Our Clients, Funders & Supporters

Communities First Foundation is delighted to be working with or supported by the following organisations.

  • Academy Conditioning

    Academy Conditioning specialises in providing sports science and fitness testing education. Delivering workshops and programmes for schools, colleges, organisations and community-based programmes. They also help support athletes and teams, to assess their fitness and physical performance for their specific sport. Their aim is to help young people improve their physical fitness and athletic development working with athletes and teams from grassroots to elite levels.

  • Angling Trust

    The Angling Trust is a not-for-profit organisation, representing anglers, fighting for fish, fishing and the environment. They are recognised by the Government as the National Governing Body for angling in England and partner with Visit Wales and NRW to promote fishing in Wales. They are a member-based organisation made up of all disciplines providing a united front to represent, grow and protect their sport.

  • BMETVFM Charitable Foundation

    The BMETFM Charitable Foundation is working to change the way that the media portrays many of the issues that affect et nic minorities. As part of this process BMETVFM, As part of this process, BMETV is working to encourage more people from ethnic minority communities to train for and obtain jobs within the media sector. They have also established an internet television channel and a digital archive on Black and Asian History from 1900 to 2018.

  • Brent Council

    Brent London Borough Council provide residents and visitors to Brent access to a wide range of council services including community, housing, planning and social services.

  • Careers in Football

    Careers in Football delivers career services, workshops and programmes for a variety of organisations and education providers from Primary schools to universities.

  • The Childhood Trust

    The Childhood Trust is London’s chid poverty charity, dedicated to alleviating the impact on children and young people living in the capital.

  • Clarion Housing

    Clarion Housing is the UK’s largest housing association, owning and managing 125,000 homes: 360,000 people call a Clarion home their home.

  • Croydon Council

    Croydon London Borough Council offers residents and visitors to Croydon access to a wide range of council services including libraries, waste collection, disposal, traffic and most roads and environmental health.

  • Enable Leisure & Culture

    Enable Leisure and Culture is a not-for-profit organisation, providing leisure and cultural services for the benefit of local communities who are committed to ‘doing things differently’, putting health, wellbeing and community at the centre of everything they do. Enables aim is to enrich lives and strengthen communities through leisure and culture. We are proud to manage a diverse portfolio of public services on behalf of Wandsworth Council.

  • Football Foundation

    The Football Foundation work with the Premier League, the Football Association and the central government. They are a charity that helps communities improve their local football facilities through football grants and ongoing advice and support.

  • Groundwork

    Groundwork is a federation of charities mobilising practical community action on poverty and the environment across the UK. They are passionate about creating a future where the neighbourhood is vibrant green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny and no one is held back by their background or circumstances.

  • Hillsong

    Hillson Church UK is a Christian megachurch in the UK which, whilst independent, is also part of Hillsong Church global. Through the Football United programme dozens of young refugees and asylum seekers who are new to the UK find a community that is safe.

  • The Hilden Charitable Fund

    The Hilden Charitable Fund is a grant-making foundation. They ward grants to projects both in the UK and in developing countries. The Fund aims to address disadvantages notably by supporting causes which are less likely to raise funds from public subscriptions. Both the UK and overseas fund policies is directed largely at supporting work at the community level.

  • Mayor of London Fund

    The Mayors Fund for London works with young Londoners aged 4-24 years, with a focus on those from low income households who are in crisis or who are from vulnerable groups. They target their interventions in schools and communities in areas of economic disadvantage.

  • National Lottery Fund

    The National Lottery raises money for good causes. They recognise that communities come in all shapes and sizes, and aim to make National Lottery funding available for as many groups as they are able to fund. They have 12 distributors of money raised by the players of the National Lottery, which funds projects and activities that transform communities, project heritage and enrich lives through arts, sports and culture.

  • Paul Canovile Foundation

    The Paul Canoville Foundation was founded by ex-professional football player, Paul Canoville, Chelsea’s first Black football player. The Foundation works with schools and youth organisations to promote confidence, wellbeing, diversity and resilience through workshops and sporting activities.

  • Peabody

    Founded 160 years ago, Peabody is one of the UK’s oldest not-for-profit housing associations. Their aim is to provide great homes and housing services and make a positive impact in communities.

  • Riverside

    One of the leading registered providers of social housing in the UK, offering affordable housing and support to people of all ages and circumstances.

  • Roy Evans Foundation

    The Roy Evans Foundation is believing in young disadvantaged people and gives them the tools to succeed with innovative education, entrepreneurial development, and community-driven aid.

  • Sport England

    Sport England is the arms-length body of government responsible for growing and developing sports and healthy activity from grassroots through to Elite Sports. Thir principal aim remains to get more people active across England.

  • Sporting Assets

    Sporting Assets invests in organisations that make a difference by developing people and communities through sport. They provide sports organisations, social enterprises charities and profit with businesses within England with loan funding up to £150,000.

  • Westminster City Council

    Westminster City Council is a London borough council that is known as a city council, which is a rare distinction in the UK. It provides council residents and visitors to the City of Westminster with access to a wide range of council services including, libraries, council tax, planning, parking, waste collection and disposal, environmental health, traffic and licensing.