City Philanthropy

A Wealth of Opportunity

Philanthropy is good for society and ...

Good for Business

Philanthropy provides opportunities to add corporate value and values

Learn More

Good for you

Professional philanthropy brings opportunities to enhance your career and lifestyle by doing good

Learn More

Good for the City

Building the philanthropy market and infrastructure offers The City global opportunities

Learn More

City Givers

View All

The role that Jurjen and I have played with Place2Be is actually very close to the role we play in Bain Capital portfolio companies, leveraging the same skills as the ones we use every day

Francois Gilbart and Jurjen Van der Wiel

News

View all

5 financiers make Sunday Times Giving List top 10 donating more than £150m

The Private Equity Foundation and Impetus Trust announce proposed trustees ahead of merger

Commonality and differences underpin new guide to impact measurement

Hedge Fund Industry’s philanthropic contribution packaged up in new paper

Giving your best

Learn more

City Philanthropy Coach Caroline Fiennes

In this section of the site you can learn more about strategic giving and how to make your donations go further. Also meet City Philanthropy Coach Caroline Fiennes who pulls no punches when it comes to giving. She shares warts-and-all accounts of giving from her book It Ain’t What You Give It’s The Way That You Give It that will sharpen your philanthropy skills and give your thinking a new edge.

In business, you look for the easy things to do. Philanthropy is... a tougher game - Warren Buffett

Feature

City Philanthropy celebrated with launch of new Beacon Award

City Bridge Trust, the City of London Corporation’s charity, is sponsoring the Beacon Award for City Philanthropy. An integral part of the City of London’s Wealth of Opportunity initiative to transform London into a leading global centre for philanthropic giving, this new category launches today as nominations open for the Beacon Awards 2013.