Haringey One Borough One Future Fund winners announced

After a competition involving 300 applicants, Haringey Council is set to award five projects a share of its pioneering £1.5 million One Borough One Future Fund.

The £1.5m One Borough One Future Fund was launched in May this year to tackle inequality across the borough by encouraging individuals and groups to come forward with innovative plans for how to better deliver services.

The panel announced that, subject to approval by the council’s Cabinet, the following projects will be awarded grants:

Quaker Social Action

Awarded up to £285,540 to deliver financial education courses for people on low incomes.

Courses will be designed to give people on low income the ability to manage their money. The project will work with schools, community groups and local employers to raise awareness of key messages and to sustain the impact of the courses on offer.

Family Action and the YMCA

Awarded up to £299,455 to create a network of volunteer hosts to provide short-term accommodation for young people experiencing family breakdown, homelessness or local authority care orders, and to helping support the young people in returning home.

Carbon Management & Sustainability, Haringey Council

Awarded up to £45,000 to provide a collective energy switching scheme for Haringey residents. The scheme will employ a community engagement officer to assist residents in signing up to the scheme, which aims to reduce energy costs and help tackle fuel poverty and reduce carbon emissions.

Women Like Us and the Community Development Foundation

Awarded up to £20,000 for a feasibility study into the impact of developing a Family Work and Enterprise Hub, to help low income parents and carers get back into work. If feasible the hub aims to be at a physical centre as well as delivering digital services.

WorkLife

Awarded up to £18,750 for a feasibility study. This project will aim to create an affordable community co-working space for local people to work and start businesses, with childcare provided via a co-operative, non-for-profit childcare organisation where parents contribute time to running this.

We're assuming there's more to come since the projects above total just £668.745.