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Trust for London is the largest independent charitable foundation funding work which

tackles poverty and inequality in the capital. We support work providing greater insights

into the root causes of Londons social problems and how they can be overcome;

activities which help people improve their lives; and work empowering Londoners to

inuence and change policy, practice and public attitudes.

We are particularly interested in work that is viewed as challenging and we are willing to

take risks. One of our longstanding principles is to support activities that Government is

unlikely to fund. We also want to make sure that we are able to respond to new issues

and ideas and nd creative ways of tackling deep-rooted problems relating to poverty and

inequality.

Annually we provide around 7 million in grants and at any one point we are supportingsome 400 voluntary and community organisations. Established in 1891, we were formerly

known as City Parochial Foundation.

This Annual Review highlights our work during 2011, all of which is described in more

detail on our website www.trustforlondon.org.uk. This also features a number of

publications and initiatives detailed in this Review.

The front cover shows a Celebration of Fatherhood, which was an event hosted by the

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fatherhood at the House of Lords in the week leading

up to Fathers Day 2011. The event was organised by The Fatherhood Institute which

is a think-tank that promotes father-inclusive approaches to policy and practice.

The Trust provided 55,000 over two years towards the Institutes Dad Factor project,

which aims to work with Childrens Centres in East London to improve the involvement of

fathers who have arrived in the UK within the past two years. The grant also includes an

independent evaluation by the University of East Anglia.

www.fatherhoodinstitute.org

CreditsProduced by Trust for London staff, co-ordinated by Mubin Haq

Cover photo: Fatherhood Institute

Page 3: Women and Manual Trades

Page 5: GLA Labour Group/LGTU

Page 7: Keeren Flora

Design by Tina Stiff

Printed on recycled paper by Wealden Printing Ltd.

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Established in 1975, Women and Manual Trades was

the rst group formed by women to promote working in

the construction and building sector. Very few women

work in the construction industry; those that do, often face

sexism and harassment leaving them isolated. It works in

partnership with training bodies, employers, public sector

organisations and tradeswomen to address the issues that

prevent women entering, or continuing to work in manual

trades.

The Trust provided 70,000 funding towards the core

costs of running a training scheme to skill up more women

to take up employment opportunities in the sector.

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Strengthening the skills of thevoluntary & community sector6 grants - 395,792

Our focus is on three areas: campaigning and policy

change; research; and learning and evaluation. A

signicant grant we made in 2011 was to establish a newstrategic umbrella-body for Londons Somali community,

together with funding from City Bridge Trust. The Council

of Somali Organisations is working with Somali groups to

tackle issues of poverty and to provide a stronger voice

for this community.

Alongside grants, we continued to provide funding plus

support to groups. This is where we offer additional

support alongside a grant, to help organisations become

more effective. For example, all organisations we fund

can attend free training on monitoring and evaluation,

and during the year Charities Evaluation Services

delivered 13 training sessions for us.

The Sheila McKechnie Foundation continued its

Inuencing Change course, which helps organisations

understand how government makes decisions and how

to inuence it. Over 20 participants learned from experts

how to develop a campaign strategy and work with the

media.

Along with the Barrow Cadbury Trust and the Diana,

Princess of Wales Memorial Fund we funded the Institute

for Voluntary Action Research to examine different

approaches to funding plus. The research examined the

benets and challenges of different approaches.

Supporting small community groups38 grants - 830,932

We continued to fund small grassroots groups which

we believe play a vital role in responding to their

communities needs. This may be by campaigning;

providing advice and support to help people access their

rights; or through cultural and educational projects.

A signicant proportion of our funding was for migrant

and refugee community groups to provide information

and advice. These organisations are often a lifeline to

those in need of support, many of whom, for reasons of

language or culture, may nd it difcult to get help from

a more mainstream agency. Grants included support forAfghan women, Portuguese-speaking Africans, Latin

Americans and Somalis.

Promoting Social Justice

22 grants - 1,418,400

In a period of reforms and cuts, campaigning and

advocacy is needed more than ever, particularly

as a number of these changes are likely to have a

detrimental impact on the poorest in society. Wefunded a number of organisations which sought to

review and challenge these reforms. This included

grants to: Shelter to measure the impact of housing

benet changes; Fawcett to identify and campaign

against cuts which impact on women; and Legal

Action Group to undertake research to assess and

analyse changes to the funding of social welfare law,

which included opinion polling to capture Londoners

views of advice services.

We also funded Child Poverty Action Group to employ

a London Co-ordinator to strengthen the coalition of

organisations working in the capital to tackle child

poverty. We worked closely with a number of these

organisations through the London Child Poverty

Alliance, sharing information on current work and co-

ordinating lobbying activities relating to the London

Mayoral elections in 2012, including the creation of a

joint manifesto aimed at the Mayoral candidates.

An issue of growing concern for the Trust relates tothe very high levels of income inequality in the capital.

The climate to discuss how this can be addressed has

improved and several initiatives, which came to fruition

in 2011, aided this including the High Pay Commission

and the Hutton Review of Fair Pay. Complementing this

was research we funded which found overwhelming

public support for action to tackle pay inequality. The

report, Getting what we deserve, by IPPR, investigated

the role of pay as reward for different kinds of work,

skills and outcomes. Drawing on polling and extensive

qualitative research, it considered what the appropriate

foundations for improvement might be. The opinion

poll of over 2,000 adults found an overwhelming 78%

would support government action to reduce the gap

between high and low earners, with 82% of those

saying government should act in both the public and

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London Gypsy and Traveller Unit provides a range of

services for gypsy and traveller communities which includes

community development, media awareness,

accommodation advice and policy work.

The Trust provided 75,000 towards the salary of the

Directors post and a new Community Worker to help

strengthen the role of the London Gypsy and Travellers

Forum. The grant will be used to press for better rights in

relation to settlement and accommodation for the gypsy

and traveller community particularly as part of the Mayors

London Plan.

www.lgtu.org.uk


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Special InitiativesSpecial Initiatives are where we want to make a greater

strategic impact on a particular issue, and to which

we commit additional resources, including signicant

staff time. We are currently working on a number of

programmes highlighted below.

Tackling Female Genital Mutilation (2010-13)We continue to collaborate with Esmee Fairbairn

Foundation and Rosa, the UK Fund for Women

and Girls, on our programme to address Female

Genital Mutilation. The interim report of the external

evaluation was published in October. This found

good progress had been made on tackling FGM

within affected communities, particularly with building

relationships with religious leaders to highlight that

FGM is neither necessary nor desirable according toreligious principles. The 14 groups funded through

this joint initiative have also organised a large number

of workshops, strengthened networks and developed

effective ways of conducting grass-roots community-

based prevention work. However, there are still many

challenges in achieving the goal of eliminating this

practice, not least the lack of a prosecution on FGM in

the UK.

London Living Wage (2008-13)London Citizens marked the 10th anniversary of the

Living Wage campaign at Methodist Central Hall in

May, with the launch of the Living Wage Foundation.

The Foundation, created as part of our special initiative,

is a new accreditation body for employers paying the

living wage. At the event the Trusts Chief Executive,

Bharat Mehta, also announced the new London Living

Wage gure of 8.30, which is set annually by the

Greater London Authority.

A key part of the campaign has been to targetindustries which have a culture of low pay, in particular

the retail sector. The Evening Standardran a feature

on low pay on Oxford Street and highlighted stark

differentials in pay between those at the top and

bottom of the workforce, which in one instance was

as wide as 415 times. One in ve of Londons workers

are not paid a Living Wage, many employed by our

largest retailers. The article was successful in signing

up the rst living wage retailer, Lush, and during the

year London Citizens undertook a concerted campaign

encouraging Tesco to become a living wage employer.

We were also involved in supporting the work of Fair

Pensions to persuade FTSE 100 companies to adopt

the living wage and were one of a number of investors,

who signed a letter inviting them to become living

wage employers - we are delighted some agreed to do

so.

Londons Poverty ProleThe latest edition ofLondons Poverty Prole was

launched in October. It updated a wide range of

indicators and assessed what had changed since

the rst report in 2009 and over the last decade. The

launch event, chaired by Jackie Long, Channel 4

Social Affairs Editor, included a lively debate between

Nick Pearce, Director of IPPR and Neil OBrien,

Director of Policy Exchange on the relationshipbetween poverty and the summer riots.

The report, produced for the Trust by New Policy

Institute, received widespread coverage in the media.

With a particular focus on housing, it emphasized

that high housing costs continue to be a signicant

reason why poverty is higher in London than the rest

of England and predicted that housing benet changes

would make parts of Inner London unaffordable for

low-income families renting privately. One effect of

this could be that people move to Outer London

where housing is cheaper. However, the report warned

that Outer London boroughs may not be adequately

prepared to respond to any increase in families as

many have lower levels of public services such as GP

provision and primary school places.

To complement this work we funded two signicant

research programmes. In partnership with the Joseph

Rowntree Foundation and Nufeld Foundation, we

funded the London School of Economics to measurethe impact of the recession, spending changes and

the governments social policy reforms on inequality

and poverty in the UK. A specic London element

will involve case studies of three London boroughs

to assess the impact of different local approaches. In

addition, a grant was made to Professor Danny Dorling

at the University of Shefeld to create the Real Map of

London, an on-line social atlas providing new insights

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The London Living Wage special initiative was set up at the

end of 2008 and developed from our commitment to

challenge the unacceptable level of in-work poverty that

many Londoners experience. We funded London Citizens

to take forward campaign work and promote the idea to a

greater number of employers through the creation of a new

Living Wage Foundation. It also includes research into the

cost and benets of adopting a living wage. To date, we

have invested around 1 million in the initiative.

Titled Flash Mop, the photo shows an action organised

by London Citizens members aimed at persuading Tesco

to pay the London Living Wage to all of its staff including its

low-paid cleaners.

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No Longer Invisible: the Latin American

community in LondonThere is a largely hidden but growing population

of Latin Americans in London. With concerns that

their needs were not being taken into account by

policy makers and service providers, the Trust, in

collaboration with the Latin American Womens RightsService, commissioned Queen Mary, University of

London to undertake research into this community.

The report, No Longer Invisible was launched by the

Deputy Mayor, Richard Barnes, at City Hall in May. It

established the rst robust estimate of the size of the

community (113,500) and found it was comparable

in size to other large migrant and ethnic groups in

the capital. Whilst it is a largely young, well-educated

population which has very high employment rates,

the majority are unable to utilise their skills and over

half are employed in low-skilled, low-paid jobs. It

also found Latin Americans are experiencing high

levels of exploitation and discrimination, especially

in the workplace. LAWRS is working with other

community organisations to take forward a number of

recommendations raised in the report.

Safeguarding Childrens Rights (2007-12)This initiative aims to strengthen community-based

preventive work to promote the rights, safety and well-

being of Londons African children, with a particularfocus on tackling abuse linked to beliefs in witchcraft

and spirit possession. In May a joint conference was

organised with the London Safeguarding Children

Board to launch the independent evaluation of the

initiative. The conference, chaired by Baroness

Howarth, was attended by 120 people drawn from

police, health, childrens services, education and

childrens charities and provided an opportunity to hear

more about work with communities affected by this

issue.

The evaluation, undertaken by the Centre for Social

Work Research, made a number of recommendations

which included the need to embed greater

understanding of faith-based abuse within the existing

child protection framework and that local Safeguarding

Children Boards should be offering training to enhance

understanding of the issues. Trust staff, along with the

groups funded as part of this initiative, were invited

to be members of the Governments national working

group on religion, witchcraft and child safeguarding,which is due to launch a new action plan shortly.

Preventing Racist Violence (2007-11)Three organisations were funded to work with

young people in Thamesmead, Bexley and Barking

& Dagenham to prevent their involvement in racist

violence, and an evaluation of the initiative by the

Runnymede Trust was completed at the end of

2011.To share the ndings, a policy roundtablewas organised in November with Andrew Stunell

MP (Minister for Race Equality and Cohesion),

civil servants, a number of lead agencies and

representatives of the projects. A key nding discussed

was that the zero tolerance approach to racism had

not been effective in addressing the issue and that

a different approach was needed. Two local events

were also organised, one in Woolwich and the other in

Bexleyheath.The evaluation report launch coincided

with the verdict on the Stephen Lawrence trial and

generated some media interest including in The Times.

Tackling Modern Day SlaveryAlthough this initiative came to a conclusion last year,

we continued some related work. With the Olympics

fast approaching, we worked with a small group of

organisations concerned about the potential impact

the Games may have on vulnerable groups. We

funded a report launched by End Violence Against

Women Coalition (EVAW) on the connections between

sport, including major sporting events, and violenceagainst women. EVAW has been working with the

London Organising Committee of the Olympic and

Paralympic Games to ensure that all visitors are given

information about the UK law on domestic and sexual

violence and raising the prole of womens safety

before, during and after the Games.

We had a letter published in The Times raising our

concerns about Government proposals to remove the

already limited protection for migrant domestic workers

in peoples homes. More than two-thirds of migrant

domestics who work in private households in the UK

work seven days a week with no time off; and almost

half work at least 16 hours per day, for no more than

50 per week. Half have been subject to psychological

abuse. We also wrote directly to the Immigration

Minister, Damian Green, about our concerns and both

letters were co-signed by the Barrow Cadbury Trust

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Improving employment opportunities

Arbour Youth Centre 75,000

Broadway Homelessness and Support 60,000

Construction Youth Trust 54,000

Cool2Care 18,000

Core Arts 40,000

Cross Street Law Centre 54,000

Disability Law Service 54,000

Drug and Alcohol Service for London 58,500

Emmanuel Youth Project 68,500

Employability Forum 100,000

Forest YMCA 60,000

Four Corners 60,000

Healthy Living Projects 40,000

House of St Barnabas 50,000

Housing Association Charitable Trust 30,000

Islington Mind 50,000

Laburnum Boat Club 46,683

Local Employment Access Projects 65,000

London Community Resource Network 50,000

London Transport Museum 46,000

London Voluntary Service Council 146,000

London Youth Support Trust 25,000

Mary Ward Legal Centre 79,500

National Aids Trust 48,865

New Deal of the Mind 80,000

Positive East 52,960

Project for Advocacy, Counselling and Education 60,000

South West London Law Centres 53,520

Spinal Injuries Association 12,400Tasha Foundation 35,000

Upper Room 56,660

Women and Manual Trades 70,000

Women in Prison 90,000

Working Well Trust 80,000

YOH Limited 52,500

Sub-Total 2,022,088

Promoting the inclusion of recent arrivals

to the UK

Alternatives Trust East London 60,000

Barka UK 65,000

Brent Centre for Young People 50,000

Cardinal Hume Centre 60,000

Childrens Legal Centre 62,000

Eneld Citizens Advice Bureau Service 46,000

Fatherhood Institute 55,000

Harrow Equalities Centre 47,000

Iranian Association 28,000

Islington Law Centre 30,000

Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants 93,200

Latin American House 55,000

Lewisham Refugee Network 55,000

London Musicians Collective Limited 15,000

Maternity Action 85,600

Maya Centre 59,000

Metro Centre 45,000

Migrants Resource Centre 80,000

Naz Project 50,000

Off the Record 79,938

Praxis 150,000

Refugee Youth 50,000

South London African Womens Organisation 45,000

Southwark Citizens Advice Bureaux 75,000

Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers 60,000

Student Action for Refugees 20,000

True Heart Theatre 14,500

Waterloo Community Counselling 54,000Sub-Total 1,589,238

Promoting social justice

Alliance for Inclusive Education 81,500

Child Poverty Action Group 110,000

Criminal Justice Alliance 44,000

Disability Action in Islington 70,000

Drugscope / London Drug and Alcohol Network 60,000

End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafcking

of Children for Sexual Purposes 75,000

Fawcett Society 71,500

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IMKAAN 80,000

Institute for Public Policy Research 15,000

Interlink 60,000

Iranian and Kurdish Womens Rights Organisation 75,000

Legal Action Group 21,300

Liberty (National Council for Civil Liberties) 20,000

London Advice Services Alliance 42,900

London Gypsy and Traveller Unit 75,000

National Survivor User Network 66,000

Revolving Doors Agency 80,000

Runnymede Trust 72,000

Shelter 60,000

Stonewall Housing Association 71,000

Wandsworth Citizens Advice Bureau 60,000

Working With Men 108,200

Sub-Total 1,418,400

Strengthening the skills of the voluntary

& community sector

Asian Resource Centre of Croydon 45,292

Charities Evaluation Services 37,500

Council of Somali Organisations 150,000

Greenwich Action for Voluntary Service 58,000

Media Trust 30,000

Womens Resource Centre 75,000

Sub-Total 395,792

Supporting small community groups

Active Horizons 26,000

Barking and Dagenham Somali Womens Association 28,000

Bengali International 18,000

British Afghan Womens Society 23,000

Came Women and Girls Development Organisation 20,000

Carenet 15,850

Carila 30,000

Community Empowerment and Support Initiative 25,000

Council of Ex Muslims in Britain 27,000

Dadihiye Somali Development Organisation 30,000

Daffodil Advocacy Project 24,600

Ethiopian Families Group 8,000

Go Forum 29,588

Helplink 10,000

Horn of Africa Refugee Welfare Group 36,000

Ivorian Advice and Support Group 23,600

Iwanaaji Harrow & Hillingdon Somali Association 20,000

Jubilee Community Education 12,000

Justice for Domestic Workers 30,000

Kensington and Chelsea Forum for Older Residents 20,000

Kongolese Childrens Association 18,000

Kurdish Children and Youth Centre 24,000

London Huayu Chinese Community Radio 25,000

London Somali Youth Forum 27,000

Mama Afrika Community Association 25,000

Merton Home Tutoring Scheme 25,410

Moroccan Community Project 10,000

Oromo Relief Association UK 15,250

Russian Circle 18,634

Sierra Leone Refugee Welfare Association 16,000

Somali and Somaliland London Community 20,000

Somali Education and Cultural Project 30,000

Stepping Up UK 10,000

Streatham Drop In Centre for Asylum Seekers and Refugees 30,000

Welwitschia Legal Advice Centre 30,000

Westminster Bangladeshi Association 15,000

WHEAT Mentor Support Trust 25,000

WSPM Agape Community Project 10,000

Sub-Total 830,932

Special initiatives

Bellingham Community Project 141,000

Londons Poverty Prole 40,000

London School of Economics & Political Science 151,000

University of Shefeld - Social and Spatial Inequalities Group 143,000

Sub-Total 475,000

Exceptional/New Emerging Needs

Bernie Grant Centre Partnership 12,000

Cass Business School 27,000

Sub-Total 39,000

Trustee Distribution Fund

Alford House 7,500

Mulberry Bush School 7,500

Winchester Project - Camden 7,500

Sub-Total 22,500

Grand Total 6,792,950

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Finance

Central Fund accounts summary

2011 2010From a 60% share of a permanent asset base of 207 million 207 million

and an expendable asset base of 17.9 million 19.1 million

we generated income of 7.4 million 7.1 million

After charitable and governance costs of 0.9 million 0.9 million

net amounts distributed were 6.5 million 6.2 million

This summary nancial information relating to the Central Fund of the charity is extractedfrom the draft full Annual Accounts in order to give an overview of the nancial activity of

the Fund. These gures are unaudited.

Copies of the audited Report and Financial Statements can be obtained after 29 June

2012 from the Chief Executive at 6 Middle Street, London EC1A 7PH.

On behalf of the Trustee

Peter Williams

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Trustees, Co-optees and Staff

TrusteesPeter Williams (Chair)

Miles Barber - retired April 2012

Peter Brooks

Luis Correia Da Silva

Peter Delaney (Vice Chair)

Tzeggai Yohannes Deres -retired March 2012

The Revd Dr Martin Dudley

Naomi Eisenstadt

Roger Evans

Sophie Fernandes

Deborah FinklerTara Flood -appointed December 2011

Archie Galloway

Jeff Hayes

Robert Laurence

Sue Logan

Loraine Martins

Elahe Panahi -retired April 2012

Ingrid Posen

Wilfred Weeks

Co-opteesMiles Barber - Mission Related Investment Committee -

from May 2012

Maggie Baxter Grants Committee

Emma Brookes Finance & Resources Committee

David Bryan Grants Committee

Muge Dindjer - Grants Committee

Mulat Haregot - Grants Committee - from May 2012

Azim El-Hassan Grants Committee

Professor Julian Franks Asset Allocation Committee

Bryn Jones Finance & Resources and Investment

Committees

Denise Joseph Finance & Resources Committee

David Moylett - Investment Committee - from

August 2011

Richard Martin Estate Committee

Antony Ross - Mission Related Committee - from

October 2011

Albert Tucker Grants Committee

StaffChief Executive Bharat Mehta

Director of Finance & Administration Carol Harrison

Director of Policy & Grants Mubin Haq

Director of Special Initiatives & Evaluation Sioned

Churchill

Grants Managers Helal Uddin Abbas, Douglas Gunn,

Rachael Takens-Milne and Austin Taylor-Laybourn

Publications & IT Manager Tina Stiff

Finance Manager Claire Harrison (Linda Curry - to

March 2012)

Accounts Assistant Sue Caller

Ofce Manager Mara Normile

PA to the Chief Executive Diana Clarke

Senior Grants Administrator Jaspal Babra

Grants Administrator Laura Harrison

Administrative Assistant Martin Reynolds

Receptionist Pat Harrison


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