Building Strong Communities Fund
Aim of the fund
We know that London’s communities have been hard hit by COVID-19. Some communities have been disproportionally affected, many of whom already experience long term inequality and disadvantage in areas such as health, employment, housing and access to green spaces.
The Mayor of London is offering funding for London equity-led voluntary and community sector organisations to enable communities to shape their recovery from COVID-19, through community-led projects that help meet one of the following outcomes:
- Londoners are supported to shape their communities post COVID-19, for example meeting new or pre-existing needs that have emerged or been highlighted by the pandemic, to develop community activities and services.
- Unheard voices are amplified and heard so that communities have influence and control over decisions, for example people from communities who are under-represented in decision making have opportunities to have their voices heard and shape change.
- Feelings of belonging are increased; loneliness and social isolation are decreased.
- Feelings of connection within and across communities are increased, for example relationships are strengthened between neighbours and communities.
These outcomes are related to the Building Strong Communities Mission work. You can find out more on the Building Strong Community page on Talk London.
In the final round we would also like to know if each submitted project is going to address the Cost-of-Living Crisis (COLC).
Recipients of the three rounds
Be inspired by the community-led projects that we have funded across the three rounds from this fund.