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Impact

Hackney Giving is designed to bring people together and support communities. Thanks to you, the programme has a positive impact on a range of stakeholders including residents, community groups, businesses and the public sector locally.

Supporting Hackney and the City

Since April 2020, using your donations and public sector funding, we have distributed more than £2.9 million to not-for-profit groups in Hackney and the City. These grants have supported people throughout the pandemic and in the cost of living crisis. 

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420

Number of
grants given

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£2,995,138

Total value

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184

Number of VCS
groups funded

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28

In-kind
project matches

Read our latest Impact Report here.

For full details of what we have funded, please see our grants made page

Our grants

Since 2022, many of our grants have gone to organisations delivering vital frontline services helping people with the cost of living. These grants have been funded by your donations and using money from London Borough of Hackney.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we responded to an immediate and growing need. Many people wanted to give to the community, while others needed access to food and supplies as they were cut off from their usual support channels.

Our grants during the pandemic funded VCS organisations to support communities with food and supplies, act as a trusted source of information and reduce isolation and loneliness, and we hosted regular grant-holders’ forum meetings where colleagues from both sectors exchanged knowledge: information about the changing rules and rates of infection was provided by Public Health and insight from communities across the borough was shared by community partners.

Thanks are due across the organisations – it’s a phenomenal piece of work and we couldn’t have done it without Hackney Giving and VCH, the Community Champions and the groups.”

Senior Public Health specialist, London Borough of Hackney

Going forward

Hackney is a vibrant place with diverse communities but where many residents live in poverty, isolation and poor health.

  • Hackney has the second highest rate of child poverty in London (Trust for London 2023-24).
  • The borough is relatively deprived, ranking 27th most deprived borough in England and the 3rd most deprived borough in London (IMD 2025).
  • The prevalence of people with common mental health disorders aged over 16 was measured at 24% in 2017 – the highest level in England.
  • Loneliness affects many people in Hackney. The percentage of adults (in Hackney and the City of London) who feel lonely often, always or some of the time was 21% in 2019.

At Hackney Giving, we work to make a positive impact on the borough by channelling your funding to community groups who are working to address the inequalities faced by residents in Hackney and the City of London.

Our work with public sector partners continues, building on the foundations laid during the pandemic. We now want to build relationships with businesses and increase the number of residents who choose to support community groups in the area via Hackney Giving.

You have been so patient with us. As a small charity with no paid admin or funding staff; this is the only way we could access funding.

A grant funded organisation, providing feedback about working with Hackney Giving