OUR FUNDERS

The London Marathon Charitable Trust supports projects that enable people to become and remain physically active regardless of age, gender, ability, race or background and that challenge inequality of access to physical activity. The Trust provides funding to inspire thousands of children and adults to be active for life – in its core areas of London and Surrey through the Facilities Grants programme, and nationally through the Strategic Partnership Grants programme.

Since its founding in 1981, The Trust has awarded more than £84 million to over 1,400 organisations. Any surplus generated by The Trust’s subsidiary company, London Marathon Events Limited, through the delivery of mass-participation sporting events including the Virgin Money London Marathon and Prudential RideLondon, is gifted to The Trust and then used to further its charitable objectives.

John Lyon’s Charity gives grants to benefit children and young people up to the age of 25 (or up to 30 for young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities) who live in nine boroughs in North and West London: Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea, and the Cities of London and Westminster. Since 1991, we have been committed to transforming the lives of children and young people by creating opportunities to learn, grow, and develop through education. John Lyon’s Charity has distributed over £219 million in grants to a range of organisations that seek to promote the life chances of children and young people through education, with around £15 million in grants distributed each year.

John Lyon’s has regularly supported Phoenix Canoe Club Limited with grants from their School Holiday Activity Fund, generous grants towards revenue funding and through London Funders, equipment grants during the Covid pandemic. These grants have enabled us to provide summer holiday activities to groups supporting vulnerable young people, support for funding new job roles and some much needed equipment to ensure our users had clean, dry and disinfected buoyancy aids and jackets available to assist with social distancing and good hygeine during the pandemic.

Young Barnet Foundation’s Space2Grow Children & Young People’s Fund is available to support local charities, community organisations and social enterprises so they can deliver activities and services to children and young people in the London Borough of Barnet.

The main purpose of the fund is to:

• ​Support local voluntary and community groups, who are members of the Young Barnet Foundation and are working with children and young people (and their families).
• Grow activities and services for children and young people in the London Borough of Barnet.
• Give priority to community organisations with limited access to other sources of funding. However, decisions will be on a case by case basis, based on the purpose of the grant and outcomes it will achieve for beneficiaries.

Young Barnet Foundation have always provided support and funding to Phoenix Canoe Club Limited. They have helped us work out fundraising starategies and providing a wealth of information, introductions and community engagement.

We have been allocated funding from London Borough of Barnet’s “Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy” (NCIL) towards the building of Phase 1 of the project. The application was supported by our West Hendon Ward Councillors Ernest Ambe, Andrea Bilbow OBE and Rishikesh Chakraborty.