The deadline to apply for funding to run a free event during Roehampton Community Weeks this August has been extended to 26 April, giving anyone who missed Monday’s cutoff another 11 days to apply.
Our Roehampton is offering grants of £100 to £300 to local residents, artists, community groups, youth groups, and anyone else based in or working in the ward who wants to put on a free event during the two-week programme, which runs 3–16 August under a “staycation” theme. You do not need to be a formal organisation, and personal bank accounts are accepted.
Successful applicants will hear back by 28 April. Funding comes from the Roehampton Club Foundation.
What’s on offer
Three types of funding are available. Block party workshops are planned on the Alton, Lennox and Putney Vale estates: four workshop providers per location, each receiving £300 (covering materials and travel) to run a four-hour workshop. Themed community days (covering wellbeing, arts and crafts, physical movement, and community gardening) need four 45-minute taster session providers per day at £100 each. And two standalone community events will be funded at £200 each.
In total, up to 30 funded positions are available across the three pathways.
Who qualifies and what’s required
Providers who receive funding must attend two of three support training sessions (20 May, 22 June, and 15 July), hold public liability insurance of at least £1 million, submit a risk assessment, and take part in a social media campaign running from 15 July. A post-event evaluation is also required. Full details are in the funding call document.
How to apply
Applications are via a Google Form. The deadline is 5pm on 26 April, with notifications by 28 April.
For questions, contact Suchismita Majumdar, Community Development Lead at Our Roehampton, at suchismita.majumdar@ourroehampton.org or 07743 533455.
Community groups who want to list an event in the programme but are not applying for funding have until 10 May to submit their activity. The full programme will appear in the Roehampton Voice summer issue.
We have covered Roehampton Community Weeks since 2025; see our series page for previous event listings. Our Roehampton also runs the Roehampton community garden, which broke ground earlier this month.
