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Our funding comes from a mix of private, public, and charitable trust income sources. Our current funders include:
Bridge House Trust has supported LSx with 5 years' development funding of £1.6m running until November 2006. LSx is the brainchild of the Trust. As a substantial grant-maker in London (since 1995 Bridge House has given more than £175m to a wide variety of organisations throughout London), the Trust felt the time had come to provide leadership and direction to the growing number of initiatives that fell under the broad heading of sustainability. Bridge House commissioned a research project on the need for some kind of centre to help make London more sustainable.
London Councils is supporting LSx's 3 year project Motivate London. It represents all 33 of London's councils. It is a vital and effective pressure group, lobbying the government to ensure the best deal for the capital's residents, businesses and visitors. Part think tank, part service provider and part voice for London, it is a major player on the London scene.
Defra is helping to support LSx's three year project Diverse London and our Climate Change Communications work. Defra's core purpose is to improve the current and future quality of life. It brings together the interests of farmers and the countryside; the environment and the rural economy; the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink. This is achieved by integrating environmental, social and economic objectives - putting sustainable development into practice every day, and by championing sustainable development as the way forward for Government.
The London Development Agency is supporting LSx's Greener Food. It works to deliver the Mayor's vision for London to be a sustainable world city with strong, long-term economic growth, social inclusion and active environmental improvement.
Thames Water are sponsoring an LSx pilot to promote water efficiency as part of Diverse London. They curently have some 13 million customers in London and the Thames Valley region. They have invested over £6 billion to improve services to customers and protect the environment. A £1 billion programme to improve the performance of sewage treatment has helped make the Thames river to be the cleanest metropolitan river in the world.