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One Gift, Many Futures: How a Legacy Is Shaping Early Years Support at KEEN

One Gift, Many Futures: How a Legacy Is Shaping Early Years Support at KEEN

Last year, KEEN London received its first-ever legacy. A gift, left in the will of someone that wanted to support local children with additional needs and disabilities. We used that gift to invest in Rising Stars, our preschool service helping children with additional needs and disabilities, and their families, access support from the very earliest stages.

One year on, Rising Stars sessions have grown from once a fortnight to once a month. We have taken the time to review where we can reach more families and just this week are meeting new families at our new venue in Brixton.

We share a couple of examples of the difference a little early intervention and support can make for families not sure where to turn.

Abdul attended Rising Stars sessions with his mother, who engaged closely with the support on offer throughout the programme. Alongside the sessions themselves, she received practical guidance completing her son’s Disability Living Allowance (DLA) application. She was also referred […]

September 3rd, 2026|Categories: latest fundraising, supporters|Tags: Gifts in wills, legacies, London charity|

Payroll Giving Month – donating more can cost less

We want to give a shout out to the #PayrollGivingMonth campaign, raising awareness of an easy tax-efficient way of donating to charity.

With payroll giving a monthly or yearly donation can be taken from your salary each payday, before tax is deducted, meaning you pay less tax.

For example, if a 20% taxpayer donated £5 through payroll giving, they will only pay £4 with the taxman covering the remaining amount.

Payroll giving is a simple and cost-effective way to give, yet only 36% of people have heard of it and only 4,000 UK businesses offer it as a perk to their employees.

Ask your employer if they operate the scheme and if not let them know it is very easy to set up and a great benefit to offer staff. Send them over to https://www.payrollgivingmonth.com for more information.

To understand how your donation makes a difference visit our donation page here

February 27th, 2025|Categories: latest fundraising, latest news|

Our Hackney half runners and volunteers smashed it!

They smashed it!

For the third year running (we don’t include 2020) a KEEN London team of staff, volunteers, families, and supporters took to the streets of Hackney to raise funds and awareness for our free and supported weekly sessions for children with additional needs. This is a huge achievement but this year our adult team had a tough act to follow as the KEEN London athletes set a high standard on the Saturday taking part in the one mile schools challenge. We were so proud of the five young people that took part in this huge event and gave it their all (our coaches and staff running with them struggled to keep up! Seeing our runners cross the finish line was very emotional for us all as many of these amazing people signed up way back in 2019 and have waited, trained and fundraised for two years to get to this point.

The […]