Small Grant Scheme for Individuals and NPOs: You can Apply for up to £5k (UK)

Deadline: 16-Sep-22

The Foundation for Future London is offering funds through its Small Grant Scheme to support local organisations and individuals to create new jobs, learning, training, and educational programmes through the means of arts, culture, innovation, public realm and creative placemaking in Hackney, Newham, Waltham Forest and Tower Hamlets.

The scheme is part of the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund, an ambitious five-year programme that aims to invest £10 million into the local communities of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest.

Themes

• The scheme will fund projects that focus on one or more of the following funding themes:
  • Employment opportunities
    • Will your project provide employment opportunities for local people, including access to paid work experience/internships, access to apprenticeships or gaining access to jobs?
  • Learning opportunities
    • Will your project provide opportunities and/or mobility of progression through learning and training opportunities for local people, including accessing life-long learning opportunities from early learning, schools through to late career and post retirement and/or will the project offer bespoke career and higher education path support, training and secondments?
  • Young people
    • Will your project have a young person led approach with particular provision for local young people to access broader skills development opportunities, careers workshops and related learning and/or one-to-one coaching and mentoring?
  • Business and entrepreneur support
    • Will your project provide local people with the opportunity to have business and/or entrepreneur support including freelance, business and entrepreneur set up, development and training?

Funding Information

• The Small Grant scheme has a pot of £100,000 and will award 20-22 small grants.
• Open to individuals and non-profits, can apply for up to £5k.

Categories

• Arts, Culture, Heritage
• Skills & Jobs
• Business & Start Up
• Community
• Creative ideas
• Digital
• Collaboration
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Intergenerational
• Health, wellbeing & environment
• Creative, Inclusive Public Realm and/or Placemaking

Audiences

• Disabled people
• Young people
• Vulnerably Housed
• Older people
• Black, Asian or ethnically diverse
• People with mental health or long term health issues
• LGBTQ+
• Refugees
• Unemployed
• Women
• Working class

Eligibility Criteria

• Individuals; schools; small to medium not-for-profit organisations with less than £200k turnover (priority will be given to grassroot organisations).

For more information, visit Foundation for FutureLondon.

For more information, visit https://future.london/grant/westfield-east-bank-creative-futures-fund-small-grant-scheme/