Charitable Giving

In recent years the Livery has concentrated its charitable giving on a few charities that provide significant support to the community around the City of London.

The charities broadly have one or more of three objectives:

• providing children with opportunities they otherwise would not receive;
• seeking to prevent people falling into distress or poverty;
• providing support for those in need of long-term care.

The charities we are currently supporting include Children's Country Holidays Fund (which enables children from inner city London to experience the countryside, seaside and the Arts) and Hackney Quest (encouraging young people to attend school and to value achievement). Richard House is a hospice that supports children, young people and their families, it is based in Beckton, East London.

The Tower Hamlets Mission has been supported for the last five years, it runs a three stage residential drug and alcohol service for men who are suffering from addiction. Many of those seeking help have lost everything, their home, family, jobs and friends. The St Giles Trust aims to help ex-prisoners settle into their communities after release from prison and not to re-offend.

Finally, the Livery is supporting Help for Heroes, a new charity set up to help injured servicemen rehabilitate on their return from Afghanistan and Iraq.

As an exciting development from 2009 the Poor Fund will support the Fan Museum. This will be by way of a biannual donation for the next twenty years.