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UK anti-trafficking measures 'not fit for purpose'
The UK's new anti-trafficking measures are 'not fit for purpose' and the government is breaching its obligations under the European Convention against Trafficking, said a coalition of British human rights organisations as it published a new report funded by Comic...
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New funding initiative to tackle faith-based child abuse in London
Posted on 20 September 2007 City Parochial Foundation (CPF) and Trust for London (TfL) have awarded £450,000 over three years to four organisations addressing faith-based child abuse linked to a belief in spirit possession. The funding, through our 'Safeguarding Children's...
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London Social Justice Award
For the past couple of years we have been sponsoring the annual Sheila McKechnie Foundation Campaigner Awards. These are for individuals who are new to campaigning or operating with few resources and who show passion, tenacity and the potential to...
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Human rights centre for London under consideration
We are planning a new centre in partnership with the Ethical Property Foundation (Plans for the Future) to bring together a range of human rights and social justice organisations into one central London centre. The aim is to create a...
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Survey Results
Posted 25 March 2010 As part of a mid-term review of our work, we undertook a survey in Summer 2009 to get feedback on all aspects of our work. This was an electronic survey of a sample of applicants, both...
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Consultation Reponse to Safeguarding Children
Posted 2 February 2010 City Parochial Foundation and Trust for London have responded to the Government's consultation on guidance for Local Safeguarding Children Boards, which have responsibility in each borough for keeping children safe from harm. In particularly, we are...
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Read a first person account of Female Genital Mutilation in the UK and abroad
Posted 13th January 2010 City Parochial Foundation has just launched a new UK-wide Special Initiative in partnership with Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Rosa (the UK Fund for Women and Girls) to fund community-based, preventive work to safeguard children from the...
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Maggie Baxter appointed OBE
All at City Parochial Foundation and Trust for London would like to congratulate our trustee Maggie Baxter on being appointed an OBE in the New Year's Honours list. Maggie has been an active and invaluable Trustee of City Parochial Foundation...
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Former Trustee Lady Winifred Tumim, CPF Trustee 1989-2001
A memorial service for Lady Tumim will take place on 24th March 2010 at 11am, at St Martin's In the Fields Church, Saint Martin's Place, London EC2N 4JH to express gratitude for a life of voluntary service. If you wish...
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Children's Society research uncovers child trafficking
Participatory research by The Children's Society on children who abused whilst in private foster care arrangements, has found the majority were child victims of trafficking. The report, Hidden Children - separated children at risk, includes recommendations for practitioners and decision-makers...
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Community Conversations - Building bridges between people from different backgrounds
In September 2009 Conflict and Change, a voluntary organisation that has developed innovative approaches to building understanding between communities since the 1980s and City Parochial Foundation hosted an event to bring together practitoners who are working on social cohesion and...
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New Trustees/Co-optee to the Board of Trust for London and City Parochial Foundation
Posted 6 November 2009 The Board of Trust for London and City Parochial Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Trustees following an open recruitment: • Loraine Martins became a Trustee from September 2009, having formerly served...
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London Social Justice Award Winner and finalists
Winners of the Sheila McKechnie Foundation Campaigner Awards were announced at a ceremony held at St Martin's in the Field on 16 September, please click link below: Campaigner Awards 2009 Awards The London Social Justice Award, sponsored by CPF and...
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Effect (Foundation's in Europe Together)
Special Plenary Session Bharat Mehta, Chief Executive spoke at the plenary session of the European Foundation's Centre Annual Conference in Rome in mid May. The session was focussed on the link between migration and poverty. It touched on issues including...
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Influencing Change Supporting London-based grassroots and voluntary organisations to influence public policy
Influencing Change is an introductory level course on how to influence public policy to achieve social change, which is run by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation. The course will focus on how local authorities, London and central Government and the European...
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Achieving More Together
Posted 24 July 2009 The report Achieving More Together by Padraic Brick and Eleanor Stringer explores the opportunities for new philanthropists and established foundations to collaborate, the benefits of such collaborations, and the ways in which they might work. New...
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Economic Impact on the London and UK economy of an earned regularisation of irregular migrants to the UK
Posted 3 July 2009 This report by Ian Gordon, Kathleen Scanlon, Tony Travers and Christine Whitehead of the London School of Economics, was commissioned by GLA economics and launched in mid-June 2009. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and the...
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Annual Review 2008
Posted 1 July 2009 Nigel Pantling, Chair of City Parochial Foundation and Trust for London launched our latest Annual Review at our summer reception. "During the last 12 months the worst economic downturn that most Londoners have ever known has...
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New Briefing Paper launched on irregular migrants and the case for regularisation
Posted 16 June 2009 Migrants Rights Network launched a new briefing paper entitled Irregular Migrants: the urgent need for a new approach at the House of Commons on 2 June 2009. The briefing was written by Migration Work and Migrants...
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London's Poverty Profile
Posted May 21 2009 City Parochial Foundation and the New Policy Institute have launched a Report and Findings - 'London's Poverty Profile'. It is the first independent report to bring together such a wide range of indicators measuring poverty, inequality...
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New research reveals hidden picture of poverty and inequality in London
Posted 19 May 2009 London has the highest rates of poverty and inequality of any region in the country according to new research from the City Parochial Foundation and the New Policy Institute, launched today. London's Poverty Profile is the...
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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Special Initiative Launched
A special initiative to strengthen community-based prevention work on female genital mutilation (FGM) City Parochial Foundation (CPF), Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (EF) and Rosa (the UK's Women's Fund), three independent charitable organisations, are collaborating to establish a new UK-wide Special...
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Latin American community in London research
City Parochial Foundation and Latin American Women's Rights Service are working in partnership to commission research to assess the needs of the Latin American population in London. Following an open-tender process, Queen Mary, University of London has been commissioned. Dr...
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Strangers into Citizens Rally, May 4th 2009
CPF is funding a campaign called Strangers into Citizens, which is calling for a one-off regularisation of long-term irregular migrants in the UK. These are people who have no 'legitimate' status and are therefore highly vulnerable to exploitation and many...
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Living Wage
As part of its ongoing work to tackle poverty and the root causes of poverty, CPF has pledged approximately £850,000, over four years, to research and champion the implementation of a living wage across London. It is estimated that, in...
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Funding campaigning & policy work: the philanthropy of changing minds
Posted 4 February 2009 In November 2008 City Parochial Foundation and the Baring Foundation convened an event for independent funders to consider the issues and challenges of funding campaigning and policy work. There was general agreement that the issues facing...
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Human Trafficking conference
Posted 8 October 2008 Working in partnership with Comic Relief and Joseph Rowntree Foundation, CPF held a discussion event on 29 September, which brought together independent funders with NGOs in the field to explore how to move forward policy and...
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Progress made in Tackling Modern Day Slavery
Posted 6 October 2008 CPF has published an interim report on its Tackling Modern Day Slavery special initiative, which collates the significant progress made by the five funded organisations in addressing exploitation in the UK....
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London Living Wage Employer
City Parochial Foundation aims to help some of the most disadvantaged groups of people in London who are living in poverty. As such we are committed to working towards better pay and employment conditions for those that work in...
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Young Offenders Academy
In May 2007, the Foundation was approached by East Potential to consider a grant towards a scoping study to explore the feasibility of establishing a young offenders academy in east London. The need for an academy grew out of a...
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