Deadline: 30-Nov-20
Foundation for Future London, through funding from Westfield Stratford City, has created the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund to support local organizations and individuals to provide new jobs, accelerate new project ideas, support start-up enterprises and increase education, training and skills development opportunities for the local community.
The Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund has been established by Foundation for Future London, through funding from Westfield Stratford City to support local organizations to increase education, training and skills development opportunities for the local community.
The Large Grant Scheme is designed to fund projects that will support residents across Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest to access education, skills and training development, lifelong learning and employment opportunities.
They seek projects that aim to use arts & culture, heritage & communities, research & innovation, technology, education, and/or creative placemaking as the facilitator to bring about access to education, skills & training development, lifelong learning and employment opportunities.
Project aims must be achieved through partnership, consortium or co-designed means and when possible seek to be cross-borough.
The key outcomes of funded projects will include:
- Enabling local residents to gain a qualification, build new skills or access training and work experience that leads to sustainable employment;
- Partnerships that maximize the skills development and lifelong learning for local residents, including meaningful and engaged support and shared learning;
- Supporting young people into apprenticeships, paid internships, paid work experience or employment;
- Bespoke career and higher education support including self-employment, freelance, innovation and entrepreneurship and social enterprise activities;
- Business set up and capacity building support;
- Demonstration of growth or development of community assets that connect communities;
- Demonstration of shared learning and access to knowledge banks;
- Demonstration of cross borough activity.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to £50,000 are available.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be a not-for-profit organization that is formally constituted i.e. has a signed governing document in the group’s name. This includes unincorporated associations and community groups, registered charities, social enterprises, schools, Community Interest Companies (CIC), Charitable Incorporated Organizations (CIO), companies limited by guarantee and faith groups where the project clearly does not promote a particular religious or political view.
- Be connected with and have a track record of meeting the needs of the local communities in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
- Have good financial management procedures, including a record of income and expenditure.
- Have a bank account in the name of the organization, with at least two unrelated cheque signatories.
- Have a comprehensive safeguarding policy in place if working with children and young people under the age of 18 or vulnerable adults.
- Have a commitment to, or are working towards, London Living Wage where possible.
The Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund will not fund:
- Expenditure or activities that have already taken place;
- Religious or political activity (they are able to fund religious organizations if they are providing benefit to the wider community);
- Services that are a statutory responsibility (i.e. are the responsibility of the Council, Government or Health Authorities);
- Projects or activities that have no community or charitable element;
- One-off events;
- Capital costs;
- Foreign travel.
Monitoring & Evaluation
If your application is successful you must be able to spend the funds within 12-months of the grant being awarded. You will need to keep and provide the following:
- Financial records of how the grant is spent, including receipts and invoices;
- Records and evidence of the identified outputs e.g. number of people benefiting, number of sessions, audience numbers, records of attendance etc;
- Records of the identified outcomes e.g. the difference the project has made to participants, participant feedback, staff observations, external reports from partners;
- Anything that your organization has learned from delivering the activities;
- Photographs and videos of the project activities (if appropriate);
- A case story from at least one participant.
It is important to gather information throughout the duration of your activities. These pieces of information must be submitted in an end of grant report.
For more information, visit https://eastendcf.org/newham-grants/