On Friday 22nd April, Merton Connected's CEO, Simon Shimmens will be taking part in St Raphael's Hospice's inaugural I'm A Director Get Me Out of Here fundraiser.
Association for Polish Family, a locally based charity, has been working with Poles and other Eastern Europeans in the borough and neighbouring boroughs of Sutton and Wandsworth since 2007.
Building on the heart-warming generosity from our community last year, this festive season Merton Giving is partnering with Centre Court Shopping Centre to encourage local people and businesses to donate a Christmas Gift to some of our local residents who
We are delighted that the Merton Social Prescribing service has been chosen by the University of Oxford to be part of a Social Prescribing evaluation and are one of just six sites selected from across the UK.
Wimbledon Guild, the community charity that supports people across Merton, has announced that this year’s Waggy Walk will take place on Saturday 2 October on Wimbledon Common.
Merton’s Safer Neighbourhood Board receives funding from MOPAC to give grants to small projects delivered in the local area that may help cut crime and boost public confidence. Applications for 2021 are open now. Deadline: Monday 16th August
Applications are now open for the 2022 GSK IMPACT Awards. This is also the 25th anniversary of the awards and, to mark this milestone, funding has been increased and the new GSK Grow Programme, to support smaller charities, has been launched
The State of the Sector Report 2021 has been released today. This report, the first since 2016, reflects on the challenges that the entire sector has faced and continues to face as a result of the current pandemic.
PCN Social Prescriber’s are the new addition to our successful social prescribing service and will support each one of the six local Primary Care Networks to assist local people to access appropriate services.
Sustainable Merton, Merton’s local environmental charity, is excited to be hosting its first ever local exhibition to showcase the stunning, heart-warming and thought-provoking legacy that has been created by Merton residents as part of its Loving Earth
Loneliness Awareness Week will take place from 14 - 18 June. Hosted by Marmalade Trust, it's a campaign that raises awareness of loneliness and gets people talking about it.
London Sport have a multi-year partnership with Chipotle Mexican Grill which will see the global healthy-eating restaurant company support London Sport’s ambitious vision of making London the most physically active city in the world.
Merton Council is asking Merton residents, students, commuters and businesses for your views on the future of your area as part of the borough’s biggest-ever community conversation.
The purpose of the National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund is to ensure that families or campaign groups can get access to small grants to provide practical domestic assistance, to further the work of their own campaigns, events and initiatives.
Keep Britain Tidy is on a mission to clean up the UK, a #MillionMileMission! They want people across the country to get outside and get active and help clean up a million miles of UK streets, coastline, parks, footpaths and neighbourhoods.
If you are an EU resident, you need to act now to secure your rights in the UK. If you lived in the UK before 31 December 2020 and you or someone in your family are an EU citizen, you must apply to the EU Settlement Scheme before 30 June 2021. You can com
Merton Council is asking residents, students, commuters and businesses for their views on the future of their area as part of the borough’s biggest-ever community conversation. The council wants to find out what local people to share their views on
From Mitcham to Morden to Merton Park, residents are being encouraged to make their streets green by taking part in planting, improving the community wellbeing and delivering important environmental benefits.
Community has become more important than ever in the last year, so we were thrilled when we saw a new partnership blossom between Waitrose and John Lewis.
During the coronavirus pandemic, Wimbledon Guild has been supporting over 600 existing customers as well as providing assistance to over 400 vulnerable people in Merton who have been referred to the charity through the COVID-19 Community Response Hub.
We are delighted to see that library membership has doubled during lockdown and although the library buildings still remain closed, new memberships continue to increase.
Wimbledon Guild and Merton Council launch “Merton Moves” today, a new campaign with partners to inspire older Merton residents to adopt a more physically active lifestyle.
