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Funding
We offer support by funding innovative projects that make an impact.
Whether you want to get a creative practitioner involved, explore ways of communicating your findings in an engaging way, or need a budget to repay community groups for their time, we have a number of funding streams to help support your project.
Currently our funding is open to UCL researchers working in partnership with community groups.
Current opportunities
Community Engagement Seed Fund
This is a small grants funding round to support the development of engagement activities and partnership opportunities. UCL staff and postgraduate research students can apply for funding to help them build, develop and catalyse relationships with east London communities.
Community Engagement Development Funding
This is a small grants funding scheme for UCL staff and post graduate research students who have previously been in receipt of funding for engagement project in east London. It is designed to build capacity for previously funded project to deepen the impact of ongoing engagement practice. We expect to fund grants of between £2,000 - £4,000.
Community Engagement Funding for Students
The UCL East Community Engagement fund for students is a small grants funding scheme for students at UCL East to enable activity with communities in east London linked to their studies. Grant can be made for up to £1,000.
Applications can be made though the Students Union UCL East webpage ( scroll down to "UCL East Grant – Engage with the UCL East community")
Highlights from our past funded projects
We have been able to support a hugely varied programme of participatory projects - from X to Z and working with diverse groups local to the UCL East campus and across London. Below is a selection to inspire you.
Trellis projects
This creative autistic-led collaborative project highlighted the importance of relationships to autistic people, especially in the face of Covid-19.
This project afforded recognition to the east London d/Deaf community’s history, culture and language.
Community Engagement Seed Fund Projects
In collaboration with Hackney Council and Hackney Museum, this oral history project explored the role of cricket in black British communities.
Beacon Bursaries projects
To explore vision and perception, east London locals were invited to upload their colourful photos that were turned into individual optical illusion videos and added to a map.
A virtual workshop aimed at health workers advising on contraception choices for trans and non-binary people.
Train and Engage projects
This project set out to share the latest neuroscience discoveries in cognitive ageing with older people, and used poetry as a medium to get their feedback in how UCL research should evolve.
Listen and Respond projects
Listen and Respond was an initiative to explore how UCL as a whole can best “Listen and Respond” to the needs of communities and the voluntary sector in London as they confront and recover from COVID19. In partnership with UCL Student's Union Volunteering Service, the initiative is supported with funding from UCL East, UCL Culture and Innovation and Enterprise.Co-designing services for young east Londoners during COVID-19 and beyond
Responding to the challenges of growing up in east London, this project employed six local young designers to create a solution that helps improve their access to employment..
A creative participatory project exploring how freelance creative practitioners in east London have been adapting their work in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Collaborating with artists, young ambassadors (11-14) and youth workers, UCL's Connected Environments team co-created a series of interactive online VR studios to creatively engage young people during lockdown.
