Community ward funding

Community Ward Funding is currently closed for 2025.

If you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive updates on future funding rounds, please email cwfsupport@walthamforest.gov.uk. 

If you were awarded funding to complete a 2025/26 project, you must complete your project evaluation and submit your project evidence. Please email cwfsupport@walthamforest.gov.uk and the team will advise you on the next steps.

Wards are allocated an amount based on geographical size. Wards with two councillors were allocated £6,600, and wards with three councillors were allocated £10,000. Projects were able to apply for funding from up to two wards.

Cann Hall

The Royal British Legion Remembrance Day Parade, Service and Reception: £150

Leytonstone Festival 2025: £1,000

The Langthorne Festival: £1,500

Town Anywhere Leytonstone: £500

Schools Concert: ‘Giddy Goat’ by Jamie Rix, Music by Paul Rissmann: £1,000

Flying Sycamores Forest School Picnic and Planters at Good Shepherd Studios: £710

Art Social: £2,140 

Everyone Welcome, Everyone on Boards: £1,000

Forever Family Community Academy: £2,000

Total: £10,000

Cathall

South Leytonstone Community Garden Trail: £690

The Langthorne Festival: £2,600

Boxing Togetherness: £1,500

Schools Concert, ‘Giddy Goat’ by Jamie Rix, Music by Paul Rissmann: £1,038

Goal Getters: £750

Total: £6,578

Chapel End

Friends of Lloyd Park Event Series 2025: £2,850

Lloyd Park Children's Charity, Community Living Room: £2,241.11

Clean up Brettenham Alley: £1,343.89

The Gum Tree Project: £750

Waltham Forest Day Services: £750

FRAPS & RAPS Infant outdoor environment project: £1,000

Lloyd Park Leeks Youth Ultimate Frisbee Club: £565

Total: £9,500

Chingford Green

Floor repair: £1,500

The Chingford Village Festival: £1,500

E4Grows (formally known as The Food Bank growers): £500

Wild Plants for Station Road: £500 

Chingford Station, Epping Forest, Welcome and information signage: £1,500

E4 Social: £500

Albany Court Residents E4 Activities: £500

Bank Holiday Community Get-Together

Total: £7,000

Endlebury

Victory Europe Day: 80th Anniversary commemoration : £650

The Chingford Village Festival: £500

Community Toy Library: £1,000

Historic Dovecote Repair Project: £200

Chimney Energy Saving Project: £2,500

Total: £4,850

Forest

Soul Food Café: £2,150

Cornerstone Friday Youth Club: £3,129.60

Forest Women Group: Twice a Month Meetings: £1,000

Forest and Horse: celebrating Lunar New Year 2026 in style: £1,000

Total: £7,279.60

Grove Green

Walk In Sports: £1,800

Francis Road Street Party: £850

Creative Dance Workshops in Schools and the wider community: £2,700

Roll Fit: £1,050

Lets ball 3x3: £2,600

Total: £10,000

Hale End and Highams Park South

Highams Park Jazz Club: Live Jazz Concerts and Jam Sessions: £500

A Series of Four Classical Music Recitals: £500

Fiitball: £500

Help@hub: £1,135

The Highams Park Christmas Fayre: £1,000

Choose Local Highams Park: £1,000

The Picnic in The Park: £1,000

Planting for Biodiversity, River Ching: £465

hSpark Radio Community Mission: £500

Total: £6,600

Hatch Lane and Highams Park North

A Series of Four Classical Music Recitals: £1,000

Help@hub: £1,500

The Highams Park Christmas Fayre: £1,200

Historic Dovecote Repair Project: £500

Choose Local Highams Park: £1,200

Friday Hill Sow and Grow Project: £1,000

The Picnic in The Park: £1,500

Shroom Sunday 2025: £700

hSpark Radio Community Mission: £1,400

Total: £10,000

High Street

Carisbrooke Road, Bringing the Community Together: £1,000

Celebrating independence in mixed cultures: £2,100

Restart, Reset, Refocus: £1,000

St James Street Big Local Summer Fair: £1,000

Autism Support Group: £750

Harmony Health Hub: £1,000

Community Outdoor Cinema Event: £1,000

Community Gardening Project: £1,000

Needles and Narratives, Maps and Memories: £750

Cleveland Perk Greener Streets: £400

Total: £10,000

Higham Hill

The Urban Fox Mural and Animation Project: £2,500

Greening Gloucester Road: £750

East London Shakespeare Festival (ELSF) will present ‘As You Like It’ and accompanying Community Engagement Programme: £500

Building the Garden Summer Scheme: £1,000

Tennis for Everyone: £500

Higham Hill Chess Festival: £500

Higham Hill Community Activity Fund: £2,000

Total: £7,750

Hoe Street

Learn English for Employability: £1,000

Work, Life & Me, Real Stories, Real People: £620

Tower Hamlets Road gardening scheme 2025/26: £300

Community Balling: £750

Stay Safe and Well event: £1,400

Fuel & Move at The Together Space: £1,000

Dance for everyone: £500

The Cotch Youth Design Agency (Lab Twenty Four): £500

Community Wellbeing Retreat Day: £600

Aubrey Road Guerilla Gardening Project: £300

Neighbourhood Safety: £700

Total: £7,670

Larkswood

Replacement Defibrillator pads: £115.98

2025 Christmas Event: £1,250

Ongoing gardening mainly in Memorial Park pond and nearby: £550

E4Grows (formally known as The Food Bank growers): £500

Old Church Participation Group, PPG Support: £500

Community Toy Library: £1,500

Young Elite Management CIC: £1,500

Gather Wild Women's group and forest school community support: £500

Anyone for tennis? Literally anyone: £1,250

Underpass project: £215

A safer, brighter, more accessible community: £1,200

Total: £9,080.98

Lea Bridge

Palamos Road Street Party: £500

Women Project: £500

Positive Routes: £500

Leyton Más 2025 Peoples' Parade for Schools: £500

Supporting Solo Parents with Eco Cleaning: £500

Celebrating independence in mixed cultures: £600

Football for the community: £500

Sports4Life Wellness Physical Activities (SWAP): £500

The Brothers Project: £600

Arts & Craft Day: £500

Toolhouse, Free small appliance repair classes: £500

Waltham Forest Pet Foodbank at Tesco Leyton: £600

Free Community Holistic Healing and Music: £500

Nigerian Independence Anniversary: £600

Quiet Car, Unseen, Unpaid, Still Human: £500

Bridge Road Street Party 2025: £500

Solidarity School: £600

The Wellbeing Club: £500

Tinkus Puros, Celebrating Andean Culture in Waltham Forest: £500

Total: £10,000

Leyton

Leyton Más 2025 Peoples' Parade for Schools: £1,000

Shared Tables: Older Disabled People Eating Out Together in the Community for Building Stronger Local Connections: £1,000

The Lighthouse Project: £1,000

Sunflower Saturday: £250

Oliver Close Family Funday: £250

The Waltham Forest Twinning Association at Coronation Gardens: £600

Community Festival: £250

Community Garden on Leyton Mills Roundabout: £600

Sunnyside and Radlix Summer Street Celebration 2025: £250

Cambrian Gardens Film Festival: £1,000

Brush & Resilience: Calligraphy and Creative Wellbeing: £350

Creative Expression: £500

Waveland: £750

Leyton Arts Festival: £1,100

Lets ball 3x3: £500

ArtEast, Butterfly Project: £600

Total: £10,000

Leytonstone

Communi-tea Chair Yoga: £1,000

The Royal British Legion Remembrance Day Parade, Service and Reception: £150

Leytonstone Festival 2025: £1,200

Town Anywhere Leytonstone: £1,000

Vintage Tea at St John's: £1,000

The Leytonstone Ko-op: £900

Geek Café Digital Drop-In: Everyday Tech Help for Everyone: £650

Jelly Legs Run Club: £450

BARA 'Party in the Park': £1,000

Stone Mini Mart workshops: £400

Social and Active on Mondays: £400

Harvey Road Community Gardens: £250

Drama in Leytonstone Library: £600

Lovely & Local: £1,000

Total: £10,000

Markhouse

SP WAGS Programme (Women and Girls): £1,000

The Brothers project: £500

Community Self Care Session: £500

PZ October Half-term activities: £1,000

The Wellbeing Club: £2,000

Empowering Families Through Therapeutic Parenting in Markhouse Ward: £775

Total: £5,775

St James

Chester Road Street Party: £400

Coppermill Swifts Community Football: £1,000

Bio diversity Mural project: £400

Therapeutic parenting support: £1,500

Toolhouse, Free small appliance repair classes: £1,000

Summer Saturday Club @ The Mill: £1,000

Coppermill Playground Project: £3,000

PZ October Half-term activities: £1,000

EBS LDN HOOP JAM: £500

Total: £9,800

Upper Walthamstow

Lingering Longer: £1,500

Blooming Ulverston Road Project: £200

Biodiverse, social garden: £924

Total: £2,624

Valley

2025 Christmas Event: £1,250

VE Day Community Celebrations: £750

Older Men's Social Group: "The Friday Fellas”: £865

80TH Anniversary, peace in Europe: £750

Everyone Welcome, Everyone On Boards: £1,750

Kinderkrew Ltd: £2,500

Celebrating Culture, Creativity, and Community Spirit!: £1,250

Total: £9,115

William Morris

Friends of Lloyd Park Event Series 2025: £2,150

Walthamstow Adults Neurodivergent Group: £500

Phonebox Greenhouse, upgrade: £549

An Oasis in Walthamstow: £750

Culture Play: £500

SEND Parent Art Sessions: £1,000

Walthamstow Tool Library: £1,145

EID Celebrations: £500

Roma Road Street Party: £340

Creative movement classes: £600

Teach Me How To Weave: £500

WFTA Storytelling Workshops at the gallery: £700

Summer Picnic: £500

King Edward Road Street Party: £266

Total: £10,000

Wood Street

Spring Party: £1,420

Judo: £400

Work, Life & Me, Real Stories, Real People: £621

Troubridge Square, Skateboarding Activity Sessions: £1,040

Parent & Child Squash: £252

Wood Street Plot to Plate Edible Garden: £1,000

Chestnut Avenue South Street Party: £450

Total: £5,183