Celebrating volunteering and philanthropy in the City.
City Giving Day is a main initiative of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal. Launched in 2014, City Giving Day is a unique annual event that unites businesses in the City and beyond through their charity and community partnerships.
As part of the day, the Centre for Charity Effectiveness (CCE) at Bayes Business School, and the Pan Livery Pro Bono Interest Group (PLPB) co-hosted a Philanthropy Coffee Colloquy in partnership with the Rt Hon the Lord Mayor Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli as part of his 2023/2024 Mayoral Theme “Connect to Prosper”. Representatives from the Livery especially Livery Company Trusts (including the Water Conservation Tust) heard quick-fire, 4-minute insights from expert leaders from All Child, BBC Children in Need, Beam, Belu, City Bridge Foundation, EY Foundation, Impact 100, London Funders, Marshall Institute, the Pan Livery Pro Bono Group.
They shared how their work is:
- Driving innovative and inclusive philanthropy
- Developing groundbreaking collaborative initiatives
- Embracing time and expertise as well as money
- Harnessing corporate energy and funding
- Using social enterprise to change the way the world sees water
- Opening doors for young people that would have previously been locked for them
- Using human-centred technology to drive social impact.
We then had an audience Q&A and networking with refreshments.
It was a very interesting and challenging morning. Of particular interest was how to support the members of society with the most need rather than responding to the more articulate, well connected and engaged.
- More than 10,000 people have slept rough on the streets of London in the last year.
- 4 in 10 Londoners have less income than needed for basic living.
- In 2022/23, approximately 384,477 people used a foodbank in London, an increase of 99,790 when compared to the previous year.
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