Resources
Funding Guides
Grantway by Induct is a free to use searchable database of grants available to community groups and charities.
Southwark funding guide (January 2020) provides details of trusts that fund in Southwark.
Southwark Worrying About Money is a new leaflet by Southwark Citizens Advice and partners, which can make a real difference to individual people facing financial difficulties. For the online version, click here.
Turn2Us has a benefits calculator to check welfare benefits entitlement for individuals, and a grants search to find charitable funds that support individuals.
Place based initiatives
Ageing Well Southwark
Ageing Well Southwark is a new flexible initiative to help older people and their carers discover and access a range of support and community services available to them in Southwark. The initiative is provided by the Consortium of Older People’s Services in Southwark (COPSINS) partnership – Age UK Lewisham & Southwark, Blackfriars Settlement, Link Age Southwark, Southwark Carers, Southwark Pensioners Centre and Time & Talents Centre – working with Southwark Council.
Dementia Action Alliance
Southwark Dementia Action Alliance enables organisations and individuals to work together to make Southwark a dementia friendly community, where people living with dementia have the support they need to live their life to the full and remain a valued part of our community. This is hugely important as the number of older people aged 65 plus in Southwark will increase by 13,700 by 2030 and the overall prevalence of dementia will increase.
The Giving Lab – Walworth
The Giving Lab by The Social Innovation Partnership enables residents, local organisations and other service providers in Walworth (North Walworth, Newington and Faraday wards) to work together to change how things are currently done.
Made in Bermondsey
Made in Bermondsey, an initiative of The Blue Bermondsey Business Improvement District, aims for a people powered regeneration of The Blue Market in South Bermondsey. Read about their plans here
Members map – Community Southwark
Community Southwark – the Council for Voluntary Services (CVS) in Southwark – has mapped its member charities and community groups that are based in Southwark. Access the map here
Southwark Covid-19 Response
Southwark Charities partnered and pooled funds with other Southwark charitable trusts and foundations to support organisations working with older and vulnerable Southwark residents during the covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021.