London City Airport has confirmed the successful applicants for the first tranche of funding from its annual £75,000 Community Fund.
The airport has awarded £36,605 of funding to 12 charities and not-for-profit organisations covering six east London boroughs including Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich and Lewisham. Each successful applicant will receive a grant of up to £3,000 to build stronger, safer, and healthier communities, and raise aspirations of east Londoners.
Local groups that have secured funding include the Alexandra Rose Charity, which provides families on low incomes access to fresh fruit & vegetables in their local communities; the CSM Foundation, which runs employability workshops and football sessions for secondary school students from ethnic minority backgrounds; and Soul and Sound, which runs plant-based cooking workshops for disadvantaged groups.
In addition, the Community Fund is helping to support a new mental health and wellbeing programme in the Royal Docks; a Career Mentoring Programme for disadvantaged young women in Hackney; the 20th anniversary of the Sonshine Club Gardening Club, which has introduced over 1,000 young people from underrepresented and marginalised groups to environmental awareness; and much more.
Since launching the fund in May 2019, the Community Fund has awarded over £435,000 to 130+ charities and not-for-profit organisations.
Wilma Allan, Interim co-CEO and Chief Financial Officer, London City Airport, said: “There are so many charities and organisations doing amazing work in east London, and we hope this funding continues to make positive contributions to our local community”.
