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ELCF is looking for new Trustees

Are you interested in donating some time to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of people and groups in East London? If so, why not consider becoming a Trustee with the East London Community Foundation.

We need individuals with skills and expertise in one or more of the following:

  • Marketing
  • Fundraising
  • Financial / investment / tax expertise
  • Legal skills, especially knowledge of charity law
  • General business skills
  • Local community knowledge

Please see the Trustees page for more information and how to apply.

National Express employees boost East London Fund

ELCF has just received a donation from National Express East Anglia to add to our endowment funds for East and North East London, which will benefit local community groups in Barking & Dagenham, Haringey, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest. The money was raised through the companies' employee survey and the donation will be doubled by Grassroots Grants.

ELCF treasurer Steven Carters was delighted to accept a cheque from Liverpool Street Station Manager Colin MacConnachie.

Make a Donation Online

Do you want to help make a Big Difference to help local community groups in East London? If so, you can make a donation to ELCF online directly through The Big Give website or CAFOnline. Your donation will then be doubled by our Grassroots Endowment Match Challenge and will go on to support local community groups and voluntary organisations in Barking & Dagenham, Haringey, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest in perpetuity.

Donate through the Big Give website by clicking here

Donate through the CAF website by clicking here

ELCF welcomes Chair of the Charity Commission

We were delighted to welcome Dame Suzi Leather, the Chair of the Charity Commission, to East London Community Foundation recently. Dame Suzi and her colleague Kensa Cooper came to find out about the important work we do to support small charities and community groups in East and North East London by giving out small grants and advising donors on effective charitable giving.


Dame Suzi Leather and Kensa Cooper met with ELCF Vice Chair David Harris, Acting Director Anja Beinroth, and members of the Haringey Grassroots Grants panel at the premises of Casa de la Salud Hispano-Americana, a small charity which provides health services for Spanish-speakers in London.

Dame Suzi enjoyed her time with us:
"I was particularly interested to learn about the issues faced by the local organsations we met, and it was very heartening to see the passion and commitment of the people that run them. It proved very useful to have both the perspective of you as grantmaker, as well as that of local organisations.

"It was a very interesting and insightful meeting and we learned a huge amount in the short time we were with you. You've certainly given us a lot to think about."

New Grassroots Grants closing date announced

Small groups in Barking & Dagenham, Haringey, Havering or Redbridge are invited to apply for Grassroots Grants funding by Monday 10th May at 5pm.

East London Community Foundation welcomes applications for funding from small residents associations, community groups, Friends groups, allotment societies, self-help groups, sports clubs, small charities and not-for-profit organisations with an average annual income of less than £30,000. We particularly welcome applications from groups who do not receive regular grant funding, or have never received a grant before. Grants could be used for running costs, equipment, improvements to facilities or a combination of all three.

Please click here to download the application pack.

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Fair Share Trust Barking & Dagenham (Fanshawe) - New funding priorities announced

The Fair Share Panel has established three new funding priorities for the remainder of the programme in Fanshawe between now and 2013:

  • Priority 1 - Community Infrastructure,
  • Priority 2 - Community Involvement & Cohesion, and
  • Priority 3 - Community Empowerment & Local Services.

Available funds – approx. £500,000 over three years – will be split equally between the three priorities.

Organisations are invited by 5pm on Friday 27th November 2009 to tender for Priority 1 - Community Infrastructure, which aims to offer community development support in order to:

  • foster new community activity,
  • build relationships and trust between local people of different backgrounds and beliefs, and
  • support existing local groups to work more and better with others in the same area, to strengthen their services and to attract more funds.

For further information go to our grants page

 

East London Community Foundation wins new grant programme

East London Community Foundation is pleased to announce that it has won a new Comic/Sport Relief grant programme for East London. We have been allocated a total of £64,368 by Community Foundation Network to be given out over the next two years for grants in Barking & Dagenham, Haringey, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest.

For further information go to our grants page

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New Board member: Jonathan Caton

East London Community Foundation is delighted to announce that Jonathan Caton, a partner with the Redbridge based accountancy firm of Caton Fry has become the newest member of the Board.

Jonathan is a Chartered Accountant and Financial Planner. He graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1994 and joined PriceWaterhouse (PW) as a trainee accountant. Jonathan gained invaluable experience but always enjoyed working for the small to medium size businesses with a more “hands on approach”.

After PW Jonathan joined the practice and continued his professional qualifications by completing his diploma in financial planning. In 2003 he acquired a practice in London with his wife Kathryn. Over the years Jonathan has developed a broad base of experience dealing with audit, accounting and tax planning for a range of sectors. These include Shipping, Catering, Charities, Artists and the Entertainment industry. Jonathan specialises in dealing with owner managed companies and providing advice for those clients who wish to expand and develop their businesses.

East London Community Foundation welcomes Company Secretary

                     

 

 

 

 

MICHAEL WATTS, BA(Hons) FCCA CTA CF

East London Community Foundation is delighted to announce that Michael Watts, Corporate Finance Partner for Haslers, has agreed to join the Foundation as its Company Secretary. 

Michael Watts obtained a degree in Accountancy & Finance from the University of Brighton in 1997, joining Haslers a year later.  He was appointed partner in January 2007 and now heads the Corporate Finance Department.

With offices in the City of London and Loughton in Essex, Haslers is a Top 40 UK Firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers servicing the SME sector, mainly owner managed, family run businesses, entrepreneurs and AIM/PLUS quoted companies.

Michael Watts is donating his services to the Foundation.  His appointment ably reflects the growth and development of the Foundation over the past 12 months and its ambitions over the next few years.

East London Community Foundation wins two new programmes.

East London Community Foundation is proud to announce that it has won two new grants programmes:

  • The Grassroots Grants and Endowment Match Challenge Programme in HaringeyHaringey . To see the News Release
  • The Fair Share Trust Programme in Ponders End, Enfield. This programme is already open.

Sanjay Mazumder, the Chair of East London Community Foundation and now also Chair of the Fair Share Panel in Ponders End, notes that "winning these new programmes demonstrates the growing strength and recognition of East London Community Foundation amongst our peers. We are looking forward to serving the communities in both these exciting boroughs."

 

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The Grassroots Grants and Endowment Match Challenge Programme

The Grassroots programme is an exciting new funding programme aimed at helping small, local voluntary organisations in Barking & Dagenham, Haringey, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest over the next 3 years.

Grassroots consists of two distinct elements:

The Grassroots Endowment Match Challenge

An exceptional opportunity for philanthropists and businesses who wish to support their local communities. The programme enables us to increase the value of a individual's donation by up to 336%, and that of a company or charity by over 200%.

The Grassroots Grants programme
Small grants of up to £5,000 available now and over the next 3 years for a diverse range of community groups across five of the boroughs we cover, Barking & Dagenham, Haringey, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest.

 

The value of Grassroots to our communities?

East London Community Foundation is the only independent organisation building endowment and philanthropy for and across East and North East London.


  • The programme will enable us to build a Grassroots Endowment in excess of £1.7 million so we can continue to support our small community groups long after Grassroots Grants are spent
  • It gives us over £1.7 million of Grassroots Grants to invest in Barking & Dagenham, Haringey, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest now and over the next three years to support our community groups

The Grassroots Grants and Endowment Match Challenge Programme is funded by the Office of theThird Sector and will run for three years. The Programme is split into two parts, an £80 million small grants fund, and £50 million endowment challenge.

For every pound donated, another pound is added from government monies, doubling the capacity for community support.