Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund
London is a shameful tale of two cities. In the richest capital in Europe almost half our children live below the poverty line.
These children and their families - the Dispossessed - are cut off from the life most Londoners take for granted. As London's paper, the Evening Standard believes it is important to champion their cause.
The Evening Standard Fund for The Dispossessed has been set up to fight poverty - and we want you to help to fight the causes behind The Dispossessed.
Make a donation
Donate nowHundreds of incredible charities across London are fighting the causes of The Dispossessed. Together they are tackling the grinding poverty that blights the city. But these charities need help. The Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund has already raised £7.2million with your donations and help from the Government’s match funding to support the local heroes who lift people out of poverty by targeting education, crime, health, and unemployment. If you care about London, dig deep and donate!
Get involved by pledging money now.
Donations to the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund are being collected by Community Foundation Network (CFN), registered charity No 1004630. CFN will distribute monies received from the appeal to their partner charities who have agreed to use these donations to address issues identified by the Evening Standard's Dispossessed Campaign and to grant fund community organisations undertaking charitable work in London.
Apply - The current grants round closed on 23rd September.
Thank you for applying. You will be notified of the outcome of your application by the end of November.
Click here to download a PDF list of grants awarded from the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund.
Partner Charities
We're partnering with a number of expert London charities to deliver the Evening Standard Grassroots Dispossessed Fund.
The Capital Community Foundation is a grantmaking Foundation encouraging local philanthropy and supporting community based action. We connect donors with causes around the Capital, together helping communities to tackle poverty, disadvantage and exclusion, and making a genuine difference to the lives of local people.
NWLCF was established 2002, the foundation grew out of a former organisation, The Harrow Community Trust which was established in 1994. Over the last several years NWLCF has built up a trusted record of delivering grants to community groups in Brent, Barnet, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Enfield and Haringey having distributed over £3 million in grants since 2002.
Pathways has been supporting Ealing people for over 100 years. Today we run sheltered housing schemes, provide allotments, a social enterprise scheme and distribute community grants to literally hundreds of local grassroots organisations each year.
St Katharine & Shadwell Trust (SKST) is the community foundation for the City and East End of London. SKST, celebrating twenty years' experience of managing grant programmes to maximise social return, delivers transformational funding to community groups and philanthropic advice to corporations and private philanthropists throughout the City of London and the Boroughs of Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets.
Cripplegate Foundation is an independent charitable trust that has been working in Islington and parts of the City of London since 1500. Our aim is to improve the lives of the poorest residents in our area. Cripplegate gives grants to individuals and local organisations in order to alleviate poverty; increase access to opportunities and build social cohesion. As well as giving grants, we use our on-the-ground knowledge to identify needs, to develop new ways of tacking poverty, and to contribute to the wider policy debate about deprivation and disadvantage.
East London Community Foundation (ELCF) is an independent registered charity covering London boroughs across East and North East London. Our aim is to improve the quality of life of local people. We do this by encouraging local giving. Our focus is on building better and stronger communities for future generations. We act as a bridge between donors and local good causes - local groups and small charities, ensuring that grants are used to address real needs, problems and issues.
CVA's role is to help build stronger and more vibrant communities in Croydon by providing more extensive support for local third sector organisations and by giving them and the people they represent more powerful and articulate voices. We do this by creating the environment that enables individuals to reach their full potential; local communities to be responsible for representing their own needs and interests, and voluntary and community organisations to deliver quality services.
