We are extremely proud that the Locality network has been chosen as one of five partners for the Guardian charity appeal 2025, which focuses on local efforts to create hope in times of division.
Rooted in local areas, Locality members connect local people, create opportunities and give people control over their lives and their local area. Whether it’s running youth clubs, fostering local enterprises, developing new homes, or sharing food, they create hope. By doing this they combat loneliness, division and hate. Now Guardian readers will have the chance to support their amazing work.
Building on our Connectors UK work helping Locality members create connections in their communities and with each other, and our Creating Places for Everyone research into how community organisations can fight for racial justice, Locality will use the donations to support Locality members to tackle division and hate.
As Katherine Viner, Guardian Editor in Chief, says:
"This year’s theme, unapologetically, is hope. We are supporting grassroots charities, which, through their vital work at the heart of local neighbourhoods, nurture community pride and positive change, and provide a powerful antidote to polarisation, distrust and hate.
Their achievements are grounded in the way they approach their work. It is locally led and focused. It is built around respectful, empathetic and honest conversations about what matters to people. It brings together neighbours and cultures and faiths to find common values and drive positive change. They make connections and build relationships, hope and resilience. They offer a true antidote to division and despair, and focus on what unites rather than what divides us.
You can read more about the appeal, the other partners, and donate on the Guardian website.
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