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People Powered Custom House & Canning Town

The Big Vote's results are here!

Your Community Neighbourhood has been allocated £200,000 to spend on improvements to the area in 2023-2025.

Custom House & Canning Town Community Neighbourhood is made up of 3 wards: Canning Town North, Canning Town South and Custom House.

Beckton and Royal Docks and Custom House and Canning Town received an additional £80,000 to share between the two neighbourhoods from ‘Create Your Docks’ community fund through the Royal Docks team.

Get involved in changing your area for the best. Anyone who lives, works or learns in Custom House & Canning Town can take part.

People Powered Places. Your voices, your choices, your neighbourhood.

Phases

Phases overview

People Powered Places Launch

Our priorities

Our solutions

Submit your project proposal

Projects shortlisting and feasibility

The Big Vote

Successful projects announcement

Project delivery progress

Project showcase & evaluation phase

Celebrate your achievements

People Powered Places Launch

April 18, 2023 - April 27, 2023

On Thursday 27 April, over 300 residents joined the launch event of People Powered Places, Newham's flagship participatory budgeting programme.

The Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz OBE, Newham’s Interim Chief Executive Colin Ansell, Councillors and other leaders celebrated all the achievements from the last two years of People Powered Places (previously Community Assemblies) with residents. Voices through the wind, Willow and Young Talent all came on stage to perform.

Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz OBE said we want all residents in Newham to feel empowered by having the largest and best, pioneering participatory budgeting programme in the country.

Residents and local organisations also had stalls showcasing the projects they have delivered with the funding from People Powered Places and a map of Newham showcased all the projects funded over the past two years.

One resident said: "Really lovely evening. Great to see Newham leading the way in involving the community in decisions".