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.

Jumbled Alphabet at the South London Gallery’s

SP Lohia Foundation was the Lead Donor of Nairy Baghramian: Jumbled Alphabet at the South London Gallery’s Main Gallery and Fire Station Galleries. This exhibition marked the artist’s first major solo show in a London institution in 14 years. It features sculptures from her ‘Misfits’ series, first shown at Galleria Arte Moderna, Milan, inspired by children’s assembly toys and the concept of dis-function. On display from from 27 September 2024 to 12 January 2025, visitors were invited to interact with the works, challenging conventional museum norms.

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.

10th Edition of London Chess Classic

The Lohia Foundation is proud to support The London Chess Classic. LCC is a chess festival held annually in London, comprising a tournament between some of the world’s top grandmasters and several subsidiary tournaments and events suitable for norm and title seekers, junior events, amateur competitions, simultaneous exhibitions, coaching, and lectures.

The London Chess Classic is organised by Chess in Schools and Communities (CSC), a UK charity whose mission is to improve children’s educational outcomes and social development by introducing them to chess. Founded in 2009, we now teach in over 300 schools and support 500 more nationwide. We also organise a world-class tournament, the London Chess Classic.

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: