# Regent’s Place Community Fund awards £30,000 to Camden charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/09/29/regents-place-community-fund-awards-30000-camden-charities/
- Published: 2016-09-29T09:45:19+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**[Regent’s Place Community Fund](http://www.regentsplace.com/communityfund), a 
collaboration between companies based in Regent’s Place and which launched in April
this year, has awarded five new charitable projects up to £9,000 each.**

 

Under the scheme, the companies have collaborated to pool £30,000 to invest in small
community projects in the local Camden area, focusing on causes that support skills
and access to employment, social cohesion, and healthy living.

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The founding funders are Capital One, Dentsu Aegis Network, Gazprom Marketing & 
Trading and lendlease, supported by fellow founders Regent’s Place Management and
landlord British Land. The fund is managed by [The London Community Foundation](http://www.londoncf.org.uk/).

 

In total, 27 charity and community group applied for funding. The five successful
projects have been awarded the full total they applied for, with grants ranging 
from £5,000-£9,000.

 

The charities are: [C4WS Homeless Project](http://c4wshomelessproject.org/) (C4WS),
[Camden People’s Theatre](https://www.cptheatre.co.uk/), [Third Age Project](http://www.thirdageproject.org.uk/),
[New Diorama Theatre](http://newdiorama.com/), and [Scene & Heard](https://www.sceneandheard.org/).

 

Sarah Hicks, branch director at Santander and panel member said:

 

> “Our businesses came together to provide increased support to grassroots projects
> in our community, to help those unsung small charities and community groups in
> our neighbourhood who are making a big difference to local people in need. We 
> were very impressed with the quality of the applications we received and we’re
> pleased to have been able to fund such a diverse range of projects with the first
> [grants from the new fund](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/11/15/google-grants-for-charities/).”

 

Picture: Regent’s Place campus

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