TAP celebrates £200,000 raised through Mayor of London partnership.

Today - just two days into the New Year - we have hit the huge milestone of having raised £200,000 for homelessness services through our partnership with the Mayor of London.

£170k of this is made up from £3 one-off contactless taps from over 60k generous Londoners, who have tapped their cards at cafes, pubs and shop windows across the city, from Shepherd’s Bush to Greenwich. The other £30,000 has been donated to our latest winter campaign through online donations in the past few weeks.

We first partnered with Sadiq Khan and his team in winter 2018 after receiving funding through their Rough Sleeping Innovation Fund (RSIF). Since then, we have:

• worked together successfully on three winter campaigns

• supported the work of 33 brilliant homelessness charities here in London (29 in the first two years, and 4 this year, more on that change here)

• engaged over 60,000 generous Londoners to join our mission

• raised £200,000 in unrestricted funding which will directly help London’s homeless community

2020 has been a difficult year for all of us, no more so than for those that are reliant on London’s homeless services, and the heroes that keep them running - day in, day out.

So it’s a joy to celebrate £200,000 raised as we enter into a bright New Year.

To all of you who have donated so generously - thank you!

Throwback to 2019 where Sadiq makes the first public tap of the 2019 winter campaign at Westfield in Shepherd’s Bush.