Check if your voluntary or community organisation is eligible for any grants or support.
The VCS Grants Programme gives funding to voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations to help local people.
We held a Grants Programme launch event on 4 August 2025. You can watch a recording of the presentation on YouTube and view a copy of the slides (Google Slides).
You can also find out more about the programme in our VCS Prospectus (Google Doc).
So far in 2025 we’ve offered 4 types of grants.
This funding is currently closed.
Our Core Grants offer long-term support (up to 5 years) for organisations that provide help for residents who are more likely to face harm because of ongoing inequalities.
The help should focus on the individual and could include social welfare advice, community support, or both.
Find out more in our Core Grants guidance document (Google Doc).
We hosted an information session for this grant on 6 August 2025. View the:
This funding is currently closed.
Our Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Infrastructure Grants are trialing a new programme to help build and improve infrastructure support systems for organisations led by Black and Global Majority people.
Find out more in our Black and Global Majority VCS Infrastructure Grants guidance document (Google Doc).
We hosted an information session for this grant on 6 August 2025. View the:
Our Project Innovation Fund offers short-term funding of up to £10,000 for projects lasting up to 12 months.
It’s for smaller organisations with an annual income under £250,000 to test, learn and innovate new projects. This includes projects that provide activities for children and young people.
Find out more in our Project Innovation Fund guidance document (Google Doc).
We hosted an information session for this grant on 7 August 2025. View the:
To apply for a grant from the Project Innovation Fund, visit the Grants Portal and sign in or create an account if you don’t have one.
You have until 5pm on 31 January 2026 to submit your application
This funding is currently closed.
The Healthier Hackney Fund offers funding for projects that help people in Hackney be more physically active.
Find out more in the Healthier Hackney guidance document (Google Slides).
We hosted an information session for this grant on 7 August 2025. View the recording of the Healthier Hackney information session presentation (YouTube).
We’re currently working through all the applications.
We’ll let everyone who applied for a grant know the result of their application, based on the timelines set out in the relevant guidance documents.
We’ll keep this page updated with the funding decisions as they become available.
Our Grants Management system is moving to a new portal. From 31 August 2025, you won’t be able to access the current system anymore. This means that you won’t be able to access any previously submitted applications or monitoring forms (requirements).
If you want to keep a copy of these documents, you must download them before 31 August 2025.
A copy of your application or requirement was emailed to you when you submitted it, but you may still want to download another copy for your records.
Follow the steps below (also available in our YouTube video):
If you have any questions, email communitypartnerships@hackney.gov.uk.
If you’d like to be notified when the next round of grants opens and receive other key updates, please subscribe to our mailing list:
Further support is available for the voluntary sector through a number of organisations who can provide support and development on a variety of topics. We have created a document support for VCS organisations (google doc) with an overview of support available. We will continue to keep this updated. There are also a number of organisations within Hackney able to provide assistance through a variety of programmes.
If you feel that there is further support that your organisation needs, that is not available via the organisations listed in the document, contact us to arrange a conversation to discuss further. We are not always able to help organisations overcome every issue, however, our officers are happy to have a conversation with you to understand your organisation’s needs and see if there is any further support available.
Hackney CVS is an independent voluntary organisation which provides a range of information, advice and support to VCS organisations in Hackney.
The organisational development support team can provide help and guidance to organisations applying for the Hackney VCS grants programme, regardless of whether they are a Hackney CVS member or not. To book a session with them, visit HCVS – organisational development.
VCS organisations can also sign up to Hackney CVS’s weekly newsletter to receive updates on training and events, funding opportunities, community news and local politics.
Using the 360Giving data standard, our awarded grants since March 2020 are available as Excel spreadsheets (listed by year the project started):
This work is licensed under the Open Government License v3.0. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. The data must be attributed to the London Borough of Hackney.
GrantNav is a free-to-use platform that brings together grant data published using the 360Giving Standard, making it easy to view and explore. The tool enables users to search and report in detail on who, where and how much is given through thousands of grants from a wide range of UK grantmakers, with further data being added as new publishers share their grants openly.