About us
Trust for London is the largest independent charitable foundation funding work which tackles poverty and inequality in the capital. We support work providing greater insights into the root causes of London's social problems and how they can be overcome; activities which help people improve their lives; and work empowering Londoners to influence and change policy, practice and public attitudes.
We are particularly interested in work that is viewed as challenging and we are willing to take risks. One of our longstanding principles is to support activities that Government is unlikely to fund. We also want to make sure that we are able to respond to new issues and ideas and find creative ways of tackling deep-rooted problems relating to poverty and inequality.
Annually we provide around £7 million in grants and at any one point we are supporting some 400 voluntary and community organisations. Established in 1891, we were formerly known as City Parochial Foundation.
The booklet below tells you more about who we are and what we do. This can also be downloaded as a pdf
You can also read our latest Annual Review, which provides an overview of our work.
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Navprit Rai - Communications Manager
Navprit Rai is Communications Manager at Trust for London. She joined in August 2012. Prior to this she was a consultant at Champollion; a communications and public affairs consultancy which specialises in helping charities and third sector organisations. Navprit has...
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Fatima Ahmed - Grants & Research Intern
Fatima joined the Trust in September 2012 as a Grants and Research Intern. She recently graduated from King's College London with a degree in Geography. She splits her time at the Trust with studying for a Masters in Environment, Science...
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Rory Macfarlane - Grants & Research Intern
Rory Macfarlane is the Grants and Research Intern. He joined Trust for London in September 2012. Rory recently graduated from the University of Sheffield with a first class honours in Human Geography. Rory is also a skilled turnstile operator having...
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