Royal Greenwich launched the Community Innovation Grant programme in January 2022 to support projects which can help to improve unfair differences in health services and positively impact the mental health and wellbeing of our residents. We've funded 75 projects that have worked with over 10,000 residents, including over 2,000 children and young people, in the borough.
People live with unfair differences in physical and mental health for many reasons, which have only been heightened due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Factors such as language, accessibility and experiences of discrimination can make it more difficult for communities to access and improve local support services. These projects, all around the borough, will aim to tackle these issues in their communities.
The projects granted funding include:
| Project | Neighbourhood |
| Ajoda Community Alliance | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Art of Wellbeing (Music.Arts.Dance.Drama) | Plumstead |
| artTherapy @ artFix | Charlton, Woolwich, Greenwich |
| Bengali Men's Group | Charlton |
| Bengali Women's Group | Charlton |
| Brain Tools | Charlton |
| Breathing Space | Eltham |
| Carers Social Group Greenwich | Eltham, Abbey Wood |
| Changing Lives, New Habits | Plumstead Common |
| Community Support and Wellbeing Project | Woolwich, Charlton, Oxleas Woods, online |
| Connecting from the start | Plumstead, Glyndon, Riverside, Shooters Hill |
| CraftA Friendship Club | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Disabled Peoples Innovation Project | Woolwich, online |
| DIVAS and SEND | Thamesmead, Abbey Wood |
| Diverse Services 4 Diverse Community | Online and face to face, various |
| Drumming for all | Woolwich General Gordon Square |
| Engaging SERTD's Aging Population | Woolwich, Riverside, Abbey Wood |
| English Club | Plumstead |
| Everybody Sing with Mycenae House | Charlton, Woolwich, Plumstead, Plumstead Common, Greenwich |
| FAN-VIVE | Various |
| Flow Arts Wellness | Various community centres |
| Free Ladies Fitness Sessions | Eltham West |
| GPCPF SEND Parent Champions Scheme | Thamesmead, Plumstead, Woolwich, Abbey Wood |
| Green Mondays | New Eltham |
| Greenwich Parks Revealed - Super Saturdays | Greenwich |
| Growing Support | Woolwich Common, Eltham |
| Health and Wellbeing for Senior Citizens | Woolwich |
| Health-Wellbeing-Creativity HWC | Charlton |
| Healthy Charge | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Listening Ears | Abbey Wood |
| Making Time for Black Mental Health Support Group | Online (zoom) |
| Men's Wellbeing | West Greenwich, Woolwich Dockyard, Greenwich Park, Charlton Park |
| MumsAid Mighty Acorns | East Greenwich, online, home visits |
| "My Creative Skills" - Arts for wellbeing and inclusion for migrant women | Greenwich |
| My Well-being Matters | Woolwich, Woolwich Common, online |
| Nature Kids Club (Summer holiday activities) | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Parent and Carer Counselling | East Eltham, Thamesmead, Charlton, Woolwich Common, online |
| PFG Youth Wellbeing Hub | Thamesmead |
| Pocket Park | Woolwich Dockyard Riverside |
| Queercircle Health and Wellbeing | Greenwich Peninsula |
| Reaching Dramatic Voices | Woolwich |
| Release | Thamesmead |
| Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today | Charlton |
| Respite for SEND Parents | Thamesmead |
| Roar talks | Woolwich Royal Arsenal |
| Safe Space for SEND | Abbey Wood |
| Sailability | Deptford |
| Second Stitch | Woolwich Dockyard |
| SENDability | Thamesmead |
| Set Me Free | Abbey Wood |
| Sew Together | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Sharing Voices | Woolwich Dockyard, Charlton, online podcast |
| Skateboarding and Spirituality | Eltham, Kidbrooke |
| Straighten Community as result of Covid-19 | Woolwich Dockyard, online |
| Stubs Disablity Service | Home visits, telephone, online |
| Tackling Mental Health in the local Muslim Community | Plumstead |
| Talk It Out | Online and face to face |
| TASABILITY | Plumstead |
| Teenage Cooking Classes | Kidbrooke |
| Thamesmead Community Gospel Choir | Thamesmead |
| The CWCS Inclusive Mentoring Programme | Shooters Hill |
| The Great Greenwich Tea Dance | East Greenwich, Woolwich |
| The Mind and Soul | Thamesmead, Abbey Wood |
| The Parent Well-being Club | West Greenwich |
| The Rainbow Café | Thamesmead |
| Thrive | Woolwich Dockyard, East Charlton, online |
| Understanding Anxiety and Stress Workshops | West Greenwich |
| Unique Cycling Club | Kidbrooke |
| Unique Together | Eltham, Woolwich, online |
| Vivat Regina | Various |
| Weekend Away to Nature (COVID-19 recovery) | Dartford |
| Wellbeing for Ex Ghurka Veterans and older Nepalese Population | Woolwich |
| Woolwich Common Ward All Together | Woolwich Common, Barnfield |
| World of Hope Greenwich mental health outreach | Abbey Wood |
| Young at Heart | Woolwich, Charlton, Plumstead, Middle Park |