Local Partners
Cambridge BID
Grand Arcade supports Cambridge Business Improvement District (BID), which consists of 1,100 city centre businesses, working together to promote the city to visitors, residents, and workers, while ensuring they experience a welcoming and vibrant street scene that is both clean and safe.
Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
Guide Dogs are here to help people with sight loss live the life they choose.
The scale of the challenge Guide Dogs face….
• 1 in 5 people will live with significant sight loss in their lifetime.
• Every six minutes in the UK, one more person loses their sight.
• Every day 250 more people join the 2 million already living with sight loss and this number is set to double by 2050.
• Six million people are estimated to be living with sight-threatening eye conditions.
• In 2021 nearly 100,000 people will be told they are losing their sight.
• There are 28,000 children (under 18) who are blind or partially sighted in the UK.
• Every day around four children in the UK are registered blind or partially sighted.
• 3% of people with sight loss of working age are unemployed
Guide dogs give people with sight loss the confidence to get out and about safely, providing life-changing practical support every day
In 2019 Guide Dogs created 685 new guide dog partnerships and supported 4,800 partnerships in total
The Royal British Legion
Since 1921 The Royal British Legion has provided care and support to the whole Armed forces community past and present, and their families. The Royal British Legion’s work is encapsulated in its motto: Live On – To the memory of the fallen and the future of the living. We are the national custodian of Remembrance and safeguard the Military covenant between the nation and its Armed forces. We are well known for the annual Poppy Appeal, and our emblem the red poppy. In 2022, they raised a huge £17,877.75 here at Grand Arcade.
Cambridge Street Aid
Cambridge Street Aid helps people on the street to turn a corner. They raise a fund and people who are street homeless – or who have been in the past – can apply for grants for things that will help them to get off, and stay off, the streets. As well as providing practical help to people on the streets, Street Aid gives those who want to help an alternative to handing money directly to people. If you give to Street Aid, your donation is combined with hundreds of others to make a sum that will make a real difference to someone’s life. Every single penny donated goes directly to grants for individuals. As well as donating at contactless giving point in Grand Arcade, you can donate by text (CAMB16 £3 to 70070 to donate £3) and online through justgiving.com.
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
“Our vision is of low carbon communities which are sustainable, resilient and rewarding.
Our mission is to inspire people to engage with climate change and empower them, individually and within their communities, to move towards low carbon living. We offer a varied programme of events and activities which will inspire people to engage with climate change and empower them to join together to build a low-carbon future. We aim to engage at many levels, including with individuals, community groups and local organisations..
Some central themes of our work are: effective communication about climate change, home energy, transport, food, other consumption and waste.”
Find out more here