Walworth Gardens – Horticultural Training

Walworth Gardens – Horticultural Training

We have granted £25,000 to Walworth Gardens to train 15 Londoners for a diploma in horticulture. The training will run over a full year and trainees who complete the course will leave with a City & Guilds Level 2 accreditation in Horticulture as well as front-line...
Kitchen skills training for young people in North Kensington

Kitchen skills training for young people in North Kensington

We have awarded a grant of £25,000 to the Avenues Youth Project, an award-winning youth centre in north Kensington. Our funding will support at least 14 young people aged 15-18 to undertake a kitchen skills training course, helping them to learn more about food and...
Connecting with the natural world

Connecting with the natural world

We have awarded over £12,000 to the Chelsea Physic Garden to support their partnerships with two local organisations: the Chelsea Academy and Kanlungan. The Chelsea Academy—a local school—will work with Chelsea Physic Garden’s Learning and Engagement Team to design,...
Cleaning up London’s canals and towpaths

Cleaning up London’s canals and towpaths

We have granted over £5,000 to the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) to equip 150 volunteers to clean up a 12 mile stretch of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal on 24 July 2021. The IWA works both to protect and to restore 6,500 miles of waterways across the...
Delivering 8.7 Million meals in London

Delivering 8.7 Million meals in London

City Harvest London rescues quality, surplus food which would otherwise go to landfill and delivers it to organisations supporting people who face food poverty. In early 2020, we made two grants to City Harvest—one to support one of their fleet of vans to operate in...