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Reapplication criteria

Our rolling grant programmes closed to new applications on Tuesday, 8 October 2024 for one year. This includes reapplications

Funding closed to new applications on Tuesday, 8 October 2024 for one year

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.

This closure affects reapplications and continuation funding. Please use the following links to learn more. 

The following text is archived and no longer represents active guidance

If you have previously applied for a grant from us and wish to apply again, please read the following guidance carefully.

Revenue Funding: continuation funding for up to five years

Continuation funding: update

If your grant was due to end before 31 December 2024 it was possible to apply for continuation funding before our rolling grants programme closed at noon on Tuesday, 8 October 2024. This opportunity has now passed. 

If your grant ends after 31 December 2024 you would not have been eligible to apply for continuation funding.

If you have received less than five years of continuous funding from City Bridge Foundation, you may be eligible for an additional one-off core grant for one year of funding. If you are eligible, we will write to you with an invite to apply.

We can offer a maximum of five years of continuous revenue funding towards the same project or work.

If your original revenue grant was for less than five years, you can apply for continuation funding to extend its duration up to a total of five years, as long as the project still meets our current funding priorities.

Continuation funding requests are considered on a case-by-case basis, but normally they will be for work and outcomes that are broadly in line with the original grant. The annual amount would usually be proportionate to the current award (allowing for inflation). We recognise that this will not always be appropriate, so, if helpful, please discuss individual circumstances with your Funding Manager in advance of an application.

All continuation funding applications are subject to assessment, and we cannot guarantee they will be successful.

To apply for continuation funding for any of our mainstream grants, excluding Small Grants, please use the link below. For Small Grants continuation funding, see our Small Grants page. If you need further advice, please talk to your Funding Manager or contact funding@citybridgefoundation.org.uk

Revenue funding: reapplying after a grant has finished

UPDATE: Applications are no longer accepted. Our rolling grants programme closed at noon on Tuesday, 8 October 2024. Our new funding policy will be announced in autumn 2025, you may be eligible to re-apply then.

If you received five years of continuous funding you can apply for funding for significantly different work 12 months after we receive satisfactory final monitoring on your current grant. 

If you want funding for something very similar to your current or recent award, you must wait 24 months before applying.

If you received a grant for Capital funding for access improvements or Capital funding for building works, you can apply for revenue funding 12 months after receipt of satisfactory final monitoring.

So long as we have received a satisfactory final monitoring report on your recent revenue grant, you can re-apply at any time if you are a civil society support organisation (i.e. infrastructure’ organisation providing capacity building services and/​or voice, representation, and advocacy support to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors) or a place-based giving scheme in the London’s Giving network.

Capital Funding and Access audits

UPDATE: Applications are no longer accepted. Our rolling grants programme closed at noon on Tuesday, 8 October 2024. Our new funding policy will be announced in autumn 2025, you may be eligible to re-apply then.

If your organisation received a grant for an Access audit, once that audit is complete you can apply at any time for funding towards associated Capital funding for building works.

We do not offer continuation funding for Capital funding for access improvements or Capital funding for building works.

You can only apply for further capital funding at least five years after we receive a satisfactory monitoring report, and any new capital application will need to explain why the proposed works could not have been foreseen at the time the original capital grant was made.

Applying again after a rejected application

You must wait 12 months from the date of your unsuccessful application before you can re-apply. 

UPDATE: Applications are no longer accepted. Our rolling grants programme closed at noon on Tuesday, 8 October 2024. Our new funding policy will be announced in autumn 2025, you may be eligible to re-apply then.

Applying again after a withdrawn application

If you ask to withdraw your application, you can then submit a new application at any time. 

UPDATE: Applications are no longer accepted. Our rolling grants programme closed at noon on Tuesday, 8 October 2024. Our new funding policy will be announced in autumn 2025, you may be eligible to re-apply then.

Holding more than one grant at a time

You can only hold one grant from us at any one time with the exceptions of the Anchor Programme, Access audits, Eco Audits, Stepping Stones awards, our Making London More Liveable (Suicide Prevention) funding and Strategic initiatives. These can be held alongside other funding from us.

Additionally, if you hold a grant on behalf of a consortium, you are eligible for one main revenue grant in your own right.

We may run special one-off programmes and we will signpost if you can hold funding from these in addition to current or future awards.

We are happy to advise you if you have any questions on any of the above.