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Richmond Foundation

Richmond Foundation Annual Report 2025

Richmond Foundation is a Richmond-upon-Thames community foundation with roots dating to 1786, providing grant funding, rent subsidies and capacity-building support to the local voluntary sector. In 2025 it invested £589,000 in health outcome organisations and awarded £78,000 in Partnership grants, building on 2024's £3.7 million combined impact investment across 72 funded partners. The charity moved more partners to three-year Core grants to provide greater stability, launched the Narrowing the Gap support directory, and published its Future Leaders programme for developing voluntary sector leaders. A new Learning Lab publication series was also launched to share best practice openly.

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Core grants (multi-year unrestricted funding for established voluntary sector organisations — e.g. Citizens Advice Richmond £56,100, Home-Start Richmond £39,270); Project grants (targeted three-year project funding — e.g. Purple Elephant Project for children's mental health, Cassel Hospital therapeutic gardening); Gateway grants (smaller grants to emerging organisations — e.g. Cooking Up mobile kitchen); Partnership grants (£78k to strengthen sector collaboration); Rent subsidies for residential and commercial charitable properties; Narrowing the Gap programme (family and school support services directory); Future Leaders programme (voluntary sector leadership development); Learning Lab (open practice sharing); Rainbow Café LGBTQ+ elders (Age UK Richmond); VIP Social Club for visually impaired (MAB); Richmond Aid Information Navigation Service; My Life Films dementia content subscriptions Custom geography from upload: London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, UK

📊Key Metrics

£2.5 million in grants awarded supporting 72 funded partners; £3.7 million combined direct and indirect impact investment (2024 figures); £1.1 million in rent subsidies for residential charitable properties Key Metric 1
£589,000 invested in organisations improving health outcomes (2025); £78,000 in Partnership grants to strengthen the local VCS; £558,000 in community cohesion funding (2024); Future Leaders programme supporting next generation of voluntary sector leaders Key Metric 2
20 funded partners moved from annual to three-year grants since July 2023; 94% of families with specific needs better able to access services; Citizens Advice Richmond benefits advice users grew from 230/quarter in 2019 to over 400/quarter in 2024 Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Home-Start Richmond: 94% of families with specific needs better able to access services, 87% showed improvements in daily family life, 81% improved with parenting strategies, 91% showed improved emotional health
  • Marking first anniversary of rebranding as Richmond Foundation (formerly Richmond Parish Lands Charity — founded 1786); new interactive annual report format launched; Narrowing the Gap local support services directory published for families and schools
  • Richmond borough context: 13.6% secondary pupils have FSM (rising from 9.9% in 2019); 12.4% secondary pupils have SEN support (above London average of 11.1%); 25% increase in over-65s since last census; 1,000+ Ukrainians housed in borough since 2022

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