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Survey of London brothels published

Posted 8 October 2008

The POPPY Project, at the charity Eaves, has published Big Brothel: a survey of the off-street sex industry in London. Using only adverts in local newspapers, male researchers posing as potential sex buyers identified brothels in every London borough, ranging from 71 in Westminster to eight in Southwark.

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Human Trafficking conference

Posted 8 October 2008

Working in partnership with Comic Relief and Joseph Rowntree Foundation, CPF held a discussion event on 29 September, which brought together independent funders with NGOs in the field to explore how to move forward policy and practice in addressing human trafficking in the UK. Speakers included Christine Beddoe from ECPAT UK, Klara Skrivankova from Anti-Slavery International, Denise Marshall of Eaves/POPPY Project, and Michael Korzinski from the Helen Bamber Foundation. A report of the day, including planned next steps, will be available here shortly.

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Progress made in Tackling Modern Day Slavery

Posted 6 October 2008

CPF has published an interim report on its Tackling Modern Day Slavery special initiative, which collates the significant progress made by the five funded organisations in addressing exploitation in the UK.

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Campaigning grants 'not clear'

Posted 6 October 2008

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector, 1 October 2008

Campaigning charities are missing out on funding because grant-making trusts are not making their guidance clear, according to a report published today by the Directory of Social Change and the NCVO.

The report, Funding for Sustainable Change, says 79 per cent of trusts have criteria that allow them to fund campaigning, advocacy and influencing activities, but only 30 per cent definitely fund them.

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Funding List and Analysis for 2007

Posted 31 July 2007

In addition to producing our annual review, we have also compiled two other related documents:

The first is a list of all of the groups we funded in 2007. This includes a short description of the organisation, what it was funded for, and the amount awarded.

The second is a statistical analysis of the funding we provided in 2007. It includes the amount of funding we provided under each of our aims, the average size of funding awarded, the types of groups we supported and the geographical location of where the work (we are funding) is taking place - as well as much more.

To download the PDF documents, please click below.

Funding List 2007.pdf

Funding Analysis 2007.pdf

Changing London

Posted 23 June 2008

Annual Review 2007

CPF and TfL "prize independence", chair says

Staff and trustees of City Parochial Foundation and Trust for London prize their independence, chair Nigel Pantling says in his Foreword to the 2007 Annual Review.

Independence "enables us to use our considerable financial clout to help deserving but unpopular causes which receive little backing from other funders", Nigerl Pantling points out.

"It also gives us credibility," he adds. "It allows us to campaign directly on issues that we feel strongly about, and to press Government agencies and Ministers to make change happen.

"And our independence allows us to take risks where others will not, for example by backing innovative schemes that take new approaches or which help those on the fringes of traditional definitions of poverty. This fits well with our reluctance to let our charitable funds directly replace Government money, because many of the organisations we fund receive no State backing."

The Review provides a brief overview of activity under each priority in the current five year quinquennium - of which 2007 was the first year - and provides examples of some of the innovative schemes which CPF and TfL have funded.

Copies of the Review can be downloaded here in pdf format. Printed copies are available from City Parochial Foundation, 6 Middle Street, London EC1A 7PH Telephone: 020 7606 6145, or can be ordered by email from info@cityparochial.org.uk

Changing London.pdf

London Living Wage Employer

City Parochial Foundation aims to help some of the most disadvantaged groups of people in London who are living in poverty. As such we are committed to working towards better pay and employment conditions for those that work in London who often receive unfair treatment in their place of work. We therefore support the living wage campaign and became a living wage employer in December 2007.

If you would like to know more about the living wage campaign or how to become a living wage employer please click link below:

http://www.livingwageemployer.org.uk/list.htm

Joseph Rowntree Foundation has also published a paper "A minimum income standard for Britain: what people think". You can download this paper by clicking the link below:
http://www.jrf.org.uk/