Funders & Partners
Your Investment. Real Impact for Young People in Harrow.
For over 10 years, we’ve helped partners turn generosity into practical, local impact — connecting funding to trusted grassroots organisations and ensuring more young people in Harrow get the support and opportunities they need to thrive.
We partner with trusted local organisations.
Our network of more than 200 local charities is embedded in Harrow’s communities. We channel funding to those best placed to reach young people, respond to need, and deliver meaningful, lasting change.
We use insight to guide our decisions.
We listen to young people. Our latest borough-wide study engaged nearly 8,000 young people (ages 9–18), giving us powerful insight into what it’s really like growing up in the borough — and ensuring investment responds to real need.
Joined-Up, Borough-Wide Impact.
By working closely with Harrow’s key public and education partners, we embed projects within wider borough strategies — driving coordinated, long-term change for young people.
A Different Kind of Funding Partnership
Young Harrow Foundation creates a more connected and collaborative approach to local investment in children and young people.
Our model is built on trust. Through strong relationships with 200+ grassroots organisations, Harrow Council and Statutory Partners, we align funding with real local need and borough priorities. We understand Harrow’s children and young people’s landscape — from youth voice to frontline delivery — enabling investment to reach where it will have the greatest impact.
Whether partners seek visibility and active involvement or a quieter, impact-focused approach — rapid distribution or long-term strategic collaboration — we co-design bespoke funding models that are joined-up and focused on lasting social change
Impact in Action
Claire Gilhooly, Home School Community Programme Manager.
"We feel we can really trust Young Harrow Foundation to have their finger on the pulse of what’s going on for children and young people in Harrow."
Priya Gantatra, Strategic Commissioning Manager
"We know the faith we have in Young Harrow Foundation to bring together the community to work towards a collective outcome." Read about the support from Harrow Council
Tim Dalton, Director of Shaftesbury Enterprise at Harrow School
"It is so useful and impactful to work with Young Harrow Foundation. It has taken our partnership work and our provision for children and young people in the borough to a whole new level." Read about the support from Harrow School
Priyan Shah, Trustee, DVS Foundation
"Young Harrow Foundation is deeply embedded in the community and understands the needs of young people and the charities that support them. Through them, we’ve been connected to impactful projects like HAF and had the chance to work alongside other partners to create meaningful social change." Read about the support from DVS Foundation
Claire Countinho, MP, previous Minister for Children, Families & Wellbeing
It’s been amazing to see what Young Harrow Foundation is doing here in Harrow – doing brilliant partnership work, bringing together philanthropists, local businesses and wonderful charities to provide enriching activities for children who really need them. Read about the HAF Programme
Success Stories
A classroom without walls. Donor: Harrow School
Harrow School’s historic farm was brought vividly back to life in 2025, opening its gates to 240 local primary school children for an inspiring day of hands-on learning. Working closely with Young Harrow Foundation, the school transformed its grounds into an immersive educational space where pupils could meet the animals, learn about food growing, explore nature, and experience rural life in ways many had never encountered before.
The day created genuine excitement and curiosity, offering children a chance to connect with the natural world and learn through real discovery. It was a bold, innovative pilot that tested a new way of using a unique local asset for community benefit.
Opening the farm to the community shows what can happen when organisations come together with a shared purpose. It’s been a privilege to create something so positive for young people in Harrow.”
Creating classrooms where every child can thrive. Donors: Deo Duce and Harrow School
In 2025, Harrow School and the Deo Duce Foundation each contributed £2,000 to develop a new dyslexia training programme for schools — an initiative that is now transforming classroom practice across the borough.
What happens when young people are heard. Donors: Harrow Change Makers
The Harrow Change Makers initiative brings together a group of committed local donors who pool their resources, insight, and passion to create meaningful change for young people in Harrow.
Winter Wonderland in Harrow. Donors: Orley Farm and DVS Foundation.
Last winter, we brought back Harrow Winter Wonderland as part of Harrow Council’s Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme.
Let's start a conversation
We work closely with trusts, businesses, foundations, families and individual donors to turn generosity into meaningful, local impact for young people in Harrow. Whether you’re a funder, partner organisation, school, or local business, we’d love to hear from you. Visit our donation page if you’d like to make a contribution.
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