Neighbourhood Network Shared Pot

There are 5 organisations leading the Neighbourhood Network across 5 neighbourhoods in Barking & Dagenham.  We are exploring what it means to build connection with people who live, work, play in a neighbourhood.  This 'Shared Pot' is for resident led programmes that address this.  This fund comes from The National Lottery Fund and provides the opportunity for residents in these neighbourhoods to 'try some stuff' that leads to connection.  
The Criteria
Funded projects should be:
1. Community led. They design it
2. It must build connection (consider together what this means) 
3. Can be scaled across neighbourhoods
4. Gives people a sense of belonging to others, to their neighbourhood and/or the innovation that they design
5. It must produce learning, and that learning must be shared.
Process
1. Small grants (generally up to £1000) are agreed at the Neighbourhood Network team meetings.
2. The grant agreed will be claimed by the Neighbourhood Network organisations and they will be responsible to organise the spend of the residents leading the project.   
3. Lead organisations will ensure all receipts/evidence of spend are sent to Community Resources for financial reporting purposes on a monthly basis. 
4. Organisations will report verbally at the team monthly team meetings about the activity and learning from the project.  
5. Ratio will write up the learning reported at the team meetings and produce an evaluation at the end of March.