City Harvest

The Felix Project

St Mungo’s

Every week, City Harvest rescue over 100 tonnes of surplus food from the food industry. Their staff and volunteers sort and package this food and deliver it, free of charge, to a network of 375+ community partners across London.

The Caerlow Trust awarded a grant to fund the costs of keeping a new refrigerated food truck on the road for its first 12 months. This will enable City Harvest to improve their food sourcing by facilitating the collection of food from across the UK.

The Felix Project is a London-based food waste and food poverty charity. They rescue surplus food from over 500 suppliers in the UK, and with the help of volunteers, deliver it free of charge to over 1,000 community organisations, schools, and holiday programmes, supporting London’s food-insecure population.

Our unrestricted grant will enable The Felix Project to increase the amount of food they rescue and redistribute, providing 35 million meals to London’s most vulnerable people – up from 32 million in 2023.

For 55 years, St Mungo’s has been on the frontline of efforts to end homelessness in England. They work directly with people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, providing them with the holistic support they need to move away from the streets for good.

The funds awarded to St Mungo’s will support the expansion of their London Employment Support Team, who work intensively alongside individual clients with multiple and complex support needs to facilitate their goals of gaining employment.

Bromley and Croydon Women’s Aid

Depaul UK

FoodCycle

Bromley & Croydon Women’s Aid (BCWA) is a domestic abuse charity and a registered social housing provider, who aim to empower anyone suffering domestic abuse so they can make informed choices about their future.

The Caerlow Trust’s unrestricted grant will help BCWA by funding direct service delivery, as well as contributing to the increased core costs to train and support frontline staff and manage the charity’s rapid growth.

Depaul UK is a national homelessness charity with a focus on young people, who exist to end homelessness and change the lives of those affected by it.

Our unrestricted grant will support Depaul UK’s vital programs such as Nightstop – emergency accommodation, Reconnect – a family mediation and support service, and education programs running small-group workshops in secondary schools and colleges, helping young people understand the issues that can lead to homelessness and where to find support

Since 2009, FoodCycle have been providing free community meals for vulnerable people every week, using surplus food donations. Their work is based upon the simple idea that food waste and food poverty should not co-exist and that something powerful can be achieved through eating together.

The Caerlow Trust’s unrestricted grant to FoodCycle will allow them to continue to provide more community meals to those most in need, enhance their sustainability and promote the benefits of community dining to policy makers.

Forward Trust

The Nelson Trust

Kairos Community Trust

The Forward Trust is the UK’s leading addiction recovery charity, helping thousands of people recover from addiction and mental health problems, leave behind crime, and find jobs, homes and a sense of belonging.

This unrestricted grant will enable The Forward Trust to expand their programme of holistic support, enabling their clients to create positive, fulfilling futures for themselves, though community- and prison-based recovery programmes, residential recovery centres, housing services and other family and employment support services.

The Nelson Trust bring belief, hope and long term recovery to lives affected by addiction and multiple disadvantages. In 2023, their Women’s Community Services helped over 4,150 women access treatment throughout South-West England and Wales.

As well as helping with core costs, the grant from The Caerlow Trust will fund the cost of an outreach worker in their Sex Worker Outreach Project, which supports women who are involved in on- and off-street sex working by providing out-of-hours support and harm reduction services, in the red-light district of Swindon.

Kairos Community Trust has supported men and women overcoming addiction and homelessness for over thirty years, offering accommodation, rehabilitation and structured aftercare. The Trust’s core therapeutic services are located in the London Borough of Southwark, although referrals are received London-wide and beyond. 

Our grant to Kairos will help towards ongoing costs such as volunteer training and essential refurbishment of community spaces. Funds will also be used to continue ongoing projects like the Kairos Counselling and Nunhead Psychotherapy Group programmes.

Trussell

Emmaus South Lambeth Community

Glass Door

Trussell is an anti-poverty charity and community of 1,400 food bank locations. They work together to ensure no one in the UK needs a food bank to survive, while providing emergency food and practical support for people left without enough money to live on.

The funds awarded to Trussell will be used to provide grants to food banks in the charity’s community. The grants will support food banks struggling to maintain their services in the face of rising costs and record levels of need. This will help food banks keep their doors open and continue to be there for the people in their communities who need them.

Emmaus SLC is part of the larger Emmaus federation of charities in the UK, dedicated to alleviating poverty, homelessness, and social exclusion. In addition to providing long-term accommodation for people experiencing homelessness, they offer meaningful activities through work and training in their social enterprises.

The Caerlow Trust grant will allow Emmaus SLC to employ a full-time Companion Development Coach for one year. They will be the first point of contact for new Companions as they transition from homelessness into the supportive community.

Glass Door operate open-access services across London for people who are homeless. Their year-round casework service offers one-to-one advice and practical support to help guests to build more stable futures, and ultimately, to find and move into accommodation. They also provide emergency winter night shelters and evening meals whilst caseworkers support guests to find a more permanent route out of homelessness.

Funding from The Caerlow Trust enabled Glass Door to help people experiencing homelessness receive essential support through the year-round Casework Service and emergency Winter Night Shelters.

Spires

Providence Row

Single Homeless Project

For 30+ years Spires has worked to help end homelessness and support those experiencing homelessness to find solutions to their challenges.  They work with partners to refer people into winter night shelters, social and sheltered housing as well as the private rental sector. Where people have physical or mental health challenges, Spires can refer to drug and alcohol support teams and the NHS START mental health team attend our drop-in services.

The unrestricted grant from The Caerlow Trust will contribute towards the core running costs of their drop-in services, including staff salaries

Providence Row has been tackling the root causes of homelessness in East London since 1860. Now in their 165th year, they continue to support some of the most vulnerable people in the community – those experiencing or at risk of homelessness – through a holistic, person-centred approach that combines crisis relief with long-term recovery.

This unrestricted grant will enable Providence Row to continue to support around 1,400 clients annually, giving them access to their Crisis and Progression services such as substance use support, outreach psychotherapy and health and wellbeing services, to name just a few.

SHP is a London-based charity that works to prevent homelessness and support vulnerable individuals to rebuild their lives. They provide a range of services, including accommodation, support, and opportunities for personal development, with the aim of helping people move from homelessness to independence. 

A restricted grant from The Caerlow Trust for SHP’s Health Programme will help to meet staff costs and provide their clients with health-focussed services such as wellbeing days, in-hostel physical health checks, trauma-informed talking therapy and workshops (eg. dentist, gynaecologist, etc).

Healthy Living Platform

The Magpie Project

Treasures Foundation

Established in 2020 in partnership with Lambeth Council, the Healthy Living Platform Lambeth Surplus Food Hub redistributes surplus food to over 40 community organisations, tackling food insecurity and reducing waste. HLP runs three food pantries, used by 150 people each week, located in estate community spaces and offering a diverse range of low cost, fresh and long-life food.

Funding from The Caerlow Trust will help the charity continue to deliver these services, strengthening and making it more resilient. HLP will also explore expanding with a second Food Hub in Southwark.

The Magpie Project believe all children have the right to a secure, safe place to play, healthy food, engaged, informed parents, and access to support, no matter what their family circumstances. They provide a safe and fun place for mums and pre-school children suffering in temporary or insecure accommodation.

Unrestricted funding from The Caerlow Trust will help The Magpie Project continue to support over 500 children and women in temporary, emergency or insecure accommodation in Newham and surrounding boroughs.

Treasures Foundation provides safe accommodation in East London and specialist outreach support to women with histories of addiction, mental health, trauma and experience of the criminal justice system. They work alongside women to enable them to recover, build healthy relationships, learn new skills, reach their full potential and go on to lead fulfilling and independent lives.

A grant from The Caerlow Trust will enable Treasures Foundation to continue running its vital services and help to cover the cost of a specialist support worker.

Neighbourhood Doulas

The Upper Room

The People’s Recovery Project

Neighbourhood Doulas run a free Doula service across London, providing trauma-informed support to women and birthing people who find themselves without a birth partner and experiencing multiple disadvantages and financial hardship.

A grant from The Caerlow Trust will enable Neighbourhood Doulas to keep providing vulnerable pregnant people with Doula support, meet urgent practical needs such as baby essentials, food vouchers, and transportation to appointments, and strengthen the charity’s core infrastructure by part-funding two Service and Programme Managers.

The Upper Room has expanded from a small soup kitchen supporting people experiencing homelessness into a dynamic charity offering a range of services to address the immediate and longer term needs of its guests. Their Hub delivers a broad range of services – not only do they offer practical support (meals, toiletries, clothing and bedding) but also specialist advice and support into employment.

The funds will support The Upper Room’s three inter-linked projects, which offer holistic and personalised support to the most vulnerable and marginalised in our community: UR4Meals, providing hot meals every weekday; UR4Jobs, a free multilingual service helping those experiencing homelessness to find work; and UR4Driving, helping people with convictions avoid re-offending by offering them an opportunity to gain a full car driving licence.

The People’s Recovery Project (TPRP) have a well-tested and unique three-step approach to support people experiencing homelessness and addiction to build and sustain recovery. Their programme involves preparing people for treatment through peer led groups, supporting people to access residential treatment, and a treatment aftercare community.

A grant from The Caerlow Trust will enable TPRP to expand their reach and help attain their target of helping even more people experiencing homelessness and addiction to access and complete treatment, over the next three years.

Alexandra Rose Charity

Crisis

The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields

Alexandra Rose Charity (ARC) are on a mission to give people access to their choice of fresh fruit & veg, in the heart of their community, by delivering a mix of practical, place-based projects and national advocacy to shape a fairer future, where everyone can afford and enjoy fresh fruit & veg with dignity. ARC created Rose vouchers, which recipients can exchange for fresh fruit and veg from local market traders and independent grocers, encouraging healthy eating and supporting a thriving local economy. This project, delivered in Tower Hamlets and Lambeth, enables GPs and social prescribing link workers to give weekly Rose Vouchers to people on low incomes with food-related health conditions.

A grant from The Caerlow Trust will support ARC’s voucher initiative, operational staffing, and London-based projects.

Crisis works side by side with thousands of people each year as they find ways out of homelessness. They provide practical support to help people access benefits, healthcare services, employment opportunities, and more. Their main aim is to relieve the huge pressure of homelessness, by helping people find safe and affordable homes as quickly as possible. Each year, Crisis at Christmas opens its doors to thousands of people experiencing homelessness, offering a warm meal, a place to stay, and advice and support.

Funds from The Caerlow Trust will be used to support the Crisis at Christmas Women’s Service.

The Connection at St Martin’s works with people who are rough sleeping to move away from, and stay off, the streets of London. They do this at their day centre, just opposite Charing Cross station, by focussing on working alongside people as they recover from life on the streets and move towards a meaningful, fulfilling future.

A grant from The Caerlow Trust will help The Connection continue their vital work in London.