Medium & Large Grants Feedback Session

YOUR community, YOUR ideas, YOUR change

About the session:

Join Lisa Stepanovic and Moses Adeyemi, Capacity Building leads, and Sarah Nelson, Director of Programmes and Communications at Foundation for Future London, for this interactive feedback session. We will focus on providing general constructive feedback for applications that were unsuccessful for the Medium & Large Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund, and will wrap up with a Q&A. We’ll look at overall ‘weak spots’ to help you strengthen future applications, ready in time for the third funding round this year (2022). Following this session, if you still feel feedback is needed, a drop-in will be available with the FFL team.

What else do you need to know?

When: Thursday 10th February 2022, 2pm - 3pm

Where: Zoom (Link to be emailed to you prior to the event from Eventbrite)

If you have any questions in advance, please email them over to: capacitybuilding.ffl@outlook.com

About your Host:

The Foundation for Future London is pleased to be working with Lisa Stepanovic, who will be leading the Capacity Building Programme. Lisa is a working-class, award-winning social entrepreneur, experienced businesswoman, activist, and mentor who was born and raised in London’s East End. She is best known as the founder of Social Ark; Social Ark builds on Lisa's many years of experience in running her own businesses and supporting hundreds of entrepreneurs on their journey, especially those from working-class backgrounds who often find themselves excluded from mainstream incubator and accelerator programmes.

Follow Lisa here: @Lisa_Stepanovic

About the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund:

In 2020, Foundation for Future London, through funding from Westfield Stratford City, created the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund - an ambitious five-year programme that aims to invest £10 million into the local communities of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest. The Fund aims to support local organisations and individuals to create new jobs, learning, training, and educational programmes through the means of arts, culture, innovation, public realm and creative placemaking. The Fund aims to transform and catalyse the lives and careers of people across east London by putting funding, resources and support straight into local people’s hands.

Year 2 of the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund has now opened. With the generous donation from Westfield Stratford City, Year 2 of the fund will continue to provide new jobs, learning, training and educational programmes through the means of arts, culture, innovation, public realm and creative placemaking

This year we are hosting, in partnership with Lisa Stepanovic, a series of capacity building events, starting with pre-application workshops, as part of a 12-month Capacity Building Programme.

About Foundation for Future London:

Foundation for Future London is an independent charity established in 2015 created to connect communities, the new East Bank and its globally renowned arts, innovation and cultural partners. We want to ensure East Bank is London’s must-visit destination and becomes a resilient, thriving, world-class neighbourhood of local and global significance.

We’re fundraising to expand grant-making opportunities for East Bank communities and partners and facilitating creative placemaking, to support local places, learning, training and employment through arts, education, culture and innovation.

Our vision is for a vibrant and inclusive creative East Bank, creating authentic engagement with local people of East London in the boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.

We are a part of the East Bank partnership, connecting local communities to the new centre of culture, education, innovation and growth being built on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, East London. We are also partners with Culture Mile and its organisations.

Our work is supported by East Bank’s Founding Partner and Official Sponsor, Westfield Stratford City, and City of London.