Supporting The Local Community
Bishopsgate Institute runs a programme dedicated to supporting people in the local community. It does this by focusing on two main areas of activity:
A pensioners club which provides monthly lunches, regular outings and a quarterly top-up pension to a group of 55 local residents
A grant award scheme which is open to local organisations who help people in need, hardship or distress and who have resided or worked in the parishes of St. Botolph’s Bishopsgate, Christchurch Spitalfields and St. Leonard’s Shoreditch
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