About Foundation for Future London

Creating New Futures for East Londoners

Foundation for Future London is an independent charity. We connect people in East London with the opportunities, investment and companies that can change lives.

We link talent and ambition in Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest to the businesses and organisations that fund projects in the arts, creative industries, heritage, local environments, sport and digital and data.

Our programmes include grants schemes, capacity building, community leadership and exchange, safer spaces, grassroots programming, strategic investment, advocacy and policy change.

Through these partnerships, we help shape the futures of East Londoners – and the places they call home.

We work with over 400 grassroots organisations and have provided over 35,000 training, employment, young people and entrepreneurial opportunities. Our user-centred theory of change determines the direct social impact the Foundation’s work is making.

Since our launch in 2015, we’ve been listening to local voices and connecting people and institutions, from bustling street markets and homeless shelters to hushed galleries and auditoriums. East London is home to approximately 2,023,383 people. The Foundation for Future London is dedicated to creating new employment and life chances for people living, working and studying here.

Our work is supported by Westfield Stratford City.

The Foundation for Future London delivers sustainable development and supports sustainability and net zero across all our work.

Read our statement on Why Environment and Sustainability Matter.

Vision

Through our cross-borough work and with a unique model of investment and engagement, we want to see our East London communities empowered to become resilient and thriving and to develop prosperous and sustainable creative and social economies.

This will be achieved through access to equitable opportunities and fair regeneration throughout East London with dynamic and life-changing possibilities for all.

Mission

• To be the first-choice organisation for servicing the building of partnerships, funding programmes, investment strategies and models of excellence; to improve economic opportunities for our East London communities
• To be recognised as a thought leader with a unique model for co-design, participatory approaches and capacity building mechanisms
• Our fundraising and grant-giving activities will be underpinned to nurture inclusive local economies and will be built on our unique co-designed participatory model, deep-rooted community knowledge and networks
• To connect our communities and stakeholders in and around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and East Bank to the wider four borough communities and grassroots organisations that make our boroughs unique

Read Our Reports

• Strategic Plan 2024-2029 (full version)
• Strategic Plan 2024-2029 (4-page version)
• Annual Report 2023-24
• Annual Report 2022-23

See all of our reports

Patron

HRH The Princess Royal

Board

Sir David Bell, Co-Chair
Baroness Lola Young, Co-Chair
Abul Khoyer Hussain
Andrew Adedipe
Anne Mullins
Ciara Solmi
Hal Khanom
Joseph Lyons
Lauren Gee
Louise Jeffreys
Sarah Lockhart
Sophie Beagles
Vaibhav Negi
Charlotte Thomson

Board Working Groups

1. Communications, Marketing & PR Committee
2. Fundraising Committee
3. Risk Committee
4. Finance & Audit Committee

Community Ambassadors

Tiwa King, Lead
Jazal Babar
Katie Balcombe, Communications Ambassador
Zak Addae–Kodua

Staff

Sarah Nelson, CEO
Alice Devitt, Director of Fundraising & Development
Guy Kassongo, Head of Finance
Ashton Mullins, Grants & Programmes Manager
Amy Glass, Communications Manager
Rosy Awwal, Governance & Events Manager
Dimeji Garber, Corporate Partnerships Manager