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Open Grant Recipients 2017 Onwards
Core grants from 2017-20
In 2017 two three-year Core grants of a total of £60,000 were awarded to:
To support the 999 Club’s involvement in the three-year national partnership to pilot the Mayday Trust’s ‘Inspire’ Personal Transition Service, for people who are currently homeless, have recently been homeless, or are at high risk of becoming homeless.
To enable the expansion of the Creekside Discovery Centre, which provides low-tide river walks and environment education activities for children, and also support the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment in Deptford Creek and River Thames area.
2021
To employ a project manager and mental health facilitator to coordinate the organisation’s programme of workshops and mentoring reaching 1,000 (80% from the DCT area) girls and young women from predominantly BAME backgrounds aged 14-25 over one year.
To expand Bench’s housing and benefits advice and advocacy service supporting 700 people with housing related advice and support through face to face and online support
Community Advice Works (also known as 170 Community Advice Project)
To fund two advice workers offering drop in advice sessions to beneficiaries from the DCT area at Deptford Lounge and Hatfield Close.
To support Creekside's ongoing core costs underpinning its education and community work
To deliver 27 weekly football sessions to 40 girls each week aged 7-15 at Deptford Lounge.
To cover the cost of 17 vulnerable children from the DCT area attending a 5 day summer residential in rural Sussex including food, activities and door-to-door transport.
New Cross & Deptford Families First
To employ a 1:1 family support work for 20 families over one year. Each family would receive approximately 25 hours of family support time.
To pilot the My Next Steps programme in two Lewisham primary schools taking an early intervention approach to preventing involvement in serious youth violence.
To deliver three barista / coffee industry training courses with employability & entrepreneurship support to 24 unemployed young people in Deptford
To fund a cook to deliver Feeding Deptford a drop in meal provision for people at risk of or experiencing homeless reaching 1,200 people over one year.
To contribute towards the Deptford Ragged Trust’s interim programme of community activities and engagement during the redevelopment of the Bear Church building
To employ a Project Worker to deliver 1:1 employability support to 24 clients with learning disabilities over one year in Deptford.
To provide weekly holiday and termtime sessions of open access youth provision at Deptford Adventure Playground reaching 115 young people aged 10-16.
2020
To deliver 10 ‘pop up’ cinema and social events for older people at venues around Lewisham
To deliver 13 writing and music workshops over three month to 15-20 vulnerable and marginalised adults receiving support from Deptford Reach.
To deliver a programme for 40 faith leaders (particularly Christian and Muslim) in the DCT area to change responses in faith communities towards equality, sexual rights, LGBT rights, women and girls, FGM and cultural practices, Mental health and HIV stigma ultimately reaching congregations o over 3,000 with key messages and access to support.
Goldsmiths, University of London
To deliver a programme of term time music workshops and mentoring on Saturday at Goldsmiths for 90 young people aged 14-18 who are at risk of school exclusion from three local schools
South East London Community Energy
To deliver energy advice, support and advocacy to 415 people through remote support (during lockdown) and at an energy café once this is feasible.
Afghanistan and Central Asian Community Association
To deliver Level 1 and 2 ESOL to 50 people over 40 weeks to BME people on low incomes, including refugees and asylum seekers at the Albany Centre in Deptford.
To deliver monthly bicycle repair workshops in North Deptford and cycling sessions offering safe route guidance reaching 200 people in total
To deliver therapy to around 15 vulnerable young people leaving care living in the DCT area, over a one-year period
To deliver weekly English Friday classes to 50 Refugees and Migrants offering Level 1 ESOL and basic employability support.
To employ a full time cook to increase the existing low cost community kitchen to five days a week from two days per week supporting 100 people.
To employ a full time Education Manager to coordinate a programme of community outreach, schools engagement, activities and volunteer training reaching over 3,000 people (70% from DCT area)
To employ two early years workers to coordinate and deliver activities over 42 weeks (30h/week) for 750 children and families
To produce two community murals in collaboration with participants from Addey and Stanhope School and Heart n' Soul and local volunteers.
To support its ongoing work including expansion of its secondary school support leading to increased educational opportunity particularly for those who struggle in a classroom setting.
Community Assets for Society & Housing (CASH) Community Land Trust Limited
To support the organisation's next steps towards its first housing development scheme (in collaboration with Sun Co-op) including building internal capacity and conducting community outreach
To support work with 200 isolated older people in Deptford
Towards the core salaries to increase the organisation's staff to three full time workers to support its growth and fundraising
Towards the core salary costs of the organisation's housing and benefits advice service reaching 500 people
2019
In 2019 seventeen grants were awarded through the Open Grants Programme
To provide 24 weekly, one hour multi-sport sessions at Disabled Peoples Contact to support the fitness of the young disabled people aged 18-25.
To deliver accredited sailing courses for 240 disadvantaged young people at The Ahoy Centre.
To expand it’s Access to Housing and Treatment service reaching 100 vulnerable people (including the homeless) in North Lewisham.
CASH (Community Assests for Society and Housing)
To support 12 months of set up activities to develop a new Community Land Trust in Deptford.
To deliver a nine-session 2D stop motion animation course for 10-15 adult clients of Deptford Reach.
Deptford Methodist Mission Disabled People's Contact
To build the capacity and strength of the DPC by contributing to 50% of the Day Centre Manager's salary for one year and one additional part-time member of staff for three days a week.
Frameless Arts C.I.C.
To deliver a 12-week skateboarding focused, creative and active programme for 20 children and young people at the Woodpecker Youth Club.
To deliver 10 free urban dance workshop days for 25 young people aged 9-18 from hard to reach/ disadvantaged backgrounds in Lewisham.
To deliver a term time and summer holiday creative arts activity programme for 55 young people with learning disabilities in Deptford.
To deliver a weekly bike club over 25 weeks reaching 40 disadvantaged young people at Riverside Youth Club.
To deliver an accredited radio and media training and work experience programme for 10 young people at a Youth First Centre in Deptford.
To deliver a 40 week English, Maths, ICT and employability training to 20 un or under-employed people on the Vanguard Estate.
Somerville Youth & Play Provision
To deliver a programme of activities to build the skills, confidence and resilience of 20 young people who are disengaged from school.
South East London Community Energy
To deliver a weekly energy café in the Deptford Lounge Library reaching 130 people in fuel poverty.
To continue ‘English Friday’ English classes and develop outreach and employability support elements reaching 60 non-English speakers in Deptford.
Vietnamese Women & Families Association (VWF)
To continue the part-time post of Coordinator, to oversee delivery of existing and new projects and continue the strategic development of the organisation.
Voluntary Services Lewisham (Formerly the Voluntary Care Centre)
To support and improve the quality of life of 200 migrants, refugees and asylum seekers through skills-building workshops and facilitated volunteering as well as run two community events.
2018
In 2018 DCT awarded fourteen grants under the Open Programme
For a housing and treatment service reaching 400 homeless people over one year.
FoodSkills Training
To provide a food preparation and work experience programme for eight unemployed young people in Deptford.
Afghanistan and Central Asian Community Association
To fund a part-time Integration Officer post, and delivery of three weekly two-hour ESOL classes for 48 refugees.
Bright Beginnings
For weekly one-hour aerobics, dance, fitness, cooking and wellbeing classes for 80 older residents, lone parents and women on the Leander and Vanguard Estates.
For a four-day programme of film-making sessions with a group of 10-15 homeless people from Deptford Reach.
Deptford Methodist Mission Disabled People’s Contact
For the salaries of two minibus drivers to enable vulnerable older people to access the day centre three days a week and attend 10 day trips.
To fund a series of community events in the parks, two forest school workshops and an exhibition on trees, benefiting 500 people.
For a 12-month development project to engage 20 severely frail and terminally ill people in arts and creative activities in Deptford, and for organisational development.
Evelyn Parents Forum
To support delivery of 12 activity days over six weeks of the summer holiday, for low-income residents of Evelyn Ward.
To work with The Albany and three visiting theatre companies over 12 months to increase and improve opportunities for 25 visually impaired people to participate in the arts in Deptford.
For a multi-stranded community cohesion project focussed on the continuation and development of the theatre and its activities, benefitting 460 people.
To contribute towards low-cost residential breaks for 13 groups of 15 young people from the DCT area, from disadvantaged backgrounds and/or with disabilities.
To create a new play called Evelyn’s Roots and stage free outdoor promenade performances of the show in Evelyn Ward.
To establish a cycling-based programme in Deptford, to provide renovated bikes for, and reduce social isolation amongst refugees and asylum seekers.
2017
In 2017 the DCT awarded ten grants under the new Open Programme. Grant sizes ranged from £4,968 to £29,940 for projects of up to one year which benefit the residents of the DCT area.
To deliver 4 days of face-to-face welfare advice to a total of 700 clients across at least 2 venues, in partnership with Evelyn 190 Centre.
To fund an Outreach Worker to free up the Director and Finance Director’s time to focus on the strategic development of the organisation.
For a joint project with Deptford Reach to integrate homeless support services.
Evelyn Parents Forum
To support delivery of 12 activity days over 6 weeks of summer holidays, for low-income residents of Evelyn ward.
To host a series of live events and an art installation involving 175 people with learning disabilities in Deptford to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of Heart n Soul.
To run five weeks of video and filming workshops with young people and local organisations in Deptford, leading to an AQA qualification in film-making for 40 young people.
To pilot the ‘Speak Up and Wellbeing’ peer support group for 12-15 people with a learning disability living in the DCT area.
Lewisham Vietnamese Women & Families Association (VINAWOA)
For a core grant to employ a part-time Coordinator.
To develop parent volunteer schemes at Lucas Vale and Grinling Gibbons Primary Schools.
To provide therapy to young care leavers who are living in independent flats within the DCT area.
