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Closed funding programmes

Our rolling grants programme are currently closed to new applications. A new funding programme will launch in autumn 2025

Standing with Londoners – our new funding policy

City Bridge Foundation has a new ten-year funding policy, called Standing with Londoners. Our aim is to ensure our funding and support is targeted where it has the greatest impact. A new funding programme will open in autumn 2025. 

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Funding programmes which have recently closed to new applications

Funding for infrastructure work to improve charities’ resilience and sustainability

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Support for parents and carers of preschoolers, young victims of gangs and disadvantaged young women. This funding programme closed to new applications on Wednesday, 3 July 2024

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Support after leaving custody, tackling inequalities in the justice system, and alternatives to custody such as community service

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Support for targeted projects, services and campaigns, and funding to make community spaces more accessible

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Funding climate action in London, and decarbonising charities’ operations and spaces

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Support for innovative and more collaborative ways of working to strengthen civil society and accelerate outcomes. This funding programme closed to new applications on Wednesday, 3 July 2024

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Increasing Londoner’s access to counselling, psychotherapy and talking therapies. This funding programme closed to new applications on Wednesday, 3 July 2024

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Projects, services, campaigns and language courses for migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum

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Health, independence, and social contact for older Londoners. This funding programme closed to new applications on Wednesday, 3 July 2024

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Support for projects and organisations that focus on greening and growing, working with older people, working with Deaf and Disabled people, working with the LGBTQIA+ community, and working with migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Small Grants are for charities with incomes under £200,000

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Social investment for London’s charitable sector

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Improving living standards through advice, support and food distribution for people in crisis

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Support to platform and amplify marginalised voices. This funding programme closed to new applications on Wednesday, 3 July 2024

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Funding to reduce isolation and increase community connection among those most at risk of suicide. Both funding streams have now closed to applications. 

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Combating violence against women, modern slavery, trafficking, forced labour and hate crimes

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Long-term, core funding to second-tier organisations that provide support to frontline groups, with the aim of catalysing systemic change. Closed to new applications. 

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The application process (archived)

Guidance for applicants who applied before our rolling grants programme closed to new applications. 

Continuation funding (archived)

Continuation funding is no longer available. All applications to our rolling grants programme closed in October 2024.

If you had an active grant in October 2024 that was for less than five years of continuous funding, you may have been eligible for an additional one-off core grant for one year of funding. If you were eligible you would have received an invitation to apply.