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Wishing a belated Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating across London.

4in10 Policy Forum

If it isn't already in your diaries make sure you put it in now - 4in10's next policy forum meeting on 22 April 10.30 - 12.00. At the meeting we will hear from colleagues about the evaluation for the Mayor of London’s Free School Meal programme and also from the GLA about how they are engaging with the development of the Child Poverty Strategy. 

The link to join the meeting is here or drop Katherine an email to be added to the forum mailing list. 

Child Poverty Free Community Events

We are continuing to roll out these networking events across the city borough by borough as a way of bringing together 4in10 members (and prospective members) to discuss how child poverty is impacting families in their area, to share the work they are doing to tackle it and explores ways of working more closely together. Feedback from the events we have held so far has been very positive with attendees valuing the opportunity for connection and collaboration. The next two events are:

• Croydon: 9 April 2025,10:00 - 12:00, CVA Resource Centre, 82 London Road, Croydon, CR0 2TB. Book here
• Bromley: 21 May, 10.30 - 12.30, Community House Bromley, BR1 1RH. Booking will open shortly or email Maddie to reserve a place. 

Autism Awareness month

Autism awareness month is this month and kicked off with yesterday's World Autism Day. We are lucky enough to have within our membership a number of organisations specialised in supporting children with autism including Ambitious about Autism and Resources for Autism.

Ambitious about Autism have put together a social media toolkit to help people take part in the month and Resources for Autism have a range of training and resources that will build your knowledge and understanding of autism. 

Best wishes

Katherine, Emily and Maddie  

Calls to Action

• The Magpie Project are asking people to share their experience of living in temporary accommodation without a kitchen by completing their anonymous survey  Please share with anyone in your networks who may be keen to take part. 
• Action for Children are asking people to sign an open letter to ministers to remove the two-child limit and the benefit cap.
• The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Poverty and Inequality is launching a call for evidence to examine the disproportionate impact of poverty and inequality on disabled people. 
• The House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee have called for evidence on 'The First 1000 Days' 
• The #PutChildrenFirst campaign is launching its #DearPrimeMinisterLettersFromChildren activation in which they are encouraging children to write a letter to the Prime Minister, telling him what the Government needs to do, to help improve children’s health. For any children/organisations that want to be involved they are asking that they email the letter to alderhey@bbpartners.co.uk

4in10 Events: free training, information and advice and networking opportunities

Child Poverty Free Community Events - Croydon

9th April 2025 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

In person - free

4 in10 is hosting an in-person two-hour event for current or prospective members of London's Child Poverty Network.

The purpose of this event will be to provide local organisations across Croydon with up to date information on the context of child poverty across the borough. We will highlight growing or emerging challenges as well as provide an overview of the training and support that 4in10 provides and our current activities. There will also be an opportunity to meet or catch up with local organisations in the network; finding out who might be working on similar issues in neighbouring communities. 

We are extremely grateful to our friends at Croydon Voluntary Action (CVA) for hosting us and to Steve Phaure and Shalina Alabaksh at CVA for supporting the planning of this event. 

Training and Events

• Croydon Home Start are hosting their annual fundraising ball on 10th May at 7pm. If you are interested in coming please email Barbara.
• Money Guiders Network are hosting a series of events:
  • 'The Psychology of Money' on Tuesday 29 April 10.00-14.00in person in London N7 with Stian Reimers – Professor of Psychology. 
  • Why talk about emotions when delivering scams-awareness work? - Tuesday 6 May 11.00-12.30 ONLINE 
  • Pensions simplified - Thursday 8 May 11.00-12.15 ONLINE
  • The importance of a Lasting Power of Attorney - Thursday 15 May 10.00-11.30 ONLINE 
• The HEAR Network and Refugee Council, in partnership with Superhighways are providing digital and tech Advice Days! These are designed to get assistance with digital tools, tech troubleshooting, or just enhancing your online skills. These advice days are exclusively for members of the HEAR Network and Refugee Council and the final one is being held on  April 24th.
• Voluntary Action Islington are hosting the next in their series of local welbeing network meetings and the last one of  which is Central is being held on 9 Apr 2025 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
• Superhighways are hosting a bring your own tech day on 28 April. This is designed to support small charities and community groups struggling with issues with the desktop computers, laptops, tablets, smart phones and other devices they are using to run their organisations

Reports, Data and Resources

• House of Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee have published the report from their inquiry into children in temporary accommodation 'England's Homeless Children: the crisis in temporary accommodation'. 
• CPAG have responded to the new 'Child poverty statistics – new record high and further breakdowns' 
• New JRF modelling shows the scale of the assault on living standards for poorest who are set to see incomes fall twice as fast by end of Parliament

• Power2 have released a video where they spoke to Emma Webb, Reception Teacher and Phase Lead at Gainsborough Primary School, about the support provided by our Power2 Thrive programme and the impact it had on the young children.

• The Mayor of London, London Lifelines, Works4U and various other partners have worked together to establish the The London Vision for Volunteering
• Trust for London have produced an analysis looking at Five years on from the first coronavirus lockdown – how have living standards in London changed? 
• The Resolution Foundation have produced a report called  'Minimum wage, maximum pressure' 

Jobs and Trustee Vacancies 

Funding Opportunities

City Bridge Foundation

City Bridge Foundation has launched a new ten-year funding policy called Standing with Londoners. This focuses on changing the systems that keep people marginalised, while also addressing the issues communities face right now. They plan to launch the first new funding programmes in autumn 2025.

Leathersellers

Leathersellers' ACEs main grants programme is now open. The Programme will provide unrestricted grants between £20,000-£25,000 for up to 4 years.

They are welcoming expressions of interest from charities and CIOs with a planned annual income of £200,000-£2m, with a core focus of preventing or reducing the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Deadline to submit expressions of interest: 5pm on Wednesday 30th April 2025 

Austin Hope Pilkington

The Trust gives grants to those in society who face the greatest challenges and whose opportunities are most limited. Round 2 grant closes on 30th April.

Charles S. French Charitable Trust 

The principal objective of the Charles S French Charitable Trust is to provide grant giving support to a wide range of charitable activities, primarily within Essex and North East London. 

They focus primarily on the following areas:

– Education
– Elderly
– Arts
– Disabled
– Disadvantaged
– Holidays and Sports (including respite breaks)
– Medical
– Hospices
– Health Support
– Children and Youth

You are welcome to pass this newsletter onto your networks. We welcome new members and although much of what we do is available to members and non-members, members are the first to know and get first chance to book training and so on.

As well as your reports, news and data, please send us information about small local grant givers, discounts and vouchers available, new support services, in fact anything that might help alleviate the impact of poverty in small ways and support other organisations to do their work. We will continue to demand systemic change but hope that these tips will be of immediate use. Anything you can share send it our way!

Check your entry on the 4in10 database of all voluntary organisations changing and challenging the impact of poverty on London’s children and their families. Let us know of any errors or changes you would like and please tell us about any organisations we may have missed.

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