Building Safer Futures Fund 2026/27
Grants of up to £10,000 for YWF member organisations based in North East Westminster.
Young Westminster Foundation’s Building Safer Futures Fund will provide funding for projects supporting children and young people aged 0-25, and their families. The fund’s aims are to improve safety and strengthen community resilience.
What can be funded?
The grants fund will enable local VCS organisations to deliver a range of interventions, including:
- Positive diversionary activities such as sports, creative arts, open access youth provision, educational and wellbeing activities
- Mentoring and support for at-risk young people
- Targeted outreach in hotspot locations
- Family engagement and support
- Responses to emerging issues or critical incidents affecting local young people
- Projects that strengthen protective factors and community cohesion
- Community-based activities that provide positive opportunities during peak risk periods
Funding can be used to cover project/activity/programme costs, venue costs or capital equipment where these are directly related to the services.
Where can projects be delivered?
Projects should be located in one or more of the following wards:
- Abbey Road
- Church Street
- Maida Vale
- Regent’s Park
- Little Venice
- Marylebone
- Hyde Park
This fund will open during the week beginning 19 October. Full application guidance and a link to the form will be supplied when the fund goes live.
Please note applicants should be existing members of the Young Westminster Foundation.
Grants will be offered for up to one year. All grant funded projects must be completed within 12 months of the award or agreed start date (unless agreed otherwise).
Our funders
This fund has been created with funding from Westminster City Council and the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit (VRU)
