ESOL Plus Arts Hub

Interested in a cross-sectoral partnership work to support Londoners with English language needs?

This might involve designing a project together, bidding for funding together, providing space for an ESOL class, arranging tours for ESOL learners, holding workshops in ESOL classes, or something else! Get in touch using the button below and let us know.

You can also search for information on community history experts and projects in the Heritage Directory.

• Untold Stories: grants by the Commission for Diversity in Public Realm | London City Hall
• Community grants and funding | London City Hall
• Culture and Community Spaces at Risk resources | London City Hall
• Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants is an open access programme for arts, museums and libraries projects. The fund provides support to individual artists, community and cultural organisations.
• The Art Fund offers funding for heritage centres and libraries through a range of small and large grants.
• The Baring Foundation is offering grants of up to £60,000 for Global Majority-led arts organisations who would like to develop their offer of creative opportunities to people living with mental health problems. The deadline for applications is 12pm midday on 26 July 2022.
• The Black Artists Grant (BAG) is offered by Creative Debuts as a no-strings attached financial support to help Black artists.
• The City Bridge Trust supports charitable causes in London.
• The government has announced a £150 million Community Ownership Fund for communities across the United Kingdom. It has been set up to help communities take ownership of assets and amenities at risk of closure. It will run for 4 years.
• The Edith Mills Charitable Trust funds work with refugees and people seeking asylum, community development, international peace and conflict resolution, interfaith and ecumenical understanding.
• The Foyle Foundation is an independent grant-making trust that distributes grants to UK charities.
• The Garfield-Weston Foundation is a family-founded grant-making Trust that supports charities across the UK.
• The Hilden Charitable Fund supports projects concerned with: homelessness, people seeking asylum and refugees, community-based initiatives for young people aged 16-25 and penal/prison reform.
• John Lyon’s Charity is offering small and large grants to organisations that seek to promote the life-chances of children and young people through education.
• Necessisty is running funding rounds throughout the year for local projects. Each funding round differs but up to £20k of funding is available through a one page Expression of Interest.
• Paul Hamlyn Foundation is offering number of large and small grants across six funding priority areas. Rolling deadlines.
• The Pilgrim Trust's Social Welfare Funding Programme aims to develop a sense of social inclusion in marginalised groups within the UK. They concentrate on grant-giving activities to projects that support people who misuse drugs and alcohol and projects that seek to reduce the use of custody for women.
• The Span Trust is offering grants to London-based charities for projects that alleviate poverty, disability, age or ill health. They must promote urban regeneration through the improvement of the built environment. Grants between £5,000 and £20,000 are available with a rolling deadline.
• Tesco Community Grants is open for applications from charities and community organisations to bid for up to £1,500.
• Trusthouse Charitable Foundation is giving grants to small and medium sized local organisations in the UK with a demonstrable track record of success working to address local issues. Their funding themes include Community Support, Disability and Healthcare, and Arts, Education and Heritage. Rolling application deadline.
• The Tudor Trust wants to help smaller, community-led groups which are supporting people at the margins of society. They look for organisations which are thoughtful in their use of resources. Rolling application deadline.
• Unbound Philanthropy is supporting organisations with an explicit social purpose or activist approach to their work across health, gender, education, criminal justice, food justice and race.
• The William Wates Memorial Trust aims to enhance the lives of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds living in London and the South East.
• The Woodward Charitable Trust is offering grant funding to small-scale, locally-based charitable initiatives in the UK in the following areas: children and young people, minority groups, prisoners and ex-offenders, disability, homelessness, arts outreach and environmental projects.
• Yapp Charitable Trust is offering grants of up to £3,000 to small UK charities, registered charities in England and Wales, with a total annual expenditure of less than £40k, to cover core costs and staffing.

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