Evening Standard’s Dispossessed fund raises £4.5 million

Howard Lake | 14 September 2010 | News

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The Evening Standard’s Dispossessed fund has now raised £4.5 million “for London’s most vulnerable”. Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed the the achievement as “fantastic news”.

More than £1.7 million has been donated by Evening Standard readers together with some of London’s biggest firms. This has been matched by the government, which has also made available a further £1 million from their Grassroots project.

The fund will distributed £1 million to some of the capital’s charities “within weeks”. The remaining funds will then be used to create a permanent fund to help London’s dispossessed.

The fund was launched on 20 July to address the plight of the city’s poorest people – “London’s Dispossessed”.

http://dispossessedfund.communityfoundations.org.uk

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