Deadline to get involved in the next funding round for both the Transform your Space fund and the Transform Your Space: The Young People’s Fund, is the 27th of January. 

If you are interested in getting involved you need to have created your project by the 27th of January. Along with pledges from your local community, there is an opportunity to get a pledge from the council towards your crowdfunding campaign. 

We will be running a number of events letting people know about the opportunity to get involved throughout November and December. Complete our expression of interest form so we know you are interested in attending and we can send you more information. 

Read below to understand the process and how to get involved.

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. A member of the team will be in touch to provide you with the necessary information and support you may need to help get your project started. We willalso invite you to attend the free events in November and December. 

2.    PROJECT PAGE AND PITCH

Create your online project page which will match you to the Transform your Space fund and the Transform Your Space: The Young People’s Fund, and you will be invited to pitch for a pledge through the Spacehive website. See here for more information on the funds. For the Young People's Fund (anyone aged 16-24yr) there is an additional information available here.   

When pitching to the council, you will be asked some additional questions about your project. You must pitch to both funds by the 27th of January! 

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 between late January and  April 2020. 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

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

6. HIT YOUR TARGET AND DELIVER YOUR PROJECT

Please note that the council will not be the first organisation to pledge to your project and will want to see community support and backing, in the form of smaller pledges from local people, before they pledge to your campaign. 

Ealing Council actively supports residents who come up with ideas to improve where they live, and bring people together from all ages and backgrounds; gathering support locally from neighbours, family and friends and getting some financial help to start their projects.

Over the past few years successful Transform Your Space projects have been delivered with residents working in partnership with the council to transform local spaces near them – read their stories and follow their example.

Woodland Oasis in the Heart of Industry

Katherine Buchan Meadow

The Piggeries

Transforming Copley Close 

TYS2 garden 4 everyone

Horsenden Grape and Honey Farm

Creating a Cherry Tree Walk @West Acton

You too can submit your idea, get the crowd to show support for your project and the help you need to turn your project idea into reality! This is already happening this summer 2019 with 

Acton Unframed

Sowing a Community

Western Road Urban Garden

Keep watching this space as we will be launching another round in Autumn 2019 to help fund projects that use open and urbanised spaces differently and bring them (back) into use for the general public. We will support projects that involve and engage young people aged 16-25 years. We will be looking to support as many schemes as possible by encouraging you to match fund at least 50% of your project's costs.

To help you get started, have a look at our list of ways you can get the word out here.

You can also take a look at dosomethinggood.org.uk or email dosomethinggood@ealing.gov.uk if you have an idea and want to talk with a member of the Community Management Team in the council.