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Trust for London Annual Review 2024

Trust for London is London's largest independent charitable foundation, with a £260 million permanent endowment dedicated to tackling poverty and inequality across the capital. In 2024 it awarded 96 grants totalling £9 million across its new 2030 strategy (seven priority areas) and the final year of its 2018-2024 strategy, plus £615,000 in social investment. The year saw the Living Wage campaign secure pay rises for 50,000+ Londoners (£228 million more in wages), London's Poverty Profile receive 700,000 views, and major new racial and disability justice fund grants supporting 21 organisations. The charity also launched its investigation into historical links to the slave trade and a new rolling grant application model.

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New 2030 Strategy launched summer 2024 with seven priority areas: Decent Work (£451k, 2 grants — Citizens UK Living Wage, Work Rights Centre employment law); Improving Social Security (£557k, 5 grants — benefits advice, child poverty campaigning, PIP support, social security tribunals, disabled domestic abuse victims); Tackling the Housing Crisis (£439k, 7 grants — care leavers housing, Changing Decent Homes Standard, Temporary Accommodation Action Groups, public legal education); Ending the Poverty Premium (£164k, 2 grants — Fair Banking Act campaign, water social tariffs); Ending Migrant Destitution (£811k, 9 grants — Afghan community, NRPF domestic abuse, IPPR research, British citizenship rights, migrant legal advice); Disability Justice Fund (£1.37m, 14 grants — DDPOs capacity, movement building, arts, advocacy); Racial Justice Fund (£1.32m, 7 grants — hospitality industry diversity, Black community savings, ethnicity pay gap reporting, worker organising, Black business in regeneration); Social Investment (£615k — Aspire procurement campaign, Business Launchpad workspaces Tooting, Spiral Skills young people, United Repair Centre); 2018-2024 strategy grants (£3.22m, 42 projects); London's Poverty Profile data platform; commission of independent research (HIV in temporary accommodation, NRPF impacts, night workers); rolling application model launched Custom geography from upload: UK (city-wide)

📊Key Metrics

£9,035,514 total investment in London in 2024; 96 grants awarded; £5.19 million under new 2030 strategy; £3.22 million under 2018-2024 strategy; £615,000 in social investment to 5 social enterprises Key Metric 1
Living Wage campaign in fourth year: 4,000+ London employers accredited, pay rises for 50,000+ Londoners, £228 million more in workers' pockets; London's Poverty Profile received 700,000 views — 34% increase on 2023; mean average grant £92,368 Key Metric 2
£1.37 million disability justice fund grants across 14 projects; £1.32 million racial justice fund grants across 7 projects; 24% poverty rate in London — lowest on record but 2.2 million Londoners still in poverty; permanent endowment £260 million Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Progress towards by-2030 Living Wage goal: £228 million more in London workers' pockets with further £2 billion estimated by 2030; London's Poverty Profile 700,000 views, 34% year-on-year increase; new user research implemented to improve platform accessibility
  • Prof. William Pettigrew completed investigation into endowment's potential links to transatlantic trade in enslaved African people — findings presented to board late 2024; Resource for London building sold, charity being wound down; new 2030 strategy launched with rolling application model replacing annual cycle
  • New government elected 2024 creating policy opportunity; 2.2 million Londoners in poverty including 34% of Londoners in non-white households and 47% of single-parent households; poverty fall driven by gentrification as much as income growth — low-income Londoners priced out of capital

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