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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

@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 📚

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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. 🥳

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Thank you for all the amazing work you do!💚 We are glad your families enjoyed our food and recipe kits.🙌

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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. 🤝

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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!📢

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Hina Bokhari OBE AM @hinabokharild.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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.

Photo of London Assembly members and Mayor’s Fund for London representatives standing in front of a London Assembly board.

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Aston-Mansfield @astonmansfield.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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

White, green and yellow cardboard boxes with Take & Make printed on top

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This looks delicious! We are so glad to see our Take & Make boxes in action! 💚

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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

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The Peel @thepeelclerkenwell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🍽️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.

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Aston-Mansfield @astonmansfield.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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

A young girl pours sauce on a homemade burger. Text reads: Supporting Families with 60 Free Food Kits.

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

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

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

🚀 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

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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!💚

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Hina Bokhari OBE AM @hinabokharild.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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!

A group photo with many people smiling, some have Xmas hats, some kneeling.

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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

Young people look on at a train in a depot.

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CAST - Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology @techforgoodcast.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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

Trusts & Major Donors Conference 12th December.

Laura Hughes-Onslow, Director of Development, The Mayor's Fund for London and Ellen Smyth, Programme Lead for CAST.

Did we #FixTheForm? How fundraiser-led movements can shift power and influence change.

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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💚

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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

Graphic reading: People from working class backgrounds make up just 17% of professional jobs in London. In 2023, we supported 14,939 Children and Young People in our Employability and Skills programmes. 3,116 young people from 53 state schools took part in our Access Aspiration programme.

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The Intersect is an exciting podcast created by our Youth Board. We invite special guests to have conversations about topics impacting the lives of young people, which they felt they weren’t taught at school. Check out Season 2 and hear all about “What School Didn’t teach us”! spoti.fi/4eFghnu

The Intersect, What School Didn't Teach Us poster.

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We are the largest provider of holiday food and activities in the capital, working with community partners in every borough. With 13 weeks away from school each year, we’re the bridge between term times that keeps young Londoners growing. We start with food as the foundation.

A green graphic displaying MFL's 2023 impact through it's Food and Communities programme. It reads: Over a third of London’s children are living in poverty – that’s more than 800,000 children. In 2023 we engaged 54,124 children and young people via our Kitchen Social community hubs. 471,056 meals provided.

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Mayors Fund for London @mayorsfundlondon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hey BlueSky 👋 We are the Mayor’s Fund for London, a charity that champions opportunities for young Londoners facing the biggest barriers across the capital. You can find us here 👉 bit.ly/3YXw6zQ

A young person and youth worker share a high-five.

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