Funding

Grant Process

Grants for 2014/15 opened Monday 3 November 2014. You can apply if:

• You are a properly constituted organisation.
• Your organisation is based within the Dalston ward.
• Your proposal falls within our funding priorities.
• The work for which you want funding has not already taken place.

The funding priorities for 2014/15 are: Change can be disruptive to a sense of community, and demographic change creates both new barriers and opportunities.

• Support those in the community who consciously seek to build links and create opportunities for inter community engagement.

Recent consultations have highlighted “getting residents to give back”, a key aim of the Community First programme.

• Encourage and facilitate, volunteering, improving the environment and fundraising for local community groups and projects.

Affordable housing in the Victorian terraced streets has over the years become fashionable and street properties are now beyond the affordability of many of the traditional local community.

• Create a voice in housing for those who feel they are not heard, in this process. In particular those who feel that they are being excluded because of the lack of affordable housing and projects giving advice to Dalstons homeless and tenants of private landlords

It is clear that the limitations placed on the life opportunities of young people in Dalston are a social blight that must be challenged.

• Empowering young people to develop themselves through engagement with cultural, economic and educational opportunities.

Online applications only for this grant round. When completing your application please:

• Make sure your project is ward focused and clearly demonstrates the checklist points in the application form.
•  One or more of the panel’s priorities for the ward is addressed by your project.
• Do not ask for more than the maximum grant amount. The average grant is likely to be for £1,000.00.

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Your application will be assessed by our Panel, which may involve asking for further information, or meeting you. If you would like to discuss your project please complete the contact form.

Completed applications should be returned to: Email – dcfpost@outlook.com

Projects Approved

2011/12

Perpetual Odyssey –  £2,000 The project will bring communities together through cultural performance workshops for local children.

Hackney Unites –  £1,400 The project will map the community resources within the ward through volunteers drawn from the unemployed residents.

2012/13

Hackney Units – £1000 The project will establish a private tenant’s campaign group through volunteers drawn from the unemployed residents.

Youth Skills Network – £2,484 The project will aim to equip aspiring young individuals with the skills & confidence to become E-Moguls.

Black & Ethnic Minority Arts Network – £1,000

Hackney Unites – £1,500 The project will undertake preparatory work to deliver a  week-long  community festival .

House of AMAU  – £980 The project will encourage local residents to volunteer with a literature development program.

Black and Ethnic Minority Arts Network  – £2,055 The project will stage a creative jobs faire for local residents.

Arcola Theatre  – 1,275 The project will encourage local residents to engage in local recycling programs.

Colvestone Family and Staff Association – £275 Towards the cost of the school fair.

2013/14

Daslton Eastern Curve Garden – £2,000 The project will establish a programme of outdoor educational activities for young children.

ReachOut FC – £1884 The project will provide weekly football training for young people.

East London Food Access – £1000 The project will provide fresh food delivery to local elderly residents.

Alevi Centre – £1000 The project will provide a series of Jewellery making classes for Turkish women.