Publications & research

City Parochial Foundation produce a number of publications and reports including an annual Grants review which covers events and funding over the year. Clicking on the covers shown here will provide more information on contents and links so that they can be downloaded here in pdf format (download free PDF viewer).

Printed versions can be obtained – subject to availability - from the Foundation (0207 606 6145).

Challenges - Reflections on funding and change in London 1986-2007

This new report looking at the work of City Parochial Foundation and Trust for London over the past 21 years, the changes that have occurred and both what has worked and what has not worked. The aim has been to bring out the lessons which it is hoped will prove valuable to trustees, staff and advisors for the future, and other funders.

Challenges: reflections on funding and change in London 1986-2007 was written by former Clerk to the Trustees Tim Cook who concludes that ‘grant-making is an art not a science’.

The report describes some of the major initiatives which the Foundation and Trust have undertaken, and provides sources of further information.

Copies of the reports can be downloaded here in pdf format below. Printed copies are available from CPF, telephone 0207 606 6145.

Challenges - Reflections on funding and change in London 1986-2007 by Tim Cook

Bellingham Community Project

Posted 26 July 2007

Bellingham Community Project - Regeneration in action

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It is possible to make a major difference to the ‘feel’ of a neighbourhood, according to Regeneration in action, a report on the Bellingham Community Project which was set up by City Parochial Foundation in Lewisham.

The scheme is in one of the10% most deprived wards in England where educational attainment has been low and worklessness is high. The Community Project and the Bellingham leisure & lifestyle centre based on playing fields owned by CPF have revitalised the area and brought real benefits to the local community.

Copies of the report can be downloaded in pdf format below:

Bellingham Community Project - Regeneration in action

Investing in the people of London

Posted 24 July 2007

Quinquennial Review 2002-2006

City Parochial Foundation and Trust for London invested in the people of London ‘because we believed in them’.

This is how CPF chair Nigel Pantling describes funding over the past five years, in his foreword to the ‘quinquennial’ report. He pointed out: “We saw the long-term unemployed man or woman, the survivor of domestic abuse, the disorientated refugee migrant, as people who can and should prosper and enjoy their own lives, and who by doing so would enhance the quality and diversity of the lives of everyone in the city in which we all live.”

The report gives brief synopsis of all funding categories and special initiatives such as the Bellingham Leisure and Lifestyle Centre which opened in 2004, ant the Refugee Communities History Project which culminated in a major exhibition at the Museum of London.

Investing in the People of London - Report of five years funding 2002-06

Copies of the reports can be downloaded here in pdf format below. Printed copies are available from CPF, telephone 0207 606 6145.

A short Grants Review listing individual grants made in 2006 can be downloaded here in pdf format below. Printed copies are available from CPF, telephone 0207 606 6145.

Grants Review 2006

Building Blocks Open Space report

Posted 8 March 2007

On 1st March we held an Open Space event to explore the findings and recommendations which came out of our recent research, Building Blocks by Alison Harker and Steven Burkeman. This identified a number of challenges faced by second-tier organisations in meeting the needs of voluntary and community groups.

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Building Blocks

developing second tier-support for frontline groups

Many second-tier organisations face difficult issues of quality, credibility and overwork, CPF report reveals

Second-tier organisations (STOs) are operating in a very difficult environment with pressures on them from all sides, while attempting to manage high expectations and heavy demands. Many, including councils for voluntary service (CVSs), face difficult issues of quality, credibility, conflict of interest and overwork, and a number of CVSs seem to have lost their sense of purpose and focus, according to a new report published by City Parochial Foundation.

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