Giving
The Wimbledon Foundation manages a significant programme of grants to charities each year in support of the Foundation’s objectives.
Wimbledon Foundation Community Fund
In June 2014, the Wimbledon Foundation Community Fund was launched in conjunction with the London Community Foundation. The aim of the fund is to distribute up to £100,000 annually to local organisations tackling social problems in the London Boroughs of Merton and Wandsworth.
Small grants to local organisations are a vital part of the funding landscape
Organisations can apply for grants of up to £5,000 towards projects that focus on meeting local needs through one or more of the following:
- Improving mental and physical health and well-being
- Addressing education, training and employability needs
- Addressing poverty, disadvantage and isolation
- Encouraging community cohesion and improve inter-community relationships
Priority is also given to organisations supporting the following beneficiary groups: BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) groups, disability groups, lone parent families, young people, older people and the unemployed.
Health & Wellbeing Fund
The Health & Wellbeing Fund gives grants of up to £30,000 per annum for up to three years to sustainable projects meeting social needs by improving the health and wellbeing of residents in Merton and Wandsworth. The fund’s four key objectives are:
- Healthy minds: supporting better mental health
- Healthy living: helping people take better care of their health
- Making connections: bringing families and communities together
- Safer communities: making neighbourhoods safer places to live.
Applications closed in May 2015. Click here for more information.
The Wimbledon Foundation is great at asking us what might be useful in terms of resources. As well as a grant we've received donations of food and computers. We're glad to have such an active funder.
Giving through The Championships
The Championships present a unique opportunity for the Wimbledon Foundation to support a range of charitable activities.
Ticket Resale Scheme
The unique ticket resale scheme whereby tickets no longer required by spectators leaving the Show Courts are re-sold to other spectators celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2014. Together with match funding from HSBC, official banking partner of The Championships, the scheme raised £315,162 which is being distributed to charities and community organisations through the Wimbledon Foundation’s grant programmes.
Benevolent Funds
In 2014, the Wimbledon Foundation gave a total of £87,500 to the Metropolitan & City Police Orphans Fund, the Royal Naval Benevolent Fund, the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, ABF The Soldiers’ Charity and the Fire Fighters Charity. The donations are in recognition of the long-standing working relationship between The Championships and military and emergency service personnel who give up so much of their time to volunteer as stewards.
Honorary Stewards
Each year, the Honorary Stewards are invited to choose a beneficiary charity and in 2014 nominated the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity and a Leonard Cheshire Home in Zambia to receive donations of £5,000 each.
