Community Infrastructure Levy Neighbourhood Fund - Approved Grants

Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust

£145,500 to fund the salary of a Cancer Support Specialist to provide expert support for anyone with cancer and all the people who love them in the City, through 1:1’s, group sessions and workshops across two years.

Tower Hamlets Youth Sport Foundation

£84,868 over three years towards coaching qualifications for the young people and contributions towards coaching fees, venue hire, equipment/kits, and administration/management.

Aldgate Business Partnership Ltd

£65,848 across 12 months to fund community engagement, temporary installations/improvements for Vine Street and related launch event in deliverance of the Aldgate Public Realm strategy plus the cleaning of the Vine Street railway arches brickwork.

Union Street Consulting Limited

£78,750 for three consultants, a postgraduate researcher, a design specialist and travel and equipment over seven months to develop a plan in consultation with key stakeholders for a new City of London Faith/Belief/Worldview Centre aiming to foster community engagement, understanding and encounter.

Livery Committee

£12,000 across one year to organise and host three EEDI training sessions for Livery representatives, to share best practice and foster improved outcomes.

SocietyLinks Tower Hamlets

£90,238 over 18 months to provide a sports programme for young people in the City of London, including gym, swimming and football.

Publica Community and Research

£69,000 over one year towards ‘Right to the City’- a gender inclusion in the public realm project consisting in night walks, a youth design challenge and a celebration event.

WeSwim CIC

£13,311 across one year to support Barbican swims! Inclusive swimming program for disabled residents, building a stronger community in the pool.

Forget Me Not Memory Cafe

£54,022 across two years (Year 1 £26,303; Year 2 £27,719) to increase community cohesion across low income and disadvantaged City of London communities through a two-year programme of creative activity, social eating and exercise to reduce social isolation and improve health, happiness and social connections.

London Symphony Orchestra

£454,642 (£86,129; £368,513) for two years to fund LSO St Luke’s Future Ready: a world-leading hub for musical creativity, learning, performance and recording, nationally important and locally cherished.

Age UK City of London

£99,000 (£49,500; £49,500) across two years towards a part-time co-ordinator post, project running costs and core costs.

Friends of City Gardens

£19,700 across one year to record data on abundance and temporal behaviour of bats and Black Redstarts on green roofs in the City to inform conservation and management priorities.

Hackney Council for Voluntary Service

£76,565 over one year to fund Phase 1 of a programme to develop a stronger, more connected and thriving voluntary and community sector (VCS) in the City of London to improve local health and wellbeing outcomes.

Urban Learners Community CIC

£56,000 across one year towards The Sculpture in the City (SITC) Education Outreach and Volunteering Programme 2024, for local state-school pupils, City-worker volunteers, and Family Activities for local communities conditional of evidencing the setup of the CIC and additional directors.

West Ham Park Charity

£20,000 over one year towards the design, development, and production of an installation in the City of London celebrating West Ham Park 150th Anniversary and its historic connections to the Square Mile.

Thames Reach Charity

£80,089 (£18,895; £30,591; £30,603) over 30.5 months to fund breakfast food, hot meals (provided by the Felix Project) and other food supplies to supplement donations from City Harvest at Snow Hill Court Assessment Centre.

Ozero Arts

£59,927 towards Classical Pride 2024 – a diverse series of artistically outstanding concerts celebrating Pride in classical music, primarily taking place in and around the Barbican.

Partnership for Young London

£53,000 over five years (£9,600; £10,100; £10,600; £11,100; £11,600) to contribute to the costs of the annual celebration event, advisory board remuneration and staff support costs to deliver Shinning Stars.

Pollinating London Together

£270,000 across two years (Year 1 £130,000; Year 2 £140,000) to continue to employ a full-time ecologist and also support additional ecology expertise and expanded project activity, associated administration, and communications costs.

New London Architecture

£65,000 over one year towards the base salaries of the Communications Manager and Content Creator of One City and an impact study to evaluate the platform.

Tempo Time Credits

£24,934 across one year to create a pathway for volunteering that supports the recruitment and retainment of volunteers through the use of Time Credits.

Ramadan Tent Project Limited

£38,800 for the event costs of an Open Iftar at the Guildhall during Ramadan 2024.

St Bartholomew Gatehouse Trust

£24,000 to renovate the exterior of the historic gatehouse at St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield.

The Lord Mayor's Appeal

£90,000 tapered across three years to support The Lord Mayor’s Appeal in navigating a challenging external environment with rising running costs and transition the We Can Be programme to a sustainable future operating model.

The Running Charity

£42,652 for one year to support Do Good, Feel Good: promoting wellness in the City of London funding a full-time programme coach for disadvantaged young people and contributing to support costs for a holistic health club.

Tavistock Relationships

£49,952 to support one year of low fee/no fee counselling/therapy service for residents and City workers, particularly focused on people in need who could not usually afford therapy.

East London Dance

£49,922 to deliver 3 live participatory dance events for City of London residents and workers in Bartholomew Fair, building a legacy community dance programme co-designed by local residents.

Aveo Group Ltd

£49,795 to deliver co-design workshops to create vibrant street dressing, celebrating the diverse Aldgate and Portsoken communities, to be showcased throughout Destination City’s Bartholomew Fair programme.

Barbican Association

£449,550 to construct a community room in the Barbican Library.

Whizz-Kidz

£10,200 to deliver family-friendly activities in the City of London to celebrate ‘Morph’s Epic Art Adventure’, London’s first step-free and accessible sculpture trail.

ARTBASH & be

£75,210 to create six steel enamelled panels to line the walkway of Globe View. The design will be informed by intergenerational groups from the local community.

Age UK City of London

£40,950 over one year to fund management and project costs to deliver a range of needs-led activities, whilst building and maintaining effective long-term relations with local agencies and services.

St. Giles without Cripplegate

£17,336 to determine the cause, and remedial action for deteriorated Purbeck floor, and conservation of surviving medieval masonry which is damaged by salts activity.

Ramadan Tent Project

£13,550 to support the event costs of an Open Iftar at the Guildhall Library on 6th April 2023.

Tempo Time Credits Ltd

£24,934 over a year towards delivering Time Credits supporting volunteer retention and community impact.

New Diorama

£181,000 over two years (£90,400; £90,600) towards Artists in the City - supporting and connecting independent artist communities.

LIFT

£240,870 over three years (£35,970; £74,085; £130,815) to support an inclusive and sustainable cultural rebuild in the City of London through large-scale international performance and outreach that engages City workers, residents and visitors.

St Botolph without Aldgate

£50,000 towards a two-storey extension to the Grade I church, providing accessible WCs and facilities for the community and support the sustainable future of St Botolph’s.

St Stephen Walbrook

£25,067 in one year to fund the installation of a Streaming and Recording System within the church of St Stephen Walbrook, which will enable livestreaming and recording of services, concerts and other events.

Barbican Centre Trust Limited

£273,370 over 12 months to deliver the second year of the Creative Communities programme, collaborating with partners across the City to strengthen connections with and between neighbours and the culture on their doorstep.

St. Michael Cornhill

£7,855 over six months to fund five benches, a tree bench, miscellaneous equipment and a gardening shed.

The Temple Church

£408,500 over four years ((£336,000; £32,500; £20,000; £20,000) towards the capital costs (getting to RIBA 3) and the salary of a part-time Outreach Manager plus 18 months of funding for a part-time Fundraising Manager.

Barts Heritage

£774,000 over 5 years (£120,000; £97,000; £256,000; £256,000; £45,000) for Barts Heritage community activity programme.

XLP

£46,824 over three years (£15,000; £15,600; £16,224) to support the ‘Ready to Work’ programme which equips young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) to be work ready and to remain in employment.

Curving Road

£24,000 in one year to support two weekend festivals of performances and exhibitions featuring 20 artists from the Square Mile and beyond.

Historical Royal Palaces

£300,000 over one year for the hard-landscaping and infrastructure that will enable the Platinum Jubilee ‘Superbloom’ celebration.

Outset Contemporary Arts Fund

£110,932 over one year to support a delivery partnership securing long-term creative infrastructure, and rapid activation using short-term projects, to achieve “Fuelling Creative Renewal” and “Culture/Commerce Taskforce” strategic aims.

Pollinating London Together

£230,000 over two years (£112,500; £117,500) towards the post of a full-time Ecologist/Project Manager, administrative support, and related project costs.

Royal Society for Blind Children

£48,464 over one year towards the costs of the first year's operating costs of the Life without Limits Centre.

Temple Bar Trust

£250,000 over five years (£50,000; £50,000; £50,000; £50,000; £50,000) to provide an educational programme for the local community, children and visitors, based in the refurbished Temple Bar and adjoining accommodation in Paternoster Lodge.

The World Reimagined Limited

£100,000 to fund the World Reimagined Sculpture Trail in May 2022.

New Diorama

£154,640 over nine months towards salary, operational and related project costs at the NDT Broadgate creative hub.

Barbican Centre Trust Limited

£39,663 Funding towards the cost of increasing project delivery for the Creative Communities programme within its first year.

Golden Lane Estate Residents' Association

£50,000 to improve cycle parking and accessibility for residents and visitors on the Golden Lane estate.

Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside

£18,274 towards the modernisation and adaptation of the sound panels and sound control doors to improve sound control and safety of the Bow Bells.

City Property Association Limited

£100,000 over two years (£50,000; £50,000) to support the One City project, the City of London's digital community. Funding for year two is conditional on the CPA providing significant evidence of the impact of this work.

Learning Through The Arts

£49,984 over two years (£24,992; £24,992) to provide a series of children and family workshops for residents using multiple art forms from African drumming to Storytelling during the school breaks and holidays.

Repowering Limited

£33,660 over two years (£26,877; £6,783) to support the capital costs for a 50kWp solar array to be installed on the Middlesex Street Estate and towards a two-year Community Champion role.

Barbican Centre Trust Limited

£191,067 over 12 months to deliver a Creative Communities programme, collaborating with partners across the City to strengthen connections with and between neighbours and the culture on their doorstep.

Globe Studios Limited

£198,633 over two years (£131,816; £66,817) to develop a creative studio and architecture/design library alongside a regular schedule of public, private and corporate creative classes.

Age UK City of London

£48,171 over two years (£23,847; £24,324) towards the salary and associated costs of a Coordinator role, plus the costs of delivering a range of activities.

Fleet Street Sundial CIC

£31,250 over five years (£23,250; £5,600; £800; £800; £800) to create the Fleet Street Sundial Artwork with its associated information plaques and to upgrade the website and provide ongoing maintenance.

Bevis Marks Synagogue Heritage Foundation

£240,000 over four years (£130,000; £70,000; £20,000; £20,000) towards the salary of a Community Officer, a programme of community outreach and the cost of restorative work and access improvements.

St Vedast-alias-Foster

£25,000 over one year to make the churchyard of St Mary Staining at the corner of Oat Lane fully accessible by replacing the steep steps with a graduated incline.

Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust

£254,827 over five years (£51,609; £50,000; £50,000; £51,609; £51,609) towards the salary of a Cancer Support Specialist and creation of a therapeutic garden at Barts Hospital.

Becket Pageant for London, acting through the Skinners' Malmesbury Foundation

£24,500 to fund the community outreach and engagement elements associated with the Beckett Pageant for London including the schools programme.