We fund Black-led charities and CICs in Lambeth and Southwark, distributing around £250,000 a year

Our vision is for Black-led organisations in Lambeth and Southwark to have power, agency and funding to drive positive change in their communities.

We make unrestricted grants of up to £30,000 a year for up to three years to Black-led charities and CICs embedded in their communities, with a strong track record of delivering work in Lambeth or Southwark. We fund charities and CICs Limited by Guarantee with annual turnovers of between £25,000 and £350,000. In each round, we fund around seven new partners. 

We work in partnership with the organisations we fund and get to know them. We trust the organisations to know how to use the grant. 

We work with others in Lambeth and Southwark to strengthen the local ecosystem of support. 

We manage our investments to strengthen our financial stewardship and resilience for sustainable impact.

READ ABOUT our new OPEN FUND round AND ELIGIBILITY

 read our neW STRATEGY 2025-2028 

Our values 

Community - we take time to listen to the lived experiences of local communities to shape our grantmaking and match the needs of our existing and future partners

Learning - we commit to a culture where we seek better to understand the expertise of our funded partners, share our knowledge creatively, are open to change and challenge ourselves continually to identify and address our biases

Trust - we build trust through active listening, responding compassionately and flexibly, being transparent in our decisions and accessible to our partners

Social Justice - we are proactive in challenging systems of oppression that have created and continue to create inequity for our partners