Neighbourhood Focused Networking workshops - In person
We offered a series of in person workshops, held in each neighbourhood to bring together organisations making or considering a neighbourhood application. These were information and clarification sessions and gave a chance to make important links.
- North neighbourhood - Wednesday 3 September 2025, The Albany, Douglas Way, London SE8 4AG, 2-4pm - Feedback notes
- East neighbourhood - Thursday 4 September 2025, Civic Suite Catford Rd, London SE6 9SE, 2-4pm - Feedback notes
- West neighbourhood - Monday 8 September 2025, Forest Hill Library, Dartmouth Rd, Forest Hill, SE23 3HZ. 11am-1pm - Feedback notes
- South neighbourhood - Tuesday 9 September 2025, St Luke's Church, Northover/Shroffold Road, Downham, BR1 5JR, 11am-1pm - Feedback notes
Feedback from these sessions has been added above. If you have any issues accessing these notes, please email main.grants@lewisham.gov.uk.
Borough Wide and Transition Grant Applications - focused in-person workshop
This workshop was specifically for organisations planning to make an application for one of the Borough Wide priorities. This workshop also covered information for Transition Grant applications.
Date: Monday 8 September 2025
Time: 2-4pm
Venue: Civic Suite, Catford, SE6 4RU
Registration: Please email main.grants@lewisham.gov.uk to secure your place at the workshop
Previous workshops.
We held grant overview workshops online which were attended by a high number of community organisations on:
Workshop 1 - Thursday 17 July 2025. 2 - 4pm.
Workshop 2 - Wednesday 23 July 2025. 10am -12 noon.
Workshop 3 - Tuesday 29 July 2025. 6.30-8.30pm.
Small Organisation Specific Workshop - Tuesday 12 August 2025, 11am-1pm
The workshops covered the following topics:
- Understanding the changes to the Main Grants programme 2026-29
- Deciding which grant to apply for
- Support offered during the application period
- Key Dates
- Q&A session
More workshops will be advertised on this page.
Slide deck
The slide deck from the Main Grant workshops contains important information about the background, changing focus areas, different types of grants, the processes and how to apply.
1-2-1 support sessions
Contact one of the 4 community development officers via email to arrange a 1-2-1 session about your application.
If you are applying for a neighbourhood grant, aim to contact the relevant officer for that area, if you are applying for a transition grant, aim to contact your current monitoring officer.
If your monitoring officer is not available please contact main.grants@lewisham.gov.uk to arrange your 1-2-1 session
Grant Support Hub
When answering some of the questions you may need to provide evidence for your answers. Our grants support hub is packed with useful resources to support your grant applications such as data sites, reports and strategies.