Grants of more than £6m approved on 17 February 2025

Community Focus Inclusive Arts
www.communityfocus.co.uk
£3,390 to carry out an access audit relating to Friary House to improve access requirements and future proof the building for suitable access in years to come.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Voice4Change England
www.voice4change-england.org
£864,525 (£60,000, £65,000, £70,000, £87,385, £90,000, £92,700, £95,480, £98,340, £101,290, £104,330) over ten years to support Voice 4 Change England’s core costs.
Awarded 17/02/2025

Advice on Individual Rights in Europe
www.airecentre.org 
£95,248 over 3 years (£33,433; £30,600; £31,215) towards legal advice for EU nationals and their family members on eligibility for welfare benefits and homelessness support, and training and support for frontline organisations supporting this target group.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Babyzone
www.babyzone.org.uk
£99,752 over 3 years (£32,800, £33,077, £33,875) towards staff salaries and delivery costs for Barking & Dagenham and Croydon sites, plus a contribution to core costs.
Awarded 26/11/2024

Baraka Community Association
www.barakacommunityassociation.org
£83,313 over three years (£29,533; £26,625; £27,155) towards wellbeing and fitness activities for older BAME women and help them gain confidence in making better health choices for prevention and early intervention.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Creating Ground CIC
www.theground.org.uk
£75,953 over 3 years (£28,613, £24060, £23,280) towards a part-time Lead Organiser and management costs
Awarded 13/12/2024

Crosslight Advice
www.crosslightadvice.org
£135,152 recommended over 3 years (£43,680; £44,924; £46,548) towards delivery of debt and money advice in London including 1FTE staffing, translation and referral costs and a proportionate contribution to overheads.
Awarded 26/11/2024

DAWN CHARITABLE TRUST (DAWN)
www.dawncharitabletrust.org.uk
}£100,000 over three years (£33,300; £33,300; £33,400) towards DAWN’s Bridge to Empowerment and Wellbeing programme, covering counselling costs, supervision and related project overheads.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Embrace Community Support Centre (UK)
www.embraceuk.org
£352,633 over five years (£70,833; £68,200; £69,700; £71,200; £72,700) towards a Full-Time Project Coordinator, Volunteer Programme costs and other project costs, plus support costs, to contribute to the Golden Years programme in Haringey and Islington.
Awarded 21/01/2025

Eritrean Community In The UK
www.ericomuk.org.uk
£79,943 over three years (£28,433; £25,755; £25,755) towards the salaries of staff managing and providing advice and support services to the Eritrean Community in London.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Food Bank Aid
www.foodbankaid.org.uk
£49,000 over 3 years (£9,000; £19,000; £21,000) towards supporting three foodbanks serving the local community in Enfield
Awarded 13/12/2024

Girls Into Coding
www.girlsintocoding.com
£61,072 over 3 years (£19,759; £20,351; £20,961) to provide free hands-on coding, robotics, engineering, sustainability workshops for 600+ disadvantaged girls yearly in London, empowering them with critical STEM skills and inspiring future aspirations.
Awarded 26/11/2024

Hackney Council for Voluntary Service
www.hcvs.org.uk / www.hackneygiving.org.uk
£214,830 is requested over three years (£70,313, £72,085, £72,432) to continue delivering Fairer Society, a programme of advice and training to build the capacity and voice of VCS organisations in Hackney and the City, particularly those representing marginalised and global majority communities.
Awarded 26/11/2024

Heart n Soul
www.heartnsoul.co.uk
A grant of £99,000 over three years (£33,000; £33,000; £33,000) towards creative opportunities co-designed by learning disabled and autistic adults, enabling them to build leadership capabilities, gain confidence and influence change.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association
www.ilpa.org.uk
£285,498 is recommended over five years (£57,633; £55,285; £56,390; £57,520; £58,670) towards part costs salary of a Legal Director, part costs FTE salary of a Legal Officer, project costs, training and a small contribution towards overheads, in order to co-ordinate cross-sector immigration legal advice and strategic litigation to challenge racist, ableist, sexist and homophobic immigration policy, actively including and amplifying the voices of those affected by immigration law and policy, increasing the efficacy of joint advocacy, providing technical legal and policy expertise in order to challenge and change the immigration system.
Awarded 21/01/2025

Incredible Edible Lambeth
www.incredibleediblelambeth.org
£302,668 over five years (£60,933; £58,650; £59,823; £61,019; £62,240) towards the part costs of a network manager, capacity building workshops, quarterly co-design and peer support sessions and associated running costs. This allows for 2% year on year inflation and an additional £3,433 in year one
Awarded 21/01/2025

International Curators Forum
www.internationalcuratorsforum.org
£94713 over two years (£48,613, £46,100) towards the mentoring programme, advisory group, networking events, studio sessions and overheads, that will enable delivery of a professional development pilot project for marginalised, underrepresented creative practitioners, with equitable collaboration at its heart.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Irish Community Services
www.irishcommunityservices.org.uk
£105,160 over 3 years (£34,023; £35,042; £36,095) (Elders outreach manager part costs; Elders Outreach Coordinator part costs; Trainee Advice Officer x 2 part costs)) to deliver the Elders Support and Advocacy project, providing information, guidance and advice to older members of the Irish Community.
Awarded 26/11/2024

Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS)
www.lawrs.org.uk
A grant of £224,478 (£57,058; £54,700; £55,800; £56,920) is recommended towards the cost of a full-time senior advisor post providing housing, welfare and immigration advice for Latin American migrant women.
Awarded 19/12/2024

Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest
www.mindchwf.org.uk and www.rainbowmind.org
£129,212 over 3 years (£43,070.67 x 3 years) to cover salaries and associated costs to deliver its Radical Self Care (RadSec) courses via the Charity’s Rainbow Mind initiative.
Awarded 26/11/2024

Osmani Trust
www.osmanitrust.org
£146,747 over 12 months to contribute to capital works to enhance the environmental sustainability of Osmani Trusts’ Youth and Community Centre
Awarded 19/12/2024

Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London
www.ramfel.org.uk
£405,333 over five years (£77,789; £79,486; £81;086; £82,686; £84,2860) towards a Full-Time Family Reunion Caseworker, OISC supervision and other project costs, plus support costs, to contribute to the Family Reunion programme in East London.
Awarded 21/01/2025

The Cranfield Trust
www.cranfieldtrust.org
£95,000 over two years (£50,000; £45,000) core funding towards strengthening London’s social welfare sector through providing management support, consultancy, mentoring, advice, and information to improve management effectiveness, capability, and confidence.
Awarded 13/12/2024

The Happy and Healthy Trust
www.thehappyandhealthy.co.uk
£98,102 over 3 years (£32,000 yr1; £32,700 yr2; £33,402 yr3) towards a Project Manager post, workshop session leads, family bonding sessions, marketing and evaluation costs.
Awarded 07/11/2024

Thinking Black
www.thinkingblack.co.uk
£26,943 over 2 years (£9,443 Year One; £17,500 Year Two) towards salaries, sessional workers and associated project costs.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Tower Hamlets Council for Voluntary Service
www.thcvs.org.uk
Recommendation is for £266,945 over 4 years (£68,333; £66,200; £67,250; £68,595) towards the costs of a full time Development Worker and associated running costs.
Awarded 17/01/2025

Gasworks Dock Partnership
www.codydock.org.uk
£51,000 over 12 months towards core funding as part of the Cohort 2 Additional 1 Year Funding Programme.
Awarded 21/01/2025

Community Focus Inclusive Arts
www.communityfocus.co.uk
£160,300 over 3 years (£58,000yr; £51,300 yr2; £51,000 yr3) towards the ARTiculate project management salary, sessional tutors and volunteer costs, programme running costs and overhead costs.
Awarded 19/12/2024

Croydon Voluntary Association for the Blind (Aka Croydon Vision)
www.croydonvision.org.uk
£192,152 over three years (£62,000; £64,020; £66,132) for part costs FTE Advice & Advocacy Lead salary, part costs FTE Employment Lead salary, part costs FTE Children and Young Person Officer salary, Accessible IT Support and Software, Visual Awareness Workshops, organisational development costs needed to secure AQS accreditation and a contribution to organisational oncosts to continue to reach and support the Lost 500 people with sight loss in Croydon.
Awarded 26/11/2024

Equalities Work
www.equalitieswork.org
£28,020 over two further and final years (2 x £14,010) to continue deliver ​‘In the Mix’ a programme of work focused on increasing disabled artists access into the visual arts sector.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Football Journeys
www.footballjourneys.org
£100,000 over two years (£50,000; £50,000) towards the Ambassadors Programme redesign and expansion and the associated project costs.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Homeless Link
www.homeless.org.uk
£267,200 over 28 months (£26,900, £120,500, £119,800) contributing to IFTE London staffing costs of the Leadership Development Programme; workshops and action learning sets, Global Majority scoping work, Experts by Experience associates, evaluation costs and project overhead costs.
Awarded 17/01/2025

Kazzum Arts Project
www.kazzum.org
£111,852 over three further and final years (£36,100; £37,270; £38,482) towards a full time Programme Co-ordinator post (part costs) and other associated costs to deliver trauma informed creative sessions with children and young people across London.
Awarded 26/11/2024

The Leaside Trust
www.leaside.org.uk
£5,300 (13.25 days) to provide an eco audit.
Awarded 13/12/2024

The Sherriff Centre
www.thesherriffcentre.co.uk
£5,300 (13.25 days) to provide an eco audit.
Awarded 13/12/2024

EastHands
www.easthands.org
£58,933 over three years (£21,433; £18,500; £19,000) towards workshops which will enable residents to have a greater understanding of the environment, measures to reduce the carbon footprint, as well as their own health and wellness.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Forget Me Not Memory Cafe
www.forgetmenotproject17.co.uk
£43,433 over a final two years (£23,433,£20,000) to reach out people who are terminally ill or disabled or having mental health or memory issues and as a result suffering from loneliness, isolation.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Place At My Table
www.placeatmytable.co.uk
£64,278 over three years (£23,313, £20,280, £20,685) to deliver a range of physical activities and green space events to help improve the well being of older people from the Global Majority in Sutton.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Stories & Supper
www.storiesandsupper.co.uk
£34,043 over two further and final years (£18,513; £15,530) to continue to deliver a horticultural programme, working with refugees/​asylum seekers to reduce isolation and improve health and wellbeing.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Sustainable Communities UK C.I.C.
www.sustainablecommunities.uk
£62,813 over 3 years (£23,133, £19,860, £19,820) towards a part-time role, management and sessional costs to deliver specialist LGBTQ+ services for older people in London
Awarded 13/12/2024

This New Ground CIC
www.thisnewground.com
£85,868 over four further and final years ( £25,868; £20,000; £20,000; £20,000) towards the costs of delivering peer-led singing sessions and art activities for adults with learning disabilities.
Awarded 13/12/2024

Voice4Change England
www.voice4change-england.org
£150,000 over 12 months to Voice4Change England to support Pathway’s core operations until receipt of dormant assets money in September 2025.
Awarded 11/12/2024