Community Investment Fund

Our London Gateway Freeport Community Investment Fund Small Grants Fund supports local projects between £10,000 and £50,000. Please note that Round One has now closed for applications.

For more information on the Fund and its current projects, click here.

The London Gateway Freeport Community Investment Fund has been generated through a contribution from our Thames Freeport occupants at London Gateway Logistics Park – part of the Thames Freeport tax zone. The sum raised is expected to amount to £15 million.

We are excited that the Fund will allow us, with our partners, to significantly increase our level of community investment, whilst also assisting to resolve longstanding skills challenges within the local workforce. We shall be looking to partner with organisations on projects which will allow us to continue to make a real difference to local people’s lives. Our intention is for the joint levy investment to be a catalyst for the regeneration of those local areas which are recognised as some of the most deprived areas in the UK.

DP World and the LGF CIF only partners with organisations that:

• Do not have policies or practices that negatively discriminate on grounds of race, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or age.
• Do not discriminate unfairly in the allocation of their support according to race, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or age.
• Do not have the dissemination of religious or political information as their main agenda and do not otherwise use their charitable work to encourage support for political or sectarian causes.
• Are not involved in, or are under investigation for the abuse of human rights, children‘s rights, and modern slavery.
• Are not implicated in allegations of bribery and corruption.
• Are not directly involved in gambling, recreational, or illegal drugs, tobacco, armaments, or alcohol (except for those charities and organisations specifically dedicated to tackling addiction or drug abuse).
• Do not cause harm to animals for the purposes of either sport or entertainment.
• Are not involved in activities which cause damage to the environment.
• Fully disclose all relevant corporate and personal conflicts of interest.
• Do not have values or policies which conflict with the values of DP World.
• Does not have content that impacts negatively on our brand values.