Charity

The LME set up a fund in 2023 to provide two LME scholarships per year for students at the Camborne School of Mines, to help them on their journey to forging a successful mining career.

The LME Scholarships are awarded to two graduate students per year. The first cohort of successful applicants began their studies in the 2024/25 academic year.

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The LME’s local community charity partner is Inspire, an education business partnership charity based in Hackney.

Inspire works with organisations and individuals across London to make a positive impact on local schools and young people’s lives. Their mission is to improve young people’s access to the world of work, raise achievement levels and enhance their future career prospects. As well as assisting with fundraising for the charity through sporting and challenge events, LME staff can volunteer in a number of ways – from assisting with basic numeracy and literacy skills in primary schools, to helping arm senior school students with the key skills required to enter the world of work.

This year we've been proud to work with:

ADRA UK

Against Malaria Foundation

Albert Kennedy Trust

Alzheimer's Research UK

Alzheimer's Society

Barnardos

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home

Benjamin Franklin House

Bowel Cancer UK

British Heart Foundation

Canal and River Trust

Cane UK

Crisis

CRY

Dogs Trust

Friends of Wisdom Hospice

Global Girl Project

Havens Hospices

Kids Inspire

Macmillan Cancer Support

Mind

Mindstep Foundation

MSF UK

Multiple Sclerosis Trust

NHS Charities Together

One Cause

Orangutans SOS

Pancreatic Cancer

Raystede Animal Sanctuary

Ronald Mcdonald House

Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity

Samaritans

Shelter

Simba

The Biscuit Fund

The London Air Ambulance

The Nightingale Cancer Support Centre

Trussell Trust

VICTA

The LME has long been a big supporter of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal, which every year works with the financial sector to raise funds for selected charities.

The LME takes part in City Giving Day, which was created by the Lord Mayor’s Appeal to unite the City in raising funds and awareness for their chosen charities.

In the lead-up to and on City Giving Day, the Lord Mayor champions the charity and community activities that companies and organisations undertake to support society.

We funded a three-year project that Pact, a non-profit international development organisation and expert in artisanal and small-scale mining, undertook in the central and copper-belt provinces of Zambia. The project involved working with communities to deliver improved access to education, social services, vocational training and other activities, with the aim of supporting the reduction of the number of children working in mines.

January 2023: a report on the LME team's visit to Zambia, with an update on Pact's work in the "Children out of Mining" project, supporting the most vulnerable children in mining communities with educational materials, sponsoring vocational training for young adults and the economic strengthening of vulnerable women.

January 2022: in her first blog post, the LME's Responsible Sourcing Manager Nicole Hanson shares the latest news on Pact's work, including their baseline study designed to establish where children are working in mining, what work they are doing, and why they are doing it in Zambia.

You can find out more information about Pact on their website:

www.pactworld.org

We also partnered with The Impact Facility, a global sustainability organisation that seeks to bring economic and environmental empowerment to artisanal and small-scale mining communities.

We funded a three-year project undertaken as part of the multi-stakeholder Fair Cobalt Alliance (FCA). The project was designed to significantly reduce the numbers of children working in mines, through providing support to existing schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), encouraging attendance and raising the quality of care for students.

January 2023: the LME team's visit to the DRC, where they visited the schools which have been renovated and rehabilitated, working with the FCA; together with a visit to an artisanal mine to see the work being done to improve health and safety, working conditions and opportunities for local people.

August 2022: an overview of The Impact Facility's work in establishing the LME School Improvement Fund in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

You can find out more about The Impact Facility on their website:

www.theimpactfacility.com