Current Funders

Adventure Capital Fund

The Adventure Capital Fund is an ambitious new style of funder for community enterprise. The pioneering packages that we offer have the potential to transform neighbourhoods across the country.

We back community enterprises that could make a real difference. By offering a combination of financial investments and expert support, we help these enterprises to become stable, soundly run businesses that will survive long into the future.

But we expect a return on our investment – we hold our investees to account to provide us with results, both social and financial. This rigorous approach is already reaping dividends across the country and we have big plans to see our influence grow in the years ahead.

Connexions, Brent

Connexions is an information, advice and support service for 13-19 year olds (and up to the age of 25 for young people with learning difficulties and or disabilities). We’re here to make sure young people get the help they need to move on and make the most of their life. Professionally trained staff, known as Personal Advisers, see young people in a variety of settings including the Connexions centre, schools and youth and community centres.

London Borough of Brent

City Parochial Foundation

We are an independent charitable foundation established in 1891. We aim to enable and empower the poor of London to tackle poverty and its root causes, and to ensure that our funds reach those most in need.

We achieve our aims by funding charitable work. We make grants through our open programme and we also fund special initiatives. We aim to develop supportive relationships with the community and voluntary organisations that we fund and to encourage the sharing of learning and skills. Where it is relevant and appropriate we use this knowledge to influence and promote change and we work with the organisations we fund to achieve this.

As an independent funder we are particularly interested in work which is viewed as challenging and we are willing to take risks. One of our longstanding principles is to support activities which government agencies will not or are unlikely to fund. We also want to make sure that we are able to respond to new issues as they arise and find creative ways of tackling deep-rooted problems relating to poverty. We use our knowledge, reputation and other resources to achieve this.

The Tudor Trust

The Tudor Trust is an independent grant-making trust which supports organisations working across the UK. We aim to support work which addresses the social, emotional and financial needs of people at the margins of our society, and are particularly interested in helping smaller, under-resourced organisations which offer direct services and which involve the people they work with in their planning.

South Kilburn Partnership

John Lyons Charity

John Lyon was a yeoman farmer from the village of Preston in Harrow and the Founder of Harrow School in 1572. He lies buried with his wife Joan in St Mary’s Church, Harrow on the Hill, close to Harrow School and The John Lyon School which was established in 1876 to provide education for boys from the local community.

John Lyon was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I incorporating the Keepers and Governors of the Free Grammar School in February 1572, and it was anticipated that he would found a separate trust for the purpose of maintaining the two roads from London to Harrow and Kenton.

In May 1991 a Charity Commission scheme came into effect giving the Governors discretion to apply the income from that endowment for general charitable purposes for the benefit of the inhabitants of the boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea, and the Cities of Westminster and London.

Awards For All

Awards for All England is supported by the Arts Council England, the Big Lottery Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England.

We award grants of between £300 and £10,000 for people to take part in art, sport, heritage and community activities, and projects that promote education, the environment and health in the local community.

Brent Council