Place-based giving
Funding theme: Increasing the quality and scale of giving
This funding programme closed to new applications on Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Grant details
- Area: Greater London
- Open to: No longer open to new applications
- Deadline: Wednesday, 3 July 2024
- Funding length: Up to five years
- Funding size: There was no minimum or maximum limit to how much we could give for this funding programme. However, we never give revenue funding exceeding 50% of the applicants turnover/income in any one year
- Average award: Based on grants made to date, we have awarded between £100,000 and £327,000, the average award size has been £299,000*
*These figures are illustrative and we will award more or less than these amounts depending on the applications we receive. You can find out more about our approach to funding here.
Changes to our funding
We closed five of our funding programmes, including this one, to new applications on Wednesday, 3 July 2024.
Changes to our funding: learn moreThis following text is archived and no longer represents an active funding programme
What we fund
We want to support the growth of local partnerships that use local insight, ideas and resources to find new and better ways to address the needs in their own communities.
Applicants must either already be members of London’s Giving ‘place-based giving scheme’ network or plan to join as their project develops. Projects must reflect the network’s shared principles, to:
connect people and foster collaboration, bringing together residents and public, private and voluntary sectors
empower local people to take action on the issues that affect them
speak up about inequality and challenge ourselves and our partners
‘Place-based giving schemes’ (PBGS) bring together the voluntary and community, public and private sectors, to build stronger communities and improve local places. They set out to leverage wider community resources either to improve existing and/or to develop fresh approaches to fundraising, volunteering, in-kind giving, grant-making, capacity-building, influencing or convening.
Infrastructure funding
Organisations eligible for a Place-based giving grant may also, in certain circumstances, hold or apply to our Infrastructure funding: capacity building and representation programme.
Funding staff costs
We will not usually pay for staff costs beyond one full-time equivalent staff post. For example, we could pay for one full-time staff member, or two part-time staff, both working 17.5 hours a week. We will only fund staff posts that are paid the London Living Wage or above.