Regent’s Place Community Fund awards £30,000 to Camden charities
Melanie May | 29 September 2016 | News
Regent’s Place Community Fund, 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.
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.
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 (C4WS), Camden People’s Theatre, Third Age Project, New Diorama Theatre, and Scene & Heard.
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.”
Picture: Regent’s Place campus
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