Clarion doubles Making a Difference Fund pot to £100k

Ameina Centre CIC (Luton)

A project that will collect a number of recipes from various communities that reflect Luton’s diversity, with 10 sessions of cook and eat where a chef will work alongside community members to prepare recipes in a way that retains their authenticity but with a reduction in fat and salts.

Friday Bridge Primary School (Fenland)

A community art and story trail featuring children’s work and contributions from local residents, celebrating life in the local neighbourhood. The project builds community pride, strengthens school-home links, and culminates in a launch event and printed storybook showcasing shared creativity and connection across generations.

Learning Through the Arts (Hertsmere)

Creative Vibes is a mixed arts, weekly community engagement project bringing older people from different backgrounds and cultures together to explore and create artwork, underpinned by social inclusion, cultural diversity and solidarity. Ultimately, the artwork produced will culminate in an exhibition at the local library.

Sporting Inspirations CIC (Stevenage)

Bringing together a weekly arts and crafts sessions for young people with a wellbeing hub for older adults to celebrate the local community's cultural heritage.

IROKO Theatre Company (Newham)

“Rhythms of Unity” is a community arts project that uses African drumming and creative arts activities to celebrate cultural diversity in Canning Town. Through inclusive workshops and performances, it promotes creativity, social connections, and intercultural understanding primarily amongst local residents.

Magic Me (Tower Hamlets)

An outreach programme to encourage older people to attend regular intergenerational creative sessions. Associate Artists will visit a local sheltered housing complex with a 'tea trolley' of art activities to encourage new connections, and participants will then be helped to join regular Magic Me activities.

Bromley Children Project (Bromley)

A mobile exhibition to showcase community traditions and cultural values for the Gypsy Roma Traveller community, promoting awareness and reducing discrimination by encouraging community engagement.

Chislehurst Youth for Christ (Bromley)

Community music / recording studio that will provide young people free access to recording facilities and creative development opportunities. This space will be a supportive environment where young people can learn, grow, and discover their potential with training in song writing, performance, recording, producing and engineering.

Mads do & Mend CIC (Southwark)

A project aimed at celebrating the rich cultural diversity of our Rotherhithe Mending group by creating a Collaborative Community Quilt exploring the theme of ‘Belonging’ inspired by a recent trip to the Fashion Textile Museum showcasing global textiles.

Mitcham Town Community Trust (Merton)

A programme of community and in-school workshops, encouraging local young people to create poetry, prose, drama and song celebrating life on Mitcham’s streets, parks and playgrounds, ending with live performances by young people and featuring work by other local artists, writers and performers.

Penge Partners (Bromley)

The restoration of Penge Recreation Ground’s Victorian drinking fountain represents a significant effort to protect and enhance an important historical asset, preserving this symbol of the area’s rich Victorian heritage.

South Mitcham Community Association (Merton)

An arts-based project, where local people will be invited to come to the centre and co-produce a design which will be used to create the SMCA heART of community mural which will be permanently installed within the centre.

e:merge (UK) Company Ltd (Bradford)

Young people will work with local artists to create and install a lasting piece of art which celebrates the local community and host an open fun day to celebrate its unveiling with wider community members.

The Neighbourhood Project CIC (Bradford)

Residents will be trained in research and video production skills and will carry out a social research project to document the post-war period of the William Sutton estate and the wider Tyersal area, resulting in material that will be used to make a free-to-view video on the history of the area.

Pitch 2 Progress CIC (Birmingham)

A weekly cooking and community meals project for young people aged 8–15 from families living in Clarion homes. They will learn to cook, develop confidence, and deliver hot meals to residents, promoting skill-building, intergenerational connection, and community cohesion across East Birmingham.

Sutton Trust Community Group (Stoke-on-Trent)

Uniting local residents through storytelling, memory sharing and heritage walks based at Betty Rushton Community Gardens. A launch event, weekly cafés, historian talks and a student documentary will capture local history, build community connection, and create a living archive, preserving the estate’s past while strengthening its future.

Barne Barton and St Budeaux Community Forum (Plymouth)

Working with the Barbican Theatre to provide creative arts sessions to promote wellbeing, with a focus on neighbourhood connections. These sessions will be a mix of adult and children’s sessions and will include music, drama, dance, puppetry and more.

Blueprint Arts CIC (Dartford)

Flavour Fusion is a community-led heritage and food project celebrating Ebbsfleet’s diverse cultures through recipes, stories, and shared experiences. This will include the co-creation of a printed and digital cookbook, inclusive events and workshops, and strengthened community identity while preserving and promoting local heritage through food.

Leatherhead Community Hub (Mole Valley)

Co-led by a talented young artist and social researcher, and managed by the community development team at LCH, a painted exterior mural will feature images and stories contributed by local people, telling the rich history of the area, celebrating kindness and enhancing a strong and distinct sense of place.

Repton Community Trust (Ashford)

A series of bespoke artworks from local artists to be displayed inside Repton Community Centre, celebrating the diversity, heritage, and identity of the area through creative expression, while also creating opportunities for connection between different groups.

Snodland Hub (Tonbridge & Malling)

Creation of a mural on the side of the building, working with local residents to understand what it means to them to be from and/or live in Snodland, what local history and heritage there is in the area, and what makes people feel proud of Snodland before using this insight to co-produce a design for the mural.