Northolt's Community Fund

Northolt's Community Genie Fund for a clean and pleasant Northolt

Apply for community funding

Northolt’s Community Genie Fund

Your Voice Your Town Northolt has £40,000 (from Ealing Council) available for projects that help create a clean and pleasant Northolt. The Northolt Town Team aims to make Northolt a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone feels supported and proud to belong.

This fund is now open and closes on the 18 December 2025.

Help make Northolt clean and pleasant – apply for community funding

Have you got an idea to improve Northolt?

Whether you’re part of a local organisation, community group or just someone with a great idea – we want to hear from you.

We also welcome applications from schools, as long as the project benefits the wider community beyond pupils, staff, and families.

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What kind of projects can be funded?

Your idea should help make Northolt greener and more pleasant. We’re looking for projects that include:

  • Events which help to connect people – Projects that help people to connect with each other to reduce loneliness, and create greater neighbourliness. After school clubs, older people get togethers, mixed generational activities, educational or cultural activities.
  • Ways to take pride in Northolt and help make people belong– The beautification of Northolt, which could be the improvement of indoor or outdoor spaces, that helps local people to take pride in where they live. Greening projects, guerilla gardening, tree planting, improvement of community spaces, clearing of local streets through litter picking
  • Ways to create safer spaces – improving underused or derelict spaces for people to use and enjoy   e.g. walking buses, new urban allotments

How much funding is available?

We have two pots of funding – small grants from £100-1000, and larger grants from £1,001- £10,000.

All ideas are welcome.

What can’t be funded?

We want to support a wide range of ideas, but funding cannot be used for:

  • businesses and profit-making projects
  • projects which do not serve people who don’t live, work or study in Northolt
  • political groups, or people with political affiliations
  • applicants applying for personal benefit
  • projects that exclude others on discriminatory grounds
  • religious promotions
  • costs that have already been incurred/spent

The Northolt Town Team have prepared a list of Frequently Asked Questions  to support everyone to apply

Ready to make a difference in Northolt?

Applications close at 11:59pm on 18 December 2025