📋About
New 2030 Strategy launched summer 2024 with seven priority areas: Decent Work (£451k, 2 grants — Citizens UK Living Wage, Work Rights Centre employment law); Improving Social Security (£557k, 5 grants — benefits advice, child poverty campaigning, PIP support, social security tribunals, disabled domestic abuse victims); Tackling the Housing Crisis (£439k, 7 grants — care leavers housing, Changing Decent Homes Standard, Temporary Accommodation Action Groups, public legal education); Ending the Poverty Premium (£164k, 2 grants — Fair Banking Act campaign, water social tariffs); Ending Migrant Destitution (£811k, 9 grants — Afghan community, NRPF domestic abuse, IPPR research, British citizenship rights, migrant legal advice); Disability Justice Fund (£1.37m, 14 grants — DDPOs capacity, movement building, arts, advocacy); Racial Justice Fund (£1.32m, 7 grants — hospitality industry diversity, Black community savings, ethnicity pay gap reporting, worker organising, Black business in regeneration); Social Investment (£615k — Aspire procurement campaign, Business Launchpad workspaces Tooting, Spiral Skills young people, United Repair Centre); 2018-2024 strategy grants (£3.22m, 42 projects); London's Poverty Profile data platform; commission of independent research (HIV in temporary accommodation, NRPF impacts, night workers); rolling application model launched
Custom geography from upload: UK (city-wide)
📊Key Metrics
£9,035,514 total investment in London in 2024; 96 grants awarded; £5.19 million under new 2030 strategy; £3.22 million under 2018-2024 strategy; £615,000 in social investment to 5 social enterprises
Key Metric 1
Living Wage campaign in fourth year: 4,000+ London employers accredited, pay rises for 50,000+ Londoners, £228 million more in workers' pockets; London's Poverty Profile received 700,000 views — 34% increase on 2023; mean average grant £92,368
Key Metric 2
£1.37 million disability justice fund grants across 14 projects; £1.32 million racial justice fund grants across 7 projects; 24% poverty rate in London — lowest on record but 2.2 million Londoners still in poverty; permanent endowment £260 million
Key Metric 3
✅Key Outcomes
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Progress towards by-2030 Living Wage goal: £228 million more in London workers' pockets with further £2 billion estimated by 2030; London's Poverty Profile 700,000 views, 34% year-on-year increase; new user research implemented to improve platform accessibility
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Prof. William Pettigrew completed investigation into endowment's potential links to transatlantic trade in enslaved African people — findings presented to board late 2024; Resource for London building sold, charity being wound down; new 2030 strategy launched with rolling application model replacing annual cycle
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New government elected 2024 creating policy opportunity; 2.2 million Londoners in poverty including 34% of Londoners in non-white households and 47% of single-parent households; poverty fall driven by gentrification as much as income growth — low-income Londoners priced out of capital
