The Create Church Street fund is a £150,000 fund designed to support creative campaigns within the Church Street area. Organisations and individuals (aged 16 years +) eligible for a pledge. Organisations can receive up to £8,000 and/or 80% of their overall costs and individuals (aged 16 years +) can receive up to £4,000 and/or 80% of their overall costs.

We are interested in funding creative and environmental projects that benefit the residents of the Church Street Ward and Paddington Green estate. Some examples of the types of projects that could be delivered are: craft, sewing, establishing an edible garden, recycle and reuse projects, story writing, storytelling, audio-visual artworks, art, drawing, painting, digital technology, portraiture, literature, drama, film-making, publishing, video, pantomime, spoken word, photography, puppetry, dance, fashion, textiles, jewellery making, music, sculpture, printmaking, pottery, ceramics, graphic design, collage, calligraphy, stained glass, animation, gardening, cookery, floristry, hair and makeup, graffiti, interior design, murals.

Create Church Street is looking to promote community cohesion, reduce social exclusion and isolation, build a sense of belonging to the area, encourage greater local engagement with art or culture and make Church Street Ward a hub of creativity in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s vision is to create a great place where people want to live and where communities will thrive.

There are two rounds a year as part of this programme, in the Spring and in the Autumn. See the About page for an update on the latest deadlines. 

1.    EXPRESSION OF INTEREST/ ATTEND A WORKSHOP

Complete our expression of interest form at your earliest convenience to inform us of your project idea and knowledge of crowdfunding. 

2.    PROJECT PAGE AND PITCH

Create your online project page where your project will be matched to relevant local funds . 

3.    VERIFICATION

The project costs and necessary permissions will be checked by independent verifiers, Locality. This involves checking quotes for all the major items and if you have land owner permission for your project. 

4.    CROWDFUNDING

Run your crowdfunding campaign. Start by getting lots of small pledges from the community to show local support for your project. This will help unlock bigger pledges.

5.    PLEDGE

Westminster Council will review all project campaigns and successful projects will receieve a pledge. 

6. HIT YOUR TARGET AND DELIVER YOUR PROJECT

Projects which hit their target early can continue to raise money until their original deadline thorugh 'Overfunding'. Pledges will be collected and transfered to the project normally within 10 working days.

The Create Church Street fund is a £150,000 fund designed to support creative and environmental campaigns within the Church Street area. Organisations and individuals (aged 16 years +) eligible for a pledge. Organisations can receive up to £8,000 and/or 80% of their overall costs and individuals (aged 16 years +) can receive up to £4,000 and/or 80% of their overall costs.

We are interested in funding creative and environmental projects that benefit the residents of the Church Street Ward and Paddington Green estate. Some examples of the types of projects that could be delivered are: craft, sewing, establishing an edible garden, recycle and reuse projects, story writing, storytelling, audio-visual artworks, art, drawing, painting, digital technology, portraiture, literature, drama, film-making, publishing, video, pantomime, spoken word, photography, puppetry, dance, fashion, textiles, jewellery making, music, sculpture, printmaking, pottery, ceramics, graphic design, collage, calligraphy, stained glass, animation, gardening, cookery, floristry, hair and makeup, graffiti, interior design, murals.

Create Church Street is looking to promote community cohesion, reduce social exclusion and isolation, build a sense of belonging to the area, encourage greater local engagement with art or culture and make Church Street Ward a hub of creativity in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s vision is to create a great place where people want to live and where communities will thive.

There are two rounds a year as part of this programme, in the Spring and in the Autumn. See the About page for an update on the latest deadlines. 

1.    EXPRESSION OF INTEREST/ ATTEND A WORKSHOP

Complete our expression of interest form at your earliest convenience to inform us of your project idea and knowledge of crowdfunding. 

2.    PROJECT PAGE AND PITCH

Create your online project page where your project will be matched to relevant local funds . 

3.    VERIFICATION

The project costs and necessary permissions will be checked by independent verifiers, Locality. This involves checking quotes for all the major items and if you have land owner permission for your project. 

4.    CROWDFUNDING

Run your crowdfunding campaign. Start by getting lots of small pledges from the community to show local support for your project. This will help unlock bigger pledges.

5.    PLEDGE

Westminster Council will review all project campaigns and successful projects will receieve a pledge. 

6. HIT YOUR TARGET AND DELIVER YOUR PROJECT

Projects which hit their target early can continue to raise money until their original deadline thorugh 'Overfunding'. Pledges will be collected and transfered to the project normally within 10 working days.

The Westminster Community Enterprise Fund is a £100,000 capital fund designed to support enterprising campaigns within the borough of Westminster. Community groups, voluntary organisations and individuals who have an idea to support business and enterprise in their community are encouraged to submit projects. Projects can receive pledges of up to £15,000 and/or 50% of the overall costs.

We are interested in funding capital projects that encourage enterprise and support local residents to start up and grow their business. Some examples of projects that could be developed are: bringing a disused space into use to support local entrepeneurs, improving the high street to make it a better place to do business and increase footfall, providing local people the opportunity to trial business ventures, creating the right environment to support the local economy.

The Westminster Community Enterprise Fund is looking to support projects that encourage entrepeneurship. Good projects will create the right environment and support for individuals to start up in business and provide a space for community and social businesses that can positively benefit the local area. We are looking for unique and innovative ideas that will increase local business resilience, empower the community and create a city for all.

1.    EXPRESSION OF INTEREST/ ATTEND A WORKSHOP

Complete our expression of interest form at your earliest convenience to inform us of your project idea and knowledge of crowdfunding. 

2.    PROJECT PAGE AND PITCH

Create your online project page where your project will be matched to relevant local funds .

You need to have pitched by 21st of Oct in order to be part of the Autumn funding round. 

3.    VERIFICATION

The project costs and necessary permissions will be checked by independent verifiers, Locality. This involves checking quotes for all the major items and if you have land owner permission for your project. 

4.    CROWDFUNDING

Run your crowdfunding campaign from mid October. Start by getting lots of small pledges from the community to show local support for your project. This will help unlock bigger pledges.

5.    PLEDGE

Westminster Council will review all project campaigns and successful projects can expect to receive a pledge in early November.

6. HIT YOUR TARGET AND DELIVER YOUR PROJECT

Projects which hit their target early can continue to raise money until their original deadline thorugh 'Overfunding'. Pledges will be collected and transfered to the project normally within 10 working days.