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Annual Review

2007

Supporting Londons Communities Tackling poverty in London


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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 yearquinquennial 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 ouropen 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.

Contents

About CPF and TfL (below)

Foreword: On independence 1

A new era 2

Meeting the aims CPF 4

Meeting the aims TfL 12

New and special initiatives 16

2007 activity 19

Finance 20Trustees, Co-optees and Staff 21

About City Parochial Foundation and Trust for London


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The eighteenth century historian, Edward Gibbon, author ofThe Decline and Fall ofthe 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.

F o re w o rd: On independence

Nigel Pantling, Chair


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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.

City Parochial Foundationscurrent prioritiesIn 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:

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.

Trust for Londons current prioritiesto 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 approachChanges 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;

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.

Funding plusProviding 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.

Listening and learningAn 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.

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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 whichalso 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


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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 rewardingand 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.

Aim:

32 grantstotalling1,345,000

Meeting the aims CPF


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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 45long-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


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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 additionwe 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 immi-

gration 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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Aim:


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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 ofLondon, Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson.

www.londoncitizens.org.uk


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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 grassrootsgroups.

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 PeopleFirst 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 aparticipatory 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

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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 todevelop further training and support in 2008 for groups we are funding.

Aim:

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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 abasic monitoring and evaluation system.

www.ces-vol.org.uk


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challenging discrimination facedby disabled peopleSmall 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.

Aim:


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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 fundingof 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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promoting inclusion & integration ofrecently 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.

strengthening mother-tongue and

supplementary schoolsSupport 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.



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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, anafter 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 involve-

ment 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 grantstotalling916,000

Modern day slavery2007 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.

Safeguarding childrenTrust 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 childprotection.

Monitoring poverty and social exclusionAnother 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 Dividedreport 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 acollaborative 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 assesswhether progress is being made on tackling poverty and social exclusion in the

capital.

Other initiativesWork 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 Advocacyservices (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 (ormission) 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

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As already indicated, strengthening the voluntary andcommunity 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 ofBuilding 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 withsix 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 yearsservice. His insights, experience and contributions will

be missed by us all.

2007 activity

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. Atthe 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 1986-2007which was

published during the year.

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F i n a n c e

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 PantlingChair

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 summary2007 2006

From an asset base of 20.6 million 20.1 million

we generated income of 1.2 million 0.8 million

After charitable and governance costs of 0.1 million 0.1 million

amounts distributed were 1.1 million 0.7 million

CPF Central Fund Accounts summary 2007 2006

From a 60% share of an asset base of 227 million 214 million

we generated income of 6.4 million 6.4 million

After charitable and governance costs of 0.6 million 0.5 million

amounts distributed were 5.8 million 5.9 million

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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

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

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 NormileAccounts Assistant Sue Caller

Office Assistant Martin Reynolds

Receptionist Pat Harrison

Trustees

Staff

Co-optees

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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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