# London Funders receives £300,000 to continue London’s Giving initiative

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/05/17/london-funders-receives-300000-continue-londons-giving-initiative/
- Published: 2017-05-17T10:46:38+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**City Bridge Trust has given London Funders a £300,000 grant to enable it to roll
out its London’s Giving initiative across all of the Capital’s boroughs.**

 

[London Funders’](http://www.londonfunders.org.uk/) initiative champions place-based
giving models across the city’s boroughs to help tackle inequality and improve the
lives of their inhabitants. It takes its inspiration from [Islington Giving](http://www.islingtongiving.org.uk/),
which has raised more than £5m for the borough and engaged thousands of local volunteers.

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So far London’s Giving has helped support giving schemes in seven borough: Barnet,
Hammersmith and Fulham, Lewisham, Southwark, Sutton, Camden and Tower Hamlets since
its 2014 launch.

 

The initiative is now working with a further nine boroughs interested in starting
their own giving schemes, which brings the total number of boroughs involved in 
place-based giving to 21, including five that were established before London’s Giving
launched.

 

The £300k grant from [City Bridge Trust](https://www.citybridgetrust.org.uk/), the
City of London Corporation’s charitable funder, will fund London’s Giving as part
of London Funders for a further three years with the aim of helping establish schemes
in all the Capital’s boroughs and developing the place-based giving model.

 

Alison Gowman, chairman of the City of London Corporation’s City Bridge Trust committee,
said:

 

> “These giving schemes offer a huge amount of support for London communities; in
> 2014/15 four of the first initiatives raised over £2.8m and distributed £1.9m 
> to local projects. This model has already proven to be a huge success so it is
> great that we are now able to roll out the scheme across all London boroughs.”

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