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The Dispossessed Fund: £1 million more to change Londoners’ lives
Evening Standard, 17 July 2012
The Evening Standard’s Dispossessed Fund is making another £1 million gift to London.
The money will tackle poverty in almost every borough by boosting the work of 66 grassroots groups who help the city’s poorest people.
It is the second time this year the fund has awarded £1 million and it has been made possible by Sport Relief. David Cameron, who has followed the fund from its launch and who last year met people whose lives had been turned around by it, said: “I am delighted that another £1 million is being distributed to great charities that will transform the lives of more people.”
It comes amid soaring youth unemployment and cutbacks in the charitable sector.
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London Evening Standard Dispossessed campaign ‘gave voice to the voiceless’
Evening Standard, 5 July 2012
The Evening Standard was honoured with a special prize at the Centre for Social Justice Awards 2012.
The paper’s Dispossessed campaign was praised by judges for embodying “journalism at its very best”. It had “changed the debate about poverty in London, sparked unparalleled action and given a voice to the voiceless”, they said.
The awards celebrate the UK’s most effective grassroots poverty-fighting charities and social enterprises, and the Standard’s prize was given “in recognition of unprecedented and pioneering social change” by a newspaper.
CFN manages the fund on behalf of the Evening Standard.
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Somerset Community Foundation and CFN shortlisted for Charity Award 2012
Charity Finance, June 2012
Somerset CF and CFN have been shortlisted for a Grantmaking and Funding Charity Award for the Surviving Winter campaign, which raised over £2.5 million in new funds to support people in fuel poverty. The programme, piloted by Somerset CF in 2010, was developed into a UK-wide campaign across more than 40 community foundations in 2011-12. The programme was designed to work at a local level augmented by national media work run by CFN in partnership with Saga.
An estimated 7500 people were assisted either through direct grants or by funding support activities to alleviate the impact of cold weather on older and vulnerable people.
2012 Charity Award shortlist in full
Well-off pensioners give £2m fuel payments to poorer households
The Telegraph, 7 June 2012
Wealthy pensioners who were asked to donate their winter fuel allowance to CFN's Surviving Winter campaign have raised more than £2m – more than twice the initial target.
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Community foundations raise £17 million for local neighbourhoods
UK Fundraising April 2012
Community Foundation Network (CFN) has raised £8.7 million which will be matched by government funds bringing the total to £17 million for community projects. The money which will go into an endowment will generate ongoing income for communities.
Community First runs until April 2015, and during 2012/13 a further £15 million of matched funding is available. This means that people and organisations that wish to set up Community First Funds will be able to attract matched funding from the Government, with £1 added to every £2 donated.
Stephen Hammersley, CFN’s chief executive, said: "The aim of the Community First programme is to help neighbourhoods become more self-reliant and grow their capacity to make the changes they want to see in their area, and this first £17 million of endowed funding is a great start."
See online coverage:
Third Sector 3 May 2012
Politics Home 1 May 2012
UK Fundraising 30 April 2012
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