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22 July 2010 - Evening Standard Launches Fund Tackling London Poverty
The Evening Standard Fund for the Dispossessed has raised £1 million for community organisations working to relieve the causes of poverty in London.
Grants of £250 - £5000 are available to non profit organisations across London addressing the issues behind poverty including:
- Helping people back into education.
- Tackling gun and knife crime.
- Promoting mental and physical health.
- Homelessness, pensioner poverty and the working poor.
The fund is supported by celebrities and politicians including Sir Terence Conran, Tracey Emin, Mayor Boris Johnson and former mayor Ken Livingstone.
Mr Johnson said:
“I am grateful to the Evening Standard for again highlighting the poverty and deprivation that shame this city while giving every Londoner the chance to help remedy the situation.”
Sir Terence said:
“London is a city that millions of us call home but, as the Standard revealed, there is a shocking side to our great capital – a desperate level of poverty that we are not always quick to recognise and acknowledge.”
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Source: London Evening Standard, 22/07/10
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