Know Your Neighbourhood Grants
Creative Lives is managing a major new grants scheme for voluntary creative groups in England, as part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Know Your Neighbourhood (KYN) fund.
The two-year programme, which started in April 2023, will fund voluntary creative groups in a number of designated areas across England to promote and deliver targeted creative activities to support people at risk of loneliness and isolation.
There will be a particular focus not just on undertaking a creative activity, which in itself can be beneficial, but on exploring ways that the activity can build connections and a sense of belonging within the community.
The Know Your Neighbourhood Fund will work in a number of targeted high deprivation local authority areas in England.
In Round 2 Creative Lives will be accepting applications from all 27 Know Your Neighbourhood eligible areas, which include Sandwell and Wolverhampton. Approximately 35 project grants (up to £10,000) and 15 partnership grants (up to £20,000) are to be awarded.