This is the online home of the Isle of Dogs Community Foundation.

From here you will be able to keep up to date with the progress and success of some, if not all of the IDCF's projects. You will also be able to apply for funding or find out how to contribute as a member of the Foundation or as a Trustee.

The Isle of Dogs Communty Foundation (IDCF), established in 1990, is one of 64 community foundations in the UK. Community foundations have two principal remits - to establish a permanent and independant source of local charitable funds and to use these to make grants to local charities and voluntary groups for the benefit of the community.

IDCF is a partnership between local businesses, statutory services, the voluntary sector and other intermediary agencies. It supports deprived communities on the Isle of Dogs and South Poplar (the Tower Hamlets wards of Millwall and Blackwall). When London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) withdrew from the area in the late 1990's, it paid over to IDCF various amounts as endowments. The income from the endowment is available for grant giving along with any other funds that the Foundation raises. IDCF is intent on building its endowment to ensure grant giving in perpetuity. Despite the establishment and growth of the Canary Wharf business district, Millwall and Blackwall are still among the most deprived wards in the country. A consultation and baseline study (available at IDCF) carried out by IDCF in September 2002, and updated in September 2004, revealed that:

80% of children in Blackwall and 67% in Millwall live in households with no or low incomes - on the poorest estates the average income is as low as £13,800.
Unemployement is 13.9% in Blackwall and 9.1% in Millwall, more than three times the national average.
Tower Hamlets has the lowest level of adult literacy in the country.
The perception of crime is high.

These are some of the priorities that IDCF is working to address.

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Summer Programme 2008

Summer 08 Newsletter

Updated July 2008


	Welcome to IDCF

		This is the online home of the Isle of Dogs Community Foundation. From here you will be able to keep up to date with the progress and success of some, if not all of the IDCF's projects. You will also be able to apply for funding or find out how to contribute as a member of the Foundation or as a Trustee. The Isle of Dogs Communty Foundation (IDCF), established in 1990, is one of 64 community foundations in the UK. Community foundations have two principal remits - to establish a permanent and independant source of local charitable funds and to use these to make grants to local charities and voluntary groups for the benefit of the community. IDCF is a partnership between local businesses, statutory services, the voluntary sector and other intermediary agencies. It supports deprived communities on the Isle of Dogs and South Poplar (the Tower Hamlets wards of Millwall and Blackwall). When London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) withdrew from the area in the late 1990's, it paid over to IDCF various amounts as endowments. The income from the endowment is available for grant giving along with any other funds that the Foundation raises. IDCF is intent on building its endowment to ensure grant giving in perpetuity. Despite the establishment and growth of the Canary Wharf business district, Millwall and Blackwall are still among the most deprived wards in the country. A consultation and baseline study (available at IDCF) carried out by IDCF in September 2002, and updated in September 2004, revealed that: 80% of children in Blackwall and 67% in Millwall live in households with no or low incomes - on the poorest estates the average income is as low as £13,800. Unemployement is 13.9% in Blackwall and 9.1% in Millwall, more than three times the national average. Tower Hamlets has the lowest level of adult literacy in the country. The perception of crime is high. These are some of the priorities that IDCF is working to address. Latest News Summer Programme 2008 Summer 08 Newsletter Updated July 2008