Deadline: 19-May-25
Do you have a project idea that could benefit the community? The Make It Happen Fund is a small grants scheme for Islington residents that offers funding for people to act on things they care about locally and to bring people together and do something that makes them feel proud of where they live.
Aim
- Projects must align with one of the following aims:
- Healthy: helping people with their physical and mental wellbeing
- Happy: helping people make the most out of their lives through active citizenship, volunteering and community involvement
- Connected: bringing people together making them the heart of the community.
Funding Information
- Grants are for a maximum of £500.
- Duration: You will have 3 months to begin spending your grant and 6 months to complete the project.
Eligibility Criteria
- The people who benefit must live in Islington.
- Projects must be free or offered at a significant subsidy.
- You need to show how the project supports the wider community. For example, if you want to buy gardening equipment it should be available for others to use, such as a local gardening club.
- Applications can be made by local community groups without paid staff (such as tenants and residents associations, parent-teacher associations, mutual aid groups or friends of parks groups) or groups of three or more residents who will work together to run a project or event. All residents named in the application and/or management committee members/Directors must be unrelated.
- The project can be either a ‘one off’ event or a series of ongoing activities lasting up to 6 months. The grant is intended for small community projects rather than larger projects that are part of the ongoing activities of an organisation.
- You can apply to the grant at any time in the year but please note they can only fund projects that aim to be delivered after the deadline date and the notification of successful applications.
- Applicants must be 18 years of age or older. They welcome ideas for projects from younger residents but where this is the case a responsible adult such as a parent or youth worker will need to submit the application on their behalf.
- Individuals will be supported by an established voluntary or community sector organisation, who will hold the grant on your behalf – if you are applying as a group of individual and are not in contact with a local group that could do this for you then they will try to help you find one.
- They cannot fund groups and organisations with an annual income of more than £50,000.
For more information, visit Islington Giving.
