The Wimbledon Foundation

Who they support

? Grant making / charitable donations, primarily to charities in the London Boroughs of Merton & Wandsworth as well as national, international and tennis related charities. ? The Wimbledon Junior Tennis Initiative, visits to primary schools in Merton and Wandsworth and free of charge tennis coaching each weekend.

  • The average annual spending of grantees has been £12 million
  • The average age of charities supported has been 18 years.

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THE WIMBLEDON FOUNDATION
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WIMBLEDON
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Charity registered in England & Wales, No: 1156996
Charity Commission for England and Wales
Analysis of Grants Made
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In this period 100 donations have been made totalling £1,312,572 to 73 organisations

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Which activities are being funded?
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Growth in Spending
(per annum over last 3 years)
Main Overlaps with other Grant Makers ?
By ValueBy Number
The National Lottery Community Fund 71% 60%
City Bridge Trust 56% 45%
Comic Relief 54% 16%
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation 49% 14%
The National Lottery Heritage Fund 43% 14%
Wolfson Foundation 41% 11%
Sport England 38% 8%
The Linbury Trust 36% 3%
The Dulverton Trust 34% 4%
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland 34% 5%
Sole supporter: 14% by number, 7% by value.
Individual Grants Made
When Amount Annual
Spending
Grantee To be used for
18/06/2021 £5,000 £394,281 MERTON VISION School holiday sports and activities for around 20 Visually Impaired children and young people
11/06/2021 £5,000 £90,161 PARALLEL YOUTH ENTERPRISE (PYE) 4 week Summer Camp programme of workshops, trips out and sport in Wandsworth for up to one hundred young people during July and August.
10/06/2021 £5,000 £328,620 ACE OF CLUBS Support services for homeless people.
10/06/2021 £19,500 £337,743 AFC WIMBLEDON FOUNDATION Summer schemes targeted at disadvantaged young people on Wandsworth estates, with a focus on providing sports, drama, arts and educational activities to support physical, personal and social development. The Foundation is also working on similar funded projects in Merton and would welcome additional support in kind from Wimbledon Foundation staff and tennis coaches across this summer provision.
10/06/2021 £2,500 £373,331 CARNEY'S COMMUNITY delivery of six boxing mentoring sessions a week and follow up support for individuals.
10/06/2021 £100,000 £54,000,000 CRISIS Supporting the Housing First & Housing Procurement teams across London.
10/06/2021 £5,000 £15,718,283 ENABLE LEISURE & CULTURE Summer and autumn physical activity provision on Henry Prince, Doddington and Furzedown estates.
10/06/2021 £5,000 £1,643,110 GLASS DOOR Support services for homeless people.
10/06/2021 £2,500 £724,441 KATHERINE LOW SETTLEMENT LTD A summer programme for young people from refugee backgrounds
10/06/2021 £4,000 £189,583 RACKETS CUBED 8 week sports programmes for disadvantaged groups and a tennis celebration as part of Roehampton Community Week.
10/06/2021 £5,000 £4,592,783 SPEAR Support services for homeless people.
10/06/2021 £5,000 £654,450 SPIRES Support services for homeless people.
10/06/2021 £2,500 £362,811 TENNIS FOR FREE Weekly FREE coaching sessions for up to a maximum of 50 weeks of the year. We coach children aged 12 and above, young people and adults’, showing that tennis is a game for everyone in our community.
10/06/2021 £15,000 £95,047,000 WATERAID WaterAid South Asia Covid Appeal
07/06/2021 £2,500 £291,413 PAUL'S CANCER SUPPORT CENTRE Contribution to dance and emotional wellbeing project for women with cancer.
19/05/2021 £100,000 £295,300,000 BRITISH RED CROSS British Red Cross' international response to the Coronavirus crisis
19/05/2021 £20,500 £779,930 MERTON CONNECTED Merton Connected will build on their capacity building work to launch a pilot quality mark for small charities called the Merton Step-up project. The groups will be supported with their organisational development and governance to meet the standard, which will be recognised by local authority commissioning departments. Mentoring organisations will also be sought to continue support.
17/05/2021 £5,000 £482,808 CAIUS HOUSE Dedicated youth worker time to deliver fitness and nutrition activities for young people.
07/05/2021 £2,500 £32,708 MORDEN LITTLE LEAGUE A festival of football for children run with support of AFC Wimbledon coaches
04/05/2021 £15,000 £575,044 MAGIC BUS UK Magic Bus's emergency response to the covid crisis in India
29/04/2021 £2,500 £18,573 ETHNIC MINORITY CENTRE Online yoga and zoom sessions
29/04/2021 £5,000 £73,845 FAST PROJECT Support for staff time to deliver the community youth programme including football and dance sessions.
29/04/2021 £3,478 £60,470 LINDEN LODGE CHARITABLE TRUST Provision of four sensory activity panels (various features to aid sight, touch, texture, sound) to be located throughout the play facility
23/04/2021 £2,123 £415,673 DISABILITY SPORTS COACH We want to run outdoor inclusive sport sessions for disabled people in Wandsworth throughout the summer.
01/03/2021 £2,556 £3,663 ANDERS DISABILITY BADMINTON CHARITY Facilitation of a new weekly pan-disability badminton session in Wandsworth by training coaches and volunteers who can deliver the sessions.
01/03/2021 £4,600 £572,093 DEEN CITY FARM Education Officer, two days a week for six months
01/03/2021 £5,000 £18,309 QUICK START HOCKEY We will run an enhanced ‘Return to Play’ programme over the summer months for children particularly disadvantaged by Covid-19. Children in target schools in deprived areas of Merton, and Wandsworth will benefit from free after/out of and family sessions as well as subsidised progressions to community sport activities.
01/03/2021 £2,500 £13,588 THE CARDIAC EXERCISE CLUB To run an additional exercise session every week for 12 months. The funds will be used towards paying the fees of the qualified training instructor conducting the sessions.
22/02/2021 £5,000 £121,269 ATTIC THEATRE COMPANY (LONDON) LTD Funding is to support older people's dance sessions.
01/02/2021 £3,875 £189,583 RACKETS CUBED The funding is required to enhance the activity and food support to young people in Roehampton
01/02/2021 £5,000 £1,151,712 SHARE COMMUNITY LTD iPads for isolated adults with autism, learning disabilities and complex needs
01/02/2021 £2,500 SPORT4HEALTH CIC Executive Director's time to manage income and to develop earned income streams again
28/01/2021 £2,500 £1,991,695 CITY HARVEST emergency food distribution in our local boroughs
28/01/2021 £7,500 £4,178,000 ST GEORGE'S HOSPITAL CHARITY 300 Wellbeing Boxes for hospital staff.
09/11/2020 £10,000 £337,743 AFC WIMBLEDON FOUNDATION Support for food parcels, Christmas presents, laptops and other other essentials for disadvantaged families across Merton and Wandsworth.
09/11/2020 £5,000 £753,522 AGE UK MERTON Over 200 Christmas gift hampers delivered and increased telephone befriending and online group activities delivered for older adults in Merton over the winter period.
09/11/2020 £5,000 £556,957 AGE UK WANDSWORTH Funding will contribute towards the items included in the Operation Christmas Cheer parcels.
09/11/2020 £2,500 £1,991,695 CITY HARVEST emergency food distribution in our local boroughs
09/11/2020 £2,500 £14,319,000 FARESHARE emergency food distribution in our local boroughs
09/11/2020 £5,000 £181,718 HOME-START MERTON To extend our counselling service to families who are struggling with mental ill health, lockdown, and Christmas and to provide food vouchers for families for the Christmas period.
09/11/2020 £5,000 £222,953 HOME-START WANDSWORTH Contribute towards supporting families during winter and Christmas through: Festive Cheer parcels, an online Family Christmas Party, food vouchers and providing outdoor clothing to encourage families to go outside during the winter.
09/11/2020 £10,000 £527,237 JUNCTION COMMUNITY TRUST Extension of Christmas supermarket voucher initiative in January
09/11/2020 £10,000 MERTON GIVING Merton Giving grants programme
09/11/2020 £77,364 £18,375,000 PLACE2BE digital mental health training for teachers – the Mental Health Champions - Foundation course. This will put thousands of teachers in the best possible position to support their pupils when they return to school after this pandemic.
09/11/2020 £5,000 £189,583 RACKETS CUBED 1,250 community Boxes to distribute in Wandsworth including food, personal hygiene, education and activity content.
09/11/2020 £5,000 £592,351 REGENERATE Deliver approximately 9,360 boxes containing food and essential supplies to families in and around Roehampton, including a Christmas box in the lead up to Christmas.
09/11/2020 £50,000 £77,302,000 THE PRINCE'S TRUST A contribution towards Prince's Trust's suite of employability support for young people to include mentoring, online training sessions and development awards.
28/07/2020 £10,000 £347,092 WANDSWORTH COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK The funding is to continue the support to enable us to provide hands on support to voluntary, community and faith groups who are on the frontline of providing self-help support to their own communities. We are in contact with over 40 groups who require our support, specifically around building their own capacity to meet needs.
22/07/2020 £5,000 £1,763,139 THRIVE Bringing back to work our 3 Garden & Client Managers/Senior Horticultural Therapist plus one Horticultural Therapist per Centre (to maintain safe working practices) for an initial period of 3 weeks. To maintain our gardens, buildings/facilities, etc. To build a cohort of local volunteers who can continue to safely maintain the gardens. To prepare for clients return.
09/07/2020 £270,076 £54,000,000 CRISIS Rehousing homeless people across London
09/07/2020 £5,000 FREE2B ALLIANCE To continue the role of the client-led Counsellor from April - June 2021, allowing her to support 12 LGBTQ+ young people with one to one counselling.
01/07/2020 £10,000 MITCHAM TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST SHINE Saturday School Programme hosted by Bond Primary School is an innovative programme of study helping over 50 disadvantaged children from 9 Mitcham primary schools by injecting approx. 20% extra tuition (approx.5 hrs) into every school week over 25 weeks a year.
01/07/2020 £10,000 £991,664 POLKA THEATRE Purchasing laptops to enable our staff to continue to deliver services remotely and continue support for vulnerable families. Making changes to services by moving our services online for example online forums. New additional workshops tailored for lockdown and the months that follow. These are all new unforeseen costs which are not currently funded or budgeted for.
10/06/2020 £12,000 PROVIDENCE HOUSE YOUTH CLUB Photography, sound and video project engaging young people in Wandsworth
03/06/2020 £5,000 £328,620 ACE OF CLUBS Support services for homeless people
03/06/2020 £20,000 £337,743 AFC WIMBLEDON FOUNDATION Summer schemes targeted at disadvantaged young people on Merton and Wandsworth estates, with a focus on providing sports, drama, arts and educational activities to support physical, personal and social development.
03/06/2020 £5,000 £121,269 ATTIC THEATRE COMPANY (LONDON) LTD These funds would launch the transitional period of the Autumn term, particularly the first half term from Sept ? Oct supporting the costs of delivering both online and live sessions of Many Voices, Creative Arts Group and our over 55s Singing workshops.
03/06/2020 £5,000 £6,401,434 BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE BAC will be repurposed as a community hub for relief; packaging creative play kits for children (6-10 years) distributed in monthly parcels across Wandsworth. State primary schools would be hubs for referrals and collection. BAC?s PlayKits will develop each month, from craft materials, to activities and challenges, giving children a creative outlet and supporting wellbeing.
03/06/2020 £10,000 £385,684 CARAS (COMMUNITY ACTION FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS) Fighting digital poverty for isolated refugees and asylum seekers and improving access to our social, educational and wellbeing support.
03/06/2020 £10,000 £46,722,000 CATCH22 Emotional health Counselling in Schools.
03/06/2020 £10,000 £615,128 COMMUNITY DRUG AND ALCOHOL RECOVERY SERVICES CDARS' Community Kitchen was set up in response to the Covid-19 crisis: we prepare homecooked meals daily and deliver them to the door of our most vulnerable clients, thus ensuring they have access to nutritious food to support their recovery.
03/06/2020 £5,000 £13,592 HEARTS AND MINDS This funding will allow us to deliver essential, tailored peer support to our growing membership base as lockdown restrictions are lifted, they deal with the fallout from this period for their mental health, and we begin to transition and adapt to a ?new normal?.
03/06/2020 £5,000 £181,718 HOME-START MERTON Counselling for parents who are struggling with their mental health
03/06/2020 £5,000 £222,953 HOME-START WANDSWORTH One-to-one support for struggling families with young children to help them cope with the pressures of the Covid-19 crisis, reduce isolation, and improve wellbeing and quality of life.
03/06/2020 £5,000 JAGS FOUNDATION To provide vital foodbank delivery services to vulnerable beneficiaries during Covid-19
03/06/2020 £10,000 £846,680 JIGSAW4U The funding will provide 80 vulnerable children with a week of activities focussed on improving their successful transition to secondary school in September which has been restricted due to the lockdown.
03/06/2020 £10,000 £527,237 JUNCTION COMMUNITY TRUST Contribution towards the costs of running Wandsworth Foodbank
03/06/2020 £10,000 £161,535,000 LEONARD CHESHIRE DISABILITY The funding is for our Keep Safe, Keep Well (KSKW) project delivering fresh fruit and vegetables, food, and other essential items to 100 disabled people a week, facing self-isolation alone across Wandsworth. We will also provide emotional support through a telephone service to ensure no one is left feeling lonely.
03/06/2020 £2,500 £60,470 LINDEN LODGE CHARITABLE TRUST Support for disabled children and their families
03/06/2020 £2,500 £1,428,491 LITTLE VILLAGE Contribution to providing clothing, toys and equipment for children
03/06/2020 £5,000 £394,281 MERTON VISION Preventing isolation, loneliness and promoting well-being for visually impaired people living in Merton.
03/06/2020 £10,000 £1,440,157 OFF THE RECORD YOUTH COUNSELLING CROYDON Maintaining and trialing innovative ways of reaching out to young adults who have been impacted by Covid-19 by building on some of the initiatives which started during the lockdown period.
03/06/2020 £10,000 PROVIDENCE HOUSE YOUTH CLUB Offering free creative arts activities and workshops for children and young people ages 6-25 from disadvantaged backgrounds over the summer period. Keeping young people busy, developing skills and talents, being entertained and having fun throughout a difficult time when many regular face to face and social activities and services are not available.
03/06/2020 £10,000 £592,351 REGENERATE Get Focused provides mentoring support for young people aged 11-18 who are living in areas that experience high levels of deprivation including poverty, chronic generational unemployment and family breakdown. Get Focused works to address these issues through 1-2-1 sessions based at school or in the community, group mentoring sessions which have specific focuses and residential trips.
03/06/2020 £5,000 £1,151,712 SHARE COMMUNITY LTD The project will provide freshly prepared nutritious meals delivered directly to the doors of vulnerable residents, with a focus on those with learning and physical disabilities, autism, mental health needs, and the elderly; as well as people who live with vulnerable residents who are self-isolating/shielding.
03/06/2020 £5,000 £158,272 SOUND MINDS Sound minds is providing face to face and online music services alongside Covid 19. Breathe Music is an afternoon of music activities for young people under 25 not in employment training or education through ongoing mental ill health.
03/06/2020 £10,000 £412,354 SOUTH LONDON REFUGEE ASSOCIATION Weekly women's group, youth group, ESOL group, children's party group and a new men's group, all currently held online with a few in-person sessions as lockdown lifts.
03/06/2020 £10,000 £267,016 WIMBLEDON ARTS Resilience grant to help ensure future of Wimbledon Book Festival
03/06/2020 £5,000 £91,717 WIMBLEDON CIVIC THEATRE TRUST Our Young Actors Company caters to 60+ young people annually, providing high quality acting training for young people in Merton aged 11-18 and producing three major youth theatre productions per year.
03/06/2020 £10,000 £62,948,822 WIMBLEDON FOODBANK Contribution towards cost of running Wimbledon Foodbank
13/05/2020 £2,500 £3,780,413 PERENNIAL Contribution towards Covid-19 response
13/05/2020 £10,000 £9,156,411 THE ROYAL FOUNDATION General donation towards Covid-19 response
04/05/2020 £2,500 £1,991,695 CITY HARVEST emergency food distribution in our local boroughs
04/05/2020 £2,500 £503,470 COMMONSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST Food delivery and support, partitucularly to older people
04/05/2020 £2,500 £14,319,000 FARESHARE emergency food distribution in our local boroughs
04/05/2020 £2,500 £724,441 KATHERINE LOW SETTLEMENT LTD Providing support and food parcels across Battersea.
04/05/2020 £2,500 £67,491 LEARN TO LOVE TO READ Distribution of reading and educational resources to families in Wandsworth
04/05/2020 £100,000 £51,529,000 NHS CHARITIES TOGETHER General donation towards Covid-19 response
04/05/2020 £5,000 £592,351 REGENERATE Food delivery and activity packs for families
04/05/2020 £20,000 RICHMOND AND WANDSWORTH COUNCIL Wandsworth Grants Fund - Covid 19
04/05/2020 £2,500 £2,607,953 WIMBLEDON GUILD Support services for older people
08/04/2020 £5,000 £556,957 AGE UK WANDSWORTH Food and household items to sustain emergency food parcel delivery.
08/04/2020 £5,000 £536,660 CARERS SUPPORT MERTON Subscriptions to Zoom & mail chimp enabling staff to stay connected and provide activities and support online.
01/04/2020 £5,000 £753,522 AGE UK MERTON Support services for older people
01/04/2020 £5,000 £1,643,110 GLASS DOOR Support services for homeless people
01/04/2020 £5,000 £527,237 JUNCTION COMMUNITY TRUST Wandsworth Foodbank
01/04/2020 £20,000 MERTON GIVING Merton Giving grants programme
01/04/2020 £10,000 £4,178,000 ST GEORGE'S HOSPITAL CHARITY Contribution to Covid-19 response
01/04/2020 £5,000 £62,948,822 WIMBLEDON FOODBANK Costs of running Wimbledon foodbank
01/04/2020 £5,000 £24,919,233 YMCA LONDON ST PAULS GROUP Support services for homeless people
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Cumulative Grants
Amount Grantee
£370,076 CRISIS
£100,000 NHS CHARITIES TOGETHER
£100,000 BRITISH RED CROSS
£77,364 PLACE2BE
£50,000 THE PRINCE'S TRUST
£49,500 AFC WIMBLEDON FOUNDATION
£30,000 MERTON GIVING
£25,000 JUNCTION COMMUNITY TRUST
£22,000 PROVIDENCE HOUSE YOUTH CLUB
£20,500 MERTON CONNECTED
£20,000 RICHMOND AND WANDSWORTH COUNCIL
£20,000 REGENERATE
£17,500 ST GEORGE'S HOSPITAL CHARITY
£15,000 WIMBLEDON FOODBANK
£15,000 WATERAID
£15,000 MAGIC BUS UK
£12,875 RACKETS CUBED
£10,000 WIMBLEDON ARTS
£10,000 WANDSWORTH COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NETWORK
£10,000 THE ROYAL FOUNDATION
£10,000 SOUTH LONDON REFUGEE ASSOCIATION
£10,000 SHARE COMMUNITY LTD
£10,000 POLKA THEATRE
£10,000 OFF THE RECORD YOUTH COUNSELLING CROYDON
£10,000 MITCHAM TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST
£10,000 MERTON VISION
£10,000 LEONARD CHESHIRE DISABILITY
£10,000 JIGSAW4U
£10,000 HOME-START WANDSWORTH
£10,000 HOME-START MERTON
£10,000 GLASS DOOR
£10,000 COMMUNITY DRUG AND ALCOHOL RECOVERY SERVICES
£10,000 CATCH22
£10,000 CARAS (COMMUNITY ACTION FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS)
£10,000 AGE UK WANDSWORTH
£10,000 AGE UK MERTON
£10,000 ACE OF CLUBS
£10,000 ATTIC THEATRE COMPANY (LONDON) LTD
£7,500 CITY HARVEST
£5,978 LINDEN LODGE CHARITABLE TRUST
£5,000 YMCA LONDON ST PAULS GROUP
£5,000 WIMBLEDON CIVIC THEATRE TRUST
£5,000 THRIVE
£5,000 SPIRES
£5,000 SOUND MINDS
£5,000 SPEAR
£5,000 QUICK START HOCKEY
£5,000 PARALLEL YOUTH ENTERPRISE (PYE)
£5,000 KATHERINE LOW SETTLEMENT LTD
£5,000 JAGS FOUNDATION
£5,000 HEARTS AND MINDS
£5,000 FREE2B ALLIANCE
£5,000 FARESHARE
£5,000 FAST PROJECT
£5,000 ENABLE LEISURE & CULTURE
£5,000 CARERS SUPPORT MERTON
£5,000 CAIUS HOUSE
£5,000 BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE
£4,600 DEEN CITY FARM
£2,556 ANDERS DISABILITY BADMINTON CHARITY
£2,500 WIMBLEDON GUILD
£2,500 THE CARDIAC EXERCISE CLUB
£2,500 TENNIS FOR FREE
£2,500 SPORT4HEALTH CIC
£2,500 PERENNIAL
£2,500 PAUL'S CANCER SUPPORT CENTRE
£2,500 MORDEN LITTLE LEAGUE
£2,500 LITTLE VILLAGE
£2,500 LEARN TO LOVE TO READ
£2,500 ETHNIC MINORITY CENTRE
£2,500 COMMONSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST
£2,500 CARNEY'S COMMUNITY
£2,123 DISABILITY SPORTS COACH
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