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People Powered Places 2025-27 Application Form

Please answer this question first to receive applicant specific questions in this application form

What type of applicant are you?

The Resident-led group

Name of the resident group (if any)

Please list all the resident members of your resident group

Does your group have an agreed Terms of Reference:

If answered YES, please enclose a word or pdf copy of the terms of reference as an appendix when submitting your application. 

The Youth-Led group

Name of the youth-led group

Please list all the youth members of your group

What are the age ranges of the youth-led group members?

Please list teachers or staff of a chosen organisation who will support the project

Name of the school or organisation you will delivery your project with.

Which of these best describes the organisation?

Please enter the school or organisations contact information below including applicable charity/company number

The Organisation

Name of the Organisation

Which of these best describes your organisation?

Please enter your company or charity number, or what type of other organisation you are below

When was your organisation established or founded?

Please list all trustees/members of your organisation

Please give a brief overview of your organisation

Please provide evidence that your organisation operates in Newham or benefits Newham residents

E.g. Are you related to any members of the People Powered Places working group from any community neighbourhood, or have an existing relationship a Newham Council employee and/or elected member, or directly related to another project applicant to the People Powered Places 2025-27 programme?

Do you or any core members involved in this project have a conflict of interest?

Contact details of the project lead submitting this project 

Title

First name

Last Name

Date of birth

Address

Postcode

Email address

Phone number

Mobile number

X/Twitter (if applicable) 

Facebook (if applicable) 

Instagram (if applicable) 

TikTok (if applicable) 

LinkedIn (if applicable) 

Website (if applicable)

If you have any special communication requirements please let us know what they are

Are you happy for London Borough of Newham Council to tag you in social media posts in association of the project?

Project location

Which Community Neighbourhood are you applying for funding from?

Please be as precise as possible and include all locations if multiple locations apply

Where will your project take place? 

If you are planning to do your project in a public space, do you know who owns the land or premises? 

This includes permissions to run an event in a park

Will you need permission to deliver your project or parts of your project?

If you have already discussed permission with the owner, please describe below. Ensure to include information such as the land and/or venue owner contact information, details of land, premises or services available

Project details

Name of proposed project

Please ensure to include a summary of how it will benefit the community and why you are applying for funding (max 300 words)

Please describe your project and its purpose

Who is your project for, and how many people do you think will take part or benefit from it? 

Please provide evidence via consultation that your project is needed and supported by people in your chosen neighbourhood

Your neighbourhood local priorities

Please refer to the Newham co-create community neighbourhood website that you are applying for https://newhamco-create.co.uk/en/pages/people-powered-places (max 250 words) Please ensure to list the chosen local priority.

Please describe how your project helps to address at least one of the three local priorities from the Community Neighbourhood you are applying for

People Powered Places is funded by the Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy and is part of the corporate plan of Newham Council. Please refer to: 

The 2025-26 Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy list (https://www.newham.gov.uk/downloads/file/9001/2025-26-infrastructure-list) 

Corporate Plan for Newham Council (https://mgov.newham.gov.uk/documents/s158737/Addendum%209050_CORPORATE_PLAN_BOOKLET_v18.pdf) 

In line with the Government’s Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Regulations, the CIL Neighbourhood Fund is allocated to support local initiatives that contribute to the delivery, enhancement, replacement, operation, or upkeep of infrastructure—or any other projects that help address the impact of development on the local area. 

Neighbourhood community infrastructure levy & corporate plan criteria

Please refer to the NCIL list for examples of infrastructure and corporate plan for health and wellbeing

Please select what type of contribution your project will make towards (select all that apply) 

Describe the positive impact your project will have on the selected option(s)

Please explain how your project will help your local area grow and develop to make it a better place to live

Project costs and Timeline

PLEASE ENSURE TO ONLY USE THE TEMPLATE PROVIDED. Make sure you include as much detail as possible on your project and maintenance costs. If your project involves installing public infrastructure, please refer to the catalogue of costs. 

Please provide a budget and expected timeline of your project 

Total amount requested

Funding details

Are you looking for or receiving any additional funding from any other source/s for this project? 

Please confirm what was the funding for, name of the grant programme, how much you received and what year the funding was awarded.

Please tell us if you or your organisation has received any previous funding from Newham Council in the last five (5) financial years, including projects funded by this programme (previously Community Assemblies).

Value for money: Please confirm that your budget makes the most of the available funding to deliver the impact described in your project description

A 3% fee is deducted from the total amount of the grant for this service. Please ensure to include this cost when completing your project budget. 

Newham Council commissions Compost London CIC to act as banker for resident and resident groups who do not have a Treasurers bank account. Please confirm that Compost London CIC can act as banker on the resident projects' behalf.

Who will deliver the project

 Please indicate if you will also involve third parties, volunteers, additional residents or young people to help in the delivery. (max 200 words)

Who will be delivering your project?

If a third party is going to deliver the project, please provide a formal statement from them that they agree to deliver the project if it receives funding. Please provide the statement in pdf or word format.

Third party involvement

How will each youth-led group member contribute to the delivery of the project?

Project sustainability

The initial timeframe of your project will be from March 2026 to February 2027. Do you plan to continue your project after it ends in February 2027? If yes, how?

Are there any risks that could affect the successful delivery of your project within the budget and timescale proposed? If so, how do you plan to reduce the risks? 

For example, what changes do you hope to make? How will you prove your project will work? How many people do you plan to reach? How will you know what changes it has made to them? (max 150 words)

Please give a brief outline of how you will demonstrate the benefits of your projects.  

This is essential for online voting. This brief description will be available for other residents to see and comment on to facilitate wider discussion and bring awareness to your project application, in advance of the voting stages. You can submit your project description (via the Add a project link) on your Cocreate Community Neighbourhood page  https://newhamco-create.co.uk/en/folders/people-powered-places-2025-27  (max 200 words)

Please ensure you upload a brief project description onto the Newham Co-create platform in your Community Neighbourhood page by 14 September 2025

I certify that the information supplied is accurate to the best of my knowledge. I understand and accept that providing deliberate false information could result in legal action being taken against me and withdrawal of funds awarded.


Declaration

Please provide your full name as confirmation of your signature

Sign

Position

Sign: Youth-led member lead

Sign: School or organisation staff lead

Position: School or organisation staff lead

Application form involvement

Date

Information that you provide us about yourself will be held on Council records for the remainder of the People Powered Places cycle. Successful applicants’/organisations’ names and projects will be published on the website and digital platforms. By completing this form, you consent to that data being collected and shared with other council services for the remainder of the People Powered Places cycle. Any information provided to us will be used for the purposes of complying with any legal and/or statutory obligation, to contact you to deal with an enquiry you have raised and email you content that you have requested from us. Read our privacy statement on www.newham.gov.uk for information about your data rights. Newham Council carries out checks to prevent and detect fraud. If fraud is detected, you could be refused certain services, finance or employment. We may share information provided to us with other bodies responsible for auditing or administering public funds, law enforcement agencies, or undertake local anti-fraud initiatives, in order to prevent and detect fraud or money laundering. The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with fraud prevention agencies. Further details of how your information will be used by us, fraud prevention agencies, and your data protection rights can be found on our website and Cifas. For further information, please refer to the privacy policy https://newhamco-create.co.uk/en/pages/privacy-policy

A email confirmation will be sent to you upon submitting your application. Please check your email and junk inbox. Any amendments to your application form must be requested via email to your applicable community neighbourhood team and before the deadline of 14th September 11pm.

Please ensure you have answered as many applicable questions in this application form before you submit. Thank you for completing this application form.  Your Community Neighbourhood team will be in touch soon.