The City Bridge Trust donates £77,250 to the Pumphouse Education Trust
Howard Lake | 22 January 2008 | News
The City of London Corporation’s The City Bridge Trust has made a £77,250 grant to The Pumphouse Education Trust in Southwark. The grant will be made over three years to help with the running costs of an environmental sustainability programme for pre-school and primary school children and their families.
In its museum, the Pumphouse hosts an impressive collection of artefacts excavated from the foreshore of the River Thames, dating from Roman times, representing the rich heritage of the area of Rotherhithe and Bermondsey. The building houses the unique exhibition of Peek Frean & Co Ltd 1857 – 1989, further social history exhibitions and opens to a green flag nature reserve. The charity has been awarded previous grants; in 1996 to fund work with children; to pursue intergenerational work in 2002; and most recently in 2003 and 2005, awards granted for a reminiscence project for older people with dementia.
The City Bridge Trust has awarded over £200 million to London’s charities and community groups in the last twelve years to help the lives of disabled people, children, young people and older people in London communities, as well as supporting environmental projects and the voluntary and community sector.
It is the largest, independent grant making trust in London following an Act of Parliament in 1995 which allowed surplus monies from the ancient trust (originally set up to maintain the five London bridges crossing the Thames into the City) to be spent for the benefit of Londoners, through charitable grant making.
The Trust’s £620 million fund was built up over 900 years, originating from ancient taxes imposed on London Bridge.
www.bridgehousegrants.org.uk
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