What we've funded before

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Borough-wide NCIL Funding 2022-2024

122 applications were received with requested funding of over £4.7 million for the NCIL funding pot of £877.094.

On 3 November 2021, Mayor and Cabinet agreed 25 community projects focused on four main priorities;

  • Supporting local community groups to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour;
  • Providing high quality mentoring services to keep Lewisham’s children and young people safe from exploitation, violence and serious youth crime;
  • Supporting people with learning disabilities and/or mental health problems to find employment opportunities;
  • Assisting Lewisham’s COVID-19 recovery by demonstrating a benefit to Lewisham’s communities at a borough wide level.

Successful projects

Funding category up to 10k

  1. Volunteer Manager - Refugee Café
  2. Project-Based Family Learning Sessions - Oaks and Acorns in Harmony
  3. Budding Buddies - Catbytes C.I.C
  4. Specialist counselling support and advice for survivors of abuse in the home - One in Four (London)
  5. Music together - Give a Song
  6. Get Creative Young Lewisham - Inspiring Your Imagination Ltd
  7. Facework conversations - Facework C.I.C
  8. Fix and ride - Lewisham Cyclists, London Cycling Campaign
  9. Buddying Scheme for disabled people - Buddies for All

Funding category from 10k to 35k

  1. Telephone and Digital Employability Service - Afghanistan and Central Asian Association
  2. Step Up Progression Training Programme - Lewisham Youth Theatre
  3. Monday project - Lewisham Pensioner Forum

Funding category from 35k to 50k

  1. Risk and Resilience - Metro Centre Ltd
  2. Covid Recovery Project - Contact
  3. Building People, Changing Minds (Learning Disabilities & Mental Health)- Lewisham Local (RGTB)
  4. Building People, Changing Minds (Refugees & Migrants) - Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network
  5. Young Lewisham Leaders - Rio Ferdinand Foundation and Grove Park Youth Club BPT
  6. Return to Meet me - Entelechy Arts
  7. Resilient Youth - Second Wave Centre for Youth Arts
  8. Watergate Sensory Garden – Watergate School and Lewisham Council
  9. Inclusive Enterprise Generator - Ignition Brewery Ltd

Funding category from 50k to 100k

  1. Lewisham Line Befriending - Voluntary Services Lewisham
  2. Pathways to Employment - Sydenham Garden
  3. Lewisham Community Mentoring, Outreach and Detached Service - Spark2life and Greenleaf trust
  4. Power the Fight: Therapeutic Intervention for Peace, Lewisham (TIP Lewisham) - TLG Lewisham Education Centre

Mayor and Cabinet meeting - Wednesday, 3rd November, 2021 6.00 pm. Agenda and decisions.

NCIL Ward Funding 2022 - 2024

250 applications were received across Lewisham’s 18 wards requesting a total of £9.4 million for the NCIL Ward funding pot of £2,931,270.

On 9 March 2022, Mayor and Cabinet agreed funding for 150 projects from 18 wards focusing on locally agreed priorities to be delivered over the next two years. Full details of the projects are set out in the tables below;

The full report can be viewed here