Health inequality: lessons from a pandemic
At our 148th Annual General meeting members, grantees and friends gathered via Zoom to hear from Victoria Clare, Chief Executive, Ovacome,…
‘Opening Up After Lockdown’: a reflection on loneliness and isolation
At our Annual General Meeting on 23rd September 2020 we invited speakers from two campaigning charities to reflect on how…
London Catalyst Samaritan Grants during COVID-19
Honor Morris, Grants Administrator, reflects on the use of our hardship grants during the pandemic The London Catalyst Samaritan Grant…
London Lives: How listening to people, taking time and providing practical help gets things done.
HOXTON HEALTH: FOOT HEALTH FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE This project established foot health clinics in four community settings assisting 193 people.…
London Lives: Clare’s Story of Domestic Abuse
Clare is a mother of three, social activist and senior manager in a large charity in London. She agreed to…
12 months of Samaritan grants: what’s going on?
Our Administrator, Alison Beck, analysed 68 monitoring reports to find out. Between June 2018 and June 2019, we received monitoring…
Knowing what works: measuring our impact at the London Catalyst AGM
It was a full house for the London Catalyst AGM at the Art Worker’s Guild. Maggie Elliott, our Chair of…
‘The best sandwiches in London’ – our AGM and Universal Credit
Behind-the-scenes at our recent AGM, by Victor Willmott, London Catalyst's Director London Catalyst held its AGM on one of the…
Open data – our new approach to sharing information about the grants we award
London Catalyst is committed to transparency and we have decided to work with 360Giving to publish information about the grants we make.…
London lives: a hospice user loses patience with Universal Credit
This case study is from St Christopher's Hospice, one of several hospices in London which we support with a Samaritan…