Funding

Wave five of the London Community Response is mainly focused on renewal, supporting three “missions” for the future beyond covid-19 – building strong communities, a new deal for young people, and ensuring a robust safety net. Renewal grants are for up to £50,000 to enable you to deliver work linked to these missions, over the year starting from April 2021. London Community Response are offering a small number of crisis response grants to deal with urgent needs of London’s communities through the third lockdown and months ahead. These grants will be for up to £10,000 for up to six months, starting as soon as the grant is awarded.

The Return to Play: Small Grants fund seeks to support projects addressing the challenges coronavirus (Covid-19) has posed to people taking part in sport and physical activity. A total of £10 million is available, with grants of between £300 and £10,000, to help not-for-profit community organisations create coronavirus-secure settings for community sport and physical activity to resume this autumn.

Grants are available to London based charities for projects that alleviate poverty, disability, age or ill health, and advance urban regeneration through the improvement of the built environment.

Grants are available for charities and educational institutions that support those under the age of 18 years, and living with a mental health problem, physical disability or growing up in poverty through the medium of sports and education.

Grants are available for UK registered charities working to help improve the quality of life for people and their communities in Greater London by targeting the disadvantaged and socially excluded in the fields of social welfare; education and young people; and textiles and heritage.

Grants are available for smaller scale professional theatre companies to encourage and assist projects in the Greater London area with the performance and/or development of professional dramatic work.

Grants are available for small local grassroots organisations in England to become stronger and more robust and better able to deliver projects that bring about lasting change.

The Fund aims to deliver long lasting community driven change by awarding Capacity Building grants to organisations in England whose work delivers on one of Comic Relief’s four strategic themes: Children Survive and Thrive, Fighting for Gender Justice, A Safe Place to Be and Mental Health Matters

Grants are available to not-for-profit organisations that are working for the benefit of London inhabitants and which make London’s communities stronger, more resilient and thriving.

The scheme aims to benefit people living in Greater London by tackling social and financial inequality, leading to stronger, more resilient communities where local people have more access to facilities and more involvement in the way their communities are run.

Grants are available for projects in England and Wales that fit with the Foundation's ethos of protecting rural communities and encouraging participation in the arts.

Grants are available to UK charities that demonstrate a strong focus on alleviating social deprivation and helping vulnerable groups who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

The National Lottery are awarding grants of between £300 and £10,000 to groups carrying out activities to support those affected by the coronavirus crisis. These emergency grants are intended to cover up to six months expenditure.

Grants are available for small local grassroots organisations in England to provide emergency relief in their communities during the Covid-19 crisis and also recover from the impact that the crisis has had on their services.

Grants are available for schools, community groups, clubs, societies or other organisations in England to improve the education and development of children and young people through educational, cultural, sporting and other activities.

John Lyon’s Charity gives grants to benefit children and young people up to the age of 25 who live in nine boroughs in North and West London: Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea and the Cities of London and Westminster.

The Charity operates six Grant Funds. The most popular is the Main Grants Fund, and the majority of grants are awarded under this Fund.

The Small Grant Fund can be used as a useful introduction to the Charity and often grants awarded under this Fund can lead into larger grants under the Main Grants Fund.

Both the Schools in Partnership Fund and School Explorer Fund are open to state schools in the Charity’s Beneficial Area and the Bursary Fund supports young people to attend The John Lyon School, Harrow School and selected girls’ schools in the Charity’s Beneficial Area.

The Charity’s mission is to promote the life-chances of children and young people through education. Grants are awarded to registered charities, state schools and organisations with automatic charitable status.

The Foundation supports UK registered charities working within the UK in the areas of Welfare, Youth, Community, Arts, Faith, Environment, Education, Health and Museums & Heritage.

The Taylor Family Foundation supports charities who provide opportunities for children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and difficult circumstances, to improve their chances of attaining success to lead fulfilling lives.

The Leathersellers’ Company Charitable Fund provides a wide range of funding to UK registered Charities, Educational Institutions and University Students.

The Golsoncott Foundation, established as a Charitable Trust in July 1998 from the estate of the artist and sculptor Rachel Reckitt (1908-1995) is an arts-funding trust whose declared object is to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in the arts generally and in particular the fine arts and music.

The Westway Trust recognise there are occasions when it is expedient for them to consider making grants to individuals and organisations on a discretionary basis for a purpose that falls outside the eligibility criteria for the Community Grants Programme, the Festivals & Events Fund, or other established grants programmes.

Local Life is committed to building stronger connections between people across Kensington and Chelsea. It enables residents, community groups and local businesses to take an active role in bringing about practical, positive change in their neighbourhoods. Ward Councillors are at the heart of this work and help prioritise projects and activities that are led by the community.