History
Dolphin Living has been providing affordable homes for working Londoners for over 20 years
In 2005 the Dolphin Square Trust and Westminster City Council sold their leasehold interest in Dolphin Square, the well-known apartment block in Pimlico. Together they formed a new charity, The Dolphin Square Charitable Foundation, and the Dolphin Square Trust gifted its share of the proceeds, £124m to date, to the charity.
The charitable objectives of The Dolphin Square Charitable Foundation are to help secure accommodation in Westminster or elsewhere in Greater London for those persons who need such accommodation because they:
The charitable objectives of The Dolphin Square Charitable Foundation are to help secure accommodation in Westminster or elsewhere in Greater London for those persons who need such accommodation because they:
- work in the public, voluntary sectors or their work provides important social, charitable, or community benefit and they cannot afford market rent, or
- more generally face poverty, deprivation or disadvantage.
In 2015 the Foundation created Dolphin Housing Limited, a not-for-profit Housing Association and a Registered Provider with Homes England. Dolphin Housing Ltd shares the Foundation’s charitable objectives and enables the charity to access additional opportunities and funding. As a matter of good practice, the regulatory requirements of Dolphin Housing Limited are applied, where appropriate, across all of the charity's work.
Collectively the Dolphin Square Charitable Foundation and its subsidiaries, including Dolphin Housing Limited, are known as Dolphin Living.
Collectively the Dolphin Square Charitable Foundation and its subsidiaries, including Dolphin Housing Limited, are known as Dolphin Living.
