03/02/2025 News
Lyle’s Local Fund 2024 Grants Awarded
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We are delighted to announce the successful Grantees of the 2024 Lyle’s Local Fund
Running since 2017, the Fund has awarded over £250,000 to over 110 projects that support safe, prosperous and healthy communities in Newham. We are so proud of our Newham roots and the Lyle’s Local Fund exists to support the very special organisations, projects and people who work hard to make our borough a better place to live and work. Each year, we are blown away by the number and variety of incredible funding applications and decided to double the size of the Fund to £50,000 so we can support more organisations who contribute to making our borough the wonderful place it is.
In 2024, we received over 110 applications and were delighted to award grants of up to £5,000 to 12 organisations. Between them, these organisations support some of the most vulnerable people, both young and old, in our community, and represent the breadth of the brilliant work that is being done across Newham.
We’re looking forward to visiting and hearing more about the progress of the projects as they get under way this year.
| Organisation | Project | Summary |
| Change Please Foundation | Driving for Change: Newham | A converted double decker bus to reach rough sleepers and hidden homeless |
| Alternatives Trust East London | Counselling | Free professional counselling for marginalised women |
| We Are Family | Adoptive Families Peer Support Groups | Peer support for adopters who care for trauma-experienced children |
| Saint Matthias Church | Warm Heaven | Warm haven for young people, the homeless and a kitchen for asylum seekers at a local church |
| Fight for Peace | Lutadoras | Weekly personal development sessions for young women in at local boxing club |
| School21 | Rewilding Recentring Reviving | New outdoor water source and rewilding an area of playground at a local school |
| ReSpace Projects | Sweeter Sounds Studio | A new inclusive music studio at the Tate Institute |
| Youth & Community Connexions | Connexions | Jewelry-making workshops for young people using materials from decommissioned weapons |
| The National Network for Education of Care Leavers | Inspire | A programme of engagement to encourage and inspire young people leaving care to consider post-16 education |
| Money A+E UK CIC | Financial Survival Skills | Financial workshops delivered in the community at local foodbanks to support Newham residents facing financial crisis |
| 282 (East Ham) Squadron, RAF Air Cadets | Youths on Expeditions | Expedition kits to facilitate outdoor activities & support young people pursuing Duke of Edinburgh Award |
| St John’s Community Centre | Community Food Hub &Wellbeing Hub | Support for our local community centre |
