Clare is a mother of three, social activist and senior manager in a large charity in London. She agreed to share her story as part of domestic abuse awareness week and show that there is hope and life after domestic…
Our Administrator, Alison Beck, analysed 68 monitoring reports to find out. Between June 2018 and June 2019, we received monitoring reports from 68 frontline organisations, who between them had issued 3,733 hardship payments (a rough proxy for the number of…
It was a full house for the London Catalyst AGM at the Art Worker’s Guild. Maggie Elliott, our Chair of Trustees, welcomed all and shared the achievements of the charity over the past year. The ‘Partners for Health’ collaboration with…
Behind-the-scenes at our recent AGM, by Victor Willmott, London Catalyst's Director London Catalyst held its AGM on one of the hottest days of the year, in a new venue, with three speakers, a new format and the promise of ‘the…
London Catalyst is committed to transparency and we have decided to work with 360Giving to publish information about the grants we make. 360Giving is a leading charity that provides support for grant-makers to publish their grants data openly, to understand their data, and to…
This case study is from St Christopher's Hospice, one of several hospices in London which we support with a Samaritan grant - enabling them to help people in a crisis with a small, immediate cash payment. "Despite making it very…
Two reports came in recently from projects encouraging physical activity for and community participation by people with a learning disability, writes London Catalyst's Director, Victor Willmott. Bexley Mencap’s healthy lifestyles club - which we gave a grant to earlier in…
Our Administrator Alison paid a visit to one of our Samaritan grant recipients, ASLAN, who have been helping the homeless in Central London for several decades… You find ASLAN’s base at the All Souls ‘Clubhouse’ by following a modest-looking sign…
London Catalyst's Director, Victor Willmott, writes about our 2017 AGM on the topical theme of social care... At the recent London Catalyst Annual General Meeting on the 6th July, representatives of London’s voluntary and community sector gathered with our members…
Fiona Geddes, aged 15, undertook two weeks of work experience with London Catalyst this summer. She visited one of our grant recipients, the Healthy Living Club, and wrote this blog post about what she saw. The Healthy Living Club (HLC)…
