Mayor Johnson and mayor Bloomberg partner for £4m volunteering scheme 1

Fundraising | Vibeka Mair | 4 Mar 2011

London mayor Boris Johnson and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg have teamed up to launch a new £4m scheme to encourage volunteering in London.

The initiative, called Team London, will be a partner of mayor Bloomberg’s successful NYC Service scheme, a programme which engages New Yorkers in volunteering strategies that directly address the city’s highest priority areas of need.

The Reuben Foundation has donated £2m to start Team London, which mayor Johnson is matching with a further £2m.

The launch funding will be allocated to six existing London volunteering programmes and charities will be invited to apply for grants of up to £10,000 to bolster their volunteering capacity in three key areas – crime, improving the quality of life and increasing youth opportunities.

Mayor Johnson aims to secure additional funding for the scheme from the private sector and charitable foundations.

Mayor Johnson said: “Team London is about what we can achieve when we act together. I want to see the village put back into the city and for every precious hour that Londoners spend volunteering achieves the greatest possible impact – for them, for others and for London as a whole.”

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Gordon Hunter
Director
Lincolnshire Community Foundation
4 Mar 2011

Political affiliations aside (and I have none), this is superb PR and, actually, rather practical and direct: partnership funding directed at local delivery of defined key themes.

So much more do-able than the "community organisers" programme which seeks to recruit thousands of foraging foot soldiers and hope they can live off the land.

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