THE LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1091263 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q29467822 · Wikipedia · also known as CAPITAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, CCF, SELCF, SOUTH EAST LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, THE CAPITAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The London Community Foundation makes a difference to the lives of Londoners by connecting people who need help with those who are willing to give. That's what we do. We are dedicated to improving the lives of London's most disadvantaged. Child poverty, unemployment, isolation, homelessness, domestic violence and gang crime are just some of the issues we are tackling through our grant making.

Objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND THE PROVISION, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE OPPORTUNITIES AND FACILITIES ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED. 2. OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: THE LONDON BOROUGHS AND THE CITY OF LONDON

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total deficit of £1.1 million for the year, driven by a £105k deficit on unrestricted funds and investment losses. However, the trustees confirm the financial position remains stable with general reserves of £0.7 million, which are within the stated policy target of five to nine months of expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Acts20:35 — “Acts20:35 is a charitable fund, set up in 2024 in partnership with The London Community Foundation to tackle food insecurity in Hammersmith …” (source page)
• Adobe Foundation — “The Adobe Foundation is the philanthropic foundation linked to the company Adobe. In 2024, they committed $1million to support community org…” (source page)
• Bank of Ireland — “The Bank of Ireland UK Community Giving Fund is an endowment fund that provides income which is distributed across the UK to support local c…” (source page)
• Barclays — “Skill Up, Step Up was a £1m Evening Standard and Independent appeal in partnership with Barclays LifeSkills to upskill unemployed and disadv…” (source page)
• British Land — “British Land, our partner since the beginning of 2021, is a leading UK property company with three London Campuses offering high quality, su…” (source page)
• Cellnex UK — “In 2022 we introduced Cellnex UK to 10 London community organisations who work with marginalised and vulnerable Londoners who need support t…” (source page)
• Deutsche Bank — “Deutsche Bank is one of our longest standing partners. Since our partnership began in 2005, the bank has given over £1 million and the Deuts…” (source page)
• EdenTree — “EdenTree, an investment management firm, partnered with us in 2017 and focus on supporting youth education and projects tackling human traff…” (source page)
• Grosvenor — “We've been working with Grosvenor - one of the world's largest privately owned property businesses - for seven years. Click through to find …” (source page)
• JPMorganChase — “We've been working with financial services firm, JPMorganChase since November 2020 on a £2 million programme to support BME-led organisation…” (source page)
• Knight Dragon — “Knight Dragon is the lead developer of one of Europe’s largest regeneration project, Greenwich Peninsula. Knight Dragon is investing £1.9m i…” (source page)
• Lambeth Council — “Lambeth Council is a longstanding partner of LCF, and a key founding donor of the Lambeth Community Fund. Since 2008, over £2.5 million of g…” (source page)
• Peabody — “The Peabody Community Fund was established in 2014 and so far over £350,000 has been awarded grants to 78 charities and community groups, be…” (source page)
• Simon & Lynn Dodds — “For nearly ten years, we've been working with Simon and Lynn Dodds to fund and strengthen grassroots initiatives designed to support those w…” (source page)
• The Valesco Group — “We've been partnered with the real estate investment manager The Valesco Group since 2021. We support them to give back to their community t…” (source page)

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (87% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/07/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/12/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fiona Bickley · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Hume
• Owen Jenkins
• Urmi Dutta-Roy
• Veesh Vishal Sharma

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £313k
• UK COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS income £11.3m
• TRUST FOR LONDON income £10.7m
• THE LONDON COMMUNITY CHURCH income £73k
• THE LONDON CITY MISSION income £8.4m
• CENTRE FOR LONDON income £645k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.