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Black thrive employment project - round 1 funding results

14/12/2020

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Black Thrive, with funding from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, is running a community-led £300K grant programme over two years to improve employment outcomes for Black people with long-term health conditions (LTCs) in Lambeth.  The Walcot Foundation is providing free grant-making administrative support and advice to Black Thrive during this two year programme

In its first funding round, Black Thrive's Employment Project Community Working Group allocated a grand total of £122k across 8 new projects, that will test new approaches to providing employment support for Black people with long-term conditions. 


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Grant-Making Priorities - 2021/22

10/12/2020

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As a result of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Foundation's Governors have made the decision that the following five priorities will apply for organisation/school grants in 2021/22 :
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Top Priorities
  1. Directly support for the academic achievement of pupils, particularly projects that will help close the attainment gap between pupil premium pupils and their peers. 
  2. Support young people (under 30) into employment – priority will go to projects that are able to offer routes into secure employment at London Living Wage level and/or working with young people who are furthest from the labour market.  
  3. Maximising access to free, independent advice from accredited sources, particularly in the fields of debt, housing and employment. ​
Subsidiary Priorities
      
4. To address student (re-)engagement with school, particularly in transition years and students at risk of exclusion.
      5. Early intervention projects that address the mental health needs of our target pupil groups where it is clear they               cannot be funded by school or state.


​More information below the line here.

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Our Annual Review 2020

3/12/2020

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Our 2019-2020 Annual Review can be viewed online here. Let us know if you would like a printed copy to be posted to you - send us an email.
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THE (REAL) LIVING WAGE 2020: UPDATE

23/11/2020

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funding available from London Community Response

12/11/2020

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In the programme launched today, the London Community Response is taking applications for grants of up to £10,000 to help groups support Londoners affected by Covid-19 over the next six months. Applications will be assessed on a first-come-first-served basis, with a final deadline of 5pm on Thursday 3 December 2020.

More information can be found on the London Community Response website.

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MP RAISES QUESTION ABOUT LAMBETH ADVICE CENTRES

6/11/2020

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We are grateful to Vauxhall MP Florence Eshalomi for responding to our concern about Lambeth Advice Centres by asking the Secretary of State for Justice about the steps he proposes (See Hansard, here). Following the question in the Commons she wrote to him with further questions: "In the Chamber, I highlighted that access to justice is under threat. In my constituency of Vauxhall, we have just lost one of our most established independent legal advice centres. As you will know from your own casework, access to free independent legal advice is essential for our citizens, especially the most disadvantaged. And in some instances, it can be life changing."

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Lockdown Stories - Brixton Advice Centre

16/10/2020

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“The people who use the legal advice clinic absolutely love it, because it's tremendously difficult getting free legal advice on particularly sticky issues.”

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Brixton Advice Centre (BAC) has been offering advice to local Lambeth residents for over 50 years.  When lockdown hit, BAC had to pivot rapidly to operating a remote-only service.

In early May 2020, BAC was awarded a grant of £17,276 from Walcot Foundation (via the London Community Response Fund) to -
  • Help BAC transition to a remote advice service through purchasing laptops and updating IT equipment
  • Create an online Legal Clinic, staffed by volunteer lawyers helping Lambeth residents on a wide range of legal problems, including in Employment, Housing and Family law.  More details can be found below by clicking on the Read More button . ​  ​ ​​


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Lockdown Stories - Business Launchpad

14/10/2020

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“We decided, as a team, to spend the first month listening to young people and designing stuff around the needs of the people we wanted to reach... that made the world of difference.”

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Business Launchpad (BLP) supports disadvantaged young people to start and run their businesses. They offer resources for all stages of entrepreneurship, coaching young people from the very early stages of a business idea to those who have already started trading. BLP is primarily funded from profits of the Trident Business Centre in Tooting. In 2019 they launched a ‘Youth Innovation’ hub at International House, Brixton, providing free training, services and community for local young entrepreneurs. Currently over 70% of their clients are from BAME backgrounds. 

In May 2020 BLP was awarded £43,000 via the London Community Response Fund to launch a new online entrepreneurship training and support programme, aimed at young people in South London particularly at-risk during lockdown. The grant was jointly funded via the Walcot Foundation and City Bridge Trust, with work planned in Lambeth, Wandsworth and Southwark. Their plan was formulated as the COVID 19 pandemic unfolded and BLP were confronted with a sharp increase in the number of young people self-referring for support, with many expressing fears that lockdown and a COVID inspired recession would spell the end for their business idea.  ​More details can be found below by clicking on the Read More button . ​  ​ ​


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Lockdown Stories - Oval Learning Cluster

13/10/2020

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“Really quickly it was clear there was a health crisis...a poverty crisis.  People were struggling to know what on earth to do, how to feed families at home, support their kids, keep them safe, keep them happy and help them learn, while worrying about their own jobs and circumstances” 

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Oval Learning began more than 10 years ago as an informal cluster of schools in North Lambeth, working together to share ideas and resources to benefit children, parents and staff. They registered as a charity in 2014 and now support a network of more than 15 primary, secondary and special schools. 

As the Covid 19 crisis spread in March 2020, the charity was well positioned to help schools adapt and fill gaps in provision. With many becoming de-facto community hubs for services and support, Oval Learning developed a plan to work across school clusters and roll out their ’Community Connector’ project throughout Lambeth.  ​More details can be found below by clicking on the Read More button . ​  ​ 


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Lambeth Community Response Fund - The Story So Far

12/10/2020

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We saw the likely impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in early March 2020 and took urgent steps to re-target our grants programmes in response.  We also used our contacts to indicate our readiness to use our networks to handle funding from other sources. These eventually amounted to an additional £330,000.  The result was that our own funds and those from other sources which we distributed were able to support over 60 Lambeth community groups and schools with over £870,000 funding as they quickly adapted to the new normal of lockdown, social distancing and remote working.  More details can be found below by clicking on the Read More button . ​  

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