The London Community Foundation (LCF) has been awarding and administering our Small Grants Fund since 2013 and in 2017 we introduced a new fund called Redbridge Community Projects which LCF were asked to award and administer on our behalf for the 2 year period 2017 to 2019.
In each financial year, they will open 2 rounds for each fund.
The first year has been completed, please see below for the years funding.
Redbridge Community Projects Fund 2017 to 2018 Round 3 awarded by the LCF
| Organisation | Project description | Amount awarded |
| Redbridge Council for Voluntary Service | For a Community Fundraising service to support local voluntary and community groups across Redbridge | £25,153.00 |
| Somali Welfare Trust | For a two-strand project to increase understanding of mental health and use of the available support services for Somali women | £24,082.00 |
| Forest Farm Peace Garden | For improvements to ecotherapy programme and community engagement days in Hainault | £5,000.00 |
| Muslimah Sports Association (MSA) | For basketball sessions and healthy lifestyle workshops for women aged 16-25 in Ilford | £4,995.00 |
| Seiken Sports Club | For 30 martial arts and fitness training sessions for young people aged 11+ in Clayhall | £4,960.00 |
| Whole Body Therapy | For a 16 week falls prevention exercise course for up to 20 people aged 65 and over in Ilford | £4,917.00 |
| Total Insight Theatre | For Redbridge Children’s Festival, a four-day programme of children’s and family events across Redbridge | £4,875.00 |
| AWAAZ ) (Redbridge Education & Social Welfare Support Group) | To run drop-in sessions for women, including activities such as yoga and flower-arranging, in Ilford | £3,966.00 |
| Round 3 for 2017 to 2018 awarded total | £77,948.00 |
Redbridge Community Projects Fund 2017 to 2018 Round 2 awarded by the LCF
| Organisation | Project name | Project description | Amount awarded |
| Redbridge Equalities and Community Council | Community Against Hate Crime | To increase the hours of a Project Officer by 21 hours a week to help eliminate prejudice and discrimination and promote equality. | £23,507 |
| Healthy Living Projects | Moving Forward in Recovery | To contribute towards the salary of a part-time specialist Drug and Alcohol Support Worker. | £28,000 |
| Total Awarded | £51,507 |
Redbridge Small Grants Fund 2017 to 2018 Round 2 awarded by the LCF
| Organisation | Project name | Project description | Amount awarded |
| Redbridge Indian Welfare Association | Breaking Barriers | To support the organisation's core activities, which include weekly lunch clubs, exercise classes and support services. | £1,480.50 |
| FREEDOM 2 | Freedom 2 Girls | Towards a self-development programme for teenage girls (14-17yrs), who are potentially at risk of child sexual exploitation and child trafficking. | £4,055 |
| E-gangs | Redbridge Community Gang's Programme Pilot | To pilot an existing programme, to support ex-offenders and gang members into employment, in Redbridge | £5,000 |
| CoDa Dance Company | Six Degrees | To deliver 36 Dance and Wellbeing Sessions at the Marjorie Collins MS Centre for adults with moderate to severe Multiple Sclerosis | £4,980 |
| The Eden Galvani Trust | Support Groups- 1. Healing Place; 2. Begin To Heal; 3. Say Hello | To support core function of the organisation, supporting 75 individuals who've lost a child or sibling through counselling and peer support | £5,000 |
| Round 2 for 2017 to 2018 awarded total | £20,515.50 |
Redbridge Community Projects Fund 2017 to 2018 awarded by the LCF
| Account name | Project title | Project description summary | Amount awarded |
| Redbridge Council for Voluntary Service | Community Fundraiser | To fund a part time Community Fundraiser to help local voluntary and community organisations. |
£27,524 |
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Aanchal Women’s Aid |
The Kikli Project | To deliver 60 physical/mental/nutritional health and wellbeing sessions for up to 120 women in Redbridge. | £24,064 |
| Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London | Redbridge New Citizens | To fund its existing immigration advisor, integration advisor and an operations manager, in turn supporting up to 100 refugees and asylum seekers. | £27,352 |
| Round 1 for 2017 to 2018 awarded total | £78,940 |
Redbridge Small Grants Fund 2017 to 2018 round 1 awarded by the LCF
| Account name | Project title | Project description summary | Amount awarded |
| Audacious Veg | Growing Futures | Training for unemployed young adults who are interested in an outdoor profession: garden maintenance, horticulture, or agriculture. | £4,984 |
| AWAAZ (Redbridge Education Support and Social Welfare Group) | Project Hope | To organise 4 visits for women who have been victims of domestic violence. | £3,875 |
| Muslim Women’s Welfare Association | Dress Me Nice | To deliver dress making sessions to older isolated Asian women. | £3,810 |
| Redbridge Indian Social Klub (RISK) | RISK | To deliver a weekly lunch club for 60 elderly Indian people in Redbridge and to include organised day trips. | £3,400 |
| The Drive Methodist Church | Project Defibrillator | To contribute towards the cost of an automated external defibrillator, that can be used by untrained first-aiders during a cardiac arrest. | £995 |
| The Redbridge Music Lounge | Best of the Music Fest | The Best of Music Fest - a series of seven concerts in Valentines Park to be held between April and October 2017. | £1,900 |
| Supporting Together Autism and Aspergers in Redbridge | Designstars | To fund 10 young people with autistic spectrum disorders to design and build computer games hosted online. | £5,000 |
| Round 1 for 2017 to 2018 awarded total | £23,964 |
Previous Redbridge Small Grants Fund awarded by the LCF
| Account name | Round | Project description summary | Amount awarded | Date approved |
| PEACHY | 01 | To provide one-to-one play therapy for children aged 4 to 11 who are experiencing distress. | £1,500 | 02/08/2013 |
| The Redbridge Music Lounge | 01 | To hold a launch event at Valentines Mansion, with varied music performances by local groups and musicians. | £1,465 | 02/08/2013 |
| Arthritis Self-Help Network (London) | 01 | To provide an internet cafe once a week for one year, for arthritis sufferers and carers to access information and meet one another, assisted by volunteers. | £1,500 | 02/08/2013 |
| Sophia Hubs | 01 | A contribution to salary costs for a staff member to establish Sophia Hubs’ social enterprise supporting activities for Redbridge residents. | £2,000 | 02/08/2013 |
| VAANI | 01 | A series of 20 workshops targeting 100 Redbridge residents aged 50+ with learning disabilities. The arts-based workshops will have the overall theme of commemorating 100 years since the end of World War I and will include workshops for painting, storytelling, film screenings and dance. | £2,423 | 02/08/2013 |
| The Melting Pot | 01 | To provide weekly chair-based exercise classes over a 6 month period for those aged 65+. | £1,536 | 02/08/2013 |
| Round 1 awarded total | £10,424 | |||
| East Ilford Betterment Partnership | 02 | To run an arts for peace community project. | £3,125 | 29/11/2013 |
| Age-Link | 02 | To provide a series of social activities for elderly residents. | £1,000 | 29/11/2013 |
| Redbridge Pensioners Forum | 02 | To purchase a projector and screen plus a sound system to use at meetings and events, for members and speakers. | £1,000 | 29/11/2013 |
| London Tigers Football Club | 02 | To run a 16 week football coaching session for young people. | £1,000 | 29/11/2013 |
| Redbridge Green Fair Association | 02 | To run an Arts themed community Green Fair project. | £1,000 | 29/11/2013 |
| Friends of 1 North East | 02 | To offer meditation sessions for people recovering from substance misuse. | £2,400 | 29/11/2013 |
| Round 2 awarded total | £9,525 | |||
| Samaritans of Redbridge | 03 | To recruit 10 new volunteers | £2,500 | 02/04/2014 |
| Sophia Hubs Limited | 03 | To work with Forest Recycling Project to increase access to affordable paint for people and organisations in Redbridge. | £2,000 | 02/04/2014 |
| Live 4 Health CIC | 03 | To a run a health and education project for young people in the borough of Redbridge. | £2,173 | 02/04/2014 |
| SATKAR Health & Social Group Redbridge | 03 | To contribute towards activities for membership of older people including yoga classes and day trips. | £2,500 | 02/04/2014 |
| Round 3 awarded total | £9,173 | |||
| Free Your Mind | 04 | To pay for the development of a phone app. and to fund a fortnightly workshop for children who have experienced domestic violence. | £1,950 | 24/11/2014 |
| Supporting Together Autism and Aspergers in Redbridge | 04 | To set up a pop-up mini market enterprise. | £3,760 | 24/11/2014 |
| The Stepladder Foundation | 04 | To run an out of school education programme for young people in Redbridge. | £2,500 | 24/11/2014 |
| Omnibus Kids Gloves | 04 | To run a series of boxfit exercise sessions for young women in Redbridge. | £1,500 | 24/11/2014 |
| British Pakistani Christians Ltd trading as British Pakistani Christian Associate | 04 | To run two gymnastics courses for a 40-week period for children and to offer additional healthy living support. | £2,500 | 24/11/2014 |
| Somali Welfare Trust | 04 | To run a healthy eating project for 30 Somali Women in Redbridge. | £2,460 | 24/11/2014 |
| Round 4 awarded total | £14,670 | |||
| Muslim Women's Welfare Association | 05 | To run three 8-week courses on cooking and health & wellbeing for a total of 75 women in Redbridge. | £2,160 | 23/03/2015 |
| Salaam Education Services | 05 | To run low cost summer activities for 50 children, providing volunteering opportunities for 10 local residents. | £1,000 | 23/03/2015 |
| Redbridge Faith Forum | 05 | To purchase database software to improve the groups' ability to reach, grow and keep track of membership activity. | £1,700 | 23/03/2015 |
| Wanstead Playground Association | 05 | To purchase and install two picnic benches for Wanstead Playground. | £1,131.38 | 23/03/2015 |
| Empowering Deaf Society | 05 | To run a series of workshops, for the deaf and hearing community, based on identified needs of users. | £4,900 | 23/03/2015 |
| Ilford Sunday Drop-in for the homeless | 05 | To train new volunteers and provide more hot meals at a Sunday drop in for homeless people. | £1,846 | 23/03/2015 |
| AchieveAbility | 05 | To pay for six six-week courses on reading and writing for employment for people in Redbridge with dyslexia. | £1,890 | 23/03/2015 |
| The Redbridge Music Lounge | 05 | To contribute towards the costs of a one day music festival aimed at people with dementia. | £1,610 | 23/03/2015 |
| Round 5 awarded total | £16,237.38 | |||
| AWAAZ ) (Redbridge Education & Social Welfare Support Group) | 06 | To purchase three computers, volunteer costs and to offer IT classes for women. | £2,200 | 01/12/2015 |
| ValueYou | 06 | Providing a discount card and gift voucher for local volunteers who have given over 100 hours to a charity or hospital. | £2,183 | 01/12/2015 |
| Peer 2 Peer Education | 06 | Funding the hire of the venue (£800) and core costs (£500) to focus on capacity building, and training for their mentors and facilitators. | £1,300 | 01/12/2015 |
| Forest Farm Peace Garden | 06 | Providing traineeships and work placements in horticulture and enterprise for young NEET adults, and setting up a social enterprise to sell their produce. | £2,500 | 01/12/2015 |
| Greater London North East Scout County | 06 | To deliver a capacity building conference and subsidised qualifications for 150 scout leaders. | £950 | 01/12/2015 |
| Take stock exchange | 06 | To fund external expert support to increase the capacity of a group delivering creative storytelling projects connecting people with each other and their local area. | £2,720 | 01/12/2015 |
| Round 6 awarded total | £11,653 | |||
| Haircuts4HomelessUK | 07 | To offer free monthly haircuts to 300 homeless people. | £2,200 | 14/03/2016 |
| The Redbridge Music Lounge | 07 | A contribution towards costs for 'The Best of the Music Fest', a seven day music festival happening over seven months in Valentines Park. | £1,050 | 14/03/2016 |
| Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London | 07 | Towards the project 'Speak a 1000 words'. | £2,500 | 14/03/2016 |
| RA TRUST | 07 | To train 10 outreach volunteers to help women exit prostitution. | £2,110 | 14/03/2016 |
| Friends of 1 North East | 07 | Towards a series of 8 meditation days based on the '12 Step Recovery Programme'. | £2,404 | 14/03/2016 |
| Fairlop paddlesport | 07 | Towards capital costs, volunteer expenses and training for volunteers to enhance provision. | £2,500 | 14/03/2016 |
| Redbridge Green Fair Association | 07 | Towards capital costs for Redbridge Green Fair. | £2,643 | 14/03/2016 |
| Round 7 awarded total | £15,407 | |||
| Just Enough UK | 08 | To deliver either a modern slavery or radicalisation workshop to 10 primary schools in Redbridge. | £1,899 | 15/08/2016 |
| Heart of Oak Judo Club | 08 | To provide Judo sessions for 5-16 year olds during the Autumn and Spring bank holidays. | £2,080 | 15/08/2016 |
| The Horticulture Industry Scheme CIC | 08 | To provide six prisoners and two ex-offenders with work experience in horticulture. | £2,457 | 15/08/2016 |
| Redbridge Rainbow Community | 08 | To facilitate a monthly meet up offering a socialisation opportunity, information and advice for the LGBT community. | £2,500 | 15/08/2016 |
| Wanstead and Woodford Migrant Justice | 08 | To establish a new weekly drop-in service providing advice and information for Refugees and Asylum Seekers. | £3,000 | 15/08/2016 |
| Redbridge Green Fair Association | Round 8 awarded total | £11,936 | ||
| Haircuts4HomelessUK | 09 | To run fortnightly free hairdressing sessions for homeless people in Redbridge | £2,500 | 31/01/2017 |
| SATKAR Health & Social Group Redbridge | 09 | To contribute towards activities for membership of older people including yoga classes and day trips. | £2,500 | 31/01/2017 |
| Centre for Excellence in Education and Training | 09 | To deliver a series of workshops (English, Maths, ICT, Employability and ESOL) including a City and Guilds qualification for up to 140 unemployed people in Redbridge over one year. | £4,000 | 31/01/2017 |
| Sophia Hubs Limited | 09 | To fund a series of events promoting young entrepreneurs, Independant traders and green businesses. | £3,057.63 | 31/01/2017 |
| Forest Farm Peace Garden | 09 | To pay for software, training and sessional workers to help build capacity for the organisation. | £2,500 | 31/01/2017 |
| Bridging Families CIC | 09 | To fund five sessions of parenting support and 1-1 mentoring for 30 parents in two locations in Redbridge, over a ten-week period. | £2,500 | 31/01/2017 |
| Round 9 awarded total | £17,057.63 |
