The Mayor wants to back projects that:

• Celebrate and strengthen the special character of your area
• Respond to a local challenge or opportunity in a creative way 
• Give an unused space a new lease of life 
• Help the local economy
• Give local people lasting skills and opportunities
• Improve environmental sustainability 
• Make everyone in the community feel welcome and involved
• Attract strong support from the community - shown via a spirited crowdfunding campaign and other evidence

This is a fund to support grass-roots neigbourhood improvement and not business ideas or proposals without a clear location / community beneficiary.

Projects could:

• help to make your high street a better place to visit or do business,
• improve or establish a local market,
• give a new lease of life to an unloved space or empty building,
• improve access to healthy and affordable food
• create a beautiful new green space or cultural feature that attracts people to the area

Ensure you read all of the information under 'Get Involved 2020' on our website before pitching to this fund: https://www.london.gov.uk/crowdfunding 

We are really interested in the quality and originality of your idea – why does it respond specifically to a challenge or opportunity in your neighbourhood? We don’t want to pay for Christmas lights, or playground equipment from a catalogue (things that could be anywhere), we want to know why your project is tailored specifically to the needs of your community. 

The best ideas will:

• empower your community
• grow local prosperity
• make a place better, for everyone

We're looking for ideas that show innovation and enterprise and aspire to achieve a wider social good.

Attend an event - to find out more about the programme and to be in the best position to get a pledge, attend one of our many free briefing events thorughout the city in mid October 2019. Click here to register. 

Fill out the 'Crowdfund London Project Form' by the 18th of November. By filling out this form on time you will unlock additional resources and invitations to follow-up events thorugh out December and early January. 

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 13th of January 2020 and enter verifation
4. Your project will be verified to check the costs and permissions
5. Start your crowdfunding campaign by the 27th of January  (we want to see 100-150 local backers)
6. We'll pledge alongside the crowd in mid March- if your pitch to us is successful
7. Hit your target by the 25th of May
8. Recieve your funds and deliver your project in late summer 2020.