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Year 4 celebration event for Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund

We are pleased to launch the fourth year of the Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund for East London creative projects, supported by founding partner Westfield Stratford City — the Fund is now open for applications.

We marked Year 4 with a special event at Coppermaker Square, with presentations, performances and testimonials from our grantees over the past few years, as well as an official welcome and scene setting from our team including:

  • Baroness Lola Young, Co-Chair, Foundation for Future London
  • Maria Adebowale-Schwarte, CEO, Foundation for Future London
  • Sarah Nelson, Director of Programmes and Communications, Foundation for Future London

Thanks to all who came along and also thanks to our production team on the day including photos from Anne-Marie Michel and film from Eastside Film Production and Marlon Rouse Tavares.

Make sure to take a look at our video and photo highlights below, we’ll be sharing these on social media.

This year we have also launched our Community Panel recruitment, looking for representatives from the four boroughs we work in — Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest — to help decide on pre-shortlisted applications through our Large Grant Scheme. Deadline is Friday 8 September 2023.

What is Westfield East Bank Creative Futures Fund?

The  Fund is a £10 million five-year programme that will provide new jobs, learning, training and educational programmes through the means of arts, culture, innovation, public realm and creative placemaking. People living, working or studying in Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest can apply for up to £50k from the Fund’s community grant strand for new and existing projects, with a total of £550k available.

Our Flexigrant application portal for Small, Medium and Large Grants (if Expression of Interest was approved) will be open from Monday 24 July until Friday 22 September 2023.

For help and advice on making an application, please contact our Capacity Building Programme lead Lisa Stepanovic on capacitybuilding.ffl@outlook.com. Please also see upcoming workshops and sessions for practical support.

For more information see https://future.london/programme/westfield-east-bank-creative-futures-fund/
Here at the Foundation, the grassroot organisations, grantees and project participants that we fund and work with amaze and inspire us on a daily basis. So over the next 12 months, we’ll be sharing the profile of a different person whose life has been changed as a result of being on a Foundation funded project, supported through our Westfield East Bank Creative Futures fund, generously donated by Westfield Stratford City or Foundations Programme co funded by City of London Corporation. During the course of our interviews with participants and grantees, we discovered one key thing that united people’s experiences: the role of arts, culture and creativity and how providing a platform for self-expression and community can help people develop their potential and even transform lives and careers.

Film and photo credits

Promo film by Marlon Rouse Tavares

Shorter film clips by Louise Kent from Eastside Film Production

Music track “Flying Shuttle” by Matthew John Kay Smith [PRS] from YUAF presents Fresh From London

With thanks to: 

  • Westfield Stratford City and its Comms, PR and Events team
  • Coppermaker Square
  • Trisha McCauley, Humble Gallery Director, Rosetta Arts
  • Sami Rhymes
  • Kerry O’Brien, Young Urban Arts Foundation
  • Isabella Gnanasekara
  • Donna Travis, Future Hackney
  • Katakyie Addae-Kodua , X-Conversation
  • Tasha Cowperthwaite, Strive 2 Thrive in Preston
  • Ahmed Al-Aagam, Aalfy in Sheffield
  • JR Josephs, Sirlute
  • Lisa Stepanovic MBE, Social Ark
  • Moses Adeyemi, Social Ark
  • Tiwa King, Social Ark
  • Nelsandro Farmhouse
  • Caramel Rocks
  • Eastside Film Production
  • Anne-Marie Michel
  • Marlon Rouse Tavares
  • Baroness Lola Young, Co-Chair, Foundation for Future London
  • Maria Adebowale-Schwarte, CEO, Foundation for Future London
  • Sarah Nelson, Director of Programmes and Communications, Foundation for Future London
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