are welcome to include partner organisations not registered in the country, but must be able to clearly demonstrate the added value of all partner organisations included in the proposal. We do also fund other types of organisations. In these instances, the governing documents of the organisation must clearly outline the organisation’s social purpose, demonstrate that any profit or assets are used for this social purpose, and show that an asset lock is in place. We will ask for a copy of your governing documents as part of your application.

Community Match Challenge and Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership.  

£90m of the government's £750m VCSE sector support package is being made available to launch the Community Match Challenge and to support the Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership.

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The site contains a communication which contains details of community safety funding which PCCs will be able to use to tackle drugs and crime, reduce re-offending, and improve community safety in their force area.

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Our purpose at Down Tools is to create more awareness about knife crime, causes, risks and consequences. We want to educate our youth on the effects of carrying knives and how serious it can become.

We provide a learning platform along with guidance on how schools can use it. The content ensures that children become stimulated and remain engaged.

The platform presents information in a format that children can relate to and reinforces the facts surrounding knife crime, including the reasons people carry knifes, how quickly both the life of the perpetrator and victim can change for ever and the lasting effects of those left behind.

At Down Tools, we believe in a preventative approach, one that educates children and allows them to make informed choices and rebuff knife crime.

We are working alongside many charities across the UK who share our common values.

Down Tools Community Interest Company Regd No. 12601386

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Fusion21 is a social enterprise specialising in efficient and impactful public sector procurement through a framework approach that has social value running through everything we do. As a member, you'll experience results-led solutions and transformative support for your community.

We work with like-minded public sector organisations, partners, and suppliers to build up communities and motivate sustainable change where it's needed most. Our team of procurement and social value specialists is driven by a passion to make a difference. Consequently, our members benefit from our specialist knowledge and determination to help you procure more efficiently and meaningfully.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is charity which conducts and funds research aimed at solving poverty in the UK. JRF's stated aim is to "inspire action and change that will create a prosperous UK without poverty."

Local Trust was established to deliver Big Local, a unique initiative that puts residents across the country in control of decisions about their own lives and neighbourhoods. Funded by the Big Lottery Fund, it provides in excess of £1m of long-term funding over 10-15 years to 150 local communities that have historically missed out on lottery and other funding. Big Local is generating new and important learning and insight around the potential and limits of localism; the challenges of long term, place-based funding; and the limitless potential of local people to transform their own futures. We’ve just launched our first ever arts programme, Creative Civic Change, a joint initiative with the Big Lottery Fund and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which will enable communities to transform themselves through arts and creativity. Our research project, The Future for Communities, shares findings from an 18-month research project asking ‘What needs to happen for communities to feel and be more powerful in the future?'

We provide funding for charities and not-for-profit organisations to deliver projects and improve services. Our aims are twofold: to alleviate the effects of poverty, and to improve the health and well-being of Londoners, in particular people with mental and physical illness, long term health conditions and/or disabilities.

The Charity is established to relieve poverty, sickness, disability and infirmity among persons resident in the area bounded by the M25 London Orbital Motorway, by supporting and working with other charitable organisation and by providing grants.

Our experience has shown us that communities often characterised as poor and disadvantaged are rich with ideas and assets. Charities, social enterprises and groups that spring from the communities they’re trying to help often have a deep understanding of the gaps that need filling. They know what works, how to gain trust and build lasting relationships. We work across the Capital and specialise in supporting grassroots organisations who often don’t attract mass public support. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the groups we support and base our decisions on the merit of ideas and the talents behind them.

We've been working in the community for over 20 years, and have a unique window into how complex social problems are being tackled at local level. We're expert at directing funds into small, under the radar community groups.

We know that London’s civil society (and the communities they serve) have been affected in a myriad of ways by the covid-19 pandemic. Many organisations have had the dual negative impact of loss of income and increasing need – all whilst trying to navigate ‘the new normal’ when delivering their services. As a response to this crisis London’s funders have been working together to provide a coordinated funding to support groups responding to the needs of the capital's communities. The single application point for charities and community groups enables organisations to access funding from multiple funders in a fast and efficient way. It has been designed based on insights from groups working with Londoners, to ensure that it is flexible and responds to these needs as they emerge over the coming weeks and months.

London Funders is the membership network for funders and investors of London’s civil society. We’re here to enable funders from all sectors to be effective. We’re focused on collaboration – convening funders to connect, contribute and cooperate together, to help people across London’s communities to live better lives.

London Sport exists to make London the most physically active city in the world.

We are supported by Sport England and the Mayor of London, and work in partnership with London’s Local Authorities and a host of agencies to support less active Londoners to build physical activity habits that support their health, wellbeing and prosperity.

Funding through the National Lottery - National Lottery funding. The National Lottery raises money for good causes. People use this funding to do extraordinary things, taking the lead to improve their lives and communities. Every time you buy a National Lottery ticket, you help make this happen. Communities come in all shapes and sizes, and National Lottery funding is there for everyone. There are 12 distributors of money raised by the players of the National Lottery, which fund projects and activities that transform communities, protect our heritage, and enrich lives through arts, sports and culture.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation was established by Paul Hamlyn in 1987. Upon his death in 2001, he left most of his estate to the Foundation, creating one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK.

Our mission is to help people overcome disadvantage and lack of opportunity, so that they can realise their potential and enjoy fulfilling and creative lives.

We have a particular interest in supporting young people and a strong belief in the importance of the arts.

We work with social enterprises and charities to help them raise capital from like-minded investors. We also create and manage award winning impact investment funds, which deliver a financial return and a targeted social impact.

We are one of the UK's leading social impact investment companies. Since 2002 we have worked with over 165 social enterprises and charities, enabling them to raise capital to grow their impact, and make a greater difference to the communities they serve. We currently manage over £260m of investors' capital across eleven operational funds, with a team of forty across five locations – Launceston, Bristol, Manchester, London and Birmingham.

In 2019/2020 we mobilised £43m of useful capital into the hands of 30 social enterprises from 175 investors.

SOS Project, established in 2006, works with young people involved in or at risk of being exploited through gangs and serious violence. It offers both interventions to those already involved and preventative work in schools through its sister project SOS+. Critically, the support comes from staff who have been there themselves and have made positive changes in their own lives. They are the ones who really understand what life is like for our clients, how difficult the choices may be to change and can become inspiring role models for them.

Back when we were established, SOS was carried out by a single caseworker – myself – and had a turnover of £20,000. Today, we have a 40-strong staff team and are looking to turnover £3.5million this year. Our work has extended beyond London to address problems across the UK. We have innovated, changing our service so it matches the changing needs of those young people, families and communities of those entrenched and because of this we were one of the first organisations to spot when young people were being exploited through county lines.

In 2008 we had record numbers of serious youth violence on our streets. One of those was the younger brother of a client I worked with. His tragic death was not because of gangs but because of school rivalry. Such was the impact that I felt we needed to do something about it. SOS+ our schools and community project was borne. Last year alone we reached over 24,000 young people.

As a funding organisation, our Beneficiaries are other charities working to safeguard children from cyber-bullying, sexting, online grooming and harmful content on websites and in social media and also dealing with the consequences of these pernicious activities.
Our aim is to search out and support projects and other initiatives that focus on safeguarding children from risks stemming from cyber-bullying, sexting, on-line grooming, and harmful content on websites and social media.

Our Beneficiaries are charities and other NGOs working to safeguard children from cyber-bullying, sexting, grooming and harmful content on websites and social media. Areas in which we and the charities we support work are numerous.

The Childhood Trust funds grass roots charities and their projects to alleviate the impact of child poverty in London. Every child has the right to a safe and happy childhood so we partner with and fund the very best initiatives and projects.

We use our funds to generate and match other donations, primarily through our online fundraising campaigns and fundraising partnerships. Since our inception in 2013 we have been able to multiply funds donated to us by an average factor of 4.69, meaning that for every £1 donated to us, we've generated £4.69 of funding for projects supporting children. In total, since 2013 our matched giving campaigns have raised £14.8m. We make grants to proven charities that are working directly with disadvantaged children. Our work is themed across three areas; meeting children's practical needs, supporting children's emotional needs and inspiring children with new experiences and opportunities. Our support across these themes promotes the development of strong foundations for learning, resilience and aspiration. The impact of our grants is externally monitored and since we started we have helped more than 180,000 children through our partnerships with over 150 charities throughout London.

The Deptford Challenge Trust (DCT) is a grant-making charitable trust that aims to improve the quality of life for people who live and work in a defined area of Lewisham, that covers Deptford and parts of New Cross. DCT started out as part of the national City Challenge regeneration programme in the mid-1990s. In partnership with Goldsmiths University the Deptford City Challenge (as it was then known) invested part of the funding it was given in student accommodation. The Trust was set up and through this rental income it has been able to provide grants to voluntary and community organisations for activities which benefit residents within the DCT area for almost 20 years. The Trust’s grantmaking programmes are managed by The London Community Foundation.

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation aims to improve the quality of life for people and communities throughout the UK both now and in the future. We do this by funding the charitable work of organisations that are building an inclusive, creative and sustainable society. The Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. In 2018 we made grants of £40.5 million towards a wide range of work within the arts, children and young people, the environment and social change. We also have a £45 million allocation to social investments for organisations with the aim of creating social impact.

The Fore is a seed funder for the non-profit sector. We catalyse fresh solutions to pressing social issues including knife crime, childhood obesity, social isolation, food poverty and homelessness. Our venture capital style approach opens up access to finance and professional expertise for innovative small charities and social enterprises. We bring together businesses, funders and social entrepreneurs committed to removing barriers and sharing skills to strengthen society as a whole.

TFN supports grassroots non-profits whose aim is to achieve positive social change for individuals, communities and the environment. TFN is an open network which links potential donors to charitable cases and social entrepreneurs through live crowdfunding. We aim to raise money for small non-profits driving social change and help both individuals and businesses to combine their giving with others, to make a bigger impact. To apply for funding, non-profits must be nominated by a current TFN member. Organisations do not have to be registered charities, however they must be not-for-profit and have a clear charitable purpose at their core.

Haberdashers' donation helps homeless young people, badly housed families and others in need.

We are here to give our communities the chance to create a brighter future and the opportunity to thrive. Since 1811, we have given grants, advice and support to our local communities. This will continue and together we can build a happy, healthy and hopeful community. We tackle need in the community through the effective use of our funds. We support individuals and families in need through our grant making programmes, directly supporting individuals and the charitable sector.

The Henry Smith Charity is an independent grant making trust. We aim to bring about lasting change to people’s lives helping them benefit from and contribute to society. The Charity was founded in 1628 by Henry Smith, a businessman working in the City of London. Since then, we have honoured the spirit of Henry Smith’s will, working to combat disadvantage and meet the challenges and opportunities facing people in need throughout the UK. Today, The Henry Smith Charity is amongst the largest independent grant makers in the UK, distributing over £32 million in 2019. Our grant holders are at the core of our mission and work. For us, achieving results depends on their work and, as a grant making trust, we can only be as effective as the organisations that we fund. Our network of 30+ volunteer visitors plays an important role in enabling us to meet with the organisations that apply to us for funding. We have close relationships with a number of Community Foundations, who advise on applications and sometimes manage grants on our behalf. The Improving Lives grant programme provides grants to charitable organisations that help people when other sources of support have failed, are inappropriate, or are simply not available. We support established organisations delivering services directly to beneficiaries. We are looking for services which can demonstrate a track record of success, and evidence the effectiveness of the work. This is our largest grants programme, through which the majority of our funds are distributed.

The Isla Foundation focuses on supporting grassroots organisations and individuals that provide vital help to the most vulnerable in society. Our projects focus on precise targets/ outcomes to be agreed with individual grantees. The aim, to create maximum positive social impact at a local community level. We believe it is those on the front line who best know the solutions to the problems they are facing. In addition to providing immediate support, we look at how to strengthen organisations with campaigns & advocacy, community organising, and communications to become social movements.

The Jack Petchey Foundation was set up to inspire and motivate young people across London and Essex by providing exciting projects and programmes for them to get involved in. We also recognise the outstanding achievements of today’s young people by awarding them for their hard work and positive impact in their community. We have invested over £133 million in programmes to support young people across London and Essex.

SOCIAL ACTION: We aim to help create a society where all can thrive, by supporting organisations which work to create positive changes in practice, systems and institutions.

We believe people can create change, and will focus on individuals and organisations coming together to tackle disadvantage, divisions and inequality. We also believe that meaningful relationships are central to a shared sense of identity and community. We are interested in organisations which share these beliefs and work to ensure that individuals, community groups and national bodies connect with one another, and are listened to by government and the agencies that shape our lives.

We give grants to benefit children and young people up to the age of 25 who live in nine boroughs in North and West London. Since 1991, the Charity has distributed over £156 million to a range of organisations that seek to promote the life-chances of children and young people through education.

As a philanthropic trust, we are able to give grants to causes, organisations and people that are making a positive difference to society. We choose partners based on our shared values and mutual interests – creating access to opportunities, improving health and well-being, and investing in our communities and environment.

Our hope for the Kusuma trust and the future is that we make a difference to the world around us, in whatever ways we can. And in doing so, we will pass on our values to the next generation, so that they can continue to engage in society around them.

We support local partners working to transform young lives, especially those affected by gangs, crime, violence, poor physical and mental health, disability, language barriers, lack of green spaces and poor air quality.

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We’re an independent charitable trust funded by the profits of Lloyds Banking Group. We partner with small and local charities helping people overcome complex social issues such as mental health, homelessness and domestic abuse. Through core cost funding, developmental support and influencing policy and practice, we help those charities make life-changing impact.

"We support London-based organisations with crucial funding as well as advice, sharing our knowledge to help improve projects, so they make an even greater impact.

Our grants are typically made to small charities and community groups who understand issues at a local level, but whose existence is generally below the public radar. Grants can address a range of community-related issues such as:

Food poverty
Isolation
Homelessness
Domestic abuse
Violence affecting young people

Our purpose through good philanthropy, our knowledge and expertise, is to convene donors to invest in charitable organisations working to overcome the issues affecting London.

We’re also here to inform our partners, working with them to champion the projects our communities need. This means spotting bright ideas that make a big impact, so we can confidently invest in work that's truly effective.

We advise and inform our partners who want to make a difference in the communities where they live and work. We know where their money will have the greatest impact and can connect them with organisations on their doorstep. We direct their giving towards the most pressing needs in the capital.

Grant-making

We use this generous funding to award grants to a wide range of charitable organisations around specific themes, such as violence against women and girls, or mental health support.

Our model stretches beyond the financial. We strive to make the grant-making process as accessible, supportive and as fair as possible for applicants. We co-design our programmes with our partner organisations and can even provide impact reports to our donors, to show the tangible difference their funding makes to people’s lives.

Since we started out, we've raised over £100 million and committed over £80 million in grants.”

The London Crime Prevention Fund (LCPF) was established in 2013, bringing together a number of funding streams that existed before MOPAC was set up. The fund ran from 2013/14 to 2016/17 in line with the Police and Crime Plan (DMPCD 2013/96), and these arrangements ended on March 2017.

In November 2016 the Mayor committed to continuing the LCPF budget over the next four years (2017-2021) to prevent crime in London, maintaining recent levels of investment despite significant pressures on the policing budget. Also there are two additional funding streams.

• £20m which will be distributed via Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), which you can find out more about here; and

• £5m dispersed via National Rape Sexual Abuse Support Fund. For more information about this fund please visit the MoJ website.

The London Marathon Charitable Trust provides funding to inspire thousands of children and adults across the UK to be active for life.

Our current priorities are to maintain and increase participation in physical activity by:

Improving facilities in our core areas of London to encourage and support all members of the local community to become and remain physically active.

Supporting ambitious projects across the UK that will challenge inequality of access to physical activity and deliver the greatest possible impact for our target audiences: children and young people and groups we know are less likely to be active, such as women and girls, BAME communities, people from lower socio-economic groups, older people and people with a disability.

Reflecting the spirit of the London Marathon in our grantmaking.

The Macquarie Group Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group. We provide support to hundreds of community organisations globally each year through financial support, volunteering and skills sharing, predominantly in the locations in which Macquarie operates.

Our work is significantly influenced by the activities of Macquarie staff with a focus on capacity building within the community sector and increasing social and economic mobility.

Our vision: Everyone has the opportunity to lead positive, active and fulfilling lives, especially those that are in need, disadvantaged or marginalised.

Our mission: To be a force for good by providing support, care and services to Freemasons and their families in need, and supporting other charities to help the most disadvantaged people in society.

Each year we aim to distribute £15 million to charitable causes. Our giving is focused on Young People & Education, Older People & Housing and Church & Communities. This allows us to create positive change across generations, giving those we help the chance to live a fulfilling life now and in the future.

We expect to support 180 individual charities annually. We also provide high quality accommodation to 215 residents in our six Almshouses, work closely with our associated schools which educate 18,000 children, and appoint 88 charity trustees and school governors.

We’re an independent, British family foundation, rooted in Jewish values, that takes £15-20 million of private money every year and invests it in good causes. We promote understanding of key issues through research and education programmes; we drive engagement in social progress across the UK and globally, particularly in young people, and we support organisations focused on wellbeing for everyone, especially those with a tough challenge to face.

We're an independent funder based in Southwark distributing around £200,000 a year in grants in Lambeth and Southwark.

We make unrestricted grants of up to £30,000 a year for up to three years to local, inspiring charities based in Lambeth and Southwark with annual turnovers of between £25,000 and £300,000.

The Peter Sowerby Foundation supports charities, CICs and registered social and healthcare providers. We do this by providing grants towards projects in healthcare, the community, environment and conservation, and the arts.

In terms of geography, we largely support UK-wide projects, but have occasionally provided grants to international ventures. Our Trustees are particularly interested in supporting projects in Dr Sowerby’s much-loved home of North Yorkshire.

Since it was established in 2013, the Foundation has awarded a total of £10 million by way of 89 grants to 63 organisations.

The Portal Trust is one of London’s largest educational charities benefiting young residents of inner London.

As an independent grant giving foundation our charitable giving is for the support of

initatives that go above and beyond what statutory provisions are obligated to cover.

The Foundation does not provide substitution funding or fund what is the statutory responsibility of the State. Please visit our website for a full list of our funding priorities and eligibility criteria.

What is the fund? The Reach Fund is a grant programme that helps charities and social enterprises raise investment. The programme is funded by Access – The Foundation for Social Investment and is open to organisations in England.

Social investors are often approached by charities and social enterprises who require extra support to raise investment.

Through this programme, social investors can refer these organisations to the Reach Fund to apply for the support they need.

The British prison population is over 86,000. On release, prisoners receive £46. Lacking money, education, a job, a stable family and a home, over 70% re-offend. Their life is spent in and out of prison. The Sheriffs’ & Recorder’s Fund helps to break this vicious cycle. At the critical time when a prisoner is released, the Fund gives small grants to supply a vital need. It also gives large grants to prison-based charitable schemes which work towards the rehabilitation of ex-prisoners.

Typical grants to Individuals:

£250 provided bunk beds for an ex-prisoner’s children

£500 bought the equipment for a man to set up in business as a window cleaner

£1,000 gave four ex-prisoners courses in IT skills

£5,000 enabled 50 ex-prisoners to buy clothes suitable for a job interview

£10,000 paid for eight fork-lift truck driving courses

£250 bought a washing machine for a prisoner’s wife who had been doing the washing for her four children and herself in the bath

£30,000 enabled HMP Brixton to give training and mentoring to twenty prisoners which secured employment on release

Our Vision - Impact-led organisations can get what they need to improve people's lives.

Our Mission - We help impact-led organisations improve people's lives.                    

We do this by:

- Providing the money and support they need directly

- Working with partners to support effectively

- Using our knowledge to inform our own work and influence others

The Wates Foundation recognises the challenges that the organisations it supports are facing due to the outbreak of Covid-19 - please see our website for more information.

The Wates Foundation is an independent grant-making charity. We award grants directly to charities registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, social enterprises and other established community groups. We do not provide support for individuals.

The Trustees of the Wates Foundation have endorsed a new pro-active grant making strategy until March 2021. Wates Family members seek out charities to support, often from within their local community. Applications are by invitation only. Unsolicited applications will be automatically rejected.

We know that sport has the power to change lives and communities for the better. Taking part in regular sporting activity can improve an individual’s physical and mental well-being, as well as widen social networks and teach a respect for rules and learn skills that can be valuable in everyday life. We are though only too aware of the number of people who play no sport at all.  For many young people their only experience of sport is a school PE lesson, which may not meet their needs and fail to encourage them to play outside of school.  Some adults find organised sports sessions too restrictive to fit within their busy daily lives and need more flexibility to choose when they play. Participation levels are lowest amongst girls and young women, those from poorer families or who are disabled.

WNST’s income is around £1 million per annum, which we use to make grants to enable the widest possible participation in various community sports activities. We aim to help address these sporting inequalities and ensure that the lessons from what we learn through our funding get disseminated widely.

Space to Grow - ensuring that children and young people can access local opportunities, in safe spaces, to grow and develop to be the best that they can be.

A membership movement providing strong fundraising & capacity building support to local charities & community groups working with children & young people, supporting existing services, driving new initiatives, promoting partnerships and encouraging consortium working.

Our Vision

Where Barnet as one community, seeks to invest in all our children and young people, ensuring that they have opportunities for fun, growth, connection, success and celebration - helping today’s children become tomorrow’s confident, successful adults.

The Young Ealing Foundation was established in 2017 as part of a wider network of Young People’s Foundations. Developed in response to the on-going challenges facing the Children and Young People’s sector, the Young People’s Foundation bring together the public, private and voluntary sectors to effect positive change for young people. Based in their local communities, each Young Peoples Foundation’s services are led by their members and based on the needs and assets of their area. Together they share a common goal – to help create and champion a more impactful, coordinated and sustainable sector to ensure all young people have access to quality support and opportunities. Our Vision is to ensure all young people in Ealing can access the opportunities and support they need to grow up and lead happy and safe lives, fulfil their potential and become a valued and listened to part of the local community. Our Mission is to work with our members, partners and supporters to encourage, enable and support sustainable, high quality service provision for children and young people, focusing on key areas including funding, capacity building and partnerships.

Our Objectives:

• Become an integral part of the local community

• Promote the voice of young people and the organisations that serve them

• Build capacity                                                                                                              

• Increase and improve cohesion and partnership working

• Improve the funding outlook for member

Based in Hammersmith & Fulham, we work closely with our members to shape opportunities and create the best services for children and young people, who live, learn, play or work in our borough.

Funded by John Lyons Charity (JLC), we were developed in response to the on-going challenges facing the Children and Young People’s sector.

YHFF brings together the public, private and voluntary sectors to effect positive change for young people. Our membership registration is open for everyone at the local level that works with children and young people aged 0-25. This includes youth clubs, charities, schools, businesses, voluntary groups and the public sector.

This is the best wide-ranging resource for early years and young people in Harrow that we have found. There is a directory and networks of organisations specifically relevant for Harrow. They are creating a wide community of partners, organisations, companies and individuals who are all interested in making a difference for young people in Harrow.  There are links for football and sport generally, self-help and mental health support, help for schools, training for professionals, support and training for charities and much more in Harrow. There are also job offers, training opportunities, and apprenticeships all offered through this website. This is a website all about community, collaboration and for young people in Harrow is is a first port of call.

Trust for London is an independent charitable foundation. We aim to tackle poverty and inequality in London and we do this by: funding voluntary and charity groups – currently we make grants totalling around £10 million a year and at any one time we are supporting up to 300 organisations; funding independent research, and providing knowledge and expertise on London’s social issues to policymakers and journalists.

The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making charitable trust. We fund a wide range of organisations working to support positive changes in people’s lives and in their communities around the UK. We don’t have specific funding programmes designed to advance any particular agenda as we think that the groups we support are best placed to identify problems and develop solutions. Tudor supports work which tries to meet the many different needs of people at the margins of our society in a wide variety of ways. We are interested in how organisations tackle these needs, and their root causes. We are keen to work with organisations that have a real understanding of the challenges facing the communities they support, and a clear sense of the difference they seek to make through their work. We are interested in how organisations work, as well as in what they do, and look for a number of key characteristics and qualities in the groups we support. There are some types of organisation and work which we will not consider for funding.

Turn2us helps people in financial need gain access to welfare benefits, charitable grants and other financial help, either online, by phone and face to face through our partner organisations.

UnLtd finds, funds and supports social entrepreneurs - enterprising people with solutions that change our society for the better. We were formed in 2002 by seven organisations who believed that social entrepreneurs had a much bigger contribution to make to our economy and society. We were among the first to back individuals with their own ideas to create social good.

UnLtd's core start up awards are funded by the income generated from an endowment from the Millennium Commission. This legacy is carefully invested so that it generates income to fund our awards for years to come.

Since we were founded, we have learned a lot about what is needed for social entrepreneurs to create the change they want to see. We have grown our support beyond our core awards, helping to accelerate the impact of scaling ventures. We have identified areas where we are well placed to create change, and focused our efforts where it can make the biggest difference. We have identified barriers faced by social entrepreneurs and look to tackle them through research, policy work and our campaigns. And we have realised that we cannot do it alone, seeking committed partners and funders who share our vision.

A useful Islington resource for volunteering and funding.

AN INDEPENDENT GRANT MAKING FOUNDATION FOR CHARITIES OPERATING IN THE UK

Any charitable organisation based in the UK is eligible to apply for a grant, as are any educational institutions (schools, universities, etc.) whether or not they have charitable status.

Powerful and ambitious partnerships in the community are built and nurtured. As a result, all children and young people in the borough will have equal access to opportunities. These opportunities will ensure that young people in the borough are kept safe, informed about the decisions that most affect them, and supported in achieving their full potential.

We are an exciting cross-sector partnership, creating a community of member and partner organisations. Together we are shaping opportunities and creating the best services for children and young people in Westminster. Our role is to act as a voice of the children and young people’s sector for Westminster. We support our members with information sharing, advice, networking opportunities, training and grants.

We work on behalf of our members to develop long-term partnerships with businesses, public sector partners, individuals and major funders. Partnerships facilitate support and broker funding for our members.

Most importantly, we give young people a voice in leading the development of the YWF.

The Youth Endowment Fund will fund, support, and evaluate programmes and community partnerships to build an evidence base of what works to prevent children becoming involved in violence. We are here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.by funding, supporting and evaluating promising interventions working with 10-14 year olds in England and Wales to prevent later offending.

The YEF will invest in a range of diversion activities like mental health support, whole family interventions or mentoring. They’ll fund great projects that show promise, so that they can understand how offering alternatives to arrest, conviction and custody to children who’ve offended can sustainably prevent them from becoming involved in violence later in their lives.

Their commitment to the evidence – as well as funding projects – is why the YEF will invest in rigorous evaluation. By improving our understanding of which programmes work and by helping organisations put it into practice, the YEF will help prevent children and young people in England and Wales from becoming involved in violence.