Make London has two tiers of funding:

• Tier 1: Up to £5,000 for small projects that start something new or grow an existing idea
• Tier 2: Up to £50,000 to support larger test projects for the city. At this tier you’ll need to crowdfund some of your project costs from other sources

For both tiers, Make London is looking for community-led ideas that help London recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

1. Bring People Together;

2. Improve Public Spaces; 

3. Support Community Hubs & High Streets

We’re looking for projects that will make your area even better, bring people together in a creative activity or help your local economy to thrive.

Projects Bringing People Together might include: 
Setting up inter-generational arts or heritage projects, or co-designing and creating public artworks

Projects to Improve Public Spaces could involve:
Making streets safer and more sociable by improving walking routes, installing outdoor seating or spill-out space, or pocket parks, growing spaces, or community farming

Support Community Hubs & High Streets:

• Testing temporary uses for vacant and underused spaces on your local high street; 

• Or establishing new open access resources such as community kitchens, tool libraries, or workshops

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.

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

Fill out the Make London Project Form' by the 21st of December. By filling out this form on time you will unlock additional resources and invitations to follow-up events thorugh out 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 28th of January and enter verifation
4. Your project will be verified to check the costs and permissions
5. Start your crowdfunding campaign by the 11th of February  (we want to see good community support and aim for 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 11th of May
8. Receive your funds and deliver your project in summer 2021. 

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 and small organisations (turnover less than £50K) are eligible.

We are looking to support projects which:

1. Bring People Together
2. Improve Public Spaces
3. Support Community Hubs and High Streets

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 vulnerable women 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

Support Community Hubs and High Streets

• 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 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 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 Make Lonodn Project Form by 21st December. By filling out this form on time you will unlock additional resources and invitations to follow-up events throughout 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 28th Janury and enter verifation
4. Your project will be verified to check the costs and permissions during February
5. Start your crowdfunding campaign by the 11th February (to demonstrate local support, we would like to see 20 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 11th May
8. Receive your funds and deliver your project in mid summer 2021.