Tag: Wimbledon Foundation

Wimbledon Foundation Announces £290,000 Of Charitable Funding

Stuart Mitchell

The Wimbledon Foundation, the charitable arm of The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) and The Championships, has announced further commitments to its Community Fund and Get Set, Get Active Fund with £290,000 of grant funding available. The Wimbledon Foundation Community Fund is now open with grants of up to £10,000 available to charities and community organisations working in the London Boroughs of Merton and Wandsworth. Launched in 2014, the fund has awarded £1.9 million through 309 grants to wide-ranging projects which have helped more than 47,000 people. Funding is…

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Wimbledon Foundation announces new £2 million commitment to WaterAid ahead of World Water Day

Stuart Mitchell

The Wimbledon Foundation has teamed up with WaterAid for a further four years pledging £2.2 million to support the not-for-profit’s work to help communities around the world get clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. The Wimbledon Foundation, the charitable arm of The All England Lawn Tennis Club and The Championships, has already donated £1.5 million to WaterAid since 2017, helping bring these three essentials to healthcare facilities and communities in Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Myanmar and Nepal. The new funding, announced ahead of World Water Day on 22 March,…

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Carrying Life: WaterAid and Wimbledon Foundation announce London riverside photo exhibition by Laura El-Tantawy 

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid and the Wimbledon Foundation have teamed up to launch Carrying Life: Motherhood and Water in Malawi, a striking outdoor multimedia exhibition by award-winning British-Egyptian photographer, Laura El-Tantawy, open to the public from 3 March to 14 April at More London near Tower Bridge. The 22-piece photo exhibition will be unveiled along the banks of the Thames, shining a light on the stories of mothers and babies in Malawi’s Ntchisi district impacted by dirty water, poor sanitation and a lack of hygiene in health centres. Captured in El-Tantawy’s distinctive and…

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WaterAid and Wimbledon Foundation create tennis ball mosaic highlighting how clean water saves children’s lives

Stuart Mitchell

WaterAid and the Wimbledon Foundation created a giant tennis ball mosaic of a young boy enjoying clean water, to highlight how more than 11,000 children’s lives could be saved during The Championships if everyone, everywhere had access to clean water and toilets.   It took artists from Sand in Your Eye 12 hours to create the tennis court-sized portrait near No.1 Court, showing ten-year-old Tefy from Antsakambahiny village in Madagascar who, with the help of WaterAid and partners including the Wimbledon Foundation, now has clean water at school and near his…

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Wimbledon Foundation Partners With British Red Cross To Further COVID-19 Response

Stuart Mitchell

The Wimbledon Foundation, the charitable arm of The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) and The Championships, is pleased to announce it has committed a total of £300k to the British Red Cross as it extends its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the AELTC’s thank you to those who have played a key role in helping the people most affected by the pandemic during the past year, Mike Adamson, Chief Executive of the British Red Cross, has been invited to the Royal Box today as guest of AELTC…

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