Grants of more than £10.4m approved up to 4 December 2023

Urban Partnership Group
£100,000 over two further and final years (£50,000, £50,000) for ESOL provision for refugees, migrants and asylum seekers, as well as associated project and management costs.

Kent Association for the Blind
£23,577 over 3 years (£4,954; £10,065; £8,558) towards counselling staff costs, staff training, service running and overhead costs.

BCU Life Skills Centre
A grant of £30,000 over three years (£10,000, £10,000, £10,000) towards counselling services at BCU Life Skills Centre.

The Royal Hospital Chelsea Appeal Ltd
£81,960 over 2 years (£37,390; £44,570) towards the Engagement and Outreach Officer salary, singing, heritage and art workshops, memory cafes and management costs.

Mental Fight Club
£134,000 over 5 years (£24,500, £25,500, £26,500, £28,000, £29,500) towards costs of delivering the Dragon Café including programme lead salary, delivery and support team costs, safeguarding costs, venue hire and contribution to core.

Bromley FC Community Sports Trust
£900 for an access audit of the Bromley FC football stadium and complex is recommended.

National Council for Voluntary Organisations

£338,980 over five years towards the information and advice services NCVO provides to small charities, community groups, and micro voluntary organisations in London.

Center of Excellence CIC
£75,000 over 3 years (£25,000 in each year) towards the salary costs of the Director of Engagement post and project costs related to the organisation’s support for Barnet’s Somali and other migrant communities.

Grenfell Tower Trust
Funding of £52,500 over two years — £27,000 in year one and £25,500 in year two is recommended towards the cost of GTT’S civic leadership training for twenty bereaved, survivors and residents of Grenfell Tower to enhance their voice to secure mental health support and ensure restorative justice.

Sport at the Heart
£217,806 over five years (£41,045, £42,259, £43,509, £44,820 and £46,173) to this successful and growing charity in order to help tackle youth violence for disadvantaged young women and girls at risk of becoming involved in criminal activity in Brent.

The OK Foundation
£83,638 over five years (£13,694, £15,064, £16,605, £18,226, £20,049) to fund the running costs of a food service to the community.

Silverfit Ltd
£149,570 over three years (£49,130, £49,850, £50,590) for Salary costs, running costs and Overheads to provide dual exercise and social activities catering for over 70’s across multiple London locations.

Listening Ears
Revised budget of £57,695.00 (£11,050, £11,290, £11,534, £11,784, £12,037) over five years towards associated project costs of running LE’s Feel Good Centres for elderly people in Greenwich.

Face Front Inclusive Theatre Ltd
£120,000 over three years (£40,000, £40,000, £40,000) towards running costs of their Blue Sky Actors workshops, and the productions of It’s my move and It’s my choice.

Bromley and Croydon Women’s Aid Ltd
£242,400 over four years (£54,400, £59,500, £61,800, and £66,700) towards the costs of two part-time volunteer managers to manage the volunteer provision, increase the number of volunteers and gain volunteer accreditation.

London Tigers Ltd
£240,000 over five years (£45,000, £46,500, £48,000, £49,500, £51,000) to cover the costs of a dedicated Development Officer, sessional workers and a portion of overheads, management, and supervision.

Nucleus Community Action Ltd
£165,800 over three years (£54,100; £55,000; £56,700) for a full-time Housing Case Worker, project costs and support costs to contribute to Housing Advice work in four West London boroughs.

Streatham Youth and Community Trust
£5,000 to meet the costs of an independent access audit of Streatham Youth and Community Trust’s Wellfield Centre to provide recommendations to improve accessibility for its service users, particularly disabled CYPs.

MeWe Foundation
£250,000 over 18 months (£164,500, £85,500) towards delivering a capacity building programme for Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic led charities and social enterprises in the creative industries.

Working Chance
£215,600 over five years (£40,800; £41,900; £43,000; £44,300; £45,600) for a part-time Employability Coach, part-time Employment Advisor, other project costs and support costs to contribute to London-wide programme costs.

London Pathway
£241,205 over three years (£78,005, £86,370, £76,830) for salary of Resilient Programme Manager and on costs, costs for independent consultation at early-adopter development sites, learning package and evaluation costs to support vulnerable young people in contact with CAMHS who are at risk of homelessness.

JAGS Foundation
£143,600 over five years (£26,000, £28,000, £29,000, £30,000 and £30,600) towards the Sunday Best project delivering hot meals to local families in Battersea.

New Europeans
£99,900 over two years (£47,700 and £52,200) towards extending New Europeans capacity building programme to reach to additional voluntary community groups in London boroughs and to supporting vulnerable, disadvantaged EU citizens to gain and manage the new immigration status.

St Peters Community Wellbeing Projects

£35,760 over three years (£11,500; £11,550; £12,710) towards community gardening activities and materials. A portion of funding in year one is towards associated staff and volunteer training costs.

Providence Row
£221,000 over five years (£40,000, £42,000, £44,000, £46,000, £49,000) towards the Food Programme.

Citizens Advice Southwark
£160,866 across three years (£51,920, £53,603, £55,343) to provide specialist casework and improve financial outcomes for low income and Disabled people.

Solidarity Sports
£165,053 over five years (£31,695, £32,122, £32,921, £33,739, £34,576) to sustain the Health is Wealth project which provides activities and support to vulnerable and disadvantaged carers of preschool children.

Addington Afro-Ethnic Health Promotion Group
£30,000 over three years (£10,000 in each year) towards the core services of the charity in challenging the effects of poverty and injustice on its community.

Blackhorse Workshop CIC
£64,609 over two years (£29,965; £34,644) towards the costs of access improvements to Blackhorse Workshop, as recommended in the Access Audit, and the costs of staff disability training.

Heathrow Special Needs Centre
Funding towards animal care and horticultural activities aimed at improving the mental and physical health of people with disabilities and special needs is recommended as follows: £25,000 over five years (£5,000 x5) to cover the costs of the Animal Management and Beneficiary Liaison staff member.

Corali Dance Company
£132,000 over 5 years (£21,150; £21,827; £22,459; £33,147; £33,417) towards participatory dance classes, facilitator training and new governance initiative, increasing opportunities for people with a learning disability to transition to independence and leadership.

Redbridge Respite Care Association
£127,500 (£62,500, £65,000) two years continuation funding to continue delivering well-being support groups to those living with mental health problems and dementia as well as their carers in Redbridge.

YourStance Community Interest Company
£139,200 over five years (£24,500; £26,400; £28,000; £29,400; £30,900) for a part-time Community Outreach Coordinator and contribution to Directors’ costs, to contribute to the cross-London Zero Responders programme.

Al-Hasaniya Moroccan Women’s Project Ltd
£205,000 over 5 years (£45,000; £40,000; £40,000; £40,000; £40,000) towards the salary costs of a full time CEO.

Axis Educational Trust
£171,590 over five years (£50,270, £30,330, £30,330, £30,330, £30,330) towards Skill-Up training programme to support NEET refugee and asylum-seeking young people to complete their qualifications, build skills and gain employment. Year 1 includes capital investment of £20,940 to upgrade their Enfield Centre.

Shadow to Shine CIO
£142,869 over 5 years (£26,910, £27,717, £28,549 £29,405 and £30,288) to deliver a programme of support to disadvantaged young women to overcome barriers to meaningful employment by this new and growing charity led by Black women.

East London Advanced Technology Training
£368,215 over five years (£48,583; £66,992; £80,223; £86,178; £86,239) to contribute to Equal Voices, a pan-London contextualised ESOL, community participation and organising programme for 600 refugees, asylum seekers and migrants who cannot access mainstream provision.

Elimhouse Community Association Southwark

£122,200 over three years (£39,880, £39,980, £42,340) for salary of Engagement and Care Manager and running costs to support elderly Caribbean residents in Southwark.

The Breck Foundation
£101,416 over 5 years (£19,069, £19658, £20,265, £20,890 and £21,534). To fund a proven programme of outreach presentations combatting online abuse to schools in deprived areas of London.

Hatch Enterprise (was One Planet Ventures)
£198,000 over two years (97,000; 101,000) towards the salary and running costs associated with the Accelerator programme and wider Community programme of events, and a contribution to organisational overheads.

Age UK Enfield
£112,000 (£55,000, £57,000) continuation funding towards the Fit for Life programme that will offer older people in Enfield a wide range of classes/​activities in a range of community venues and in local parks in the borough.

Bassuah Legacy Foundation
£53,400 over three years (£15,970, £17,820, £19,610) for venue hire, refreshments, volunteer expenses, transport and sessional tutors/​instructors to support low income, single-parent families in Hammersmith & Fulham to build resilience, increase fitness and strengthen social connections.

Citizen Zoo CIC
£216,500 over five years (£40,500; £42,500; 43,500; £44,500; 45,500) for the salary cost of a full-time Urban Rewilding Officer and a contribution towards associated line management, materials, training, and overheads.

Ethical Property Foundation
£228,700 over three years (£72,500; £76,200; £80,000) towards Ethical Property Foundation’s work with the London voluntary sector, including contributions towards salaries including CEO, Head of Property Advisory and Learning Coordinator.

Access Sport CIO
£86,300 over two further and final years (£42,100; £44,200) towards the salary cost of a Community Coordinator and other oncosts to deliver a programme of inclusive sporting opportunities for disabled young people in the boroughs of Lambeth, Newham, and Tower Hamlets.

The Student View
£99,600 over 2 years (£50,000, £49,600) towards the salary of Project Manager, a Pop-up community newsroom (TSV Studio) & associated project costs.

Barnet Churches Action
£97,336 over 3 years (£30,900; £32,727; £33,709) to reach and support more elderly people with more services through the appointment of a full-time senior’s worker.

Elfrida Society
£4,500 to cover the costs of an access audit and of accessibility awareness training for improvements to ES’s centre as part of its redevelopment strategy.

The Forward Trust
£135,000 over 3 years (£50,000, £45,000, £40,000) towards support for work providing housing and self-employment opportunities for people following their release from prison.

Lambeth Larder Community Food Resource CIC
£119,400 over two years (£58,778; £60,622) to maintain and develop Lambeth Larder’s Digital Hub work, including a contribution to staff salaries and overheads.

Place2Be
£135,980 over three years (£43,560, £45,300, £47,120) for salary of a Mental Health Practitioner and oncosts including IT equipment, supervision, NI and pension contributions to improve access to in-school counselling in two primary schools in Barking and Dagenham.

Harlington Hospice Association Limited
£194,110 over three years (£62,800, £64,685, £66,625) for salary and oncosts of an Art Psychotherapist, administrative and management support, supervision, materials and organisational overheads to provide Art Therapy to bereaved and grieving children.

Walk The Walk Family Support Service CIC
£157,604 over two years (£77,257, £80,347) to provide talking therapies to children and young people in London experiencing poor mental health as a result of family separation.

We Are Family Adoption
To provide £54,000 over three years (£24,000, £18,000 and £12,000) to this growing charity to facilitate highly effective and valued peer-to peer support for adoptive parents in London.

Museum of Youth Culture CIC
£249,591 is requested over three years (£79,250, £83,586, £86,755) to engage disadvantaged young women, and young people who have experienced, or been affected by child criminal exploitation, with creative opportunities to build skills and self-esteem.

You & Me Counselling
A grant of £145,400 over three years (£46,100, £48,400, £50,900) towards the Reboot Redbridge counselling project is recommended.

Brighter Together
£109,425 is requested over two years (£55,500, £53,925) to expand the reach of BT’s evidence based intergenerational programme, to tackle the social isolation of older people and boost children’s development across London.

Globe Community Project
£211,043 over 5 years (£41,422; £40,479; £41,723; £43,034; £44,385) towards supporting over-70s at risk of severe loneliness and isolation in Tower Hamlets to gain increased connection with others and themselves, and lead richer, more active and fulfilling lives.

OUTpatients
£261,900 over five years (£50,500; £49,200; £51,700; £54,300; £56,200) towards the salary of an Engagement and Impact Manager and a London Volunteering Development Manager, and associated oncosts.

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
£144,052 towards the installation of a lift at the new centre

Pro Bono Economics
£308,900 over five further years (£57,000, £59,300, £61,700, £64,200, £66,700) towards salaries, associated project costs and a contribution to overheads.

Greenwich Carers Centre
£217,250 over five years (£40,250, £40,750, £44,250, £45,000, £47,000) towards a Carers Link Worker to support older carers in Greenwich, as well as associated project and management costs.

Generate Opportunities
£86,000 over two further and final years (£42,500; £43,500) towards the salaries of two Generate Voices Co-ordinators (one Co-ordinator at 16hpw and one with lived experience of a learning disability at 22.5hpw) and associated project running costs.

Ambition Aspire Achieve
£109,250 over two further and final years (£53,770; £55,480) towards the salary costs of the Operations Manager, SEND Coordinator, sessional staff, and project activities to develop and deliver services for young people with special educational needs or disabilities transitioning into adulthood.

CoDa Dance Company
£33,600.00 over two further and final years (£15,860; £17,740) to deliver Dance for Neurology (DfN) sessions and workshops, and to train artists to deliver DfN to Londoners.

WeSwim CIC
£45,000 over 3 years (£15,000 in each year) towards the salary costs of the Director post, supporting expansion of accessible, community-based swimming clubs for disabled people across London.

Trimenco CIC
Funding of £93,600 over two years — £48,300 in year one and £45 300 in year two is recommended.

Trauma Treatment International
£97,885 over three years (£31,485, £33,560, £32,840) for salary costs, running costs and overheads, to improve access to trauma-informed mental health support for survivors of abuse, exploitation and hatred.

Refugee Youth Service UK CIC
£96,282 over two years (£47,196, £49,086) for a Welfare Officer, recreational activities, specialist language sessional work, public transport and oncosts for supporting age disputed asylum-seeking children.

Community Southwark
£3,540 to carry out an access audit of Community Southwark’s premises and deliver virtual Access and Equality Awareness half-day training.

Volunteer Centre Greenwich
Award £250,000 (£54,000, £54,500, £51,000, £45,000, £45,500) towards utilising technology and redeveloping the income generation model to aid financial sustainability; adapt and improve volunteering for local organisations and residents; promote members social prescribing activities.

HostNation
£77,750 for two further and final years (£38,000, £39,750) towards the staffing and delivery of HostNation’s befriending programme in London.

Ministry of Stories
£96,360 over 2 years (£47,179, £49,181) for creative & leadership programmes for disadvantaged young people and early-career writers, and associated costs.

Hoxton Health
£184,863 over five years (£32,200, £35,420, £37,191, £39,050, £41,003) includes salary costs towards providing low cost or free toenail cutting, osteopathy, acupuncture and massage treatments to older local people particularly those with long-term conditions or mobility issues.

Theatre Royal Stratford East
£2,400 (6 days) to provide an eco audit.

Remakery Brixton LTD
£2,400 (6 days) to provide an eco audit.

Bromley FC Community Sports Trust
£2,400 (6 days) to provide an eco audit.

St James’s Church, Hampton Hill
£2.,400 (6 days) to provide an eco audit.

Friends of Nunhead Cemetery
£2,600 (6.5 days) to provide an eco audit.

Emmanuel United Reformed Church
£2,200 (5.5 days) to provide an eco audit.

National Opera Studio
£2,400 (6 days) to provide an eco audit.

Harrow Carers
£2,600 (6.5 days) to provide an eco audit.

Laburnum Boat Club
£4,000 (10 days) to provide an eco audit.

Dulwich Picture Gallery
£2,400 (6 days) to provide an eco audit.

Singalong Songs CIC
£52,541 over five years (£9,323; £9,881; £10,472; £11,100; £11,765) towards Singalong Songs CIC’s community choir group led by people with learning disabilities and autism, and associated activities.

Steel Pan Trust
£19,500 over three years (£6,000; £6,500; £7,000) towards a programme supporting older people learning to play steel pan music, including freelance facilitation costs, access costs, and a contribution to core costs.

The Dot Collective
£44,000 over three further and final years (£12,000; £15,000; £17,000) towards theatre and arts-based reminiscence activities for older people living with dementia and adults with additional needs in London.

African Cultural Association — Barnet
£20,000 over five years (£4,000 x 5) towards the healthy living programme for older people.

Trapped in Zone One
£50,000 (£10,000 x 5) to deliver a greening environmental project by brining disengaged, inactive young people, aged 11–24 from diverse communities in Tower Hamlets to improve and enhance green spaces across the Borough.

National Energy Action
£134,000 over two years (£67,000, £67,000) towards the costs of National Energy Action’s Empowered by Energy Project supporting asylum seekers and refugees in London.

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH Migration Foundation)
£115,500 over three years (£62,500, £30,000, £23,000) towards the operational costs, deposit fund and move in fund for the refugee tenancy deposit scheme to reduce homelessness for refugees in London and increase access to housing. This will be coordinated by MTVH Migration Foundation.

No.1 Performing Arts (NOPA)
£5,881 over five years (£507, £1,117, £1,731, £1,231, £1,295) towards NI and Pension costs for the Senior Therapist role.

The Charity Finance Group
£10,000 over one year towards the development of the Charity Investment Governance Principles.