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East London Community Foundation manages a number of funds, many of which are tailored to the individual wishes of our donors. Please see below for details of our current programmes.
Before drafting and sending the application, please read the guidelines for each fund available, paying particular attention to the geographical target areas and specific criteria of each.
Closing dates:
Redbridge Small Grants: Wednesday 11 January 2012 at 5pm.
Community Action Against Crime Innovation Fund: Closed
Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund: Re-opens in the New Year.
Grassroots Grants Additional Funding Programme: Closed.
Comic Relief: please contact Capital Community Foundtion.
Please click on any fund name above to see further details about that fund.
Page last updated: 11 January 2012
Community Action Against Crime: Innovation Fund
ELCF is pleased to work with Community Development Foundation in promoting this new fund which supports innovative, community-led activities to reduce crime. It is a rolling programme, which means applications will be assessed in the order they are received. Applications close on 1st December.
Please visit the CDF website for more information, guidelines and to submit an application online:
http://www.cdf.org.uk/web/guest/crime-innovation-fund
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Redbridge Small Grants programme
Who can apply?
The Programme is funded by the London Borough of Redbridge. It is aimed at new and/or small groups with an average annual income of up to £60,000. Funding is available for grants of between £250 - £5,000; the average grant is around £2,000.
Two types of grants are available to community groups and voluntary organisations based in and working in Redbridge:
- Development grant - to enable a new group to develop its activities,
or to build capacity to make an existing group more sustainable:
this could include investment in training, fundraising and the development of fundraising skills, equipment, etc.
- New project - to enable a small scale innovative project to be started:
this could include revenue and capital monies, core administrative and other costs
The application must fit one or both of these categories, otherwise it cannot be awarded a grant.
Closing dates in 2011/12:
- Wednesday 20 July 2011 at 5pm.
- Wednesday 14 September 2011 at 5pm.
- Wednesday 16 November 2011 at 5pm.
- Wednesday 11 January 2012 at 5pm.
Help with applying
Free funding workshop for groups interested in applying are periodically held in partnership with Redbridge CVS. Please contact the ELCF grants team if you would like to attend a workshop.
To download the Eligibility Criteria and the Application form
Please click here to download the 2011/12 Guidelines and fund criteria.
Download the 2011/12 application form here.
Reporting back?
Download the End of grant report form
Phone 0300 303 1203 or contact the grants team at grants@elcf.org.uk
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Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund
East London Community Foundation is the local delivery partner for the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund in Barking & Dagenham, Haringey, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest.
Grants are awarded twice every year, in April and November. Application rounds will usually open approximately 3-4 months before.
Who can apply?
Applications are accepted online from community groups and small voluntary organisations working to lift people out of poverty in one of the following areas:
- Training and educating people who have dropped out of mainstream education
- Getting people into work, such as through apprenticeship or mentor schemes
- Fighting gangs, knife and gun crime
- Improving mental and physical health and well-being, such as through sports clubs and helping carers
- Addressing other manifestations of poverty such as homelessness, pensioner poverty or the working poor
Applications must also meet the Big Lottery Fund’s People Powered Change initiative outcomes. So, your proposal needs to show:
- demonstrable inclusion of groups, communities of interest and places of poverty with poor sense of community and social infrastructure.
- how you are helping capable, resilient people and communities to make choices for themselves and enable them to make a social contribution.
How do groups apply? How do groups apply? Please explain how the grant would mobilise volunteers and people in the community, enabling people to find solutions to issues for themselves.
The fund is open to groups with an average income below £250,000.
East London Community Foundation will prioritise applications from smaller groups (up to £30,000 income) that can clearly demonstrate how their activities will change the lives of poor and disadvantaged Londoners.
How much is available?
The Dispossessed Fund is pleased to be working with the Big Lottery Fund’s People Powered Change programme and the Office for Civil Society.
Groups can apply for grants between £2,000 (min.) and £10,000 (max.).
How do groups apply?
The first stage of the application (Part A) is usually online through the Dispossessed Fund website. When you apply, you will receive a Part B form with supplementary questions and a list of supporting documents you need to submit to ELCF by the closing date.
Click here to apply through the London home page of the Dispossessed Fund
Click here to download the guidance notes.
Who has been funded before?
Two of East London Community Foundation's grantees have been featured in the Evening Standard: Cirque Nova and Music and Health in the Community. Click on their names to read their stories.
A full list of grants awarded is available from the Dispossessed Fund website.
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Grassroots GrantsRedbridge Small Grants programme
Additional Funding
Programme (GGrAF)
Redbridge Small GraThe Grassroots Grants Programme is funded by the Office for Civil Society
(former Office of the Third Sector) and delivered by the Community Development Foundation. It was originally a three-year scheme ending in March 2011. Additional Funding was available in 2011/12 in some boroughs. East London Community Foundation manages Grassroots Grants in the London boroughs Barking & Dagenham, Haringey, Havering and Redbridge.
Who/ What has been funded before?
View a list of all Barking & Dagenham Grassroots Grants, 2008 to July 2010
View a list of all Haringey Grassroots Grants, 2008 to July 2010
View a list of all Havering Grassroots Grants, 2008 to July 2010
View a list of all Redbridge Grassroots Grants, 2008 to July 2010
For help and advice
Anja Beinroth on 0300 303 1203 or contact the team at grants@elcf.org.uk
Download the End of Grant Report in Word Format: End-of-grant report form
Please return completed forms to grants@elcf.org.uk as soon as possible. Remember to enclose copies of receipts as necessary.
Grants must be fully spent and accounted for by 31 March 2011 (Grassroots Grants) / by 30 September 2011 (Grassroots Grants Additional Funding).
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Community Foundation Network has delegated Londonwide grant-making for Comic Relief's community grants to Capital Community Foundation. Please contact them for further details.
Reporting back on a Comic Relief grant awarded by ELCF?
Download the End of grant report form by clicking here
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Do review this page regularly for funding updates.
To discuss any of these programmes, you can contact our grants team / Anja Beinroth electronically or by telephone at 0300 303 1203.
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To report on an existing grant, click here.
We help communities in London, particularly those in North East London, in Barking & Dagenham, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.
