What was the Mayor's Resilience Fund?
The Resilience Fund was the Mayor of London’s £1 million challenge fund to incentivize innovators to address socially impactful issues facing London, help us emerge stronger from COVID-19 and ensure the capital is prepared for future disruptive challenges. It was run in partnership with the Mayor of London and funded by the London Economic Action Partnership.
The Resilience Fund identified specific challenges in partnership with resilience partners, and innovators were then invited to present how they planned to address and solve these challenges through new technologies or by applying creative and innovative ideas. In April, we selected up to four innovators for each of the 10 challenges to receive up to £10k each to refine their solutions.
In July 2021, 10 organisations were announced as winners of each of the 10 challenges and awarded £40,000 each to further develop their solutions between July and September 2021.
Why did we run the Challenge?
There’s no doubt that COVID-19 has changed London—indeed, cities the world over—forever. There are reasons to believe that life will slowly return to normal in the next year, but the impact to our communities, our businesses and our society will remain. That is why London Mayor Sadiq Khan launched the Mayor’s Resilience Fund, a £1 million innovation programme to help London’s businesses and community groups emerge stronger from COVID-19 and to ensure the capital is prepared for future disruptive challenges. See the awards event video
