The Voluntary Sector Support Fund (VSSF) helps support local community groups to improve life for our residents. It is the successor to the Corporate Services Grant scheme and also replaces the Adult Social Care and Public Health grants schemes which ended on 30 September 2021.
Initial grant awards covered the period from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2023. A new allocation of grants under the VSSF was agreed in December 2022. The Fund will now run until 31 March 2024.
Funding awarded through VSSF grants in 2021-24 aims to strengthen the voluntary and community sector in our borough by:
- providing core funding to local organisations which can demonstrate that they help and support our residents
- helping to build capacity within the voluntary sector so that it can engage and work more with statutory sector organisations for better outcomes for our residents
- stimulating better ways of doing things for better outcomes for our communities
- providing support for newer and emerging organisations to establish themselves to help meet new and unmet needs
- the following voluntary organisations are funded under the VSSF of which there are organisations that support community activities, organisations that provide information, legal advice, and guidance (IAG) services for residents and organisations offering support to other voluntary organisations.
| Organisation name |
Grant amount 2021-23 (18 months) |
Grant amount 2023-24 (12 months) | Theme | Purpose of VSSF funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Action Disability Kensington and Chelsea |
£12,000 | £8,000 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding to support administration costs. |
|
Advance Advocacy and Non Violence Community Education (aka Advance) |
£90,000 | £30,000 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding to develop and deliver existing services. |
| Al-Hasaniya Moroccan Women’s Project Ltd | £110,918 | £72,096 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding to contribute towards running costs. |
| Baby SPACE Network CIC | £25,253 | £16,835 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding to support staff salary costs and improve capacity building. |
| Baraka Community Association | £44,625 | £29,750 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding to support staff salary costs and rent. |
|
BME Health Forum |
£25,500 | £17,000 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution. |
|
Brownbaby |
£12,419 | £8,279 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding to cover overheads for 18 months, including rent and utilities. |
|
Cruse Bereavement Support, Kensington & Chelsea |
£8,768 | £5,845 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution towards salary costs. |
| Dalgarno Trust | £83,126 | £55,417 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution. |
|
Goldfinger (Goldfinger Factory One CIC) |
£22,500 | £15,000 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution towards existing programmes and outreach coordinator post. |
|
Kensington and Chelsea Forum for Older Residents |
£37,503 | £25,002 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution towards running costs of the organisation to continue to provide low-level early intervention-type activities for older people. |
|
Kensington and Chelsea Social Council |
£132,027 | £88,018 | Support for other organisations | Core funding contribution to support KCSC who provide support for other voluntary sector organisations in Kensington and Chelsea. |
|
Kids On The Green CIC |
£95,625 | £63,750 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution towards the provision of regular programmes. |
|
Making Communities Work & Grow (MCWG) |
£36,000 | £30,000 | Community Centre-type activities |
Core funding contribution towards salary costs. |
|
Meanwhile Gardens Community Association (MGCA) |
£121,500 | £81,000 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding to support the management of the 4-acre site. |
|
Midaye Somali Development Network |
£135,000 | £90,000 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution and project costs for partnership providing wrap-around multi-lingual health and emotional wellbeing service for residents from BME communities. |
|
Migrants Organise Ltd |
£60,279 | £20,000 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding to support information, advice and casework service targeted at BME and migrant community. |
| Minds United Football Club CIC | £25,500 | £17,000 | Community Centre-type activities | Project funding to support sport-based mental health and wellbeing activities. |
|
North Kensington Hearts & Minds CIC |
£25,500 | £17,000 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding to support continued delivery of services at Bay20. |
|
North Kensington Law Centre |
£87,573 |
£29,191 (6 months) |
Information, advice and guidance | Core funding contribution to provide an information, advice and casework service in North Kensington. |
| Nucleus Legal Advice | £301,050 |
£100,350 (6 months) |
Information, advice and guidance | Core funding contribution to provide an information, advice and casework service based in the Earl's Court ward and middle of the borough. |
|
Open Age |
£13,770 | £9,180 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution towards regular, early intervention activities for older people. |
|
Outside In Pathways |
£23,868 | £15,912 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding towards the provision of support to young adults 16–25 with hidden disabilities (e.g. autism). |
|
Response Community Projects (Earls Court) Ltd |
£49,296 | £32,864 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding towards providing a range of community-centre based activities. |
| S.P.I.D. Theatre Company | £17,558 | £11,705 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution towards the continuation of existing community theatre-based activities. |
|
The Chelsea Theatre |
£121,494 | £80,996 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution towards weekly arts and community activities, including the Community Café in the South of the borough. |
|
The Clement James Centre |
£104,400 | £72,096 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution towards the provision of regular programmes. |
|
The Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre (MCHC) Trust (a.k.a Al-Manaar) |
£45,648 | £30,432 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution to support continuation of existing and new services. |
|
Total Family Coaching & Parenting Cic |
£31,875 | £21,250 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution towards a service supporting families with complex needs. |
|
Venture Community Association |
£204,438 | £132,885 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution to cover the running and management of the organisation. |
|
Volunteer Centre Kensington & Chelsea |
£199,931 | £127,705 | Support for other organisations | Core funding to cover running costs of volunteering brokerage and associated project costs. |
|
Westway CT |
£157,310 | £104,873 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution to maintain its pool of transport drivers and fleet of minibuses. |
|
Women's Voices |
£23,480 | £10,000 | Community Centre-type activities | Project costs funding for post-Covid work with BAME women. |
|
World's End Neighbourhood Advice Centre |
£230,189 | Information, advice, and guidance | Core funding to run an information, advice and casework service based in World’s End Estate. | |
|
Youth Action Alliance |
£44,625 | £29,750 | Community Centre-type activities | Core funding contribution towards the management and running of the organisation. |
| Citizens Advice Kensington and Chelsea (CAKC) and Nucleus Legal Advice | £48,457 (6 months) |
Information, advice, and guidance | Core funding to run an information, advice and casework service based in World’s End Estate and Chelsea Riverside area. |