EC&O Venues Earls Court And Olympia

• Developing, producing and promoting the best new theatre writing – locally, nationally & internationally
• Offering life changes experiences to audiences and participants
• Providing education opportunities both for the local community and for those learning about the theatre industry
• Increasing audience access to new writing through our script reference library and our playwright’s website bushgreen
• Encouraging new audiences by offering affordable tickets to young people
• Providing access to disadvantaged sections of the community

The EC&O Charitable Trust donation helped with a variety of aspects in the Theatre, and to put on extra workshops.

For more information on The Bush Theatre, click here.


December 2010
Children’s Safety Education Foundation

The Children’s Safety Education Foundation was founded with the objective of providing every child with the best safety educational resources possible, to prevent them from making wrong decisions through a lack of knowledge and understanding.

Their broader objective aim is to provide teachers and parents with detailed lesson plans to assist them in delivering the personal, social and health education elements of the National Curriculum.

The EC&O Charitable Trust donation provided 35 junior Citizen E Books in 15 Primary Schools in Hammersmith & Fulham to a total of 525 pupils, and 35 junior Citizen E books to 15 Primary Schools in Kensington & Chelsea to a total of 350 pupils.

For more information on The Children’s Safety Education Foundation click here.


September 2010
New Youth Generation

The New Youth Generation aims to provide free and positive activities for young people living in the Hammersmith & Fulham area. All their projects teach young people essential life skills such as working in a team, discipline, helping to build self esteem, understanding the importance of education, living a healthy lifestyle and being model citizens.

The donation from the trust helped them run an after school club once a week for 6 months. The money helped them pay for a coach and hire a sports hall. This enabled the young people to receive training from a professional coach. It also helped improve their health and fitness, especially with obesity being a major problem in the UK.


June 2010
Fulham FC Foundation

The Fulham FC Foundation aim is to engage young people aged 12-18 years in positive activities and sport linking to the Government’s Every Child Matters policy.

The project will delivered nine hours of activity per week for 48 weeks of the year. Two sessions were football based, these included training, development, matches and tournament opportunities. The third session was classed as an ‘’alternative session’’ through which workshops were delivered bi-monthly; the young people were given the opportunity to take part in projects and complete qualifications during these sessions.

For more information on The Fulham FC Foundation click here


February 2010
The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation

The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation provides homes and rehabilitative support to vulnerable and disabled ex-Servicemen and women, including those who have been homeless.

Based in Fulham, they provide supported housing to hundreds of vulnerable and disabled Veterans, many of whom are homeless.

For more information on The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation click here.



December 2009
Age Concern Kensington & Chelsea

Age Concern are committed to promoting the well-being of all older people and help to make later life more fulfilled, enjoyable and productive. The values that underpin our commitment are to be Caring, Effective, Enabling, Influential and Innovative.

The donation made by the Charitable Trust enabled the Healthy Homes team to:

• Expand their suite of communication material so they could effectively target a wider range of customer groups including families on lower, young people living alone or in shared housing and Black and minority ethnic (BME) groups
• Provide training that is tailored to support and these customer groups.
• Help reduce fuel bills for low income households by increasing community awareness and understanding of energy efficiency and energy saving as well as wider environmental issues.

For more information about Age Concern Kensington and Chelsea click here.


September 2009
Victim Support, Hammersmith & Fulham

The money donated by the Charitable Trust helped with funding a Young Victims Worker for the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. Part of the work involves running youth activities over the summer period.

Some of these work shops include:

• Communication skills
• Getting to know your self and building trust
• Positive self-image and raising self esteem
• Staying safe
• Bullying
• Street crime

For more information about the Victim Support, Hammersmith & Fulham click here.

June 2009
The National Autistic Society on behalf of The NAS West London Social Group

Over 500,000 people have autism that equates to 1 in 100 people. Along with their families that makes about two million people whose lives are touched by autism everyday.

The requested donations enabled 8 of the 11 young people who attend the group to continue to benefit from this vital service over the next year.

For more information about the National Autistic Society on behalf of The NAS West London Social Group click here.

February 2009
Hornimans Adventure Playground

Hornimans Adventure Playground exists to provide facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation for children aged between 5-16yrs old who live and attend school in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

The money donated funded a 6 week summer programme including summer workers, a sports worker and a few additional costs.

For more information about Hornimans Adventure Playground click here.

November 2008
Play Association Hammersmith & Fulham

This voluntary organisation working to improve play opportunities for children and young people (aged 0-19) throughout Hammersmith and Fulham.

The money received from the Charitable Trust helped fund the scheme for five Saturdays of their 32 week year. The money helped fund Play workers, playground rental, transport, consumables (such as play resources and cleaning) and management fees (payroll and admin costs)

To find out more about the Play Associations Hammersmith & Fulham click here.

August 2008
Shepherds Bush Families Project

The Trust gave funding towards the costs of their summer programme of activities and events for families living under housing stress in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

The trips that the group took included a camping holiday in the New Forest and visits to Heaver Castle and Drusillas Farm Park.

August 2008
Solidarity Sports

This organisation aims to bring sports to BME, Refugee groups and excluded young people free of charge. The Trust helped to fund the Earls Court Sports Club which is a Saturday sports club running for 22 weeks this year.

For more information about this charity, click here.

August 2008
Kensington Athletic FC
This voluntary organisation requested funding for essential equipment for the football team. The Trust helped fund a venue for the club to meet and van hire to get the team to the venue each week. The money we donated also went towards trophies and prizes for their annual ‘In Club’ competition.

February 2008
Metropolitan Police (Kensington and Chelsea) Good Citizen Awards
For the last three years, the Trust has supported the Good Citizens Awards which have been held at Olympia. The awards are part of a scheme by the Police which rewards and encourages good citizenship amongst secondary school age people in the Royal Borough. EC&O Venues makes a space at Olympia available for free every year so that the charity can put on the awards free of charge. The Trust also donates an amount of money for the cause.

February 2008
London South and West Deaf Children’s Society
The Trust donated money to help towards the costs of developing a monthly Saturday afternoon volunteer led drop in session to address the isolation deaf children and their parents face. The point of this session is to provide mutual support for the families and children in a relaxed and friendly social setting.

February 2008
Breakaway Holiday Project
This charity is unique in that it offers a one week, low cost holiday for families who have not had a break for three or more years; are on a low income; care for a member of the family or single parent families. The Trust have supported this charity for a number of years as it believes it is a great cause.

September 2006
Kensington Athletic FC
The Trust gave funding that went towards paying for essential equipment that the football team needed to carry on with their activities.

March 2006
Brackenbury Primary School 
The Trust gave funding towards the re-building of the disused school hall at Brackenbury Primary School, in Hammersmith.

Dubbed 'The Shed' by campaigners, the disused Victorian building - located in the school playground - was transformed into a new space. The school plans to use this space for the school breakfast club, pupils' arts and sports activities as well as community events. Our funding paid for the new floor.

Above: the opening of The Shed at Brackenbury Primary School (left to right) the borough's mayor, Cllr Minnie Scott Russell; BBC presenter and Brackenbury parent Adrian Chiles; Brackenbury headteacher Andrew McMahon, modeling a t-shirt signed by film producer Steven Spielberg, and presenter Esther Rantzen.

March 2006
Response Community Projects - Earls Court Festival
The Earls Court Festival is an annual event, which Response Community Projects takes the lead in organising. The overall aim of the festival is to strengthen the diverse community of Earls Court by involving and engaging the many groups and people that make up the area. In particular, those who are disadvantaged economically, socially or otherwise.

In the months leading up to the festival in 2006, local children were encouraged to express themselves creatively, explore new mediums and develop new skills in local workshops led by professional artists. The young artists were encouraged to re-create two or three dimensional pieces that can be exhibited and installed around the local area during the festival period and hence be able contribute to their community in a visual way. The funding the Trust gave paid for the arts supplies. 

March 2006
Earls Court Youth Club
The Earls Court Youth Club requested funding to modernise the building they use to create more space. The Trust provided funding that went towards paying for the improvements to the Youth Club's facilities so they could continue to run their workshops. They workshops provide play sessions for children aged under 10 in the afternoon and youth sessions for those aged up to 21 in the evenings.