This fund is designed to support projects with both capital and revenue funding with pledges between £500-£5,000 available. Individuals, newly formed community groups, small organisations (turnover less than £50K) are eligible.

We are looking to support projects which:

1. Bring People Together
2. Improve Public Spaces
3. Help Local Economies

Bring People Together by:

• Improving public spaces to accommodate more cultural activities
• Supporting grass-roots social and cultural organisations and projects such as inter-generational arts or heritage projects, co-design and creation of public artworks, or setting-up a community choir
• Supporting local communities’ health and wellbeing, both physical and mental, through projects such as dance classes for older people, sewing workshops for women with English as a second language or poetry writing for mental health service users, for instance

Improve Public Spaces by

• Bringing unused spaces and routes to life through lighting, greening, public art or other cultural activities
• Making streets safer and more sociable
• Improving access and quality of local green spaces such as shared gardens or pocket parks

Help Local Economies by

• Setting up new shared or open access resources or facilities, such as shared workshops, community kitchens or tool libraries
• Addressing new neighbourhood workspace needs

We want to support projects which:

• Celebrate and strengthen the special character of your area
• Respond to a local challenge or opportunity in a creative way
• Representative of local interests and priorities
• Give local people lasting skills and opportunities
• Make everyone in the community feel welcome and involved
• Are environmentally sustainable
• Engage local people in co-design processes

For Tier 1 projects we will fund up to 100% of project costs, to a maximum value of £5,000, provided you can demonstrate local support. By running a campaign on Spacehive you can demonstate the local support by capturing donations to the project from people and organisations in your local area.

Fill out the 'Mayor of London Crowdfunding Project Form' by the 16th of October. By filling out this form on time you will unlock additional resources and invitations to follow-up events thorugh out late October and November. 

Process and key dates

1. Create a project page on Spacehive outlining your idea
2. Get matched to our fund and others
3. Pitch for a pledge from our fund by the 26th of November and enter verifation
4. Your project will be verified to check the costs and permissions during December
5. Start your crowdfunding campaign by the 8th of January  (to demonstrate local support, we would like to see 20 local backers)
6. We'll pledge alongside the crowd in mid February- if your pitch to us is successful
7. Hit your target by the 8th of April
8. Recieve your funds and deliver your project in mid summer 2021.