Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund: Information and Guidance session

Want to learn about the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund?

Grants available from £1,000 to £50,000

Join the session to find out more!

YOUR community, YOUR ideas, YOUR change

Join Lisa Stepanovic, Capacity Building lead, for this pre-application workshop. You’ll learn more about the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund as we go through the application process and guidance for all funding schemes - Small, Medium, and Large Grants – we’ll then open up to a Q & A where Lisa will be on hand to answer any questions.

The Foundation for Future London is committed to ensuring local people from across our diverse East London communities are aware of the funding opportunities available and are supported to apply. Lisa Stepanovic will be leading four initial pre-application interactive workshops. We know just how daunting it can be to start a funding application; these informative sessions have been designed to provide jargon-free advice and guidance for all grant schemes: Small, Medium and Large. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions, meet the Foundation for Future London team, and learn more about the Foundation and its Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund and its community Capacity Building Programme.

This session will cover:

• Grant guidance and criteria
• Checklist of what's needed before you apply
• Structuring application answers
• Evidencing the need for your project
• Proving your impact
• Importance of lived experience, diversity & local knowledge

What else do you need to know?

When: Friday 15th July 2022, 11am - 12:30pm

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

This event is free and open to individuals, organisations and businesses working and living across the local communities in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.

Please register your place and we will send you details about how to participate closer to the time. Places will be made available on a first come, first served basis.

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 3 of the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund has now opened. With the generous donation from Westfield Stratford City, Year 3 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

We are continuing our partnership with Lisa Stepanovic, who will be hosting a series of capacity building events, starting with pre-application workshops, as part of our ongoing 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.