Footwork – People and Places Programme
Closing Date: 09/09/2024
A mentoring programme and supporting restricted grant are available to enable community innovators in England and Wales to turn their bold ideas into projects that deliver long-term change for their neighbourhoods.
The programme provides community innovators with the funding, support and connections they need to get their project off the ground, or scale it to increase its impact. This is a way to encourage people’s freedom to act and to collaborate, strengthening the connection between people and place.
The programme is specifically intended to support people who are working to transform their neighbourhoods for the better.
Projects need to address one or more of the challenges:
- Ensuring facilities, land and buildings are used and/or owned by local people.
- Ensuring local people have a say or can act in how their neighbourhood is being transformed.
- Ensuring local people can gain access to resources such as greener energy, materials or finance so they can live more sustainably and affordably.
Community innovators are defined for this programme as people with home-grown solutions to local problems and the sense of agency and urgency to make positive change within their neighbourhoods.
| Funding body | Footwork Trust |
|---|---|
| Maximum value | £5,000 |
| Reference ID | S52609 |
| Category | Community Development Energy Environment Health & Social Welfare Housing |
| Fund or call | Fund |