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
- Volunteer Manager - Refugee Café
- Project-Based Family Learning Sessions - Oaks and Acorns in Harmony
- Budding Buddies - Catbytes C.I.C
- Specialist counselling support and advice for survivors of abuse in the home - One in Four (London)
- Music together - Give a Song
- Get Creative Young Lewisham - Inspiring Your Imagination Ltd
- Facework conversations - Facework C.I.C
- Fix and ride - Lewisham Cyclists, London Cycling Campaign
- Buddying Scheme for disabled people - Buddies for All
Funding category from 10k to 35k
- Telephone and Digital Employability Service - Afghanistan and Central Asian Association
- Step Up Progression Training Programme - Lewisham Youth Theatre
- Monday project - Lewisham Pensioner Forum
Funding category from 35k to 50k
- Risk and Resilience - Metro Centre Ltd
- Covid Recovery Project - Contact
- Building People, Changing Minds (Learning Disabilities & Mental Health)- Lewisham Local (RGTB)
- Building People, Changing Minds (Refugees & Migrants) - Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network
- Young Lewisham Leaders - Rio Ferdinand Foundation and Grove Park Youth Club BPT
- Return to Meet me - Entelechy Arts
- Resilient Youth - Second Wave Centre for Youth Arts
- Watergate Sensory Garden – Watergate School and Lewisham Council
- Inclusive Enterprise Generator - Ignition Brewery Ltd
Funding category from 50k to 100k
- Lewisham Line Befriending - Voluntary Services Lewisham
- Pathways to Employment - Sydenham Garden
- Lewisham Community Mentoring, Outreach and Detached Service - Spark2life and Greenleaf trust
- Power the Fight: Therapeutic Intervention for Peace, Lewisham (TIP Lewisham) - TLG Lewisham Education Centre