Please note that the deadline for this fund has now passed. 

A fund of £2500 per Neighbourhood* is available for voluntary and community sector organisations to deliver a community event. Events need to be delivered between April and September 2022.

*Note that this excludes Well Street Common Neighbourhood as the Well Street Common Neighbourhood Wellbeing Partnership delivered a successful community event in October 2022.

If you are an organisation with broad community reach, strong connections with both statuary and community organisations in your Neighbourhood and with ideas on how to deliver a fun and engaging community event please apply!

The community event should:

• Be accessible, engaging, and inclusive to all residents
• Offer residents the opportunity to find out about local services available in their community to improve their health and wellbeing
• Involve at least 10 local VCS organisations, NHS, and council services who will run engaging activities throughout the day
• Give residents an opportunity to get more involved in their community

We would particularly encourage applications from grassroots organisations with income under £100k or joint applications from larger organisations working in partnership with a grassroots or community-led group.

Application Process

The deadline for applications is 5pm on 9 February 2022.
We aim to make a decision by 2 March 2022.

Please send your completed application form to katieb@hcvs.org.uk.

What support can we offer?

You will be project managing and the leading organisation of the community event but we can:

• Provide an events toolkit to help you plan your event, attached with this newsletter.
• Link you with relevant statutory sector staff, teams, and programmes.
• Promote your event via our Neighbourhoods newsletters and meetings, as well as publicising on Hackney CVS’ weekly newsletter.

More Information

We want to support organisations to apply for this fund, offering help with completing the application form or reviewing a draft of your application form. We are offering two online ‘Zoom’ drop-in sessions on 19 January 2022 and 27 January 2022 from 12 to 2pm. Zoom link here.

We can also offer one-to-one support if you are unable to join a drop-in, or would prefer a telephone call. Please email Makbule.Gunes@hcvs.org.uk or Caroline@hcvs.org.uk, or call 020 7923 1962 to arrange.

Download application pack