EALING has £410,000 to spend on sprucing up open spaces.

Transform Your Space is a scheme which invites residents to identify outdoor community spaces across the borough that are unused or unloved and suggest how they could be better used.

Projects need to show how the improvements would benefit the local community and that local people support the plans.

They could include creating new green spaces, clearing outdoor areas for small community events or outdoor dining – the possibilities are endless.

In the first round of the initiative in 2014, the council picked 15 projects of different sizes.

Cabinet member for the environment, Cllr Bassam Mahfouz, said: “We know there is an appetite for people wanting to improve where they live - the first round of applications were really impressive.

“This is another opportunity to think outside the box and tell us about projects you think will make a real difference to people’s lives and show you have support for the plans.”

For information about the kind of project that will be considered, visit www.dosomethinggood.org.uk

Once an idea is developed, it will need to be uploaded on to www.spacehive.com to start crowdfunding and gathering local support.

Projects need to be live, with the code TYS2 in the title, by midnight on Saturday, October 31.