Social Responsibility in the United Kingdom
J.P. Morgan is committed to building vibrant communities, preserving our environment and promoting an inclusive culture across the globe that benefits people not only today, but for generations to come.
Globally, J.P. Morgan, through the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, provides grants to charities in three areas of focus: Education, Community Development and Arts & Culture. We prioritize our funding efforts to focus on responding to the deepening social need in the communities we serve. Across the United Kingdom our commitments include:
- Participle
- World Stages London
- Teaching Leaders
- Social Mobility Foundation
Participle
Participle is a social enterprise that delivers large scale innovation projects by creating significant partnerships with private, third sector, local and central government organizations. These projects aim to develop the next generation of public services, innovating practical and affordable solutions to the big and seemingly intractable social issues of the 21st century. Participle’s mission provides a new lens to look at social issues and public services required to address them. It knits together the economic, social and emotional dimensions of life, and relies on two core principles of motivating deep participation and encouraging social connections and contributions from participants. Participle has developed new and cost effective ways of working with the aging population, ‘chaotic’ families and youth in the UK. With the single largest grant in the UK to date, J.P. Morgan is partnering with Participle to scale up the development of the EmployAbility program to better support people’s resilience, ability to adapt and capacity to progress in a flexible modern labor market. The program will directly benefit Lambeth residents and the local economic development.
World Stages London
World Stages London is an artistically led collaboration between seven major London theatre venues: Battersea Arts Centre, Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Court, Sadler’s Wells, Somerset House, Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Young Vic. WSL aims to create a series of outstanding theatre events that will culminate in May 2012 in London. Developing the theme London in the World – the World in London, WSL celebrates the internationalism of London. Funding from J.P. Morgan will contribute towards Babel, the centerpiece of the collaboration where four of the partners will work with international theatre company, WildWorks to bring together 2,000 London residents from different communities to create a high profile piece of performance based on their own experiences. Babel aims to celebrate the diversity of language, culture, ethnicity and human identity, and, in doing so, make a contribution to overcoming isolation in London. The four WSL partners involved in Babel are Battersea Arts Centre, Lyric Hammersmith, Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Young Vic.
Teaching Leaders
The Teaching Leaders program aims to strengthen the capacity of educators by growing a movement of outstanding middle level leaders who improve the life chances of the children they teach. Teaching Leaders was born out of a partnership between four educational organizations: ARK, National College, Teach First, and Future Leaders. Funding from J.P. Morgan will support the UK-wide expansion of the Teaching Leaders’ program which addresses the gap in provision between Teach First (turning top graduates into effective, inspirational teachers) and Future Leaders (developing the next generation of head teachers for challenging schools). The Teaching Leaders’ expansion program is endorsed by the U.K. government, and by 2013/14 aims to reach over 400 challenging schools across the country, impacting the lives of over 100,000 children.
Social Mobility Foundation
The Social Mobility Foundation is a charity that supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into top universities and professions. Through its Aspiring Professionals Programme (APP), the charity provides young people with a programme of mentoring, internships, university application support and skills development throughout their sixth-form and university years. J.P. Morgan is funding the development of a Banking/Finance pilot as part of the established APP. The pilot will focus on 50 high-achieving young people from under-represented backgrounds fromBirmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Nottingham. This group of young people will be provided with access to professionals and guidance about university and career choices that they would not otherwise receive. In addition, they will be supported to enter top universities and provided with the skills required to make competitive applications for internships/employment with prestigious financial services firms.