Skip to main content
Mayor of London logo London Assembly logo
Home

The Mayor Sadiq Khan, together with the London Economic Action Partnership (LEAP), have so far awarded more than £75 million to help realise 138 innovative regeneration projects.

These projects will give power to local people, make better places and grow prosperity across our capital.

Good Growth Fund Accelerator

In response to the economic impact of COVID-19 the Mayor of London was allocated £22.1 million from the Government’s Getting Building Fund for a package of projects to boost economic growth, and fuel local recovery and jobs. This followed a submission coordinated by the Greater London Authority (GLA), working with London Councils, and London’s local authorities. You can read more here.

Projects to be delivered by March 2023 include the Good Growth Fund Accelerator.

The Accelerator provides grant funding to London boroughs to support the delivery of nine projects, spanning London.

The projects will be delivered in partnership with local organisations and funding will be used to support recovery, regenerate town centres and improve high streets by enhancing:

  • the public realm and creating a diverse range of workspaces
  • creative hubs for fashion, art, performance space and production
  • small scale manufacturing and market hubs
  • sustainable travel solutions by improving walking and cycling facilities.

Project

Description

Funding allocated

Erith Regeneration Programme Phase II

This investment will bring forward two projects which will enhance key areas of public realm and have a positive effect on the perceptions of Erith, and on footfall in the town centre. This in turn will benefit local businesses.

Pier Road - Improve the tired and cluttered Pier Road public realm to create an attractive, active, pedestrian and cyclist-friendly high street encouraging people to spend more time in the town centre.

Erith High Street - Improve access to the gardens and riverfront making it safer for pedestrians and cyclists and adding to the impact and enhancement of important amenity space. It will also contribute to improving land and sales values for nearby development sites aiding their viability.

£900,000

Catford Youth Training Hub and Holbeach Road public realm improvements

This will be the first project delivered in the Catford Town Centre masterplan area, serving the local population of Lewisham between Downham/ Bellingham and Lewisham.

Youth Employment and Training Hub - Refurbishment and conversion of a council-owned building to provide non-statutory jobs and skills hub with a multi-agency approach via the Lewisham Deal Partnership encompassing Lewisham Homes, Phoenix Community Housing Association, Lewisham College, Lewisham hospital and London University, plus provision from specialist youth support groups.

Holbeach Road - Public realm improvements including market infrastructure to the pedestrianised area of Holbeach Road which runs along the side of the building, and also fronts the Catford Mews Cinema.

£989,000

Reimagining Kingston Town Centre

To reuse part of a major retail site as a catalyst for a range of projects to increase commercial and social value and set the tone for further development that complements the core retail offer of the town centre.

The Undercroft (Factory of Futures) - Will transform an empty undercroft into a space for creatives and new creative enterprises. This activity is designed to align with a number of local organisations including Kingston University, Kingston College and Creative Youth to deliver inclusive and diverse programming and engage young people as core beneficiaries.

Connected Kingston - Public realm improvements as identified in the Reimagining Kingston Strategy to animate the neglected riverside area and open up spaces and alleyways as natural routes into the Market Place/town centre.

£900,000

North End Road

A multi-faceted place-based project focused on improving the high street and market along North End Road.

Public realm - Deliver additional public realm improvements around the proposed building at Zero Coomer Place and will support the closure of North End Road to through traffic during market trading hours, creating a step-change enhancement to the pedestrian experience.

Zero Coomer Place building - Design work up to Planning to secure design quality and reduce the risk, thereby allowing the council to test new forms of asset management that can create social value. Inclusion of additional low energy/carbon neutral infrastructure and equipment in the new building. The council will also investigate the potential to use the funding to support the fit-out a commercial-grade kitchen space to support the creation of a food-focused hub and attract a greater variety of prospective operators and users.

£1,000,000

Queen's Crescent - The Heart of Gospel Oak

To deliver considerable enhancements to the existing Good Growth Fund scheme of public realm improvements.

Queen's Crescent - Implement ambitious changes to the highway to create a pedestrian/cyclist zone as well as considerably more public realm within a key neighbourhood centre. Funding will deliver an integrated, phased masterplan for the street, implement street activation projects including planting and seating as well as create additional activation and engagement activities. The council will support traders on the street to become resilient to future challenges and secure opportunities around changing consumer patterns as a result of the pandemic.

£813,000

Chapel Market

To improve operation and business development in Chapel Market in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic and support the needs of a diverse local community

Public realm - Introducing new spaces to dwell and enjoy the market; improving accessibility for pedestrians; improving the air quality in the area by reducing traffic locally; accommodating social distancing requirements; attracting a diverse range of existing and new shoppers; and improving the provision of services to traders including electricity points, hot water and secure storage.

Supporting traders and sustainable micro-businesses -

Providing business development training to existing stall-holders; attracting new stall-holders through one-off events and outreach to youth groups, and offering
on-site support and guidance for Covid-safe and sustainable market operations.

Activating the market as the heart of the Angel - Securing the future of the market as a vibrant place to shop, trade and visit, by delivering a number of specialist events e.g. Spring Fair; outreach to under-represented groups; and, promoting the benefits of 'shop local' and the heritage of Chapel Market.

£998,000

The Spark, Ilford

The project in Ilford town centre complements the Good Growth funded refurbishment of the listed town hall as artist workspace; conversion of a car park into a covered market; the refurbishment of a warehouse; and fit-out of a space within a Salvation Army scheme.

Janice Mews / Hydrophonic High Street - The additional investment will bring a vacant unit back into economic use creating workspace and jobs as providing a platform to raise the profile of urban growing and deliver an educational event.

£500,000

Green Street and Queen's Market

The investment will deliver a strategic town centre project that will bring in new programmes and activities needed in the town centre as identified by the local community. This will be delivered alongside the agreed Good Growth Fund project.

High Street Recovery - To bolster and expand a series of high street public realm improvements to attract more residents and shoppers to Green Street. This investment will support the social distancing measures the council has already put in place to widen footways along the high street.

Queen's Market and Affordable Workspace - Additional improvements to Queen's Market to support existing traders, attract new traders and support the vitality and appeal of the market. The council will also assess what other uses can be facilitated to support its affordable workspace programme and fit-out vacant units which would be managed and let by the workspace provider that is appointed for the wider Good Growth Fund project.

£1200,000

Connecting Wood Green

Build on and connect into the existing Good Growth Fund projects for Wood Green, to help improve the footfall to the town centre and support economic recovery by strengthing connectivity and wayfinding. The proposals also build on the forthcoming Haringey Walking and Cycling Action Plan, Haringey's Good Economy Recovery Plan and Re-opening the High Street s project.

Mayes Road (Phase 2) - Public realm improvements including SUDS, footway widening and green infrastructure.

Barrett Gardens - Co-design of public realm improvements, including SUDS, green infrastructure, improving connectivity and accessibility and creating an amenity and play space.

Wood Green Mall Artwork - Co-design and community engagement for a public artwork intervention.

£800,000

Round 3 supported projects

The Mayor has announced a final £23.7 million to support more than 40 forward-thinking regeneration projects across the capital.

This funding round will create or safeguard more than 2,000 jobs, support almost 5,000 business, help 1,500 people progress into work, bring 150 empty units back into use in local high streets and create more than 12,000 volunteering opportunities.

Several projects will receive £2.3 million to deliver improvements in air quality, through innovative projects to reduce the reliance on diesel generators for Londoners living on the canal network.

Read the Mayor's announcement.

Project and applicant

Description

Funding allocated

Adaptive Wood Green,

London Borough of Haringey

A strategic area-based regeneration project that includes co-designed youth and social inclusion projects and the creation of safe routes to schools in Wood Green and Noel Park to improve street greening, air quality and promote active travel. The project also includes an innovative approach to address issues facing the local high street using a town centre re-positioning strategy and a pilot project to convert an existing retail unit into a piece of civic infrastructure.

£972,500

Fore Street, Angel Edmonton,

London Borough of Enfield

A high street focused local regeneration project based in Angel Edmonton comprising an ‘urban room’ for community engagement, the creation of low-cost office and retail space in disused garages and a laundry yard, and public realm improvements at targeted spots along Fore Street. The project also includes a programme of business support, the creation of employment and skills opportunities and the development of a strategic area plan.

£1,100,000

Green Street and Queens Market,

London Borough of Newham

A strategic town centre project that includes improving Green Street high street and intensifies Queen's Market by bringing in new programmes and activities needed in the town centre as identified by the local community.

£2,000,000

Market Garden City,

London Borough of Waltham Forest and London Borough of Haringey

To create two growing hubs in LB Waltham Forest and LB Haringey for community food education and distribution, creating opportunities for skills, employment and connection with nature for local people. The project will directly engage diverse local groups through skills, training, engagement and volunteer programmes, and is taking an innovative design approach that champions low carbon technologies and circular economy design principles

£1,195,700

Reimagining Rich Mix,

Rich Mix Cultural Foundation

An expansion of Rich Mix to introduce a new open ground floor, expanded Stage area, a new frontage onto Redchurch Street and enhanced frontage onto Bethnal Green Road, increasing free or low-cost performance and exhibition space and learning space for the benefit of BAME local, and other diverse artists, residents and school children.

£550,000

Securing the future of The Yard Theatre and Hub67,

The Yard Theatre

New build community focused theatre and community hub, to secure the long-term home of a nationally significant cultural organisation. The project includes new programmes to increase the rate of participation amongst a diverse community into opportunities provided through the creative industries. Combining The Yard and Hub67 into one place help to create social inclusive space in Hackney.

£1,140,000

Music and Dance

Digital Hub,

Urban Developments

A new home for Urban Development and East London Dance within the Sugar House Island development will provide affordable workspace, dance facilities, recording studios and teaching space; aiming to address the needs of young people from east London helping them to access opportunities in the creative industries.

£350,000

Harrow Road Place Plan,

Westminster City Council

Harrow Road Place Plan is a place-based strategy and delivery plan aimed at supporting one of London’s most deprived communities, with the development of key capital projects along the high street, including the Maida Hill Market support.

£900,000

North End Road - A Community Led Re-Design,

London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham

A multi-faceted place-based project focused on improving the high street and market along North End Road.

£1,000,000

Open Havelock,

Catalyst Housing Ltd

To deliver a new canoe club, multi-use sports facility, and workspace, alongside a new play space within the Havelock Estate utilising a series of undercroft spaces that are currently fenced off. The project will also improve the public realm to the Estate's edge with the Grand Union Canal and deliver an innovative evaluation programme to monitor the long-term impact.

£517,587

Westway Community Street,

Westway Trust

The 'Community Street' is a ten-year vision providing physical improvements and renewal as well as better economic opportunities for people in North Kensington. It aims to bring together what is currently a series of disjointed spaces, to create a more cohesive place to better support the community. This project builds on the findings of the previous co-design urban strategy and delivery plan for the 23 hectares underneath the Westway.

£1,346,000

Centre of Memory and Learning: 28 Penton Street,

The Liliesleaf Trust UK

To create the first space to engage users in the UK’s role in the international Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). Redeveloping 28 Penton Street, the former London HQ of the African National Congress (ANC), the project will inspire Londoners through a programme of education and engagement drawing from the legacy of one of the most powerful social histories of the 20th Century.

£1,000,000

Ludham Undercroft,

London School of Mosaic

To address the lack of affordable artist workspace in Camden by creating private and rented studios and flexible membership options for local artists. Camden is supportive.

£766,000

Securing a future home,

King's Head Theatre

After 49 years, the King’s Head Theatre, one of London’s longest running and best loved LGBTQ+ venues, is moving and evolving into the home of young creative theatre companies, with a purpose-built new theatre, a main auditorium, a studio theatre and cafe/bar providing a creative hub with a dedicated training programme. It will also provide training and mentoring for the next generation of small creative businesses.

£800,000

West London Disability Hub,

Action on Disability

To create a new community and service centre for disabled Londoners. The centre will provide benefits advice, employability training, employer training as well as independent living courses. The works will fit out a ground floor unit within a new-build development, as well as create a new community garden space at the back of the community centre.

£153,670

Connecting Camberwell,

Southwark Council

To improve and unlock key areas of public realm that are most used by vulnerable people and local businesses as well as provide improvements to the high street including shop front improvements, meanwhile activation, business support and public art. The project is underpinned by the new Area Plan and engagement with a focus on local young people.

£1,499,000

Connecting Kenley,

Croydon Council

Based on in-depth local engagement, the project will provide a coordinated package of public realm, community space, sustainable transport and business support measures to bring together different parts of the community and provide civic infrastructure to enable good growth. The development of the Community Plan has already galvanised local stakeholders and established a community steering group.

£878,776

Old Vic Annex: A New Civic Cultural and Social Hub,

The Old Vic Theatre Trust

The project will deliver a new five-storey education, community and artist development space to form a social hub housing at Clore Learning Centre, a flexible studio space and a café-workspace with a play library for young and local people.

£500,000

Raise the Barn,

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses

To create a flexible, multi-functional space with a teaching kitchen, classroom and outdoor learning yard at Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses.

£160,000

Sutton Works,

London Borough of Sutton - Opportunity Sutton

As part of a strategic plan to diversify Sutton Town Centre, the council has purchased the former BHS building on the high street to create a new multi-use workspace and community facility called ‘Sutton Works’. The project will provide affordable and flexible workspace, a publicly accessible roof garden and a programme of free community events. Sutton Works is part of the council’s plan to develop a life science cluster in the Borough and will provide a high street venue to showcase the opportunity.

£1,300,000

The Charlton Workstack,

The Greenwich Enterprise Board

The Charlton Workstack project is an innovative new approach to industrial intensification. It is a new building providing 14 new stacked industrial workspaces in Charlton Riverside. Delivered by the Greenwich Enterprise Board, the spaces will provide much needed high-quality industrial workspace in an area undergoing significant regeneration.

£700,000

Thomas' Lane Yard,

London Borough of Lewisham

Thomas’ Lane Yard is the first phase of Catford’s regeneration plan and will set the tone for good growth to come. The project includes the restoration of an important local asset, the Catford Constitutional Club, as a cultural and community venue with a reinstated pub. The Georgian extension facing the yard will be refurbished and fitted out as a test kitchen and events space. Thomas’ Lane Yard itself will be the site of new affordable workspace for SMEs and micro-businesses with an inviting public realm.

£1,650,000

Fleet electrification infrastructure development,

Islington Council

To electrify Islington's refuge collection fleet through the provision of up to 150 smart chargers at the Waste and Recycling Centre. This will help minimise the grid connection requirement, while also providing a charging provision for the entire EV-ready council fleet. To allow this, power capacity must be upgraded to 2600kVA, made possible through a back-office management system.

£1,485,000

London Low Emission Waterways,

London Borough of Camden

To reduce pollution on waterways in Camden by targeting canal users who rely on diesel power to generate electricity at mooring spots. This will pilot the installation of electric chargers for boats at 6 locations, allowing users to receive power from the Grid.

£65,500

South Central Hackney Air Quality/

Active Travel,

London Borough of Hackney

A series of improvements to Broadway Market and surrounding areas, with an ultimate vision of reducing vehicular through-traffic and increasing cycling. This will consist of a bus gate, removal and re-allocation of parking area to public realm, clean air route and a wider package of interventions to compliment an expanded Zero Emissions Network.

£346,000

The Grid Project,

Film London

To install mains electrical supply cabinets at 3 film unit bases at three parks across London, to stop the usage of diesel generators. This will be available primarily for TV/Film use, but will also meet power requirements for cultural, sports and music events. Usage will be enforced as a mandatory requirement by Local Authorities and Royal Parks. The scheme will pilot at Victoria Park.

£402,282

Project

Funding allocated

A Theatre For All

£50,000

Centre for Artisan Accessory and Leather Makers

£50,000

Circular Economy Department Store

£50,000

Finchley Square

£50,000

Petticoat Lane Market

£30,000

Bridging Gaps: Lower Marsh and Waterloo Station

£30,000

Camden Community Markets

£50,000

Doddington Growing

£30,000

East End Women's Museum

£50,000

Pollards Hill

£50,000

Goldsmiths - Deptford Town Hall

£50,000

Peckham Coal Line (Queens Road Peckham)

£50,000

Community Brain Tolworth

£50,000

Hackney Central Town Centre

£50,000

Highams Park and Chingford – Creating a child friendly district

£50,000

Stratford

£150,000

Funding awards

Round 2 supported projects

The Mayor has awarded more than £30 million to projects which will boost local economies, improve the environment and bring people together in some of London’s most deprived communities.

From a total of 161 initial applications for £125 million, 33 projects from across the city will support Londoners in areas with high levels of unemployment, youth violence and poor mental health, by supporting the creation of new jobs, investing in community assets and driving sustainable economic growth.

Read more

Project and applicant

Description

Funding allocated

A new parent-led childcare enterprise for local parents in Deptford, Lewisham,

New Economics Foundation

To deliver genuinely affordable workspace to address local childcare needs.

£81,400

Affordable Artist Studios at St Bernard's Chapel,

Catalyst Housing Limited, Ealing

To transform St Bernard’s Chapel to accommodate creative workspace and studios.

£533,713

Community-Led Regeneration: The Blue Market,

London Borough of Southwark

Turn Bermondsey’s historic town centre and street market into a thriving area, building on The Blue’s identity as the ‘Larder of London’.

£2,312,500

Boston Manor, Community and Creative Catalyst,

London Borough of Hounslow

Deliver affordable creative makerspaces and a marketplace as part of an ambitious restoration of Boston Manor House and Park

£490,000

Bridging Neighbourhoods - Growing Talent,

English National Ballet, Tower Hamlets

Deliver a multi-disciplinary creative hub on the Lea River Estuary promoting community programming and skills development.

£1,000,000

Centre 404 Build Our Future,

Centre 404, Islington

Provide space for much-needed additional support and services for people with learning disabilities and carers from the LGBTQ+ community.

£640,000

Church Street Triangle,

Westminster City Council

A range of high street improvements which set the tone for the delivery of the Church Street Regeneration programme.

£977,000

Enhancing Toynbee Hall's Spaces,

Toynbee Hall, Tower Hamlets

Bolster wellbeing spaces for valuable support services for the local community.

£340,000

Enterprising Tottenham High Road,

London Borough of Haringey

Transform Tottenham High Road into a centre for local enterprise.

£2,000,000

Erith Regeneration Programme Phase ll,

London Borough of Bexley

Investment into Phase II of the regeneration of Erith Town Centre which will provide a range of improvements, from business support to public realm interventions.

£1,600,000

Expanding Kensal's Creative Economy,

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

To support the Kensal Canalside Opportunity Area development and its local economy.

£1,000,000

FUTURE POLKA,

Polka Children's Theatre Ltd, Merton

To create new and refurbished performance, rehearsal, learning and play spaces at The Polka Children’s Theatre.

£1,200,000

Grahame Park Life - 'Bringing the Old Library Back to Life',

Notting Hill Genesis, Barnet

The “Old Library” will be transformed into a dynamic multi-use enterprise, skills and community hub in the heart of Grahame Park, Colindale.

£200,400

Grand Union Canal Activation,

Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation

A range of interventions to promote better use of the Grant Union Canal.

£1,200,000

Harrow Arts Centre,

Harrow Arts Centre - Harrow Council

To improve the civic and cultural infrastructure on the Harrow Arts Centre.

£760,000

Holloway Road – NYT,

National Theatre of Great Britain, Islington

To transform NYT’s Holloway Road building into a thriving cultural hub for young people.

£2,000,000

Improving Public Assets in Islington,

London Borough of Islington

A range of investments across Caledonian Road to better understand how the local community can benefit from the economy.

£350,000

Intensifying Barking's Industry,

Be First on behalf of London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

To showcase how a 1.8-acre under-utilised site in a Strategic Industrial Location (SIL) can be transformed into a model of how industrial land can be used.

£1,000,000

Kingsley Hall - at the heart of community life,

Livability, Barking and Dagenham

To transform the Kingsley Hall Church and Community Centre (KHCCC) into a central space for skills training and lifestyle activities.

£1,500,000

New Creative and Future Galleries (NCFG),

British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA), City of Westminster

To deliver a multipurpose creative space and gallery which will support underrepresented groups through Learning and New Talent outreach programmes.

£418,500

Opening up 46-50 Copperfield,

Ragged School Museum, Tower Hamlets

Deliver refurbishments to support the sustainable operations of a historic canal-side museum and learning environment.

£300,000

Project Beanstalk,

Pursuing Independent Paths (PiP), City of Westminster

Open a new delivery centre offering independent living and vocational skills training to adults with learning disabilities.

£256,224

Rainham SIL - Access and Innovation,

London Borough of Havering

To provide an Innovation Hub which will boost productivity and skills in Havering and across East London.

£1,631,940

Reigniting the Festival Church,

St. John's Waterloo, Lambeth

Deliver a state-of-the-art venue for training and technological education, economic development and arts and community events.

£760,000

Re-Imagining the Everyday Spaces in South Norwood,

London Borough of Croydon

To breathe life into South Norwood High Street through a range of high street improvements.

£1,161,426

Ridley Road - Dalston Town Centre,

London Borough of Hackney

To produce a regeneration strategy and delivery plan for Dalston town centre to ensure a clear vision is set for its future success.

£770,000

Securing Southwark Playhouse's Future,

Southwark Playhouse Theatre Company, Southwark

To fit out a purpose-built theatre at the Elephant and Castle into a new home for Southwark Playhouse Theatre.

£750,000

Securing the future of the Yard Theatre and Hub67 in Hackney Wick,

The Yard Theatre Limited, Tower Hamlets

Secure a long-term future for The Yard Theatre and Community Centre in Hackney Wick.

£900,000

Studio 3 Arts - Changing the Boundary,

Studio 3 Arts Ltd, Barking and Dagenham

To transform Studio 3 Arts' venue in Gascoigne Estate into a world-class cultural venue.

£500,000

The Africa Centre Capital Project,

The Africa Centre, Southwark

To redevelop a disused office building in Southwark to house the 21st century Africa Centre.

£1,600,000

The Bricklayers Arms Oasis,

London Borough of Southwark

To transform an underused and gated podium space into an urban oasis for the wider community to use.

£199,270

The Gramophone,

Really Local Group Limited, Hillingdon

To transform the Gramophone into an exciting new cultural and creative hub.

£1,200,000

Wandsworth Community Food Bus,

Feeding Britain, Wandsworth

To refurbish a bus that provides access to low cost healthy fresh food in areas of high depravation in Wandsworth.

£120,950

Regenerating Brixton’s Rec Quarter

London Borough of Lambeth

To deliver improvements to the public realm adjacent to the Rec to allow the street market to have a better environment, and to convert an unused storage space into STEM-focussed workspace £2,170,000

Goldsmiths Enterprise Hub

London Borough of Lewisham

Transforming a parade of shops on New Cross Road into a new enterprise space offering a range of practical support to freelancers, small local businesses and social enterprises. The Hub will connect great ideas from local entrepreneurs, small businesses, students and alumni with Goldsmiths research expertise, while also providing space for creative collaboration. £1,000,000

Round 1 supported projects

From over 200 initial bids for funding, 27 successful projects will receive a share of £24 million investment. Funded projects will help to boost local economies, bring people together and enhance the culture on offer.

In addition, a further 27 projects will receive a share of £1.6 million Development Funding to help scope and define projects further.

The fund is supporting a range of place-based, community, cultural and green infrastructure projects.

Project/applicant

Description

Funding allocated

Connecting Wood Green,

London Borough of Haringey

Funding will focus on a range of interventions, including affordable workspace, creating civic infrastructure, supporting SMEs and creating public realm improvements.

£900,000

SHEDx,

Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

Aiming to change local and wider perceptions of Tolworth, Shed X intends to encourage communities to become engaged in reimagining space through small scale interventions and opportunities to develop a sense of local pride.

£385,239

Lower Lea Threads,

The East London Fashion Cluster partnership, London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Delivering a wider Action Plan to spearhead innovation and inclusive growth of the fashion sector in East London, Lower Lea Threads aims to address structural and socio-economic challenges faced by local communities.

£1,993,792

Inclusive Growth in Finsbury Park,

London Borough of Islington

By providing affordable studio and workspace for community groups disadvantaged residents in Finsbury Park will be supported to set-up and grow their own businesses, and receive business support and training.

£1,030,000

Bedford House Community Centre - A Vital Community Development,

Holborn Community Association,

London Borough of Camden

Creating a sustainable and accessible community hub in the Holborn Community Association's 60-year-old community centre will enable a 50 per cent increase in service provision to the Holborn community and the provision of affordable workspace.

£600,000

Southbank Undercroft Transformation,

Southbank Centre / Long Live Southbank, London Borough of Lambeth

Delivering a dedicated HQ for The Southbank Centre’s new education programme, alongside an expanded and improved skate space, the undercroft project will permanently create inclusive and free-to-use community facilities for many young Londoners.

£700,000

Everyone Everyday,

Participatory City Foundation,

London Borough of Barking & Dagenham

This participatory programme in Barking & Dagenham will be supported through the development of a warehouse which will provide a range of facilities for local users, including a metal and wood workshop, industrial kitchen facilities, fabric workspace and teaching space.

£850,000

UK’s first national talent house for urban culture,

Urban Development and East, London Borough of Newham

A new home for Urban Development and East London Dance within the Sugar House Island development will provide affordable workspace, dance facilities, recording studios and teaching space; aiming to address the needs of young people from east London helping them to access opportunities in the creative industries.

£1,000,000

Waterloo Works,

London Borough of Lambeth

Creating a new Creative Digital Industry (CDI) workspace and community enterprise and skills hub, Waterloo Works will unlock a valuable public land asset within highly accessible location and bring organisations together in partnership to address the economic and equality challenges faced by local residents and SMEs in this central London location.

£90,000

Livesey Exchange,

London Borough of Southwark

By bringing together and supporting local people into sustainable employment, Livesey Exchange aims to build a space along the Old Kent Road for the many local young people who have been calling for spaces that they can use to develop and grow.

£267,300

Battersea Arts Centre Community Garden,

Battersea Arts Centre, London Borough of Wandsworth

Investment in Battersea Arts Centre will help provide an edible, sustainable community garden with artistic interpretation on a newly reopened and greened Town Hall Road in Lavender Hill, Clapham.

£150,000

Thamesmead Community, Enterprise & Learning Hub,

Peabody Trust, Royal Borough of Greenwich

By taking a co-design approach to reactivate a derelict social club and a set of under-road arches, Thamesmead Community Enterprise & Learning Hub will provide flexible civic spaces, affordable enterprise space and skills and training for local communities.

£1,150,000

Estate of Play Community Relaunch+B14,

SPID Theatre Company, London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

The refurbishment and expansion of Kensal House Estate’s community rooms will meet the ambition of expanding high quality, cultural, youth and intergenerational community led activities which empower the local neighbourhood.

£899,700

Mountview: A new public cultural hub for south London,

Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London Borough of Southwark

A world-leading drama school and public provider of high quality arts, education, skills-building and wellbeing activities, Mountview will soon have a new mixed-use cultural space in Peckham, providing an extensive offering to south London.

£843,543

Scrubs Lane,

Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC)

A range of activation projects along Scrubs Lane and at Willesden Junction will improve public realm, wayfinding and legibility, promoting local businesses and creativity, improving bio-diversity and amplifying local heritage.

£750,004

Somerset House,

Somerset House Trust, City of Westminster

For the provision of affordable space, bursaries for targeted groups, and opportunity to connect creative communities with digital expertise. It will target micro-creative businesses, recent graduates developing ideas for new creative-led business and social enterprises.

£501,000

Plumstead High Street,

Royal Borough of Greenwich

Project which will strengthen Plumstead High Street through shop front and public realm improvements, the development of site briefs and the provision of new affordable workspace in an historic power station building.

£2,510,000

198 CAL, Herne Hill,

198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, London Borough of Lambeth

The redevelopment of the 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning centre in Herne Hill will increase and improve space for the creation of visual arts, industry skills training and provide a new community resource.

£475,000

Mission Kitchen at the Food Exchange,

Covent Garden Market Authority, London Borough of Wandsworth

New open workspace, offering affordable kitchen space to food start-ups and SMEs and professional training to Londoners from all walks of life, will transform New Covent Garden Market into a hub for food enterprise and make it a public destination.

£2,957,505

The Spark,

London Borough of Redbridge

Investment in interlinked projects in Redbridge town centre will include the refurbishment of the listed town hall as artist workspace; conversion of a car park into a covered market; the refurbishment of a warehouse; and fit out of a space within a Salvation Army scheme.

£1,800,000

Fashion Enter Tailoring Academy,

London Borough of Haringey

London Borough of Haringey, in partnership with Fashion Enter, will establish a Tailoring Academy for London to provide essential skills related to the fashion industry, which are currently in short supply.

£430,000

The Friendship Garden and Pavilion at Lea Bridge Library – Spaces for Everyone,

London Borough of Waltham Forest

The construction of a conservatory café and exhibition area, a children’s play area and a series of flexible indoor and outdoor spaces which can be adapted for a range of community activities will transform the Grade II-listed library.

£410,300

VIY,

Volunteer It Yourself CIC, City of London

Working with 35 grassroots community arts, cultural and music spaces which are within areas of deprivation, VIY will support community volunteers and skilled tradesmen to carry out improvement works.

£200,000

Affordable Workspace for Creative Industries in Hackney,

London Borough of Hackney

Two workspace projects in Hackney will implement innovative delivery and management models and use public sector assets to secure affordable space for artists and those working in creative industries.

£450,000

Lyon Road Pop Up Restaurant Square,

London Borough of Harrow

The transformation of an existing public car park in Harrow town centre into a multi-function public space- improving the general environment for pedestrians and providing the opportunity for markets and particularly food markets.

£485,000

Nourish Food and Community Hub,

London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham

A holistic programme of growing and greening, providing business improvements and an affordable workspace across two estates in Hammersmith & Fulham, Nourish will create a community food hub and a facility to provide nutritional education.

£1,100,000

Queen's Crescent: The Heart of Gospel Oak,

London Borough of Camden

A range of high street improvement works in Camden will help better serve the Gospel Oak community through public realm improvements. These will support existing shops and markets, and provide green infrastructure.

£1,100,000

Project/applicant

Transform + Perform T.A.P.

Enfield Enterprise Agency

London Borough of Enfield

Greater London Mutual

London Borough of Hackney

Revitalising Rich Mix

Rich Mix Cultural Foundation

London Borough of Hackney

Masterplan Feasibility Study for Stratford Town Centre

Theatre Royal Stratford East

London Borough of Newham

Centre of Media and Digital Arts, East India Dock, Lower Lea Valley

The Trampery, London Borough of Hackney

Kingsley Hall Church and Community Centre (KHCCC) –

Restoring a community hub to the heart of the Borough

Livability, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham

Walthamstow’s EMD Granada: A World Class Cultural Venue for London

London Borough of Waltham Forest

Adiaha Antigha Civic Innovation Centre

The Social Innovation Partnership

London Borough of Hackney

Fellows Court Studios

The Premises Music Education Programme

London Borough of Hackney

Arts and Skills @Havelock, Southall

London Borough of Ealing

Ruislip Town Centre, Ruislip

London Borough of Hillingdon

Harlesden Hub

London Borough of Brent

Grand Union Canal and Open Spaces

OPDC

London Borough of Brent

Sutton for Science

London Borough of Sutton

Re-imagining South Norwood

London Borough of Croydon

Grove Park

Grove Park Neighbourhood Forum

Crossing the Line

Better Bankside

Charlton Riverside - A Working Neighbourhood

Royal Borough of Greenwich

Re-imagining Kingston Town Centre

Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

Portobello Scheme

Westway Trust

London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Change Please Training Academy and Retail Expansion

Change Please CIC

Camberwell

London Borough of Southwark

Royal Docks Social Enterprise Zone

London Borough of Newham

Chestnut Enterprise Centre

London Borough of Waltham Forest

Fashion Hub at Meridian Works

London Borough of Enfield

Camden Innovation District

Camden Town Unlimited,

London Borough of Camden

Future Harlesden

London Borough of Brent

Need a document on this page in an accessible format?

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of a PDF or other document on this page in a more accessible format, please get in touch via our online form and tell us which format you need.

It will also help us if you tell us which assistive technology you use. We’ll consider your request and get back to you in 5 working days.