The grant can also support testing ideas and running pilots springboarding an idea and organisation to becoming more sustainable.

Focus Areas

• They are keen to support projects that promote and improve:
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Community Cohesion and Social Action
  • The Environment

Funding Information

• Activities for residents over a period of several months to a year: up to £1000
• One-off large community event that attracts residents from across the borough: up to £500
• One-off smallscale event such as a street party: up to £250

Eligible Activities

• Activities supporting mental and physical wellbeing
• Activities that help address social isolation and loneliness
• Social action projects that address local issues
• Environmental projects

Ineligible Activities

• They cannot provide funding for:
  • Activities, events, or services which have already taken place, including staff development time in planning services or preparing funding bids
  • Any costs which someone else is paying for, whether in cash or in kind
  • Items that only benefit an individual or are not needed to deliver the project outcomes
  • Funds to build up a reserve or surplus, whether distributable or not

Eligibility Criteria

• Constituted not-for-profit organisations (e.g. a registered charity, company limited by guarantee, unincorporated association or club, Community Interest Company, Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
• Un-constituted groups or groups of neighbours or residents.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Individuals
• Organisations that do not have a minimum of three unrelated trustees or directors
• Organisations with significant unrestricted or unallocated reserves
• Organisations with an annual turnover of more than £50,000
• Organisations based outside the UK
• Services that are the responsibility of statutory providers.

For more information, visit London Borough of Hounslow.