Community Welfare Testimonials

Alan Yentob, Chairman – Kids Company:

“Funding from the Trust came at a critical time for my Charity enabling it to progress. With the funding came tough terms which, together with the financial leverage that was achieved, helped us enormously.”

Donald Campbell - Place Marketing Manager – Team London Bridge:

“Team London Bridge’s objectives of encouraging and facilitating responsible business practices while improving the urban environment offer a natural fit with the Peter De Haan Charitable Trust (PDHCT). Our partnership will enable relationships between the London Bridge business community and local social programmes and charities to be developed with a long term agenda, bringing sustainable benefits to the wider London Bridge and Bermondsey area. Community groups and fledgling charities encounter substantial barriers when they attempt to engage the business world. Our projects will help mitigate this while ensuring that the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) actions of large businesses are channelled towards the programmes most likely to succeed. This relationship will also assist organisations within the PDHCT group to engage with the business world. In addition, PDHCT’s knowledge and drive for environmental improvements enhances the agenda for increasing green and ethical schemes to be implemented to revitalise the urban landscape in and around the London Bridge area.”

National Youth Theatre social inclusion programme participant:

“I feel this course has changed my life in so many ways. It’s a real gift. It’s something truly life changing and something that has helped me grow. I feel like I’m me again. I trust myself. This course has taught me to be accepting of others, but mostly how to accept myself.”

Old Vic New Voices community musical cast member:

“Before, I was completely ignorant about mental health. Now, I’ve learned something about what it’s like to have a mental illness – and it certainly isn’t easy.”

Kingsley Beaumont-Cole, Lambeth YISP Worker/Genesis Children’s Society

“It was pretty evident to the parents, the young people and myself that your team were in touch with the young person’s needs… together you designed a scheme which enabled the young people to build upon their strengths.”