Deadline: 16-Sep-22
The Foundation for Future London has launched its Medium Grant Scheme to support local organisations 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, and they are now pleased to be opening Year 3.
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 ladders of opportunity through learning and training opportunities for local people, including accessing lifelong 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 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
- In Year 3, the Medium Grant scheme pot is £200,000 and will award 10 to 13 grants.
- Funding: Up to £15,000.
- Duration: 12-months.
Target Audiences
- Disabled people
- Vulnerably Housed
- Older people
- LGBTQ+
- Black, Asian or ethnically diverse
- People with mental health or long term health issues
- Unemployed
- Refugees
- Women
- Working class
- Young people
Activities
- The Medium Grant Scheme focuses on projects around the four themes of employment opportunities, learning opportunities, young people and business and entrepreneurial support within the four boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest. Proposals from individuals, groups and organisations are all welcome.
- The Fund is about creating inclusive and sustainable opportunity — they are keen to back a range of activities and innovative ideas that drive the proposed outcomes. The Foundation for Future London is a strong advocate for the ability of creativity to enable levelling up opportunities and to be a strong contributor to the London economy. Therefore, they are keen to fund project activity that has origins in:
- Arts, Culture, Heritage
- Skills & Jobs
- Business & Start Up
- Community
- Creative Ideas
- Digital
- Collaboration
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Intergenerational
- Health, Wellbeing & Environment
- Education
- Creative, Inclusive Public Realm and/or Placemaking
- Covid-19 Recovery
- Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the forefront of the Foundation’s grant giving. they actively encourage applications from all communities including Black, Asian and ethnically diverse, disabled, learning disabled, unemployed and/or low waged, people without qualifications, vulnerably housed, Gypsies and Travellers, LGBTQ+, children and young people, older people and people with mental health issues or long-term health issues.
Eligibility Criteria
- Open to: Schools; not-for-profit organisations with less than £1.5 million turnover (Local Boroughs (Newham, Hackney, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets) and East Bank partners are exempt from turnover)
For more information, visit Foundation for Future London.
For more information, visit https://future.london/grant/westfield-east-bank-creative-futures-fund-medium-grant-scheme/