The community fund gives money to local people or organisations who want to make Southall a cleaner and more pleasant town. This was the top priority chosen by residents in 2024-2025.
The fund is important because it helps:
- develop and promote ‘pride in place’ – helping us all be proud of a clean and pleasant Southall
- inform, educate and motivate local people and businesses to keep Southall clean and inspire long lasting behaviour change
- encourage businesses to comply with waste management responsibilities
- address the underlying reasons that increase fly tipping and waste challenges in Southall
The money allows small and big ideas to grow, helping everyone feel proud of their town.
What projects get funding?
The town team looked for the best ideas that would help make Southall cleaner and more pleasant through:
- focusing on education
- helping people understand how to better handle waste
They also looked for ideas that:
- encouraging community clean ups on specific streets
- finding ways to reuse waste that is left on streets
- discovering bigger and bolder solutions to address the reasons that increase fly tipping in Southall
- bring neighbours and communities together
- are designed and run with local people involved at every stage
- would be run in a responsible way that can deal with any risks
- are good value for money
Application process
The fund was open for applications from 4 February to 8 March 2026. Anyone could apply for small grants up to £1,000, medium grants up to £5,000 and large grants up to £80,000 (for exceptional projects only), as long as the projects could show how they would benefit people and places in Southall
Up to
£1,000
for small grants
Up to
£5,000
for medium grants
Up to
£80,000
for large grants
The steps to awarding the fund were:
The Town Team put out a call for ideas to respond to the priority identified by local people. The town team members promoted the fund to reach different audiences.
Projects submitted a short, simple application.
Town Team members reviewed applications and scored ideas against agreed criteria. They also met the applicants to the large fund to find out more about their projects before making decisions. Any members with a conflict of interest did not take part in scoring. Members who had submitted applications were not involved in assessing applications within the same category (small, medium or large), to ensure a fair process.
Ealing Council’s community engagement team then compiled the scores and comments to inform a deliberation meeting. Applications were reviewed in order, from highest to lowest score. The meeting included town team members who had not been involved in scoring. They were not allowed to comment on their own projects or on applications in the same category they had applied to (small, medium or large), but were able to take part in final decisions.
Recommendations were given to an Ealing Council officer, who ensure the process was fair and agreed the decision.
Successful projects were informed and provided with next steps including due diligence and signing a grant agreement.
Those who were not awarded funding on this occasion were provided with information on other sources of funding.
Who's been awarded funding?
Small grants – up to £1,000
Education and awareness on fly tipping
This project will work with Pardes Weekly to run a 'Clean Southall' campaign, educating residents and businesses, sharing stories, encouraging pride and collective action to reduce littering.
Funding awarded:
£1,000
OHCC field to fork
This project will transform underused estate spaces into productive green areas, or community gardens, boosting wellbeing, biodiversity, skills, social connection, sustainability through resident-led gardening.
Funding awarded:
£1,000
Pride in our school streets: Southall litter action project
This project led by Tudor Primary School will combine community-led clean-ups with education and student campaigns to help children become ambassadors for change, reducing school street litter and creating behaviour change benefiting families, residents, and the environment.
Funding awarded:
£1,000
Medium grants – up to £5,000
Windmill together
This project will work with Somali and refugee families to engage Windmill Park Estate residents in clean-ups, greening, volunteering and education to build pride, inclusion and cleaner environment.
Funding awarded:
£4,950
We love Southall
Building on trusted relationships, the Horn of Africa Disability and Elderly Association will educate Southall migrant families on waste systems, preventing fines and fly-tipping through multilingual workshops and peer educator's support.
Funding awarded:
£5,000
Southall clean & proud: parent and community action programme
The HSENA family SEND services CIC will run a family-led programme delivering workshops about recycling, waste disposal as well as organising clean-ups and youth activities to reduce littering, fly-tipping and build community pride.
Funding awarded:
£5,000
Speak up for a cleaner Southall – ESOL environment ambassadors programme
This environmental project led by community group Golden Opportunity Skills & Development will empower ESOL learners as environmental ambassadors to tackle fly-tipping through learning, digital action, business engagement and clean-up events.
Funding awarded:
£5,000
Youth for a cleaner Southall
Led by the Somali Family Learning & Regeneration Projects, this intergenerational Southall project will empower young people and residents to improve environmental health through workshops, rooted events, and co-designed multilingual campaigns.
Funding awarded:
£3,600
Let's brighten Southall's canal side!
Friends of Grand Union Canal will improve Southall's canals and walking and cycling routes through partnerships, volunteer-led clean ups, vegetation management, mural repairs and storage bases to create more welcoming towpaths.
Funding awarded:
£4,950
Canal side and alleyway CCTV: drugs fly tipping and anti-social behaviour prevention and monitoring
To improves safety and create a safer environment for families and the community, the Blair Peach Primary School will install additional CCTV cameras and link them to the existing school CCTV system, providing police access to the CCTV data to deter anti-social behaviour.
Funding awarded:
£2,619.37
Large grants – up to £80,000
Southall clean routes partnership
Community group Active Communities Team, part of Let's Go Southall, will run a 6‑month community‑led project improving cycling route cleanliness, safety, volunteering, and environmental pride across Southall for residents.
Funding Awarded:
£9,950
Southall spotless streets
Community group the Active Communities will run 12 structured community-led clean-ups and engagement sessions across Southall, tackling litter and fly tipping through education and targeted deterrent measures. This will include use of CCTV.
Funding Awarded:
£10,000
The caretakers cottage – clean spaces, clean minds campaign
Funding will help create a youth-led community hub delivering wellbeing, environmental action, partnerships, and outcomes for families from a transformed Caretaker’s Cottage
Funding Awarded:
£13,300
More information about these community projects, and how to get involved them will be shared here, on AroundEaling.com and Ealing Council's social media soon.
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