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Meet the Propel Partner: London Funders
Learn a little more about the people behind Propel, starting with Louise Henry, Collaboration Manager at London Funders, supporting the operational side of the collaboration. What does community mean to you? Everything. I’ve always worked and volunteered on community projects, from running young people’s music programmes to teaching yoga to elderly carers. Its about people…
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Celebrating experimenting and learning
Propel is a collaborative approach between funders and civil society to support long term, systemic change. This means tackling the root causes of issues facing our capital, not just dealing with their consequences. For funders, Propel means working together on new approaches to funding, looking together across issues, communities and geographies. For funded organisations, Propel…
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Propel Learning Day: what we heard and next steps
In this blog, Katie Turner, from Propel’s learning partner – The Institute for Voluntary Action Research – shares what we learnt from our first day of bringing together organisations funded by Propel along with funders and equity partners to share and discuss their collective ambitions for the programme, alongside more informal networking. The day was split…
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How we’re using what we’ve learnt so far to inform a further round of Propel funding
Today, Propel is launching a further round of funding under one of our missions: A New Deal for Young People. In this blog, we explain how we’re using lessons and feedback from applicants in the first round of Propel funding to test new approaches, first on a smaller scale in this funding round before we…
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First grants from ‘ground-breaking’ £100m fund fighting inequality in London
Press release 25.04.2023 Community organisations which tackle inequality and make London a fairer place have been awarded the first slice of a £100 million cash injection from some of the capital’s biggest funders. Almost £25 million has been allocated from the Propel fund to over 80 projects which empower disadvantaged young people, build stronger communities,…
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First grants made through Propel
Using our interactive map below, you can hover over London Boroughs to see the number of grants delivered in each area. For a full list of Propel Grantees, scroll down to our Grants list to see all of the organisations supported in Round One Below is a list of the organisations funded through the first…