Greener City Fund
The Greener City Fund has now all been awarded and projects completed. Find out about our current funding opportunities.
The Mayor is contributing to London being the world's first National Park City, where more than half of the city's area is green in 2050. To help do this, he created the £12 million Greener City Fund. This includes:
- Community Tree Planting and Green Space Grants: Since 2017 almost £5 million has been awarded to more than 250 projects to plant trees and help make our city greener.
- Strategic green infrastructure projects: £3 million to major projects that bring a range of environmental benefits. This includes £2.1 million Green Capital grant funding to support six large-scale green space projects starting in summer 2018, and £800,000 allocated to nine projects through the Good Growth Fund to increase greening of the built environment.
- London’s urban forest: £3 million, including £1.5 million to help create new woodlands, and funds to support street tree planting, improve data about London’s trees and support London-wide projects.
- Community engagement: £1 million to work with partners and Londoners on a range of community and public engagement programmes including the National Park City Festival in 2019.
Community Grants
Our Community Green Space and Community Tree Planting Grants have supported over 250 projects since 2017. All of our Greener City Fund Community Grant funding has now been awarded - find a project near you on the Greener City Map.
If you are a current Greener City Fund grant holder and have a query, please contact the grants team via email at [email protected].
Community Green Space Grants
The Mayor has awarded over £3 milion to more than 180 community projects to improve and create green space since 2020.
Find out more about previous years' projects:
Community Tree Planting Grants
Between 2017 and 2020, the Mayor's Community Tree Planting Grants awarded over £1.3m pounds to more than 80 projects across London, which have planted nearly 100,000 trees.
Find out more about previous years' projects:
Green Capital grants
The Mayor awarded £2.1 million of capital funding to six green space projects across London which were completed between 2018 and 2022. Visit Green Capital grants for more details.
Good Growth Fund: Greening Projects
The Mayor awarded over £800,000 to provide additional greening to seven regeneration projects and to fund green infrastructure audits on two development projects supported by the Good Growth Fund. This additional funding supported new exemplary approaches to greening the public realm, particularly in areas with little existing green cover.
A summary of the seven regeneration projects is below.
The project will improve the quality of the public realm in this high street to better serve the Gospel Oak community and to prepare the place for significant change in coming years. Working closely with the local community to co-design the improvements, the project aims to transform the busy road space into a high quality public space with increased greenery including trees, sustainable drainage features such as rain gardens and new ‘pocket’ green spaces.
This high street improvement project will incorporate green infrastructure which goes beyond traditional street tree planting, to activate underused spaces, soften the environment through planting, provide play space and opportunities for resident gardening, create a sense of arrival in the town centre and strengthen the unique identity of the area.
The project includes green space improvements, a new community food hub and affordable workspace across two estates in Hammersmith & Fulham. The project will use green infrastructure to improve the environmental performance of the public realm, creating resilient, climate adapting spaces, providing innovative flood risk management and improved air quality.
The project will improve the public realm of a key east west route, drawing people into the heart of the area from both sides of the borough to transform this quiet part of Wood Green. Planting will be designed to improve wayfinding and connections between spaces, as well as improve the quality of streets and will form a key part of the planned public realm design guide for Wood Green.
The project involves working with local communities to create a community growing hub in Tolworth including mobile green sheds to act as meanwhile uses for local greening, discussion, problem solving and storytelling, and creation of ‘natural paths’ to create a ‘Bee Triangle’ between Tolworth, Surbiton and New Malden which will encourage pollinators through the planting of herbs and flowers.
The project will improve wayfinding, legibility and biodiversity along Scrubs Lane and at Willesden Junction station, setting the ambition for greening across development in the Old Oak and Park Royal area. Improvements include wildflower planting around Willesden Junction station and better access at a key entrance to Wormwood Scrubs from Scrubs Lane.
The project is taking a community co-design approach to reactivate a derelict social club and a set of under-road arches to provide flexible civic and affordable enterprise spaces. The project will increase and improve green infrastructure along routes to and around the new facilities, including a new ‘urban woodland walk’.