Brent Cross Town Community Fund 2025: Apply Now!

School children in a STEM class (Brent Cross Town)

The Brent Cross Town Community Fund 2025 launches on Monday, 8 Sept, and you have until Monday, 20 October 2025 to apply!

For 2025, we’ve partnered with Vattenfall, and have £50,000 to pledge in grants valued between £3,000 and £10,000 to projects across the London Borough of Barnet. This year, the fund is looking to support projects that focus on education, employment and training, driven by the understanding that skills and careers are the foundation for healthy, safe and thriving communities, enabling a better quality of life and a shared, collective future. As businesses move into our new park town, and with the construction programme expected to last for two decades, the opportunity to forge a career locally is growing. The fund aims to support projects that will help local people to access these opportunities.

 

 

 

Brent Cross Town Community Fund shortlisters Barnet Mencap (Brent Cross Town)

HOW TO APPLY

Apply by creating a project on Actionfunder.org, where you can submit either a written or video pitch. Just follow these 4 steps:

1. Sign up to ActionFunder
2. Set up a profile by filling out your organisation’s details
3. Select ‘Create a project’ and follow the 3-step process. Your project is automatically matched to funds that you meet the criteria, so please write your pitch taking that into account.
4. Your project will remain on the ActionFunder site until you win the funding.

For more information, go to  actionfunder.org/how-it-works, and if you have any questions, email [email protected]

Apply here
ART CAFE Brent Cross Town Community Fund (Brent Cross Town)

Groups eligible for the grant include:

– Formal and informal community groups
– Local charities and local branches of national charities
– Schools and educational organisations
– Not-for-profit organisations
– Residents associations
– Social Enterprises
– Previous winners can apply

As in previous years, a judging panel comprising local stakeholders will select a shortlist of eligible projects, which will be announced in November, and the local community will then be invited to vote for the priority projects they wish to receive funding.

Voting will take place in mid-November — Watch this space.

 

PREVIOUS WINNERS

Brent Cross Town Community Fund winners Pro Touch soccer academy (Brent Cross Town)

Pro Touch SA

Pro Touch SA

As well as running a football academy, Pro Touch helps young people not in education, employment or training to access sports-related careers.

With their Brent Cross Town Community Fund Award, Pro Touch were able to run the Brighter Futures for Young People project, offering 12 young people places on courses in sports education or youth work, one-to-one mentoring support sessions and help with their CVs and interview skills. At the end of their course, the participants will, in turn, support 60 local young people through a community sports project and mentorship.

Art Against Knives (Brent Cross Town)

Art Against Knives - The Lab

Art Against Knives set up their pop-up music studio, The Lab, ten years ago to support young people at risk of violence, exploitation and abuse by offering a safe social space and a place where they can learn skills that help them to find work in the music industry.

With their Brent Cross Town Community Fund grant, Art Against Knives were able to run The Lab for an extra day each week and one-to-one mentoring and training for 30 young people, improving their confidence, capabilities and prospects.

See the full list of the 2024 Brent Cross Town Community fund winners here.

Since it started in 2019, the Brent Cross Town Community Fund has had a huge impact on the area:

£230k

awarded to fund winners

57

projects supported with funding

16k

16k+ people benefiting from funding

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