Hey Neighbour asks neighbourhoods what they need and what ideas might work to improve the wellbeing of the local area.
We believe that by helping communities to develop, people are inspired and encouraged to offer their own resources, time and equipment for carrying out neighbourliness actions in their communities.
The Hey Neighbour grants scheme helps this to happen, supporting both new and existing activity that bring people together. It helps people to share and to connect with each other all the good things that make a healthy community to tick.
In Summer 2023, we granted 24 organisations a total of £20,000 worth of funding between £300 and £1,500.
The fund is currently closed but will reopen in 2024.
This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund*
*The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus
Here are just some of the fantastic projects that we funded in Autumn 2023, which brought people together to share skills and to build communities:
A kids dance performance at the Leeds Corn Exchange
An intergenerational project where men teach school children how to build bug hotels
An art therapy bereavement support group
A soap making project to support recovering addicts
The fund is currently closed until 2024. To find out more, please contact damian.dawtry@forumcentral.org.uk
The Hey Neighbour project starts with your ideas, not ours! We support communities to help each other, building upon the skills, resources, care and passion that exists in the neighbourhoods of Leeds, and helping them to flourish.
Due to a very high volume in applications, our small grants and micro grants funding is currently closed
