LifeLine Projects

Registered charity 1084634 · since 2001lifelineprojects.co.uk·Essex, Greater London, International, United Kingdom·Updated 30 October 2026

At a glance

Open to applications

Rolling, no deadlines · unsolicited applications welcome

Key takeaways

LifeLine Projects' small-grants service fits organisations that help local residents set up activities and spaces, especially after-school opportunities for young people and support for families.
Its annual report gives no grants total or grant range that could be read, so a realistic request size cannot be set from its figures.
The charity has said it managed a pot of £24,000 for small grants, so a modest request is the safer approach.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and it offers community training and one-to-one support to potential grantees, so consider using these before applying.
Applications are scored by a panel of local residents, including young people, so explain how the project will benefit the local community, though the level of competition is not stated.

Overview

LifeLine Projects is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1084634).

LifeLine Projects is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. It was founded by a group of volunteers from a local church in East London who saw needs in their community, including women who could not speak English and young people who lacked a safe adult to talk with. Its purpose is creating communities where young people and families thrive. It manages a community-focused small-grants service that helps local residents set up activities and spaces that enrich their community, and it has said it managed a pot of £24,000 for small grants.

What they fund

Priority Areas

LifeLine Projects manages a community-focused small-grants service, supported by training and one-to-one guidance for potential grantees. The grants help local residents set up activities and spaces that enrich their community, and create opportunities for young people and families. Many supported projects involve residents providing after-school opportunities for young people. The programme described on the website is part of Winning Harts in Barking, where local people bring forward ideas for neighbourhood change. More broadly, LifeLine Projects works alongside young people and families who are isolated, marginalised or excluded, supporting residents to lead local change and strengthening community connections.

Themes

Community development

Geographic Focus

Priority: London; Essex; the United Kingdom; the world; Barking.

How to apply

Potential grantees can attend community training on setting up an organisation to apply, running community services and meeting reporting requirements, and can receive one-to-one support.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

Applications are scored by a panel of local residents, including young people.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

United Kingdom
International
Greater London
Essex

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to LifeLine Projects.

New Life Church, Biggin HillNo public processGave £109k ZVM Rangoonwala FoundationMixed deadlinesGave £2.3M Groundwork LondonMixed deadlinesGave £9.5M The Kensington + Chelsea FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £1.1M Stadium Charitable TrustInvitation onlyGave £358k LifePoint ChurchNo public process Charity of Sir Richard WhittingtonNo public processGave £5.3M The David Laing FoundationRollingGave £245k Life Church PeterboroughNo public processGave £33,953 The Lancaster FoundationMixed deadlinesGave £2.2M

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£2,175,030	£2,037,682	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£2,497,342	£3,973,641	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£2,618,283	£2,694,640	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£3,190,707	£2,911,093	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£3,476,746	£3,079,946	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.