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Mayors Fund for London
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We are the Mayor’s Fund for London, a charity that champions opportunities for young Londoners facing the biggest barriers across the capital.
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@prideinlondon.bsky.social parade - 5 July 2025 🏳️‍🌈

@britishmuseum.bsky.social Desire, Love, Identity: LGBTQ+ histories - 20 June to 26 July 2025 🔍

Aesop Queer Library - 3 July to 6 July 2025 📚
June 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We’re halfway through Pride Month!

We hope you are having a wonderful time, packed with celebration and learning about the LGBTQIA+ community’s contribution to equality and inclusion. 🥳
June 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Thank you for all the amazing work you do!💚

We are glad your families enjoyed our food and recipe kits.🙌
Over Easter, we received brilliant Take & Make kits from @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social helping families cook tasty, healthy meals together at home.💚

A huge thank you for supporting our community with thoughtful, practical holiday support.

#TakeAndMake #MayorFundForLondon #ChippingBarnetFoodbank
May 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Today is our #YoungLondonersSummit 🙌

We're hosted by our long term partner Bloomberg.

The Summit is the first significant opportunity to bring together young people with business, funders, policymakers, educators & communities to support the Growth Plan to deliver inclusive opportunity. 🤝
March 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's nearly #InternationalWomen'sDay!

At MFL, we provide young Londoners:

📈Skills for life

🗣️Youth voice for social change

💚Community cohesion

Recognizing girls are often excluded from these opportunities.

🎧 This #IWD, listen to our Youth Board's podcast on 'Girls in STEM': spoti.fi/43te7oN
March 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It’s #NationalCareersWeek 💼

We provide industry insights and work experience to build skills that springboard young Londoners to explore careers they thought were unattainable. 📈

We hosted our own work experience students this half term.💚

Here’s what they have to say about their experience!📢
March 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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A really insightful meeting with @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social at @londonassembly.bsky.social

Fantastic to hear from Chief Executive, Jim Minton and Basma El Hayani, Youth Board member about the challenges and opportunities ahead for the charity.
February 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The first (of approximately 270) delicious meals made from the free Take & Make food kits we delivered over half term thanks to @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social

Learn more: www.aston-mansfield.org.uk/supporting-f...

#Newham #TakeandMake #FoodKit #HalfTerm #LittleManor
February 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This looks delicious! We are so glad to see our Take & Make boxes in action! 💚
"N's Creamy macaroni bake thanks to you guys. All by herself from the Take & Make boxes. Tastes good. Thank you all for what you do for our community ❤" - a mum whose child cooked this yummy meal.
February 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
What an action-packed February half-term for young Londoners across the city!

Here's a few things they have done with us:

📈Work experience placements
🗣️Youth consultations
⚽Physical and mental wellbeing activities
💡Life skills sessions
💼Career education workshops 🍽️Food boxes & recipe kits
February 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Thank you so much to the @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social for providing us with 65 Take & Make food packs this half-term!

They have been distributed to the kids (and families!) on our Youth Club playscheme.

#TakeAndMake #HAF
February 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🍽️Our Assistant Food Project Manager, Belle has been busy in the test kitchen creating new healthy and culturally inclusive meals for our recipe kits and meals boxes.

💚We're excited to be working across London, throughout February half-term providing food as a foundation and skills as a springboard.
February 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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We’re excited to support local families this February half-term by supplying 60 free food kits!

The Take and Make Meal Kits come from our successful application to the @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social

Learn more: aston-mansfield.org.uk/supporting-f...

#Newham #FoodKit #LittleManor #Support #London
February 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It’s #NationalApprenticeshipWeek!

💚This week brings together everyone passionate about apprenticeships to celebrate the benefits they bring.

🤔Over 18 and have been through an MFL programme? Sign up now and discover a range of apprenticeships! What are you waiting for?

👉 bit.ly/4hRX1Vz
February 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Throughout the lifetime of a young Londoner, we’re here for them – providing:

🍽️Food as a foundation.

🎯Skills as a springboard.

📢Platforms as a bridge to power.

Our new four-year strategy, launched last week, sets out how we will do this, from now through to 2028.

Learn more: bit.ly/3WMYfJX
February 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🚀 Today we launch our new strategy! 🚀

We are a charity that champions opportunities for young Londoners facing the biggest barriers. Our new four-year strategy sets out how we will do this, from now through to 2028.

🎥 Hear from our MFL Youth Board 👇

Read the strategy here 👉 bit.ly/3WDLalR
January 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Lessons for young Londoners, that you won’t get in school! 📚

Season 2 of our youth-led podcast, The Intersect, was packed with top tips. From how young people can become financially literate to how they can stay safe on the streets of London.💡

Listen now🎧:
bit.ly/40mSiUS
January 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This year, we created 119 engagement opportunities in policy influencing, campaigning, fundraising, programmatic and creative activities for young Londoners. 🙌

Last week, we had the chance to celebrate these achievements! 🥳

We are looking forward to more exciting opportunities in 2025!💚
December 23, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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Had a wonderful evening at the winter celebration at @thenourishhub. Met so many amazing individuals from charities and groups across London who make an enormous difference to our city’s most vulnerable communities.
 
Thanks to @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social for inviting me. It was an honour!
December 19, 2024 at 4:36 PM
We’re celebrating our partnership with @alstom.bsky.social 🙌

As part of our Numbers @ Work programme we delivered a series of real-world maths workshops, at Alstom's Old Oak Common depot. Working with young people who are at risk of exclusion or studying in alternative provision.

bit.ly/3VCuPNY
December 12, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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We're delighted to be taking part in @fundeverywhere.bsky.social’s Trusts & Major Donors conference!

Ellen Smyth & Laura Hughes-Onslow will explore how fundraiser-led movements can influence change.

Read more in our earlier blog 👉 buff.ly/3VnZkHQ, & find out about the event here 👉 buff.ly/40XC32w
December 4, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Young people we work with tell us how they often feel unsafe in London.

Here are some tips for young Londoners to stay safe.💡

Listen to episode 6 of The Intersect on 'Street Awareness' with our amazing guest Jerome Harvey-Agyei🙌.

Link🎧: bit.ly/3ZbHVT4

#london #violence #safety #youngpeople
December 5, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Violence in London impacts young people in many ways, from physical harm to the anxiety walking to school. In the latest episode of our youth-led podcast, host Ya'Eesh and Jerome Harvey-Agyei discuss the importance of safe spaces and collective action to reduce violence.

Listen 👉 bit.ly/3ZbHVT4
November 27, 2024 at 5:25 PM
It was great to be joined by our Patron @london.gov.uk and deputy mayor @debbieweekesb.bsky.social to help pack our Create and Make food boxes as part of #MitzvahDay💚
November 25, 2024 at 2:41 PM
People from working class backgrounds make up just 17% of professional jobs in London. We're working to change this, providing young Londoners with skills as a springboard.

Find out about our Employability and Skills work: bit.ly/3Z0EXRl
November 22, 2024 at 5:22 PM