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We’ve amalgamated!
City Parochial Foundation and our sister fund Trust for London amalgamated on 30 June 2010 and this was announced at our Chair's Reception at Somerset House.
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.”
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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.
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Poverty
New poverty data
London’s Poverty Profile, a uniquely independent and comprehensive source of information on poverty and inequality in the capital, has now been updated with all the most recently available figures.
The new indicators show that child poverty has remained the same in London, despite significant rises in child benefit and child tax credit. The proportion and number of working age adults living in poverty has increased across England, including in London.
Brief histories and profiles of each London borough have also been added to the London’s Poverty Profile website. Sign up for the RSS feed to keep in touch with new data.
London's Poverty Profile is a special initiative of Trust of London in partnership with New Policy Institute
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Employment
Living Wage special initiative making progress
Around 1 in 10 working Londoners earn an income that keeps them below the poverty threshold. To address this issue of low pay we invested approximately £1 million into a London Living Wage special initiative. The campaign is now seeing considerable gains. In the run up to the election, David Cameron gave his support to the Living Wage at the UK Citizens London Electoral Assembly, which Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg also spoke at. In the public sector, eight London local authorities have now committed to paying a living wage. More recently, a number of large companies have signed up including Prudential, Clifford Chance, Standard Chartered, Normura and Deloitte.
Finally, in June, the Greater London Authority released its 2010 report A Fairer London to coincide with the announcement of the new annual living wage for London, which is now set at £7.85 per hour.
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Recent Arrivals to the UK
UK anti-trafficking measures breach international law
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, according to a coalition of British human rights organisations which published a new report funded by Comic Relief and Trust for London.
The report, the first major study of the government’s anti-trafficking measures since their launch 14 months ago, found that the flagship National Referral Mechanism is ‘flawed’ and possibly discriminatory, and operated by ‘minimally-trained’ UK Border Agency staff who ‘put more emphasis on the immigration status of the presumed trafficked persons, rather than the alleged crime against them.’
The report Wrong kind of victim? by the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group, a coalition including Anti-Slavery International, Amnesty International and ECPAT UK, reviewed 390 individual cases, as well as data from the UK Human Trafficking Centre and figures obtained from freedom of information requests.
It found marked disparities in the successful identification of trafficking victims, leading to fears that officials are overly concerned with immigration issues rather than assisting the victims of traumatic crimes, including sexual exploitation and forced labour. Read more
Trust for London is funding this work as part of our Tackling Modern Day Slavery Initiative.
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Strengthening the Voluntary and Community Sector
Building Our Futures
There are over 120 user-led Deaf and disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) in London promoting the rights of disabled people and providing a wide range of essential projects and services. DPOs have a prioneering role in employing disabled people, many of whom feel this is a positive experience. However, there are also many human resource challenges, which many DPOs lack the managerial capacity and expertise to address. Building Our Futures, a report on the findings of a two-year action reasearch project undertaken by Toosh Limited and managed by Disability Action in Islington, is now available.
The research, report and a launch conference (due to take place in the Autumn) have been funded by Trust for London.
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General News
Trust for London to co-sponsor London Voluntary Service Council’s centenary conference on 16 November 2010
We are proud to be a co-sponsor of LVSC’s centenary conference on 16 November. The overall theme of the conference will be inequality and poverty, and will feature some leading commentators on the subject. Details will be made public in due course. If you are interested in attending please pre-register by emailing.
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