A lack of diversity in the medical field is a pressing issue; the majority of medical school applicants come from a minority of schools and applicants from underrepresented backgrounds are less likely to be successful.

We envision an NHS workforce that reflects the diverse society it serves and where any student possessing the capability and passion for becoming a doctor is able to, irrespective of their background.

We believe that the only way to achieve sustained, effective change is through cohesive, long-term intervention. Our three, two-year programmes are designed to inspire, equip, and increase the self-confidence of students who want to study medicine, from year 8 through to year 13. Created and delivered by inspirational young medics, these school-based programmes will transform the NHS of tomorrow by bringing equity to the medical school admissions process and giving students from underrepresented backgrounds the opportunity to achieve their full potential.

The Baytree Centre is a social inclusion charity for women and girls, based in the heart of Brixton, south London. An integral part of the community since 1991, we provide holistic support through personal development activities and workshops, mentoring, coaching, as well as English classes and integration support for newly arrived migrants and refugees.

Our approach is informed by our Character Development Programme, which aims to equip the women and girls who come to the centre with all the skills they need to succeed and flourish in life.

Our Youth Service is committed to providing a safe, supportive space for girls, aged 6-20 years, to develop academically and personally. Our wide variety of positive activities offer young women the opportunity to cultivate the key skills they need to build a brighter future for themselves, their family and their community. Character development is embedded in all our work and we co-produce the activities with the girls to ensure that the activities are always relevant to the girls' needs and goals.

The Children's Home Training Hub is part of The Big Initiative which is a multi-agency collaboration bringing together expert practitioners to provide exceptional resources free of charge.

Every single young person is amazing. But not every young person develops in the same way and the influences around them can be a challenge for some.

As part of The Big Initiative, we offer preventative online courses for young people on real topics such as gangs, knife crime, social media, and bullying – to name a few. The Initiative also offers a multitude of life-skill courses to prepare a young person for adulthood. Each and every course has been created by leading experts and reviewed by young people across the UK. Their aim is to support young people and help them make better choices in life. The young people's courses have recently been featured on the BBC and are nationally recognised.

From an award-winning magazine offering employment opportunities to people in poverty, a multi-million pound social investment business supporting enterprise to drive social change, to a charity Foundation supporting vendors to rebuild their own pathways to a better future and a shop curating social enterprise products. For 29 years The Big Issue Group has strived to dismantle poverty through creating opportunity, in the process becoming one of the most recognised and trusted brands in the UK

We provide talking therapy for young people, including one-to-one, group, and parent work. Therapy sessions take place at our centres in Brent, Westminster, Inverness and a number of schools and outreach settings in Brent.

The therapies are based on psychodynamic psychotherapy where, alongside an experienced child & adolescent psychotherapist, each young person explores the roots of challenging behaviours, thoughts, and feelings. The therapist helps them to work through negative, traumatic experiences to build a brighter future.

The talking therapies are specifically tailored to young people. They are supportive, flexible, non-judgmental and confidential.

You will need a referral for most of our services before you can be offered help.

Our services are available for young people aged between 14 and 21 facing various challenges and barriers related to mental health.

We have two centres in London, one in Brondesbury Park and one in Westminster. We offer mental health services for young people living or studying in Brent, Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Harrow and Ealing.

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The Bridge Institute is a global, non-partisan, apolitical, non-profit organisation that believes we solve the world's most intractable problems by unlocking the ecosystem.
For the past 15 years, the Bridge Institute has provided peace building, reconciliation, government relations, communications, finance, global health, geopolitics, and strategy services to governments, corporates, foundations, and philanthropists around the world. Our core team brings together a wealth of expertise, drawing on a rich tapestry of professional backgrounds to deliver comprehensive feasibility analyses, background reports, industry roadmaps, stakeholder interviews, stakeholder relations, public surveys, and insights into international governance.

We are driven and led by the pressing challenges of our time which are defined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The Bridge Institute also works powerfully with the youth sector, bringing to gather he work of many organisations working to improve the ives of young people.

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We're passionate about evolving organisations and leaders to be a force for good in the world.

Our learning journeys shift mindsets, transform behaviours creating leaders who are conscious and courageous.

We accelerate team performance.

We create high performing, trusting and unified teams who are aligned on purpose and strategy.

We enable organisations to discover their purpose and bring it to life across their entire organisation.

We help to unlock positive human change, and empower organisations to lead together towards a shared and purposeful ambition.

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We are a social mobility charity committed to breaking the corporate mould.  We believe in equal access to opportunity irrespective of background or race, and talented young people getting the jobs they deserve in a world where their ability and aspiration alone determine their career path.

For nearly 25 years we have supported disadvantaged young people achieve their career potential; providing opportunity and helping them take their first step into a professional career.   Our award winning programmes have helped thousands of talented young people.

We also work with employers to drive a culture shift in the workplace, helping them make meaningful change and include diverse talent irrespective of background or race.

Together, with our corporate partners, our alumni and our volunteers, we are Changemakers; every day we see the impact of our work and the life changing effect it has on thousands of young people each year.

The Bromley by Bow Centre is a pioneering charity that combines an extensive neighbourhood hub with a medical practice and a community research project and seek out employment opportunities for the young.

“Our role is to link schools and colleges to employers and to help them deliver world-class careers support for all young people.

How we deliver our role

• Building Networks: Linking schools and colleges to employers and other external careers providers through the Enterprise Adviser Network and Careers Hubs.

• Supporting Careers Leaders: Providing training and support for Careers Leaders in schools and colleges.

Backing the Gatsby Benchmarks: Supporting implementation of a best practice standard for careers support, the Gatsby Benchmarks, with tools and targeted funding.”

Alongside our vast network of lived experience leaders, the Centre for Knowledge Equity invigorates and connects human wisdom and leadership to catalyse transformational change.

We are facilitating the emergence of diverse and intersectional networks, coalitions and movements as they develop radical collaborations for positive change.

We design and support a range of leadership development programs that elevate LEx Leaders and their organisations to strengthen their social impact work.

We develop dynamic partnerships across sectors, industries, communities and institutions to allow all forms of knowledge and wisdom to flourish.

We are driving core ideas and understanding of knowledge equity across academic disciplines.

Innovation & Design

We support brave and bold organisations determined to embrace equity as a core driver of their future work, including working with funders and impact investors.

Imagination Observatory

We connect wisdom and creativity from across our networks to reimagine systems in an ever-evolving world, forging new ideas and visions for the future.

The Centre for Youth Impact is committed to working collaboratively to progress thinking and practice in evaluation, learning, and continuous improvement in youth work and provision for young people. Our vision is for all young people to have access to high quality programmes and services that support them to thrive. We work in collaboration with others to develop, test, learn and build momentum for shared evaluation approaches, across a wide range of organisations working with young people.

The Challenger Trust is a UK registered charity that has been working with some of the most socio- and economically- deprived areas of the UK for over 20 years. We help young people to raise their aspirations, develop vital character attributes and learn lifelong skills that will improve their academic achievement and future employment opportunities, whilst meeting Ofsted criteria. This is all strongly influenced by the Department for Education's policy to encourage more 'character education' in every young person's learning.

In 2014, The Trust became a sponsor of the Challenger Multi-Academy Trust (CMAT), a group of schools in which the 'Challenger' model is supported and developed: an environment for study where honesty, character and fair play are highly valued, and the Challenger Diploma is an integral part of improving standards and achieving academic success. The Trust's duties as sponsor of CMAT are to appoint the leadership team and select the governing body, monitor the academy's performance, reporting to the DfE as necessary, and making sure the academy spends its funding effectively.

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.

We provide specialist support that empowers young people to make positive changes and rediscover their hope. They want a future they can look forward to and we're here to make sure they get it. Working alongside young people, their families and community, we will not rest until together, step-by-step, we've created a society built for all children.

Young people come to us when they have low self-esteem. When they're living in families who can't afford the next meal, the next size up in school uniform. Or when there's no one else to lean on.

Refugee and migrant children land in this country alone and look to us for guidance to achieve the life they dreamed of. To have a settled home, a secure job and starting a family. They're not asking for too much.

We see teenagers in our services who want to quit using drugs or alcohol. Who are looking after mum, dad, or their siblings more than they bargained for. Or who have been taken advantage of and find themselves carrying drugs to far away towns, or having sex with strangers.

Often, the hope inside them has taken a battering, it might only be hanging by a thread. But we know it's there. And we see a better future is within reach.

The Chrysalis Programme helps people learn how to do things differently and better. We create capability. Our unique approach, The Chrysalis Programme, is a world class Personal Leadership and Effectiveness Development Programme. Chrysalis aims to stimulate peoples thinking, attitude, social capability and capacity. We enable those that work with us to think more positively, creating self-esteem, self-belief, self-confidence, self-motivation and hope.

Circle Collective supports young people experiencing a range of barriers to find permanent, life-changing work. The charity, Circle Community, runs our successful?#BackYourFuture ?programme, while our social enterprise, Circle Collective, runs two streetwear stores that serve as a training ground for our young people. We aim for all profits from our stores to be fully reinvested back into the training of young people and #BreakingTheCircle of youth unemployment.

Since 2012, we have now helped over 400 young people into permanent work. Over 75% of young people who complete our course have a job at the end of it. This means we offer a strong return on investment, with £4.31 of social value is generated from every £1 we spend.

The Comedy School is the only arts organisation of its kind in the UK which works with comedy in many different settings.

The Comedy School aims to raise the profile of the many uses of comedy, from stimulating personal creativity to encouraging social skills and improving literacy. We achieve this through our innovative workshop, performance and arts projects. These are varied and inclusive, catering for those who wish to be comedians, to work in the arts and the entertainment industries, or to improve their communication skills and confidence.

The Comedy School is committed to enhancing the lives of local communities and developing responsive projects, using the arts as media for making learning interactive and fun. Our unique way of working has enabled the company to take arts practitioners to many varied environments, including schools, prisons, traveller sites and excluded communities across the UK.

a major independent commission to evidence and design a new national system to prevent crisis in vulnerable young people and support them to succeed in life. It launched in September 2021 and is chaired by Anne Longfield CBE, the former Children's Commissioner for England, and hosted by the Oasis Charitable Trust, who have decades of experience of working in and with communities, empowering families and vulnerable children.

Thousands of children in England are growing up living very vulnerable lives. Every year, hundreds of the most vulnerable fall off the radar of the education and social services system, putting them at increased risk of criminal or sexual exploitation and making them more likely to become caught up in the criminal justice system. Their chances of entering adulthood with positive opportunities and choices are low and as adults they are more likely to be seen in our prisons or suffering from serious mental health problems or homelessness. The problem has been growing over recent years but has also been exacerbated by the Covid pandemic.

Bringing together experts and working collaboratively with system leaders, the Commission will identify solutions which can transform the outcomes of the most marginalised teenagers who are at risk of violence, harm, criminalisation, and diminished opportunities.

Preventing young people from entering the justice system is in all our interests. That is why we are co-producing a new way to bring hope and success to young people through education and personal support.

The Commission on Young Lives will publish a series of interim reports throughout the year and its final report in Autumn 2022.

The Compassionate Friends (TCF) is a charitable organisation of bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents dedicated to the support and care of other similarly bereaved family members who have suffered the death of a child or children of any age and from any cause.

Many people who have suffered the loss of a child feel a bond with others in the same situation and wish to extend the hand of friendship. We offer support, both directly to bereaved families, and indirectly by fostering understanding and good practice amongst professionals concerned with child death and by increasing public awareness.

In TCF, “family” covers a broad spectrum of relationships. We aim to help any individual or family affected by the death of a child, including unmarried partners, adoptive parents, step families, same sex couples and single parent families.

TCF has no religious affiliation and offers support to bereaved families irrespective of the age of the child, cause of death, ethnic, social or political background. We respect the privacy of all those who come to us for support and offer a confidential service.

The Corbett Network for prisoner re-integration is a coalition of over 105 decision-makers of major rehabilitation charities and organisations dedicated to reducing re-offending by supporting people with convictions find and keep a job. Members also offer mentoring, coaching, training and on-going support.

The Network Mission

Bridging the gap from custody to community by improving routes to employment

Primary aims:

- Engaging with employers from a wide spectrum, many of whom have skill shortages but do not yet consider recruiting people with convictions

- Providing support for self-employment options – back office, mentors etc.

- Providing support for entrepreneurial activity – start up grants, route to market, mentors

- Using social networks and media to publicise rehabilitation

The crib is a charity from since 1999.

We are the first organisation that brought postcode war to the attention in Hackney bringing them together to create some kind of unity. That's when boroughs united was formed to bring boroughs together to to fight this divide with young people. We were the only organisation that put victims families and perpetrators in the same arena. We did the first knife crime march in Hackney and then Hackney and Islington. We need to fight this together. Knife crime is on the rise in Ireland. We deliver a knife crime workshop called Sharp End with family member who have lost a child to violence and a young person who was the victim of knife crime coming from the roads.

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The Dalgarno Trust is a community centre in the heart of Ladbroke Grove. We work with the local communities offering a wide range of activities, projects and services that promote, health, wellbeing and inclusion for both the young and the not so young.‍

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We are proud to be a part of the Health Partners Programme with other community, voluntary, faith groups and residents associations working in the community of North Kensington, brought together by NHS West London Clinical Commissioning Group. The Health Partners programme brings community organisations together to improve the health and wellbeing of Grenfell-affected communities. Click here for updates on the work.

The Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Foundation is a drug and alcohol education charity that aims to support young people to make safe choices about drugs and alcohol and reduce harm. We do this through increasing understanding of the effects and risks, and helping to develop life skills and resilience. The Foundation was set up in January 2014 by Tim and Fiona Spargo-Mabbs in response to the death of their 16-year-old son Daniel having taken ecstasy.

We work with young people, parents, teachers and professionals in schools, colleges and community groups using our evidence-based, multi-component drug and alcohol programme, developed in line with best practice for the most effective outcomes. The site also provides access to other charities dealing with the problems DSM is engaged with.

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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 "Dream, Believe, Succeed" project is an alliance of local partners (led by Edmonton Community Partnership), that as a collective have embarked on an ambitious vision of in-school and extra curriculum delivery, using creative arts, mentoring and family intervention. We know that effective early intervention is about taking action as soon as possible to tackle problems for children, young people and families before they become more difficult to reverse.  We plan to ensure that children and young people in Edmonton, Enfield are listened to, inspired and enabled to meet their full potential and express the concerns that mean the most to them.  This project is funded by the Young Londoners Fund.

The Mayor created the Young Londoners Fund to help give young people the support they need to build a better future and avoid getting caught up in crime. The fund will see £30m made available for projects in local communities. The remaining £15m will be invested to expand existing projects funded by City Hall that support young Londoners.

YUVA at DVIP offers confidential support for young people ages 11-18 (up to 25 for young people with additional needs) who want to change their behaviour, develop improved awareness of healthy communication and relationships. We help young people to look at their abusive behaviour and find safe, non-abusive alternatives.

Barry Murphy, a Partner at PwC is the project director of the Employers Social Mobility Alliance.  The aims of ESMA are to

• “amplify what is already going on in regards to social mobility and make it easier for people to come together”, a strong call to action for other organisations to play their part in the advancement of this movement.

• Understand the issues affecting all stages of social mobility and collect information on best practices in social mobility schemes around the UK and share it.

• Promote a joined-up approach to the identification, recruitment and retention of talent from low income backgrounds by UK employers.

• Identify how UK employers can assist State and Third Sector in combatting issues which inhibit individuals from low income backgrounds achieving their career ambitions.

• Highlight existing collaborative projects focused on low income and employability which provide UK employers with an easy “step on point” in terms of resource & cost ‍

UK Employers have the collective resource, operational expertise and geographic coverage to be the ‘hub’ for action uniting Business, State and Third Sector. Check the website for an updated list of top employers who promote social mobility.

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.

Our Mission at Exit Foundation is to equip, empower and encourage ex-offenders,adults and young people that want or require help in making positive life choices leading into a brighter life. We provide support and mentoring to those who want to exit a criminal and gang-related lifestyle. We major on building relationships first and foremost by establishing the trust required to mentor individuals into employment,training, and education. We work with offending behaviour including, but not limited to, gang affiliation, knife crime, violent behaviour, drugs, and county lines.

In our diverse society, positive relations between people of different faiths, beliefs and cultures are essential.

The Faith & Belief Forum has worked tirelessly for over 20 years to build good relations between people of all faiths and beliefs, and to create a society where difference is celebrated.

We create spaces in schools, universities, workplaces and the wider community where people can engage with questions of belief and identity and meet people different from themselves. Enabling people to learn from each other in this way is often the most effective way to tackle ignorance and challenge stereotypes – and create understanding and trust between people. The Faith & Belief Forum’s inclusive approach welcomes everyone – whether you’re an Atheist, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jew, Muslim, Zoroastrian, or identify with any other belief. Our programmes reach over 16,000 people a year. They include teachers and students, artists and professionals, political leaders in Parliament and upcoming leaders at university.

On a Regenerate UK  trip (see too in this FKCL directory) taking young people from London estates to volunteer in Kenya with a project supporting street children, a light bulb moment happened. One of the young people on the trip who had been heavily involved in gang life, poured out his heart saying he didn't want to go back to a negative lifestyle when back in London, he wanted to help others, but he didn't believe he could even get any kind of legitimate job back home.
We decided to set up an enterprise that would support, train and employ young people that wanted to turn their lives around and at the same time do something that makes a difference in the wider world. We set up The Feel Good Bakery.

We support local young people facing barriers to employment by offering amazing work opportunities as baristas, and for every coffee we sell we fund a meal for a child in need. We are proudly part of Regenerate, the youth work charity based in Roehampton and Putney.

Since being established in 2014 we have created over 60 jobs for local young people who wanted the opportunity to turn their lives around. Not only that, we have funded over 280,000 meals for children through our 'one for one' scheme working in partnership with grassroots organisations in Kenya and Romania.

In response to the challenges on the Bakery business due to Covid-19, in July 2020 we set up our first mobile coffee cart and then in September we started another one. Over the next two years we plan to create employment for at least 75 young people in our community through our growing fleet of coffee carts! See for example our services in battered and at Vine Rd, Barnes.

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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.

Our mission is to inspire and empower girls from the least advantaged communities by connecting them with a mentor and a network of professional role models who are women.

This is a very helpful research programme to:

• Explore local young people’s issues relating to carrying of knives and knife crime, including Education, Prevention, Early Intervention, Targeted Support, Deterrence, Disruption and Detection.

• Identify specific factors which young people deemed to facilitate/inhibit involvement in knife crime and knife activity

They were recently awarded £47,528 to deliver in-school presentations around dangers of knife crime to 900 young people followed by targeted workshops and support for 40 young people across four schools in Enfield and Haringey.

GT Scholars is a not-for-profit social enterprise and registered charity that is open to all young people. Our mission is to give young people aged 11-18, the strategies, skills and support they need to achieve their academic and career aspirations, regardless of their background. We believe that all young people have their own unique set of gifts, talents and strengths and they can achieve amazing things when they are given the chance to build on their natural strengths and develop new skills.

So how can we help you? We have four key learning strands which ensure that our scholars are equipped with the strategies, skill and support needed to achieve their goals. These are Tutoring, Mentoring, Skill building and Enrichment.

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.

At The Hive, we listen and ensure that young people's voice is heard and provide help and advice on matters such as mental health, personal development, health and wellbeing, sexual health, substance misuse and assistance to access other services where appropriate.

The Hive is open for face-to-face walk-ins and our friendly welcoming staff will assist.

The Hive staff are available to answer calls on-site and hold face-to-face one-to-one meetings, centred around (1) mentoring with a focus on emotional, mental and physical health, and practical skills, and (2) working towards setting and achieving clear goals that you decide on.

The Hive's Social Hub takes place Monday to Friday from 4pm until 7pm. The Social Hub has various workshops, activities and services onsite every day (e.g., yoga, guitar lessons, drama, music hot topic discussions, learning life skills, and fitness; targeted projects such as LGBTQ+ groups).

The Hive's Sexual Health Clinic offers free full screenings, contraception and sexual advice with a Nurse.

The iCoCo foundation is dedicated to the promotion of interculturalism and community cohesion. It is a not for profit organisation which challenges old style multiculturalism and promotes new and progressive policy and practice in an era of multi-diverse and globalised societies. (See sections ‘about interculturalism‘ and ‘about community cohesion‘.) The iCoCo foundation has been established by Professor Ted Cantle CBE and follows on from the earlier work which he inspired at the Institute of Community Cohesion. It is a Community Interest Company, limited by guarantee. The ground-breaking Report – known as The ‘Cantle Report’ – was produced in December 2001 and made around 70 recommendations. It also created the concept of ‘parallel lives’ to describe communities that had little in common and had no contact with each other. In so doing, it re-established the importance of ‘contact theory’ as a means of reducing prejudice and improving tolerance and understanding of the ‘other’. This also challenged the multicultural orthodoxy based on essentialised identities and gave birth to the idea of ‘community cohesion’. Community cohesion was subsequently adopted by the UK Government and many of the interventions which it spawned have been used by local communities in this country and around the world. Community cohesion programmes have succeeded in reducing tension in local communities by promoting cross cultural contact, developing support for diversity and promoting unity. Community cohesion also continues to tackle inequality and the prejudice and discrimination which underpins it, whilst interculturalism provides a wider and progressive narrative to replace the outmoded concept of multiculturalism.

Established in 1995 in memory of Irene Taylor, wife of the late Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor ,the Irene Taylor Trust 'Music in Prisons is a registered charity of long standing success delivering creative music projects throughout the UK to inspire and engage prisoners, ex-prisoners and people at risk in positive opportunities away from crime.

We believe creating original music collaboratively has a powerful positive impact on people's lives, bringing new confidence, important transferrable skills and raised aspirations for the future. Music can break down barriers and help people who have found themselves on the fringes of society to become celebrated and valued members of the community. Our projects support NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) young people, ex-prisoners and people of all ages in prisons.

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.

JAGS is an Acronym of James Andre Godfrey Smartt-Ford, and a youth focused organisation, set up by James' mother, Tracey Ford, following his tragic murder.

James was attending a friend's birthday party inside Streatham Ice-skating Rink, on a busy Saturday evening, when he was shot in front of over 300 people. He did not live to see his 18th birthday.

Through the delivery of co-educational and life skills training for young people in local communities, JAGS works across neighbouring South London Boroughs including Croydon, Lambeth, Merton and Wandsworth to raise awareness and build resilience of parents and children through community cohesion.

Jodie Chesney was brutally murdered on the 1st March 2019. This was an unprovoked attack and has completely devastated her family. Jodie was a kind and giving person and is greatly missed.

The Jodie Chesney Foundation will develop and provide prevention, intervention, education and support to parents, carers, teachers and young people (including those that may not engage in mainstream support). We will be promoting the reduction and long-term eradication of fatal violence by knives and help to relieve victims of the effects of violence within the community.

We have full support from local leaders of Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge and Havering Councils and we have already met with government leaders such as Sadiq Khan and Lib Peck who are keen to work with us.

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.

We are on a quest to change the story about knife crime – but we can’t do it on our own and we are so grateful to everyone that has helped us so far.

Over 50,000 of you have followed us on social media, helping us to spread the word about the difference we are trying to make.

Since Josh’s devastating murder in October 2015, every day has been a challenge, but we are very proud of what we have achieved in his memory.

Our very first event was a tandem skydive on Josh’s birthday, just four months after his death. We were granted charity status on 1st December 2016 and since then, we have held Memorial Football Tournaments, Fun Days, 5K Fun Runs and Workshops. Through our fundraising events and with support from the lottery fund and the Mayor’s Office of Police and Crimes Reduction Unit Funds, we are changing the story about knife crime.

The trust has four main aims:

• To help broaden the ethnic and social representation of the criminal bar by supporting those who, despite their potential, have faced multiple challenges as they strive to achieve their career ambitions.

• To provide training, mentoring and assistance to encourage and inspire young people from diverse backgrounds to achieve their potential through the development of advocacy skills.

• To encourage and support young people who would not otherwise consider a career at the criminal bar.

• To provide training and mentoring, as well financial & career support through internships and scholarships, to recently qualified barristers to help them develop sustainable and successful careers at the criminal bar.

We are proud to have worked for greater social mobility and diversity at the criminal bar since 1996 and continue to do so.  

Our education outreach programme provides bespoke training in educational establishments, exploring the skills of the lawyer, which are useful to all. We teach and mentor teenagers as they make the leap from school to university and beyond. We offer scholarships to selected Masters courses to further develop students' legal knowledge.

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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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Kiyan Prince was the first son born to Mark Prince and Tracy Cumberbatch on 25th November 1990.

He was an outgoing and well loved young man who got along with everybody. Teachers, fellow pupils, Queens Park Rangers football team… in fact anyone who came into contact with Kiyan counted it a privilege to have done so.

On May 18th 2006 Kiyan’s life came to a tragic, untimely and unnecessary end. The loving nature, by which he was known, was what made him step in and defend his friend who was being picked on by another youth.

The incident took place outside the gates of his school, the London Academy, located in Edgware North London. Kiyan attempted to resolve the situation in the most peaceable way by directly challenging the aggressor.

The Trust in his memory offers motivational speakers and training, and education workshops on knife crime and such more.  It has strong links to sport and football. Among other things they campaign for the #InspiringFuture Champions Roadshow: to address the root causes of the violence and knife crime which is affecting all areas of London with the message that they can achieve their goals in ways which don’t involve conflict and violence.

The world can feel like a very lonely place if you are feeling that life is no longer worth living: not only is it difficult to share those feelings but it can be hard to get the care and support that will make a difference.

The Listening Place offers a warm and welcoming environment; somewhere individuals can talk openly about their feelings, without being judged or being given advice.
Importantly, we provide on-going support from trained non-judgemental volunteers, which can continue over a number of weeks if this is appropriate.
The Listening Place is not a 'drop-in' centre – we see all our Visitors by appointment.

The Listening Place now operates from multiple sites across central London and details of our two main premises are below. Your appointment location should always have been sent to you in advance of your appointment.

Get in touch with us on 020 3906 7676 and a member of our team can help.

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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.

Who Are We?

We are a unique Charity serving the Autistic Community of London and surrounding Counties in the UK.

We are led by Autistic people and kind, compassionate allies.

We leverage the insight of lived-experience to support Autistic people at every stage of their lives.

We offer both Mental Health and Material Support to Autistic people and Carers.

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"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.

They have recently been awarded £30,000 for their ‘Respect each other & no to knives!’ project to help children and young people understand the dangers of knife crime in order to prevent it and intervene at an early stage.

“We provide services to our local community where we provide extra-curricular education, after-school clubs and activities for children and young people.  We have transformed the way we provide our services to children and young people, we are now providing our classes, sessions and activities through the internet on online platforms.  Get in touch with us for further information. “Community Centre. We also run a community centre where we offer hot-food and afternoon tea sessions for the social gathering of those who feel isolated and need someone to talk to in a friendly welcoming setting.  We have a support network to stop smoking and clubs and activities to prevent use of alcohol and drugs. Our Women’s only groups provide extra-curricular activities for children and young people, and we have separate social groups for women and support networks for young mothers. We also help and assist victims of domestic violence. We have dedicated staff who make home visits to elderly people who are isolated and vulnerable. We help them with their shopping and provide hot-food for those who are truly in-need.”

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.

See too “One City, Two Worlds” research paper https://www.mayorsfundforlondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/One-City-Two-Worlds_Londons-social-mobility-puzzle-February-2020-spreads-.pdf  “We need to build an environment which inspires young people to achieve their potential by creating a workforce that is representative of London’s mixed identity”.  Tahira Bakhtiari, Youth Board Member, Mayor’s Fund for London

We provide youth mentoring training and development consultancy to statutory services, voluntary and community organisations, parents and independent youth practitioners, upskilling those working with young people to use Youth Mentoring as a Practice.We believe that the young people we serve are 'diamonds in the rough', with draw-dropping creative thinking, inspiring values and unsurpassable grit that is desperately needed in the British workforce. Yet young people from black and marginalised communities do not have access to solid, reliable guidance in how to focus their skills and talents, to help improve British industries most pressing issues, and improve all of our futures.

Often living in cramped social housing, with a lack of access to green spaces, parents are trying their hardest to raise their children, whilst living with declining physical health, mental health conditions, domestic violence and or long term unemployment.

Where parents are employed, they tend to work long hours to make ends meet, in low paid roles within the City of London as a cleaner, security guard, kitchen staff or for the Public Sector as frontline workers. For both unemployed, overworked and unpaid parents, they unfortunately do not have the capacity to provide the structure or gateways for young people to access quality industry related support networks, learning to achieve opportunities or solid career guidance to safeguard their future.

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.

Working together to protect vulnerable children

Originally inspired by the untimely death in 1984 of Jasmine Beckford, The Michael Sieff Foundation took up the challenge of organising meetings of people in a position to act on the resultant inquiry – to recommend and ensure lasting improvements. Issues examined at Foundation conferences include:

• specialised training for all involved with children’s welfare

• children as victims of violence between parents

• difficulties in residential care for children

• child sexual exploitation

• reform of the youth justice system

We have sponsored a number of important reports, in particular the Carlile Inquiry, which is to be found on www.fightingknifecrime.london resource area.

We, together with many like-minded organisations, have worked tirelessly to hold the feet of HMG to the fire, and to take action, so that expert reports do not gather dust in the archives. One route to achieving this is to look at the problem-solving court model and the provision of proper welfare investigation alongside the criminal proceedings.

Regrettably many children continue suffer mental or physical disadvantage or are subjected to abuse, deprivation and cruelty. Most child offenders are pushed or led into crime by their circumstances. Typically, vulnerability of one sort or another caused by abuse and/or deprivation go hand in hand.

They risk falling into a cycle of disadvantage and indeed potential criminalisation and missing their chances of happiness and developing fully their potential. Instead of enjoying their childhoods and contributing to society in later life they become a very substantial cost to society and risk having wretched and unfulfilled lives.

The Mill is more than a community centre – it’s Walthamstow’s living room. A home from home for anyone to drop in, read the papers, view an art exhibition, browse the honesty library, join a group or activity (or start up their own one), use the playroom or rent out the space for a party or workshop.  Our spaces are very versatile and we’re always open for new ideas.

We do things slightly differently.  We don’t run services or decide what goes on here. We provide the space, the resources and support to help make things happen.  All our groups, events and activities are developed by local people who want to provide something for the benefit of the community.  We’re open to the public 6 days a week – so why not pop in and find out more.

Life’s tough, we know that. It can throw a lot your way and make it hard to know what the hell to do with it all.

So, welcome to The Mix. Whether you’re 13, 25, or any age in between, we’re here to take on the embarrassing problems, weird questions, and please-don’t-make-me-say-it-out-loud thoughts you have. We give you the information and support you need to deal with it all. Because you can. Because you’re awesome.

We’ll connect you to experts and your peers who’ll give you the support and tools you need to take on any challenge you’re facing – for everything from homelessness to finding a job, from money to mental health, from break-ups to drugs.

We’re a free and confidential multi-channel service. That means that you choose how you access our support, without the worry of anyone else finding out. Whether it be through our articles and video content online or our phone, email, peer to peer and counselling services – we put the control in your hands. You can even volunteer with us too.

We want to be the first place young people turn to get support. Sometimes what you’re told at school or at home just doesn’t cut it. We’re here whenever you need us, wherever you are. We can ensure you have all the best information to make the right choices for yourself.

Life is hard, but support doesn’t have to be. We’ve got this.

Barry Mizen MBE writes:

“Following the murder of our son Jimmy in May 2008, we as a family have been determined that we will not be beaten by his death and that something good will come from it. We believe that the issues of anger, confrontation and violence in our communities will not be altered by ever harsher punishment and retributive action. We cannot expect the government or the police service to bring change by itself. We will only achieve safer and more cohesive communities by working together and understanding the root causes of the issues we are seeking to rectify. This involves early intervention, education and engagement with young people and their communities. The behaviour and actions of the communities that we live in are the direct responsibility of each one of us. If we want a more peaceful society it starts with the individual. Long term, deep-rooted change can only happen if the thinking is changed first and we develop a more positive narrative concerning our young people. We believe that young people respond best when they are part of any decisions affecting their lives. We are witnessing the impact on the lives of young people who have been affirmed and encouraged to help change the communities they live in. Our young people are precious and many live in fear of confrontation and anger from the few who cause the problems. The role of leading change is infectious and is best led by young people themselves; alongside the support of all of us.”  We need to look at what is happening when our young people are getting involved in violence. We need to understand them in order to find out why those who hurt others do what they do.”  “About Jimmy” has recently been awarded £25,000 to deliver the ‘Safe Havens’ Program in three schools in Deptford.

The Moira Fund, a grant making charity, has been established in memory of Moira Jones, who was murdered in Queens Park, Glasgow, in May 2008. Following her death, family, friends and colleagues of Moira wished to establish a fund in her memory that would support others who found themselves bereaved through violent death at the hands of another. Now fully established, The Moira Fund makes grants to individuals bereaved through violent death, which includes supporting:

• Access to respite

• Extra help with funerals

• Specific transport costs

• Access to counselling

• Needs which may arise and for which there is no current provision

The Monitoring Group was established in Southall (west London), in the early 1980’s, by community campaigners and lawyers who wished to challenge the growth of racism in the locality.

We have become a leading anti-racist charity that promotes civil rights.

Our national office is based in London.

Our aims are:

a.  To promote good race relations;

b.  To advance race relations by means of education and awareness raising; and

c.  To relieve the needs of those who are distressed or suffering violence or harassment.

In 1987, the Mudchute Park and Farm, in the middle of the Isle of Dogs, was threatened with closure due to loss of funding. Dr Michael Barraclough was asked to Chair a new Board of Trustees to save it. He has been involved ever since in its development, landscaping and with volunteers planting thousands of trees. Today it is a unique bio-diverse Nature Reserve and with 32 acres is the largest inner city farm in the country. It was visited by the Queen in her Silver Jubilee year. Thousands of local children visit its Nature Study Centre and Living Classroom, learn about farming, how to grow vegetables, take farm tours and riding lessons. It has a baby unit and nursery as well as an After School Club and regular help for disabled groups and young offenders. It attracts around 45,000 children each year and is now the largest Children’s Resource in Tower Hamlets.  During 2012 Barraclough organised the restoration of one of the Mudchute’s four gun sites that defended the docks during WW2, bringing in an original Ack Ack gun and restoring the bunkers. It is accompanied by a display of WW2 memorabilia, war time photos, and a specially made 16 minute film about the Mudchute’s role during the Blitz.

The Music Klub provides education, training and mentoring programmes for young people, in particular, supporting hard to reach groups including young people at risk of disengaging and/or disengaged with education, training and employment, ex-offenders and young people from disadvantaged environments.

Established in 2009, we deliver positive, engaging workshops and short courses for young people to support their education and employment skills needs. Recognizing that young people are inspired by the creative arts and media industries, our programmes embed innovative, cutting-edge social media and creative platforms designed to engage and promote social inclusion and expression whilst developing essential skills, knowledge, and self-esteem to support their career development.  

Our core aims include:

Assisting young people to develop their confidence and self-esteem to access education, training or employment in the wider community.

Promoting positive mentoring schemes that facilitate advice and guidance forums designed to meet their social needs.

Developing creative, innovative programmes to support and inspire young people in their development and preparation for further education and employment

Working in partnership with the local community including schools, colleges, social services, and community groups to provide holistic support for young people

National Youth Theatre is a pioneering youth arts charity that nurtures creative expression, personal well-being and skills development, engaging thousands of young people aged 11- 30 around the UK every year.

Established in 1956 as the world's first youth theatre, NYT seeks out, supports and champions performers, theatre technicians and young creative leaders. NYT produces ambitious theatrical productions in local communities, on leading global stages and in unusual spaces across the UK and beyond, commissioning brave and relevant new writing and reinterpreting classic stories for our time.

Free & confidential mental wellbeing advice and support for young people aged 11 – 25 in Southwark.

Our aim is to provide a service to young people at the point of need, without the need for a professional referral. We offer early intervention and prevention for emotional issues and low-level mental health such as worries, anxieties and stress.

The Nest provides young people and families with the opportunities, experiences, and tools to enable them to develop their physical, emotional and social capabilities. Our non-clinical intervention offers youth work, person-centred counselling, psychological wellbeing practices and traditional talking therapies via 1:1 sessions, group work, virtual resources and peer mentoring.

Groundwork London and Southwark continued to work together to make the service a reality while continuing to speak to young people and their families about the design of the space to make sure it is a building that any young person would feel comfortable walking in to, without an appointment, and receive support.

The Neurodiversity Family Hub is a community-based nonprofit organisation in London, England, dedicated to supporting neurodiverse children, young people, and their families. Located at 56 Southwark Bridge Road, SE1 0AS, it serves as both a family resource centre and advocacy platform promoting inclusion, understanding, and empowerment for neurodivergent individuals.
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Founded in 1967 by Lord Longford to address the needs of young people who were involved in drug misuse in the West End of London, New Horizon Youth Centre continues today to work with the most vulnerable and at risk young people.

During those five decades the centre has continued to provide a safe space for young people experiencing homelessness in the capital, whether that was in our original base in Covent Garden or through our existing home in Somers Town, Kings Cross. The centre has always reflected the age-old movement of young people to London to both escape what they left behind and to find work, safety and new opportunities. Back in the 1980s it was young people from Ireland and Scotland who made up many of the centre's users. Today the same factors draw in young people from all over the world.

The early days of the centre are chronicled in Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief and describe the time immediately before Jon Snow was hired as the first ever Director of the Centre. This would be the start of the 50 years of Jon's involvement including 20 years as our Chair and more recently as our Patron.

Although a lot has changed over that time, more than 50 years later the work of the centre is as necessary as ever. In response to this we have steadily grown from a team of three when the centre first opened to a now diverse and multi-disciplined team of over 40, delivering a wide range of wraparound, holistic services. If housing is the hook for young people to come to New Horizon then it is the holistic offer available under one roof that keeps them coming back, offering the stability, safety and support they need to start getting their lives back on track.

We are a youth empowerment charity based in South London. The focus of our approach is to tackle complex youth issues through proactive and preventative methods.
Our model is centred around fighting social inequality and unlocking the potential in the lives of disadvantaged young people.

By addressing young people's issues from the root at a younger age, we disrupt negative cycles at the earliest possible opportunity.

At Paradigm Project we focus on prevention. This doesn't ring-fence an age but, more importantly, a stage in a young person's journey. A proactive approach means we can impact a young person's life at a critical phase by addressing their situation and then improving their access to resources and transforming their beliefs, values, and attitudes.

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.

Our vision is to create better places through community business. We will use our endowment to strengthen community businesses across England.  This means providing money, advice and support to help local people come together to take control. At a time when many parts of the country face cuts, neglect and social problems, we want to make sure local areas survive and stay vibrant. We do so by being bold, collaborative, open and informed.

By the end of our ten years, we want community business to be recognised as a new economic model. Read more about our ambition for community business.

Our endowment came from the Big Lottery Fund in 2015 (now The National Lottery Community Fund).

The Premier League Communities strategy sets out its ambition to inspire and connect with local and global communities through football. The Premier League Charitable Fund (PLCF) was set up as an independent charity in 2010 to support the delivery of the strategy and it now distributes funding of around £35million a year from the Premier League and other partners. The PLCF aims to:

-Build stronger communities where everyone can achieve

-Enhance physical and mental wellbeing

-Develop personal skills and positive relationships

-Increase sporting, educational and employment opportunities.

Using the appeal of the Premier League and professional football the Premier League Charitable Fund it aims to create positive and lasting sporting, health and education outcomes for children, young people and the wider community.  

The PLCF develops programmes and provides funding to 92+ Club Community Organisations (CCOs) in the Premier League and English Football League. We support CCOs to deliver innovative programmes and quality services and we invest in infrastructure and capability, training and advice.

We monitor and report on the overall impact of the charity’s activity to demonstrate the value of football to communities and the value of the Premier League and our partners’ investment.

Since 2010 over 1.4million young people and children have benefited from the PLCF’s events, festivals and national community and education programmes.

PACT is a national charity that provides support to prisoners, people with convictions, and their families. We support people to make a fresh start, and minimise the harm that can be caused by imprisonment to people who have committed offences, to families and to communities.

What we do:

• Build stronger families and safer communities.

• Reduce risk of harm to prisoners and their children.

• Remove barriers and increase awareness in public services.

• Influence commissioning, policy and legislation

We have produced two toolkits one for employers, designed to help them build a successful relationship with a prison as a source of future employees, and one to help prisons that want to review the work they are already doing as well as those that want to start something new. You can download the toolkits by following the link to our website.

The project looked at the opportunities for prisons to engage with employers to help prisoners become job-ready and find work on release from prison. The report demonstrates that the potential to secure sustainable employment for prisoners before and after release is both great and largely going unrealised.

Rathbone Youth Centre runs activities for young people aged 11-19, or up to 25 for young people with learning disabilities. The youth club, based at The Old Library in Knights Hill, is open three evenings term time on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 5-9pm. During half term and summer holidays, we run holiday activities and educational trips. All our youth programs are delivered by specialist and qualified youth workers with experience in working with young people with complex needs and challenging behaviour.

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.

We provide through-the-gate mentoring to people leaving custody, throughout the London area. We also run behavioural change programmes, helping people involved in crime to make better decisions and reduce the number of people who re-offend, improving lives, lowering crime rates and reducing the cost to the tax payer. We know that people will only change if they want to. We listen in order to understand the reasons that people offend in the first place, then provide help to enable them to create new lives, free from the anxieties of their past.

The Recovery Loan Fund provides loans to UK charities and social enterprises who have been impacted by Covid 19 and need funds to help them to survive, recover and grow. It has been established by Social Investment Business (SIB) to make an existing Government guarantee scheme, the Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS – further information below), more easily accessible to charities and social enterprises.

The Fund will lend to organisations that are improving people's lives, or the environment they live in, across the UK. All funding purposes will be considered including refinancing of existing debt onto more patient terms.

The Fund is being run by Social Investment Business with initial investment from SIB and the Fusion21 Foundation - the charity parent and social investor of social enterprise and public sector procurement provider Fusion21.

The Royal Foundation is the primary philanthropic and charitable vehicle for The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Our programmes support a broad and ambitious spectrum of activities, bringing people, ideas and resources together to understand issues, explore creative solutions and be a catalyst for long-term impact. One of the most relevant issues within the context of this website is the work they do in the arena of mental health.

The Safety Box ® CIC programs are a refined system of training and development in helping young people and young adults develop important skills such as leadership, communication, team working, presentation, high risk conflict resolution, violence reduction, personal development and problem solving. We recognise that these are some of the essential keys to success. They open doors to learning, to life in addition to work. They are a platform on which to build employability skills and the gateway to future well-being and prosperity

• YOI & Prison Programs

• Intensive Support For High Risk Youth

• FAST Self Defence (Youth & Adult Program)

• Gang Intervention / Violence Interruption programs

• Anti Knife Crime (Aspire Higher)

• UK Radicalisation Awareness for Schools

• Project 318 - Youth Depression & Suicide

• General charitable purposes

• Education/training

• The advancement of health or saving of lives

• The prevention or relief of poverty

• Overseas aid/famine relief

• Arts/culture/heritage/science

• Economic/community development/employment

• Human rights/religious or racial harmony/equality or diversity.

The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts is the operating office of 17 different independent grantmaking trusts established by members of three generations of the Sainsbury family. It exists to provide economies of scale in the management of the trusts’ activities. It does not make grants; only the individual trusts do so. The trusts’ support for charitable causes over more than 50 years represents one of the leading examples of sustained philanthropy in Britain.

Each trust is an independent legal entity with its own separate and autonomous board of trustees, actively led by an individual member of the Sainsbury family. Each trust’s charitable giving follows the family member’s own interests, priorities and ways of working.

The trusts only fund registered charities or activities with clearly defined charitable purposes. They do not make grants directly to individuals. The Trustees take an active role in their grantmaking, employing specialist staff and advisers to research their areas of interest and bring forward suitable proposals. Many of the trusts work closely with their chosen beneficiaries over a long period to achieve particular objectives.

Scotland has an excellent record in its approach to knife crime. This website contains a lot of information about resources, initiatives and projects. The work of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit is repeatedly described as a public health approach which was revolutionary at the time. This can often be cited without explanation. A public health approach treats violence as a disease which can infect communities in the same way as a virus and there are four steps to applying this methodology:

1) Define the problem through the systematic collection of information and data

2) Establish the causes of violence and what factors could be changed through intervention

3) Design, implement and evaluate interventions

4) Scale-up effective interventions to have as wide an impact as possible.

Niven Rennie, Director of The Scottish Violence Reduction Unit.

The Second Curve Network (SCN) is driven by Chair Chris Reeve and Vice-Chairs Barry Murphy, Jeff Hayes and Sir Stephen O’Brien, and is currently led by Joseph Lyons, seconded part-time from his current CEO role at West Ham United Foundation. Sir Stephen O’Brien in particular has proffered his wise advice and support at every stage of the creation of this website. Fighting Knife Crime London is particularly indebted to him, and look forward to working together with SCN to fulfil their aims, which are summarised here.

SCN has over 20 organisational partners and a wide range of leading business and entrepreneurial leaders who combine together to focus on specific projects upon which to concentrate their considerable talent and resources. To begin with, these include four major projects for vulnerable groups which are replicable, benefitting from a collaborative approach and addressing long-standing social issues, including in the East End of London. Project Teams will drive forward and crystalise the project models in the months ahead. SCN believes that successful business is the cornerstone of a successful and peaceful society, with a central responsibility to use its capacity to bring prosperity to promote social cohesion and to address the failure of 50 years of public investment to alleviate the misery and waste associated with so many of our depressed local communities and their inhabitants.

“Our purpose is to help one million people transform their lives each year. We help people gain an education, enter work, develop their career, improve their wellbeing or rebuild their lives. We also work with businesses to help recruit the best staff, for free, and to make the companies more accessible.

As a charity we add value to everything we do by investing back into the people and communities we support. Our work focuses on seven areas: Charitable services and enterprise, Children and family services, Community health and wellbeing, Education, Employability, Justice, Learning and skills.

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 Social Mobility Commission exists to create a United Kingdom where the circumstances of birth do not determine outcomes in life.  SMC is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Education. Visit this site to see reports on social mobility and what the Government is doing to tackle it.