The Your Voice Your Town Acton Town Team is inviting applications for new and exciting community-led projects that support our shared vision of a clean and pleasant Acton.
Do you have a brilliant idea to make Acton cleaner, greener, and more welcoming? Whether it is tackling litter, transforming a neglected space, or bringing neighbours together we want to hear from you.
Before you make an application to Acton’s Community Grant, please take the time to read the information available. It is designed to help you prepare a strong application and ensure your project idea aligns with our aims for a more vibrant, inclusive, and connected Acton.
You can apply for small grants of up to £1,500 at https://forms.office.com/e/eVs8TBBqbq or larger grants up to £15,000 at https://forms.office.com/e/7UHM9C6Hhs.
Need help with your application? Email jen.thorndycraft@gmail.com.
The deadline for applications is 30th November 2025. Smaller grants will be advised on the outcome and applicants will be advised of the outcome by December 2025.
There is a total of £80,000. Smaller grants of £150–£1,500 and larger grants up to £15,000 are available.
Larger projects from £1,500 may be requested to meet the Town Team after submission to discuss how the project would work.
No, we welcome applications from individuals and groups.
We encourage individuals to apply and recommend working with people in the community to evidence the need for your project. If you apply as an individual and are successful, you will receive the funding on providing references from two people from the community which attest to your reliability and dedication to the proposed project.
Suitable referees may include local teachers, faith leaders, pharmacists, community workers or other respected individuals who are familiar with your work and standing in the community. Referees must not be family members.
If you apply as a formal or constituted group (such as a registered charity or company) and are awarded a fund you will be asked to provide a copy of your constitution and details of your bank account.
If you apply as an unconstituted group, any award will be made on the basis that your grant is held and managed on your behalf by an eligible constituted organisation (“a Grant Managing Organisation”). The Council will arrange this with you after decisions are made. No payments are made directly to unconstituted groups.
For all successful applicants, the project must be completed by 30 September 2026.
There are some rules and restrictions which applicants must adhere to:
Funding cannot be provided for projects which fall into the following categories:
Yes. We encourage applications from schools, but the activity funded must benefit the wider community, beyond the children, staff, parents and carers connected to the school.
We are looking for projects that align with one of our key priorities:
You can also read the collective statements and ideas created by residents, business and community and faith organisations.
If your project involves working with children, young adults, and/or vulnerable adults, you will need to have basic safeguarding measures in place.
For a community group, this usually means having a safeguarding policy explaining how you will keep people safe, ensuring anyone working directly with these groups has passed necessary background checks (e.g., DBS), and naming a person responsible for safeguarding whom people can contact with concerns. Training for volunteers and staff on how to spot and report concerns is also helpful.
If you are a constituted group you may already have a safeguarding policy, a named safeguarding lead, and DBS-checked staff/volunteers, which you can provide on request if your application is successful.
If you intend to collect personal data on users of your service, you will need a clear process for how you will handle, share, store and retain that data.
If you do not have the above and need support, we can help you put the right steps in place if your application is successful.
If your project involves using land or property that does not belong to you, you may need to get permission from the owner or Ealing Council before starting. If you are running activities where someone could get hurt or something could get damaged, you should have public liability insurance.
If your project involves making or selling food, you might need food hygiene certificates to show you can handle and prepare food safely.
It is important to check what is needed for your project and make sure you have everything in place before you begin. If you need help understanding permissions and documents you may need, you can contact Ealing and Hounslow CVS: Anoushka Bonwick – anoushka@ehcvs.org.uk.
If you are awarded a grant, depending on whether you are a constituted group, an unconstituted group or an individual, we will require documents that help with due diligence and support the audit of our payment process, including:
The deadline for applications is Thursday 30th November 2025 at 11:59pm.
Your full application (including personal information such as your group’s name, contact details, and project information) will be shared with a small number of people from the community known as the Town Team, to help make funding decisions with Ealing Council. To know more about the Acton Town Team, please go to dosomethinggood.ealing.gov.uk/your-voice-your-town/actons-town-team/.
Acton Town Team will only use this information to assess your application and may contact you to request additional information. For more details on how your information will be stored, used, retained, and restricted please read the Data Sharing Privacy Notice.
The Acton Town Team will review your application and may get in touch for more information.
For applications for grants under £1500, you will be notified by email if your application has been successful by 31st December 2025.
For larger grants of between £1500 and £15,000 we will be asking you to meet or speak to the Acton Town Team to share more about your application. This meeting or chat will happen in January 2026, and we will let applicants know if they are successful by the beginning of February 2026 at the latest.
Yes. The Town Team will ask you for a short report or feedback at the end, including how the money was spent and what difference it made. This will be as simple as possible. In some instances, the Town Team may wish to visit your project and will arrange a date and time with you. Take photos if possible and think about ways you might want to share the story of your brilliant work.
If you need help with your application, please email jen.thorndycraft@gmail.com.
Alternatively, there will be a list of locations, dates and times when the Town Team will be available to answer questions. This information will be shared soon.