Information for grant holders awarded funding before October 2025
Information for grant holders who successfully applied to our previous funding programmes. These grants were all approved before October 2025.
City Bridge Foundation is here to support you and your work. As well as the guidance on this page, you can contact your Funding Manager if you have any questions about your grant, or require further advice.
You can also ask our funding team for support at funding@citybridgefoundation.org.uk
A new funding programme, Access to Justice, opened to applications in November 2025, as part of our Standing with Londoners funding policy.
Funding programmes that are no longer open to new applicants
City Bridge Foundation continues to provide substantial financial support to many hundreds of organisations awarded funding under our previous funding policy. For some organisations, this funding will continue until 2030.
This is backed up by our free Funder Plus service, offering support and training to increase capacity, resilience and sustainability.
A special Strategic Transition Awards fund of £10m is also providing additional funding to organisations working in key areas. This will help to provide continuity and stability in certain areas of work we have typically funded.
Future funding opportunities will also be available to provide support for eligible organisations.
Building a robust civil society
Funding for infrastructure work to improve charities’ resilience and sustainability.
Children and young people
Support for parents and carers of preschoolers, young victims of gangs and disadvantaged young women.
Criminal justice: better futures for people leaving custody
Support after leaving custody, tackling inequalities in the justice system, and alternatives to custody such as community service
Deaf and disabled people: inclusive services and better access
Support for targeted projects, services and campaigns, and funding to make community spaces more accessible
Environment and sustainability: creating a greener London
Funding climate action in London, and decarbonising charities’ operations and spaces
Increasing the quality and scale of giving
Support for innovative and more collaborative ways of working to strengthen civil society and accelerate outcomes.
Mental health
Increasing Londoner’s access to counselling, psychotherapy and talking therapies.
Migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum: rebuilding lives in London
Projects, services, campaigns and language courses for migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum
Older people: increasing choice and control
Health, independence, and social contact for older Londoners
Small grants
Support for projects and organisations that focus on greening and growing, working with older people, working with Deaf and Disabled people, working with the LGBTQIA+ community, and working with migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.
Social impact investment
Social investment for London’s charitable sector
Social, welfare, legal advice and food poverty
Improving living standards through advice, support and food distribution for people in crisis
Strengthening voice and leadership
Support to platform and amplify marginalised voices
Suicide prevention
Funding to reduce isolation and increase community connection among those most at risk of suicide
Tackling abuse, exploitation and hatred
Combating violence against women, modern slavery, trafficking, forced labour and hate crimes
The Anchor Programme
Long-term, core funding to second-tier organisations that provide support to frontline groups, with the aim of catalysing systemic change
Managing your grant
Login to our online grants portal to:
- Manage and view details of your grant
- Submit reports and accounts
Grant reporting: guidance on our impact and learning processes
Find out what to expect from our grant reporting and learning processes, including:
- annual impact and learning reports
- learning visits
- sharing your feedback
Funder Plus: free organisational support and business planning
We offer a range of free support and services to increase funded organisations’ capacity, resilience and sustainability.
Acknowledging our funding and use of the City Bridge Foundation logo
Our Communications Toolkit for Partners is designed to help you promote your partnership with City Bridge Foundation. It’s guidance can be used by the charities we fund, and the partner organisations we work with to support Londoners.
Reviewing our service to you
All applicants for our funding our encouraged to review City Bridge Foundation using the free, anonymised review service GrantAdvisor UK
These anonymous reviews help us improve our services.
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