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Back in 2013, LandAid awarded £36,500 to fund essential repairs to the Zebs Centre and create an IT suite, a consultation room and a social space in the basement. Today the results are clear for all to see.

Last year's TowerAthlon had it all: thunderstorms, celebrity chefs and more sweat than you could shake a bucket at! With just five weeks to go until this epic endurance event returns, we thought we'd look back on the highlights of the 2014 challenge.

I'm here on a sunny Thursday afternoon with Chief Executive Paul Morrish and fifteen enthusiastic representatives from LandAid's Foundation Partner network to visit the Bromley by Bow Centre, a community facility supported by LandAid funding.

I'm not aware if 'to Blatter' has become a verb yet. I suspect it will soon - 'To wilfully ignore the evidence, to turn a blind eye, to believe that night is day.'

And so yesterday evening, colleagues from across the property industry gathered at Legal and General's city HQ to celebrate LandAid's newest network: the Ambassadors.

LandAid is supporting an influential new campaign by charity partner Circle that aims to lobby companies to compete against each other to hire young unemployed candidates.

Yesterday LandAid delivered the exciting news that £450,000 of funding had been awarded to the first four successful charities from our autumn grants round.

Political giants clashed at City Hall on Thursday night during the LandAid Debate on issues including child poverty, the capital's housing crisis and the mansion tax.

I'd like to dedicate my first blog as LandAid's CEO to a young man. I don't know his name. But single handedly he affected the lives of hundreds and possibly thousands of commuters heading to London from Cambridge (where I live) and all points north.