Improving wetlands in North London for birds and people

Improving wetlands in North London for birds and people

With a grant of £150,000, we are excited to support Canal and River Trust’s ‘Wings on Water: Rescuing London’s Flyway’ project. The work will help restore a rare urban wetland in North London, home to 253 bird species and an accessible green space to 1.5...
Helping people in South East London understand and support bees

Helping people in South East London understand and support bees

Our grant of over £125k to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BCT) will help continue their Buzzing in the East End (SE) project. The work will help protect and conserve rare bumblebees in 4 London boroughs: Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham. The BCT team will...
Funding Cardiac Research at the University of Cambridge

Funding Cardiac Research at the University of Cambridge

We are delighted to award a grant of nearly £300K to support the creation of a fellowship position to carry out cardiac research at the University of Cambridge in Professor Sanjay Sinha’s lab. Although many tens of thousands of patients with severe heart failure could...
Transforming playgrounds in London schools from grey to green.

Transforming playgrounds in London schools from grey to green.

Trees for Cities, has made excellent progress with their London Healthy Playgrounds programme. The work, completing this year, is transforming the playgrounds of 10 London schools from grey to green. Through a co-design approach, pupils and the school community, work...
Opening of creative spaces for London-based artists and makers

Opening of creative spaces for London-based artists and makers

Our staff were delighted to attend the ribbon cutting for Chiswick House and Gardens new artist studios. Within the historic buildings, twenty new artist and maker studios were created adjacent to the site’s beautiful Kitchen Garden. The studios will provide...