Black History Month 2025

Following the panel assessment and decision-making, all applicants will be notified of the outcome via email.

To ensure you receive the outcome emial you should:

• add noreplysouthwarkgrants@southwark.gov.uk to your safe sender's or contact list
• check your junk/spam folders

If you have not been successful 

Unsuccessful applicants will be given brief feedback on their applications. You'll have the opportunity to contact us for further feedback.  

If you are successful

Successful applicants will be sent a copy of the COGF to sign. The COGF must be returned before a grant payment can be made.

Supporting paperwork to process your grant

If the Council has not awarded your organisation funding before, we will also require some supporting paperwork to process your grant. We will ask for: 

Headed letter with proof of organisation details 

• organisation name (as registered with the appropriate authority)
• company or charity number
• VAT number (if applicable)
• the name of a senior person within the organisation  
• address
• telephone number
• email address 

Proof of bank details

• name on the UK bank account
• account number
• sort code 

We will still ask for these documents if you are sole trader, with details of your trading name.  

Once we receive the relevant paperwork, payment will be made in full and in advance by BACS.

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee when funding will be released to organisations as this depends on various factors, including whether organisation is already registered as a Vendor on our payments system and speed of return of signed Conditions of Grant Funding (COGF).

Ahead of events taking place, grant recipients must upload information on their events to the Council’s Southwark Presents listings. Visit our webpage to submit your event. Events should be clearly marked as part of the Black History Month programme.  

You need to publicly acknowledge that your event is supported by Council funding. A “Funded by Southwark” logo will be provided.  

If you are funded, you will have a named monitoring officer who will support you to meet the conditions of the grant.  

After you have delivered your event(s) all grant recipients must complete a short online evaluation form on the funding process and event delivery.