Access improvements to community buildings
Making Greater London’s community spaces more accessible: advice and grants to retrofit or improve buildings
Funding closed to new applications
Having committed exceptional levels of funding to London’s charitable sector until 2026, we closed our rolling grants programmes to new applications on Tuesday, 8 October 2024 for one year. This will allow us to manage our existing grants and pre-closure applications, while reviewing and developing our new funding policy, launching in autumn 2025.
The following text is archived and no longer represents an active funding programme
With these grants, we want to increase the number of truly accessible and user-friendly community spaces across the capital.
Removing the barriers that can prevent people with disabilities and mental health conditions from entering community centres can help to open up a huge range of cultural, sporting and education, training and employment opportunities.
We have two available grants:
- Access Audits:
Independent inspection reports that can either set out advice for how to improve a space’s accessibility, or review already-planned work. For properties with leases of at least five years. - Retrofitting a building:
Capital funding to undertake the improvements recommended by an Access Audit. For properties with leases of at least 10 years.