People or organizations can now bid for small grants from the council.  Hammersmith &Fulham Hive is open to communities wanting to raise funds for local events, make improvements to their environment or set up new services.

This is all about making it easy for people who want to make a positive change for their community. Local charities and community groups can use H&F Hive to tell people about their plans, and potentially unlock funding from both the council and other generous donors in the community.

Take a look at the link below

https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/2017/09/hf-hive-offers-100000-funding-community-projects

Localgiving has teamed up with Postcode Community Trust to provide small grants of either £250 or £500 to small charities and community groups. Groups are able to apply for funding from today until 31st October 2017.

Our aim is to make accessing grant funding easier for small charities and community groups. The grant application should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete and only a small amount of monitoring is required.

To be eligible for funding groups must:

• Have an annual income under £50,000. Priority will be given to organisations with an annual income of under £20,000
• Be running a physical engagement project – encouraging individuals to take part in some form of physical activity to help improve their physical and mental health wellbeing
• Be based in Great Britain – groups in Northern Ireland are not able to benefit from this funding
• Have completed the registration process to be a member of Localgiving

To benefit from funding, projects need to meet either of the following themes:

• Overcoming barriers to participation in physical activities in creative ways
• Increasing social cohesion through developing access to sports and other recreational activities

Grants can be used to support the general running costs of new and existing sports and physical activities. For example, this could include: facilities hire, kit & equipment, coaching qualifications, other volunteer expenses etc. Applications which will predominantly cover the costs of one-off events or trips must provide details of how they intend to deliver a longer-term impact.

How To Apply

For organisations who are not already members of Localgiving, they must complete the registration process to join Localgiving before completing the grant application form – this acts as a vetting process for the grant.  To do this they can register their interest here and start the registration process. All successful applicants will be eligible for a year’s free membership with Localgiving, using the promocode PCT2017. Once a group has registered we will provide them with the grant application form.

Groundwork London are working to administer the grant and can partner on projects with local organisations to develop and deliver them. Please get in contact with Paige on 07711897850, and/or 02087620321; or contact Martin on 02072391292. If you have any ideas or queries that we can help you with.

Further detail of the programme is on the City Hall website https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/environment/parks-green-spaces-and-biodiversity/greener-city-fund.

Grants of between £5k – £20k (small grants) and £20k – £50k (medium grants) are available. There are two strands to the grants programme:

• Community Tree Planting Grants, to support community groups to plant trees and help improve access to nature through increasing and maintaining London’s Tree Canopy cover.
• Community Green Space Grants, to give community groups and local people the chance to design and create new spaces, and improve existing spaces, by providing grants, advice and support.

The deadlines for the first round of the two strands are as follows:

• Community Tree Planting Grants: deadline 29 September (just under one week), with decisions expected end of October for activities between November 2017 and February 2018;
• Community Green Space Grants: deadline 20 October, with decisions expected November/December 2017 and delivery between January 2018 and January 2019.

For further information please see the prospectus here