Westway Trust

Registered charity 1123127 · since 2008westway.org·Kensington and Chelsea, London·Updated 31 October 2026

At a glance

38.8%

Of applications succeed

Open to applications

Fixed application deadlines · unsolicited applications welcome

Key takeaways

Westway Trust is worth approaching if your group works in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, because both the Community Seedling Fund and the Community Impact Fund require the organisation to operate there, and its stated priority is North Kensington.
Choose the programme that fits your annual turnover: the Community Seedling Fund excludes organisations with turnover of £20,000 or more, the Community Impact Fund excludes those under £20,000 or over £100,000, and Transformation Grants exclude organisations with turnover of £100,000 or less.
Requests are capped at £2,000 under the Community Seedling Fund and £3,000 under the Community Impact Fund, while Transformation Grants go up to £70,000 per organisation for projects lasting up to a year, so size your request to the fund.
The charity says it funded 38.8% of requests (38 of 98) in a similar grants programme last year, which is a share of requests rather than of grants, so it gives a sense of how often applications succeed.
Applications are made through the online form in numbered rounds with fixed deadlines, so read the programme guidelines and FAQs before you start.

Overview

Westway Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1123127).

Westway Trust is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Its objects are to promote, particularly for the benefit of those living or working in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and adjoining London boroughs, and it creates opportunities for local growth by providing grants, learning programmes and spaces, collaborating with its communities to drive positive impact for North Kensington. It runs three grant programmes: the Community Seedling Fund (up to £2,000), the Community Impact Fund (up to £3,000) and Transformation Grants (up to £70,000 per organisation for projects lasting up to a year).

What they fund

Priority Areas

Westway Trust offers grants to community organisations and groups working in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, with particular focus on North Kensington. Its small-organisation funding supports under-resourced grassroots groups and projects across any art form or theme important to local communities; its community-impact funding backs projects demonstrating tangible positive impact. Its transformation funding aims at systemic change, particularly initiatives addressing root causes of inequality, discrimination and marginalisation and advancing social justice. Eligible applicants include community organisations, registered charities, CIOs, CICs and constituted community groups; the transformation route also welcomes consortia, partnerships, networks and groups. The Trust favours locally rooted projects and public engagement, and welcomes proposals drawing on research and effective delivery techniques to contribute to wider change.

Themes

Arts projects
Systemic change
Inequalities
Social justice

Geographic Focus

Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. Priority: North Kensington.

What they don't fund

Community Seedling Fund only:
- Organisations with an annual turnover of £20,000 or more
- Organisations that are not community organisations, registered charities, registered Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO), registered Community Interest Companies (CIC), or community groups with a written constitution or governing document
- Organisations that do not operate within the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (RBKC)
Community Impact Fund only:
- Organisations with an annual turnover of less than £20,000 or more than £100,000
- Organisations that are not community organisations, registered charities, registered Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO), registered Community Interest Companies (CIC), or community groups with a written constitution or governing document
- Organisations that do not operate within the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (RBKC)
Transformation Grants only:
- Organisations not registered with Companies House and/or the Charity Commission
- Limited companies and registered charities that do not have a registered office in the UK
- Organisations with an annual turnover of £100,000 or less

How to apply

Organisations apply directly through the online application form for the relevant programme and should read the programme guidelines and FAQs.

Deadlines: Applications follow numbered rounds, with dates specified for each round.

What to send:

Community Seedling Fund, Community Impact Fund: Evidence that you are a non-profit organisation with a presence within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC)

Application success factors

What the charity says:

Community Seedling Fund projects should centre on the funded activity or include significant public engagement.
Transformation proposals should address root causes of inequality, discrimination and marginalisation and advance social justice.
The Trust seeks projects capable of creating wider impact, contributing to the national conversation and setting an example or standard for others.
Transformation proposals may draw on applicants’ own research or established research and should use demonstrably effective delivery techniques.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Westway Trust.

The Kensington + Chelsea FoundationFixed deadlinesGave £1.1M Hollick Family FoundationNo public processGave £990k Young Westminster FoundationInvitation onlyGave £1.7M The Field Family Charitable TrustFixed deadlinesGave £63,618 Kensington & Chelsea Social CouncilNo public processGave £900 Young K&CFixed deadlinesGave £609k The RL Charitable TrustInvitation onlyGave £45,852 Grange Farm CentreRollingGave £72,499 Foundation for Future LondonFixed deadlinesGave £626k The John Coates Charitable TrustInvitation onlyGave £797k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£5,980,000	£6,833,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£6,772,000	£6,111,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£6,160,000	£5,910,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£8,157,000	£6,320,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£7,091,000	£6,850,000	—	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.