Festive donation enables City Harvest to address food poverty
A £20,000 donation from Columbia Threadneedle Foundation enabled City Harvest to deliver 80,000 additional meals over the festive period.
Supporting our charity partners through 2021
In 2021 our charity partners continued to deliver their vital work with our support, adapting services and focus to meet additional needs brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.
MASKED for children’s well-being
Columbia Threadneedle Foundation is pleased to support MASKED, a limited-edition portrait series shot to raise funds for UK children’s charity AT The Bus, which delivers a school-based programme of art as therapy to young people.
Supporting financial education in UK primary schools
Columbia Threadneedle Foundation is a founding supporter of a new charity, the ‘Centre for Financial Capability’. This charity will aim to provide effective and high-quality financial education to every primary aged child in the UK.
Charity partners innovate to respond in 2020
Our charity partners have re-imagined what they do to support vulnerable groups and individuals in 2020. Here we highlight just some of the creative solutions from our charity partners this year.
Take One Picture opens at the National Gallery
Columbia Threadneedle Foundation is pleased to sponsor the ‘Take One Picture’ programme and exhibition at the National Gallery in London for the third year. This year’s free exhibition will run from 2 December 2020 until 31 January 2021.
Foundation supports Covid19 relief efforts
Columbia Threadneedle Foundation is pleased to join other long-term funders of UK charities, in signing a statement recognising the impacts of covid19 and providing reassurance of our ongoing support across London’s communities.
Foundation supports the first inclusive Mountain Bike school in Spain
On February 2020, Columbia Threadneedle Foundation and A LA PAR, a Spanish charity that helps people with learning disabilities, signed a collaboration agreement to promote inclusive sport through the newly created first inclusive Mountain Bike school in Spain.
Columbia Threadneedle Foundation celebrates 5 years!
Columbia Threadneedle Foundation recently celebrated its fifth anniversary.
Columbia Threadneedle Foundation 2019 highlights
This year we announced three new partnerships with innovative charities that address critical issues, working to transform the lives of individuals while also driving broader social change.