Shoreditch Trust was established in 2000 under the New Deal for Communities initiative. This was a new way of looking at regeneration that encouraged an approach that really paid heed to how people lived their lives in their communities. We have worked hard to develop and run with that ethos over the last ten years.

We have delivered over 400 projects ranging in size from London’s first environmentally friendly restaurant the Healthy Living Centre and Community Maternity Facility to the refurbishment of Primary School playgounds and providing Christmas lunches for elders groups. We have ensured that partnership is at the heart of our work and have worked with over 300 other organisations. Many of these we still work with and have developed long lasting and fruitful relationships.
 
More than anything we retain our community focus, we are an organisation that knows the value of commercial acumen, knows that issues of access, equality and opportunity are pivotal to what we do and understands that making a broader contribution not only across Hackney and London but way beyond is part of that opportunity offer. But we know that if we want to have articulate contributing citizens here in Shoreditch we must continue to innovate, create chances and aspire with and for our communities.