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Community Engagement Seed Fund 2019

Four projects have been successful in winning funding in 2019

 The Community Engagement Seed Fund is a small grants scheme designed to support the development of engagement activities and partnership opportunities with east London communities.

We are delighted to announce the four successful grants in the 2019-2020 round of funding. Read more about their projects below.

Michael Collins: History

Windrush Hackney. Oral Histories of Migration and Settlement through Cricket. Cricket was a game of immense social and cultural importance for the so-called Windrush generation that arrived in England from the Caribbean c. 1948-1973. The story of West Indian cricket has been told either as one of ‘national awakenings’ in the Caribbean, or through ‘white majority’ reactions to touring West Indies teams. This project focuses on the Hackney Windrush generation’s own experience of organising and playing cricket in England. Catalysing interactions between UCL and local Hackney communities (through project partners Hackney Museum and Hackney council), the project would facilitate oral history interviews that produce new histories of migration.

Find out more about the Windrush Cricket project on the UCL History website.

Claire McAndrew: Bartlett School of Architecture

Enabling community-led perspectives on Housing with Automation. Growing out of a community partnership building event in July 2019, which sought to identify areas of mutual interest at the cross-over of architectural design, construction, AR and robotics, relevant to east London communities. This project will explore how our built environment and living spaces could be different if our domestic spaces were not static structures that are left to stand unoccupied while we are away. Working with a range of community partners in Hackney including both local authority and community sector representatives the project will explore how ‘ALIS’ (a modular housing prototype that uses robotic fabrication to create its building elements) could be used locally.

Hannah Sender: Institute of Global Prosperity

Youth prosperity in Action: defining youth prosperity in Hackney to improve outcomes for young people in the area. A team from Institute for Global Prosperity and youth charity Hackney Quest will involve young people (between 15-18 years old) who live in Hackney with a research and engagement project, training them up as citizens scientists to explore local issues of youth prosperity. Partnering with Hackney Quest, City Academy, Cardinal Pole Catholic School and the London Prosperity Board this project builds on a project previously funded by UCL Culture, ‘The Good Life in Hackney’, which laid the groundwork for defining youth prosperity. This second phase of research and engagement will use the prototype as a guide and allow the project to work with new partners.

Valerio Signorelli: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

RE-Invent: Archipelago. This project will employ web-based digital tools to enable audiences to engage with the V&A Museum of Childhood collections and a series of specially commissioned artworks during an extended period of building closure and social distancing. The CASA team is exploring solutions to enable more people to access the project using web-based solutions accessible form different devices and platforms - via pc, tablet or phone - and to provide a platform for a digital reimagining of the RE-Invent programme, ensuring the museum and collections stay accessible to local families in Tower Hamlets.

Hear more about the project and its challenges and successes, including how it pivoted its planned delivery to navigate Covid-19, in this virtual lunchtime lecture on YouTube.

Visit the Community Engagement Seed Fund webpage for more information about the latest round of funding.

Email the community engagement team for more information.