Annual Review 2007

cpf
City Parochial Foundation

Trust for London

Supporting Londons Communities

Tackling poverty in London

Contents
About CPF and TfL Foreword: On independence A new era Meeting the aims CPF Meeting the aims TfL New and special initiatives 2007 activity Finance Trustees, Co-optees and Staff (below) 1 2 4 12 16 19 20 21

About City Parochial Foundation and Trust for London

City Parochial Foundation, established in 1891, is one of the largest independent charitable foundations In London. We aim to enable and empower the poor of London to tackle poverty and its root causes, and to ensure our funds reach those most in need. Our sister charity Trust for London was set up in 1986 with an endowment provided from proceeds of the former Greater London Council, and aims to support small and emerging voluntary and community groups which improve the lives of Londons communities. Needs change, and both organisations use a five year quinquennial approach to review what existing funding is achieving and what needs to be done in the years ahead. As independent funders we aim to find creative ways of tackling deep-rooted problems relating to poverty and to respond to new issues as they arise. We are particularly interested in work which is 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 share the knowledge we gain from our funding programmes of what works and what doesnt and use our experience, reputation and other resources to try and influence policy and promote change. We encourage and enable the groups we support to do the same. They often have the knowledge and direct experience of issues which can help make an even more powerful case for change. Our funding programmes are about achieving social justice for people who need it most, and in particular, those who are excluded and are particularly disadvantaged and discriminated against. We do this by providing funding to groups through our open programme, but we also fund special initiatives where we want to make a more strategic impact. We take an active role in these, working closely with the organisations involved. This report describes some of the work that has been undertaken in the past year. More detailed information on many of these initiatives can be found on our websites: www.cityparochial.org.uk and www.trustforlondon.org.uk. In addition a full list of our funding awards for 2007 is listed on our websites.

Foreword: On independence
The eighteenth century historian, Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire described independence as The first of Earthly blessings. It is unlikely that he had charitable grant-givers in mind, but as a man with some little knowledge of civilisations struggling with intractable problems, he might be expected to be sympathetic to their work. Certainly we at City Parochial Foundation and Trust for London prize our independence. It enables us to use our considerable financial clout to help deserving but unpopular causes which receive little backing from other funders. This year, for example, we have helped finance the public campaign to regularise the position of undocumented migrants, a substantial and vulnerable underclass that are among the hidden poor of London. We followed this up with grants to enable research into the scale of the problem, and to encourage cooperation among agencies working to help undocumented migrants. Independence also gives us credibility. It allows us to campaign directly on issues that we feel strongly about, and to press Government agencies and Ministers to make change happen. In 2007 we argued publicly in the media, or privately in Westminster for the need for reform in the treatment of asylum seekers; for action against those responsible for modern-day slavery, in the form of trafficking of people, and for the relief of their victims; and to highlight the need to safeguard children from faith-based abuse linked to a belief in spirit possession. And our independence allows us to take risks where others will not, for example by backing innovative schemes that take new approaches or which help those on the fringes of traditional definitions of poverty. This fits well with our reluctance to let our charitable funds directly replace Government money, because many of the organisations we fund receive no State backing. Our work to assist people back into employment, for example, has included funding schemes to help former prisoners or those with mental heath problems find work for the first time, or which seek to break racial stereotypes about the nature of suitable employment opportunities. Edward Gibbon was born, lived for much of his life, and died in London. For him the capital city was crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. From a twenty-first century perspective that description might sound unduly pessimistic, but it still bears the ring of truth. There is much to do even now to help the isolated be at home, and to assist the victims of cruelty and oppression. The independence of the City Parochial Foundation will enable us to continue to do our share.

Nigel Pantling, Chair

A new era
The year 2007 marked the start of a new five-year funding quinquennium for City Parochial Foundation and Trust for London with an increased emphasis on influencing policy and promoting change. Significant social change will always require action on policy and the level of resources that only government can provide. Thus we aim to use our voice to advocate change but the main way we achieve this is also to provide support and funding to groups so that they can make the case for themselves and their beneficiaries.

working on fewer priorities so that these can be

addressed in a more concentrated way;

a greater emphasis on special initiatives to tackle

issues in a strategic way;

providing greater support to groups we fund through

our funding plus work this includes training and events to encourage learning;

collaborating with other funders, and decision makers:

this has become an increasingly important part of our approach over recent years.

City Parochial Foundations current priorities

In developing our priorities for 2007-11, we spent time talking to groups we have funded and other people and funders in the voluntary sector. So what are our current priorities? Essentially, they are:

Funding plus
Providing funds through grants remains the main thrust of our activity. But other ways are always being considered to help groups ensure they are working to their best potential. This may be through support agencies giving specialist or tailored help and advice on matters such as management, financial controls, governance, campaigning and the many other skills that they need, but are often overlooked.

to improve employment opportunities for

disadvantaged people;

to promote the inclusion of recent arrivals to the UK; to promote social justice; to strengthen the voluntary and community sector.

Listening and learning

An important part of our activity is sharing with other funders, policy makers, practitioners and the voluntary sector what we have learned, and listening to them to see what they can teach us from their experience. It means active participation in conferences and seminars by staff and trustees and contributing through active membership of groups such as the Association of Charitable Foundations and London Funders. We also actively assess the work we have funded, by encouraging groups to develop evaluation frameworks which can help them identify the difference they hope to make, and through commissioning independent evaluations which are often published.

Trust for Londons current priorities

to challenge discrimination faced by disabled people; to promote the inclusion and integration of recently
established communities;

to strengthen mother-tongue and supplementary

schools to provide creative educational opportunities;

to address new and emerging needs.

Our approach
Changes have been introduced in our approach to the way we fund. It means:

providing larger grants and over a longer period

though this will mean funding fewer groups;

Ali Osman, happily running his own independent taxi business, is an example of an entrepreneurial Somali, earning his living and contributing to the community. He featured in a magazine produced by Somali Eye Media, a community group which also runs a weekly radio programme. Both the magazine and the radio provide information to the Somali community, voice issues of concern and highlight positive role models within the

community. Trust for London has provided funding of 15,000 for the salary costs of a part-time Co-ordinator and Admin assistant. This will enable it to co-ordinate its activities more effectively and develop new work. www.somalieye.co.uk

Meeting the aims CPF

Aim: improving employment opportunities

More than half the applications received by CPF were for projects in this category. Employment initiatives are the subject of significant amounts of funding by government, and we are clear that we do not want to replicate government activity: the intention is to ensure that funding goes to schemes that reach people on the margins and are innovative in their approach. We aim to support new ideas to raise ambitions so that people can follow different employment paths, particularly in jobs that pay at least a living wage, are rewarding and provide sustainable long-term prospects. An example of schemes such as this that we have funded include Trees for Cities, described opposite, and the Straight to Work project by St Giles Trust where peer advisors former prisoners help other ex-inmates to resettle effectively into the community. These peer advisors receive extensive training in advice and guidance and on leaving prison are supported through paid work placements to gain employment in the advice sector. Such schemes also aim to avoid the perpetuation of stereotypes for instance where the Bangladeshi community traditionally work in catering. It is also all about breaking out of the traditional pattern whereby workless poor simply become working poor. To further this work we also funded a number of organisations supporting disabled people move into employment. This included a number of organisations working with people with mental health issues, such as Status Employment and Enfield Clubhouse, as well as other groups such as Positive East which supports people living with HIV/AIDS. From funding this work we are very aware of the significant barriers facing disabled people, including issues of retaining disabled people in employment. We aim to develop further work on this issue and as a first step we have organised learning seminars for groups working in this field so we can assess how we can best make a difference. During the year, the Trades Union Congress announced it had set up a Commission on Vulnerable Employment to look at the causes of, and solutions for, tackling unfair treatment at work. We made a submission to the Commission based on our work on employment in London of among others, undocumented migrants being exploited in the cleaning industry and as sex workers.

32 grants totalling 1,345,000

Trees for Cities aims to tackle global warming, create social cohesion and beautify urban areas through tree planting, community education and training initiatives. The Foundation has provided funding of 45,000 to the Group to train 45 long-term unemployed people in horticulture and arboriculture, and to support them to gain work in this field. This project can lead people to well-paid jobs among local authorities, their

contractors, and other companies. Jobs are available and the green industry in London is suffering an acute skills shortage which this project will hopefully address. www.treesforcities.org

Aim: promoting inclusion of recent arrivals

High up among our concerns in this area are undocumented migrants, that is people who have no legitimate status and are therefore highly vulnerable to exploitation. The extreme poverty many experience is right at the heart of CPFs aims to benefit the poor of London. It is an area where we have funded and supported pioneering work. This includes being the major funder of the Strangers into Citizens campaign, described opposite, which culminated in a rally in Trafalgar Square in May. In November, we organised a learning seminar attended by several agencies including trades unions and grassroots groups working with undocumented migrants to share knowledge and improve understanding on this issue. In addition we made a significant grant of 191,000 to Praxis for action research and outreach work to undocumented migrants to see what can be done to help them achieve official status. Funding has also been made to specialist immigration advice agencies concerned with asylum seekers including Oxford House, UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group and Asylum Aid. This work is particularly needed given the decline in immigration advice available, which is set to worsen as a result of changes to legal aid. We expressed our concerns to the Ministry of Justice regarding this issue, as well as the reform of community legal services and the introduction of fixed fees. Based on our experience with agencies involved, the case was made that the proposed changes would have a disproportionately large negative impact on the poorest and most disadvantaged in London, particularly black and minority ethnic communities. We made it clear that independent funders such as CPF cannot and should not be expected to fill the funding gap.

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The Strangers into Citizens campaign received 50,000 from CPF. It culminated in a rally in Trafalgar Square in May. Thousands attended, including undocumented migrants, and the campaign received extensive media coverage. The campaign called for undocumented migrants who have lived and worked in the UK for four or more years to be granted a two-year work permit. At the end of those two years, subject to

employer and character references, they should be given leave to remain. We are pleased that this work has opened up a debate and that politicians are endorsing the campaign this includes the former and current Mayors of London, Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson. www.londoncitizens.org.uk

Aim: promoting social justice

While direct funding of services is vital to alleviate the effects of poverty, people living in poverty and groups that support them need funding to voice their situation so that they can influence others and bring about change. We recognise that as a funder we have limited resources to tackle poverty in comparison to the government. And there is therefore a need to influence the latter as well as the media and the general public if more fundamental change is to occur. To progress this during the current five-year funding period, we have given higher priority to work which is focussed on policy change and campaigning work. Our funding is geared towards groups that tackle poverty, discrimination and give a voice to poorer communities. In particular, we are aiming to give support to groups working together, such as policy organisations working directly with grassroots groups. This was the aim which received the highest proportion of funding and we supported a wide range of work. It included a joint project by ATD Fourth World and Child Poverty Action Group which is training 15 people with direct experience of poverty to become peer researchers this will offer an insight in how poverty affects the lives of Londoners. The research will also make recommendations to policy makers using this direct experience. We supported a number of issues, many focusing on equalities such as sexuality, ethnicity and disability. Under the latter we funded organisations such as People First which campaigns for the rights of people with learning difficulties, Mental Health Media and Revolving Doors. We also awarded a grant to the Alliance for Inclusive Education to establish forums in a number of London boroughs, involving disabled people and education professionals to campaign for inclusion. We believe that funding policy change and campaigning work is vital to securing benefits and rights for some of the poorest and discriminated groups in society. We therefore welcomed the changes by the Charity Commission to its guidance on campaigning. However, it is difficult for organisations to secure funds for this work and this is where independent funders play a critical role. We discussed this issue with a number of funders at a workshop we ran at the Association of Charitable Foundations annual conference in 2007. There is clearly a desire among other funders to develop work in this field and we hope to work with them in the coming year.

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ATD Fourth World is an anti-poverty organisation working with individuals and institutions to find solutions to eradicate extreme poverty. CPF has provided funding of 20,000 for ATD Fourth World and Child Poverty Action Group to run a participatory poverty research project which will give a voice to people with experience of poverty in London. It will train people who are living in poverty to undertake research this will be used

to make recommendations to policy makers. This fits closely with ATDs approach of working directly with people affected by poverty and its focus on supporting families and achieving policy change. www.atd-uk.org

Aim: strengthening the voluntary sector

We have long been aware as a funder that in addition to funding direct services, other forms of support are needed to ensure that groups are efficiently run and can concentrate on their primary aims. Our current focus is to support work which will strengthen skills in campaigning and policy change, research, and evaluation and learning. Among projects in this area is a grant to the Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMF) for its Influencing Change programme, an introductory course for organisations with a turnover of less than 500,000 on how to influence public policy to achieve social change. This fits closely with our aim of giving a voice to organisations through self-advocacy. Designed for small, under resourced London-based grassroots and voluntary organisations, Influencing Change will focus on how local authorities, London and central government and the EU make decisions, and how to influence them. This training will be run jointly by SMF and us, and will take place at our offices. Much of this work is summed up under the funding plus banner as it goes beyond mere grant funding to practical support for groups to assist them in their organisation and administration often referred to as capacity building. We also commissioned Charities Evaluation Service to provide introductory training to the groups we fund and this is now available for free to them. We plan to develop further training and support in 2008 for groups we are funding.

5 grants totalling 234,000

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Both the Trust and the Foundation have a long tradition of providing additional organisational development support to the groups that it funds what is often termed funding-plus. As part of this programme, Charities Evaluation Services (CES), the UKs leading provider of information and advice on quality and evaluation systems for the voluntary sector, has been commissioned to provide an introductory one-day course on

monitoring and evaluation. This is offered to all organisations that we have funded. The purpose of the training is to help organisations to identify and clarify their aims and objectives, outputs and outcomes, and give advice on how to set up a basic monitoring and evaluation system. www.ces-vol.org.uk

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Meeting the aims TfL

Aim: challenging discrimination faced by disabled people

Small disability groups are often difficult to reach as they tend to be isolated and outside the support networks available to other voluntary groups. During 2006, we observed that there had been a drop in funding for disabled people. This was partly due to the lack of a London-wide body for disabled people. As a result, trustees agreed that disability groups should be specifically targeted during 2007. During the year we presented TfLs priorities in this area at a Greater London Authority organised meeting which attracted many disability groups. We are also supporting the work of London Councils, along with City Bridge Trust, on the development of a new second-tier London-wide body to help meet the needs of disability groups the aim is that this agency should also provide a voice for Londons disability sector. This fragile and isolated sector needs support. The lack of a disability second-tier organisation has meant groups have not benefited from the advice and support that such a body could provide, hence the efforts towards establishing one. We noted during the year that the concept of challenging discrimination faced by disabled people was being misunderstood: a number of grants were not made because, among other things, there was no emphasis on providing a voice for disabled people. One organisation that was funded was the Somali Elderly and Disabled Association which provides services to about 300 people in north west London.

7 grants totalling 177,000

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Newham People First is a self-advocacy organisation led by people with learning disabilities. It provides information, training and advice, campaigns for equal rights and tries to improve services in Newham. It received funding of 29,700 from the Trust for London which is funding staff to support self-advocacy by the Black and Asian Group and an Asian Womens Group.

www.newhampeoplefirst.org

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Aim: promoting inclusion & integration of recently established communities

We recognise the need of recently established communities to set up organisations which will address their needs and provide advice and information, so that appropriate services can be accessed. These are often single identity groups which have an important role to play not only in providing advice but in also providing opportunities to celebrate their culture and identity. These are important steps in the integration process. However, we also want to encourage groups to work across communities by developing joint activities. In this category we received many more applications for projects providing advice and information to communities rather than for those wishing to work across communities. Working jointly can be difficult for small groups and is not often seen as a priority. To seek a way forward, in partnership with the Paul Hamyln Foundation, we organised a learning seminar to explore the barriers to groups working together and focussing on integration.

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Aim: strengthening mother-tongue and supplementary schools

Support to mother-tongue and supplementary schools is an area that was pioneered by Trust for London. It is now a thriving sector which has always been community-led, and benefits from its own support system through the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (previously the Resource Centre for Mother-Tongue and Supplementary Schools), first established by us and now part of the education charity ContinYou. Our emphasis in future funding is on creativity in particular self-expression and interaction. The aim is to enable young people to reach their potential through creative approaches, and activities that encourage interaction and involvement. Other aims are to increase parental involvement in their childrens education, and to strengthen links between supplementary and mainstream schools.

17 grants totalling 226,000

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Teviot Action Group was set up the late 1990s by residents of the Teviot Estate in Tower Hamlets concerned about the lack of involvement of local people. It now provides activities and facilities including a summer play scheme for children, an after school club, an employment project and a project for older people. Trust for London has provided funding of 16,190 to support its mother-tongue classes for Bangladeshi young

people, which will also improve parental involvement and foster greater community cohesion by raising awareness of the Bengali culture. www.teviotpartnership.org

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New and special initiatives

CPF initiatives: 10 grants totalling 916,000

Modern day slavery

2007 marked the 200th anniversary of the legal abolition of slavery but, unfortunately, slavery is something that has not gone away, and the victims of human trafficking are among the most exploited, vulnerable and abused people living in the UK and London in particular. It has led us to set up a new initiative Tackling modern day slavery which is funding five organisations. One approach will be to investigate the status of trafficked people, gather evidence of what is happening to them and possibly to prepare test cases for compensation. The aim is to shift policy in favour of the victims, rather than treating them as the problem.

TfL initiatives: 4 grants totalling 390,000

Safeguarding children
Trust for London, in collaboration with City Parochial Foundation, is leading the work on Safeguarding children to address faith-based abuse linked to a belief in spirit possession. This refers to the abuse of individuals, often children, who are believed to be taken over by an evil spirit. The aim is to strengthen voluntary groups addressing the issue and to contribute to the well-being of children particularly from African communities and help protect them from faith-based abuse. This has been set up in the context of the tragic death of Victoria Climbi in 2000, the subsequent inquiry by Lord Laming and the unresolved case of a boy of western Nigerian origin, named as Adam whose torso was found in the Thames. The initiative was established in response to concerns raised to us by those working at a grassroots level. For us it highlighted once again the importance of listening to the groups we fund and creating the trust and space in which to do so, even on highly sensitive issues. Following considerable consultation and research we funded four groups and have allocated over 500,000 to this three-year initiative. As with most of our initiatives this work is being supported by an advisory group, which for this initiative is being chaired by Baroness Howarth, who has extensive experience in the field of child protection.

Monitoring poverty and social exclusion

Another new initiative is Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in London: this is to recognise that there are particular but different factors at work in London. It will collate existing data and develop a set of indicators to monitor, analyse and comment on trends relating to poverty and social exclusion in the capital. This will build on other work such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundations similar national report and the Great London Authoritys London Divided report published in 2002.

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A participant makes his point at a workshop to discuss issues around the welfare of children in the Congolese community. Trust for London is providing funding of 107,500 to Bantu Welfare Future Builder, the lead organisation in a collaborative partnership with five other organisations under the Safeguarding Children initiative (see opposite). The grant will enable the employment of a Co-ordinator who will be

responsible for activities including parenting skills classes, a youth forum, one-to-one support to parents and children, and a fortnightly broadcast on Congolese community TV in the UK.

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The research is being carried out by independent researchers, the New Policy Institute, and it is hoped this will be completed by late 2008. We hope that this will be an important new resource for policy makers and voluntary and community groups and that it will be regularly updated. This is essential if we are to assess whether progress is being made on tackling poverty and social exclusion in the capital.

Other initiatives
Work is also continuing on a number of other existing special initiatives from previous years. These include Fear and Fashion set up to look at ways to tackle the guns and knives culture among young people, in collaboration with four other funders, and Preventing Racist Violence, working with white working class people who may be involved in racist activity to change their attitudes. Work is proceeding on evaluating the results of these. Work continues on developing Independent Domestic Violence Advocacy services (IDVAs) in four London boroughs: this will also be subject to external evaluation. A number of longer standing CPF initiatives gained further support during the year including the Evelyn Oldfield Unit and Employability Forum. The year saw further funding to continue the work of the Refugee Communities History Project. This project won the prestigious Arts, Culture and Heritage category in the 2006 Charity Awards.

Programme related investment

Another approach we are adopting is what is commonly known as programme (or mission) related investment (PRI), a way of achieving our charitable aims through alternatives to grants, such as providing loans, loan guarantees, purchase of shares, or through the letting of land and buildings. This is not new to us CPF has experience of this type of support through the Resource Centre in Holloway Road which has been providing office, conference and exhibition space to the voluntary sector for the past 14 years. We also own playing fields in London; one of these is in Bellingham and has been redeveloped as a leisure and lifestyle centre an evaluation report on this was published in the autumn of 2007. Trustees have decided that 5% of assets will be allocated for PRI this will mean that a further 5 million will be available during the 2007-11 funding period. We are now investigating ideas and projects that will provide a social and financial benefit.

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2007 activity
As already indicated, strengthening the voluntary and community sector is one of CPFs four aims. This has been an interest of ours over many years. The start of the year saw the publication of Building Blocks, a major report commissioned by us during our last funding period to look at second-tier organisations and consider their effectiveness for the groups for whom they provide support and advice. The authors, Alison Harker and Stephen Burkeman, both of whom have many years of voluntary sector experience, reported that the picture is mixed. Many such agencies face issues of quality, credibility and overwork: some, the authors felt, had lost their focus and sense of purpose. The report was widely disseminated and the debate was opened up to Londons voluntary sector at the beginning of March when we held a day-long open space event. More than 120 people turned up to give their views and prioritise the findings: their reactions were published in the Building Blocks Open Space report. The findings of the report are beginning to bring about change: the Charity Commission has already acted on some of the recommendations while the National Audit Office has also consulted CPF as it looks at capacity building in the voluntary sector. Our staff have taken action to progress recommendations in the report, including meeting other voluntary sector bodies and funders. Another aspect of the overall development of the voluntary sector is its independence. Here we joined with six other major foundations in commissioning CENTRIS (Centre for Research & Innovation in Social Policy and Practice) to carry out research on the issue, in the light of the governments major commitment to support for the voluntary sector in delivering public services. This led to publication of a report by Barry Knight and Sue Robson of CENTRIS which revealed that there is still a strong sense of independence which they value highly among voluntary sector organisations despite a much higher proportion of their income coming from government sources. CPF has links with many voluntary sector organisations these links sometimes go back decades. Family Service Units (FSU) received a grant from CPF in it first year in 1947 and in 2007, former staff of FSU met CPF and the Family Welfare Association to prepare a submission to the Families at Risk review of the Governments Social Exclusion Unit Task Force. A number of recommendations were included in the reviews final Think families report published early in 2008. The year also marked the coming of age of Trust for London. We marked this with the launch in November of Challenges, a report looking at the successes and failures of funding programmes by CPF and TfL, and to draw out what could be learned from them. The report was written by Tim Cook, former clerk to the trustees of CPF and TFL. His conclusions? Tackling and solving the major social welfare issues is a long term task and even at the end there are few, if any, neat solutions.
In November, Peter Dale, Chairman of the Estate

Committee, resigned as a Trustee after eight years service. His insights, experience and contributions will be missed by us all.

Funding is not science it is not a question of discovering the DNA. But funders are sitting on knowledge and experience built up over a long period. At the moment, little is made of it. They need to share that knowledge, to create a social policy databank which can be used to influence the way they fund.
Tim Cook, author of Challenges, reflections on funding and change in London 1986-2007 which was published during the year.

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Finance
CPF Central Fund Accounts summary
2007 From a 60% share of an asset base of we generated income of 227 million 6.4 million 0.6 million 5.8 million 2006 214 million 6.4 million 0.5 million 5.9 million

After charitable and governance costs of amounts distributed were

This summary financial information relating to the Central Fund of the charity is extracted from the draft full Annual Accounts in order to give an overview of the financial activity of the Fund. These figures are unaudited. Copies of the audited Report and Financial Statements can be obtained after 20 June 2008 from the Chief Executive at 6 Middle Street, London EC1A 7PH. On behalf of the Trustee Nigel Pantling Chair

TfL Accounts summary

2007 From an asset base of we generated income of 20.6 million 2006 20.1 million 0.8 million 0.1 million 0.7 million

1.2 million 0.1 million 1.1 million

After charitable and governance costs of amounts distributed were

This summary financial information is extracted from the draft full Annual Accounts in order to give an overview of the financial activity of the Trust. These figures are unaudited. Copies of the audited Report and Financial Statements can be obtained after 20 June 2008 from the Chief Executive at 6 Middle Street, London EC1A 7PH. On behalf of the Trustee Nigel Pantling Chair

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Trustees

Nigel Pantling (Chair) Peter Williams (Vice-Chair) Miles Barber Maggie Baxter The Archdeacon of London, The Venerable Peter Delaney Tzeggai Yohannes Deres The Revd Dr Martin Dudley Cameron Geddes Archie Galloway Robert Laurence Clodagh ODonnell Elahe Panahi Robert Hughes-Penney Ingrid Posen Lynda Stevens Wilfred Weeks

Co-optees

David Bryan CPF Grants Committee Azim El-Hassan TfL Grants Committee Professor Julian Franks Asset Allocation Committee Emma Brookes Finance, Resources and Investment Committee Richard Martin Estate Committee Loraine Martins TfL Grants Committee John Muir CPF Grants Committee Albert Tucker CPF Grants Committee

Staff

Chief Executive Bharat Mehta Director of Finance & Administration Carol Harrison Director of Policy & Grants Mubin Haq Director of Special Initiatives and Evaluation Sioned Churchill Publications and IT Manager Tina Stiff Field Officers Helal Uddin Abbas; Austin Taylor-Laybourn Field Officer (Special Initiatives) Rachael Takens-Milne PA to the Chief Executive Christina Donaldson Senior Grants Administrator Jaspal Babra Grants Administrator Laura Mansfield Office Manager Mara Normile Accounts Assistant Sue Caller Office Assistant Martin Reynolds Receptionist Pat Harrison

Produced by CPF staff Editing Chris Bazlinton Design Ray Eden Photos Mark Crick pages 9,10,12,15,17.

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For more information

General You can found out more about our work by visiting our websites at www.cityparochial.org.uk and www.trustforlondon.org.uk Guidelines Funding guidelines for 2007-11 can be read and can be downloaded at www.cityparochial.org.uk/cpf/grants and www.trustforlondon.org.uk/grants CPF and TfL initiatives Information about these is also available on our website: they also have their own websites. The Resource Centre www.theresourcecentre.org.uk Employability Forum www.employabilityforum.co.uk Evelyn Oldfield Foundation www.evelynoldfield.co.uk The Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (part of ContinYou) www.continyou.org.uk/what_we_do/children_and_young_people/supplementary_education The Refugee Communities History Project www.refugeestories.org Bellingham Leisure and Lifestyle Centre www.gll.org/centre/bellingham-leisure-lifestyle-centre.asp Publication links CPF and TfL published documents are all available for download from www.cityparochial.org.uk/cpf/publications and www.trustforlondon.org.uk/publications Direct links for documents published in 2007: Building Blocks www.cityparochial.org.uk/cpf/publications/building_blocks.html and the Open space report at www.cityparochial.org.uk/cpf/publications/building_blocks_open_space_report.html The value and independence of the voluntary sector, article based on it appeared in Alliance magazine www.alliancemagazine.org/online/html/aosep07e.html Challenges, reflections on funding and change in London 1986-2007 can be downloaded at www.cityparochial.org.uk/cpf/publications Bellingham evaluation www.cityparochial.org.uk/cpf/news/bellingham_community_project.html Projects and groups mentioned in this report St Giles Trust project www.stgilestrust.org.uk/what/3189/straight_to_work_project.html The TUCs Commission on Vulnerable Employment has its own website www.vulnerableworkers.org.uk The Sheila McKechnie Foundation www.sheilamckechnie.org.uk

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cpf

City Parochial Foundation

Tackling poverty in London

Trust for London

Supporting Londons Communities

www.cityparochial.org.uk www.trustforlondon.org.uk
6 Middle Street London EC1A 7PH Telephone: 020 7606 6145 E-mail: info@cityparochial.org.uk
Charity Registration Numbers: CPF 205629 and TfL 294710