At our Annual General Meeting on 23rd September 2020 we invited speakers from two campaigning charities to reflect on how they responded to the challenge of the Covid-19 pandemic; Rose Bernstein, Tenant Voice and Campaigns Officer from Z2K and Kate…
Honor Morris, Grants Administrator, reflects on the use of our hardship grants during the pandemic The London Catalyst Samaritan Grant scheme continues to be an important resource for charities and organisations. It helps frontline agencies provide immediate assistance to people…
HOXTON HEALTH: FOOT HEALTH FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE This project established foot health clinics in four community settings assisting 193 people. Many of the homeless clients treated wanted some advice about a foot issue, or two, but quite a number also…
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…