Cleaner Greener Safer

Funding is awarded as a grant or as a project. If you apply for grant funding, you must be a constituted organisation, tenant and resident association (TRA), charity, or club. You can apply to deliver the idea yourself. 

Grant funding is awarded directly to your group after your project is complete and you’ve provided proof of project spending to the grants officer.

If you apply for project funding, you must be an individual or a group that does not wish to manage the implementation of your idea. The CGS team will do it for you. As the project sponsor, you’ll be heavily involved in the process.

We've invested in a wide range of projects and grants across Southwark that have had a positive impact on the community. You can find information about these projects on this page.

Constituted groups can apply for self-delivery grants such as:

• estate greening
  • community gardens
  • landscaping
  • food growing
  • wildlife areas
• community facilities improvements
  • youth facilities
  • recycling
  • artwork
• transforming unused areas
  • security measures
  • tackling ‘grot spots’
• school improvements
  • planting and signage for clean air zones
  • sports and play equipment
  • outdoor classrooms

Your ward councillors make funding decisions in the following February or March after assessing the applications. The decisions are announced at public meetings. 

You’ll be notified in writing of the outcome of your application after the meeting. Funding is usually available at the beginning of the next financial year (April).

Find out who your local ward councillors are.

Applicants cannot start their projects until the grants officer has agreed the project programme and costs.

You can contact us by:

• emailing cgs@southwark.gov.uk  
• calling 020 7525 4077