Windrush Day Grant Scheme 2025

The Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG), in partnership with Near Neighbours, is offering grants of between £5,000 and £50,000 for local authorities, charities, and community groups across England to deliver projects and activities that engage with the Windrush story and Windrush communities in powerful, thoughtful, and enterprising ways.

For 2025, the focus is on bringing communities together across different ages and ethnic backgrounds to celebrate and educate their local area about the contributions of the Windrush generation and their descendants.  

Proposals should focus on at least one of the following overarching aims of the scheme:

• To educate people about the Windrush story.
• To foster a greater sense of national pride and recognition of the historic and ongoing contributions made by the Windrush generation and their descendants to UK society.
• To develop the skills and entrepreneurial ambitions of young people.
• To celebrate and commemorate the continued contributions of the Windrush generation to the UK.

Proposed projects should achieve all of the following outcomes:

• Greater community cohesion.
• Have a lasting impact beyond the funding period.
• Increased acknowledgment of the contribution of the Windrush generation and their descendants.

Projects should be developed by, or with, the Windrush generation and their descendants, and organisations should carefully consider how the project will create a positive social impact in their local area and help to galvanise communities to work together to embrace positive aspects of their shared identity.

Proposed projects must include a lead event or activity on National Windrush Day (22 June 2025). All further events and activities must take place before 30 September 2025.

To view more of the grant, click here.

The deadline for applications is 25 November 2024.