Croydon Loves You 2025 Grant Programme
Croydon Loves You 2025 is a grants programme supporting individuals, community groups, arts and cultural organisations to deliver creative arts-based projects that benefit the health and wellbeing of Croydon residents.
Croydon Loves You 2025 has been developed by the Creative Health team with funding from Public Health to demonstrate how engagement with arts and culture can effectively contribute to improving the health and wellbeing of people at risk of health inequalities.
With three funding rounds scheduled across 2025, a total grant pot of £185,000 is available for projects that engage residents at risk of health inequalities with creative activities to support specific health or wellbeing goals, such as reducing social isolation, improving mood, or supporting people with weight management.
There are three grant levels available:
- Micro Grants: £500-£1,500
- Project Grants: £1,500-£5,000
- Step-change Grants: £5,000-£10,000 (Please note, Step-change Grants were last eligible for consideration in Round 2. No further Step-change grants will be considered this year.)
Applications will be considered in three rounds. Please submit applications by 5pm on the dates below for your application to be considered in the relevant round.
- Round 1: 28 March 2025 (for Micro, Project and Step-change Grants)
- Round 2: 6 June 2025 (for Micro, Project and Step-change Grants)
- Round 3: 19 September 2025 (for Micro, and Project Grants only)
- Please note, the previously scheduled Round 4 with a 12 December deadline has been combined with Round 3 in order to best support successful applicants to complete and evaluate their projects before the end of March 2026. If you wish to run a project in Winter 2025/6, please apply with Round 3, submitting your application by 5pm on 19 September 2025.
Read the Application Guidelines (updated in July 2025) below for a full list of the types of activities, target participants and outcomes eligible for support through this programme. You’ll also find the application questions, timeline and budget templates, and other helpful documents you’ll need to make your application.
Read about successful projects funded during Round 1 and Round 2 of the programme.
Documents / Links:
- CLY 2025 Application Guidelines (updated July 2025)
- CLY 2025 Application Questions (PDF) (updated June 2025)
- CLY 2025 Application Questions (Word) (updated June 2025)
- Timeline Template
- Budget Template
- Safeguarding Policy & Procedure Support
- Risk Assessment Template
- Link to Creative Health Quality Framework for Creative Practitioners
- Link to online application form
The Creative Health team are happy to offer an advisory call to each applicant at any stage of the application, from developing an idea, to linking up with potential partners, to how to answer specific application questions. Please email the team on creativehealth@croydon.gov.uk if you would like to schedule a 30 minute conversation.