Social responsibility
Supporting people in Nairobi’s informal settlements with the skills, spaces, and confidence to create lasting livelihoods.
Areas of impact
Three connected programmes bring enterprise, teamwork, and safe public spaces into the everyday life of Nairobi communities.
01 · Economic empowerment
Jenga Bizna and Bizna Mtaani work with community groups and training partners to help participants develop entrepreneurial, leadership, and practical business skills. Viable ideas can then progress towards seed funding and independent ownership.
Skills programmes have also included professional training in hairdressing, barbering, and beauty therapy for marginalised young people.
02 · Community football
Nairobi City Stars began as a community club in Kawangware in 2003. Its players come from marginalised and economically disadvantaged backgrounds, making the club a visible route for talent, discipline, and shared ambition.
After the foundation took over the club in 2019, a renewed management structure helped the team earn promotion to Kenya’s Premier League that same year.
03 · Community basketball
Bakee Mtaani develops basketball courts within Nairobi’s informal settlements, creating safe, energetic places where young people can meet, practise, compete, and express themselves.
Beyond sport, the courts offer a constructive social anchor—supporting connection, confidence, personal growth, and the discovery of local talent.
Earlier partnerships
Alongside its foundation-led programmes, Lordship has supported charitable, educational, and cultural initiatives in Africa and Prague—particularly organisations helping children access care and education.
Sunflower works from the principle that education can change the prospects of disadvantaged children. Its community projects combine educational opportunity with healthcare, nutrition, and other essential support that helps children remain able to learn.
Riverside School provides education for students from diverse cultural backgrounds within a Christian ethos and supportive school community, with an emphasis on positive relationships and preparation for life as engaged global citizens.
Founded by Petra Němcová, Happy Hearts Fund supported children and communities affected by natural disasters through sustainable education programmes and the rebuilding of safe places to learn.
Lordship has supported this contemporary design festival, bringing together 50 studios across product, furniture, jewellery, fashion, and graphic design alongside public and academic partners in Prague.
Conservation & community sponsorship
Lordship also backs conservation partners that protect Kenya’s forests, wildlife, and shared natural heritage.
Rhino Ark works to conserve Kenya’s mountain forest ecosystems through electric fencing, wildlife protection, and community programmes that reduce human-wildlife conflict.
Lordship has taken part in the Rhino Charge for over a decade—the annual off-road fundraiser for the Rhino Ark Charitable Trust—pledging to compete and raising support as Team 53 historically, and as Team 8 most recently.
Lordship is a main sponsor of the Sokoke Mountain Bike Challenge, helping fund A Rocha Kenya’s conservation work—scientific research, environmental education, and community-based projects that protect Kenya’s natural habitats.
Measured impact
The foundation’s programmes translate into measurable reach across young people, communities, public spaces, and new enterprises.
Our conviction
Long-term value is strongest when communities have the tools to build it for themselves.
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Jonathan Jackson Foundation
Prosperity grows when people can shape their own future.
The foundation focuses on young people, women, and persons with disabilities who are outside education, employment, or training. Its initiatives open practical routes into enterprise, income, and community participation.
Skills before dependency
Practical training builds the confidence and capability to earn independently.
Community-led delivery
Local partnerships keep each initiative relevant, coordinated, and grounded.
Opportunity that lasts
Ownership and sustainable income are the measures that matter over time.