We've amalgamated!
Posted 30 June 2010
City Parochial Foundation and our sister fund Trust for London amalgamated on 30 June 2010.
Our new organisation will be known as Trust for London and will continue to give out funding of approximately £6 million a year. The governance of the charity will remain the same, as will the staffing. We will continue to make around 150 grants annually to voluntary and community groups in the capital, under similar funding priorities, and existing grants will be unaffected.
Bringing the two funds together is intended to make us more efficient and flexible, as well as ending confusion among grant applicants about which fund to apply to. The mission of the amalgamated organisation will be tackling poverty and inequality in London.
"We are proud of our history, but we wanted a name that better reflected our role in London in the 21st century," says Bharat Mehta, Chief Executive of Trust for London. "The new Trust for London will continue to focus on the most marginalised, through our grants programme, special initiatives like the London Living Wage campaign and innovative research such as London's Poverty Profile.
New funding guidelines
We have produced a new set of funding guidelines that combine and update the previous funding aims of our two funds. Please note that there are no major changes to our funding aims. The next closing date for proposals is 5 October 2010.