Archived Projects

Together with our partner organizations we aim to widen access to welfare and education and through the preservation of our unique cultural heritage and participation in the arts, enhance the lives of people for many generations to come.

London Air Ambulance Charity

As a London-based foundation, SPLF is proud to support London’s Air Ambulance Charity in its heroic efforts to attend to London’s most seriously injured patients. By providing intervention as quickly as possible after injury, London Air Hospital gives patients the best chance of survival, and best quality of life, after trauma. London’s Air Ambulance serves the 10 million people that live work, and travel within the M25, treating an average of five patients daily.

The National Gallery

SPLF and Aarti Lohia are excited to support the National Gallery’s Modern and Contemporary Art Program as the new Leading Philanthropic Supporters. As part of SPLF’s commitment to the National Gallery, Aarti Lohia is also a member of the Modern and Contemporary Art Advisory Panel.

Shooting Star Chase

Shooting Star Chase is a children’s hospice founded in 2011, bringing together the work of CHASE (since 1994) and The Shooting Star Trust (since1995). Today we are a leading charity supporting over 700 children, and their families, throughout Surrey and across 15 boroughs of London, 365 days a year.

Rainbows

Rainbows is a children’s charity that services children, young people and families living with severe and terminal illnesses in the East Midlands. Rainbows provide specialist care and emotional support for children and young people with severe or terminal conditions and their loved ones, so they can enjoy their time together as a family for as long as they have.

Percey Hedley

Percey Hedley provides a wide range of high quality, specialist and personalised care and education support to disabled people and their families. Focusing on disabled people with cerebral palsy, communication impairments, sensory impairments and complex learning, social care and therapeutic needs, Percey Hedley provides a wide range of services, including Hedleys Percy Hedley School, Hedleys Northern Counties School, Hedleys College and residential and respite care for all ages. Adult services include residential services and an ever-increasing variety of Hedleys Able 2 day opportunities. Percey Hedley also runs an Employability Project, which works with employers to improve employment opportunities for disabled people.

The Children's Trust

SPLF is delighted to support The Children Trusts. Under the initiative of Mr & Mrs Amit Lohia’s second son, UK chess champion Sohum Lohia, since 2018, SPLF has supported The Children’s Trust’s invaluable work for children with brain injury or affected by neurodisability. The only organisation of its kind in the UK, The Children Trust provides brain injury rehabilitation, school education, respite care or step-down care from hospital to home for children to live their best life possible.

Chestnut Tree House

Chestnut Tree House is the children’s hospice for Sussex and South East Hampshire. As a children’s charity, Chestnut Tree House provides the best quality of life for children, young people, and families. It offers practical, social and spiritual support throughout each child’s life.

London Chess Classic

SP Lohia Foundation proudly supported the 10th edition of the London Chess Classic, and also extended its support to the 2022 edition, reinforcing its commitment to this world-class event held annually in London.
Bringing together top grandmasters and players of all levels, the festival features elite tournaments, junior and amateur competitions, along with coaching, exhibitions, and lectures. Organised by Chess in Schools and Communities, it also promotes education and social development through chess across hundreds of schools.
Driven by a deep-rooted passion for chess, the Foundation continues to support and nurture talent while empowering communities through the game.

The British Asian Trust

As proud members of the South Asian community in the UK, the Lohia family and SPLF are honoured to support The British Asian Trust’s pioneering work since its inception. The British Asian Trust wants to see a South Asia that is free from poverty where everyone can meet their full potential. Its work unlocks the potential of disadvantaged people by maximising the impact and support of the South Asian diaspora. The Trust was founded in 2007 by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and a group of visionary British Asian business leaders, and works in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, tackling problems and inequalities in the areas of education, and livelihoods, mental health, anti-trafficking and conservation.

Since then, the Trust has had a positive impact on the lives of 6.6 million people. It is a unique organisation, led and driven by the South Asian diaspora and by a powerful belief that traditional approaches to philanthropy and development will not, alone, solve the challenges of the region, hence focuses on outcomes-driven programmes.

Chatham House

SPLF is pleased to support Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Chatham House is a world-leading policy institute with a mission to help governments and societies build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world.

British Library: Javanese Manuscripts from Yogyakarta Digitalisation Project

S. P. Lohia firmly believes in the preservation and transmission of cultural heritage and is proud to have supported the digitisation of 75 Javanese manuscripts from Yogyakarta held in the British Library. The manuscripts in the Yogyakarta Royal Library had been appropriated during the British administration of Java (1811 – 1816). In 1970 Dr Peter Carey of Trinity College, Oxford, began a project to identify all the manuscripts originating from the court of Johyakarta in the British Library. Thanks to the generous support of SP Lohia, these precious manuscripts were digitised and are now fully and freely accessible online through the British Library’s website and Mr Lohia’s SPL Rare Books Collection website. To learn more, please follow and visit the British Library: