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  • 2026 edition · projects delivered by 30 November 2026

Re_Action. Grants for what will change your neighbourhood

Do you have an idea for a robotics workshop in the municipal library or a rain garden by the school, but no money to start? Re_Action is a grant of PLN 5,000 to 10,000 for local projects within the Zone’s area. No own contribution, and free help with the application.

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About the initiative

Henryk Grohman, the Zone’s patron, was a manufacturer and a patron of the arts: he collected prints and supported musicians. We run Re_Action in the same spirit. Between 2018 and 2023 we funded more than a hundred cultural, sporting and educational projects in the region, and in 2023 we gathered that support into one programme with its own rules and an open call.

The programme is run for us by Centrum OPUS, a Łódź organisation that has handled micro-grants for non-governmental organisations for more than 20 years. The Zone funds the pot, OPUS takes the applications, advises and settles them. In the 2026 edition that is PLN 400,000 across two calls, one in spring and one in summer. There were so many applications that in the first call we funded 31 projects instead of the 20 we had planned.

Participants of the Re_Action hackathon

Who can get a grant

An organisation or a group of neighbours can apply, as long as it works within the Zone’s area.

  • A non-governmental organisation registered within the Zone’s area: an association, a foundation, a sports club, a social cooperative or a church organisation.

  • An informal group of at least three residents, applying through a patron organisation that lends it legal personality.

  • One application per applicant. An organisation may, however, be the patron of any number of residents’ groups.

The Zone’s area covers the whole Łódź Voivodeship and selected counties of the Greater Poland and Mazovia voivodeships. Employees of Centrum OPUS and their families cannot apply.

What you get

The grant pays for the activity. You cannot buy office furniture or equipment with it, but you do get someone who walks you through the paperwork.

Two women talking at a wooden desk in an office with a shelf full of binders, documents lying between them

PLN 5,000–10,000

of grant for one project, with no own contribution.

  • Free support from Centrum OPUS while you write the application, while the project runs and when you settle it.

  • Up to 10% of the grant for running costs: a coordinator, bookkeeping and office expenses.

  • The money reaches your account once the agreement is signed, so you start without financing the project yourself.

How to get a grant

The whole process runs online: from the application to the final settlement.

  1. Check the field

    The programme supports eight fields: science and education, culture and history, sport and mental health, ecology, social care and older people, safety, local partnerships and international projects.

  2. Write the application in the form

    You submit the application in Centrum OPUS’s Grantomat. If this is your first time, book a free consultation with the operator.

  3. Formal and substantive assessment

    Two independent experts read every application. Projects with at least 12 points go through to the second stage.

  4. A conversation about the project

    20 minutes in front of a panel from Centrum OPUS and the Zone, on site or online. You tell them what you want to do and who it is for.

  5. Agreement and action

    We sign a three-party agreement, transfer the grant and you deliver the project. In the 2026 edition projects run until 30 November. We will announce the next edition on this page.

The 2026 edition in numbers

  • Two young people painting a large floral mural on a concrete wall, the woman holding a palette of green paint and a brush

    PLN 400,000

    in the total pot across two calls

  • Women sitting around a wooden table covered with scraps of fabric, sewing fabric decorations, one threading a needle

    PLN 10,000

    the largest single grant

  • Three girls assembling a wheeled robot with colourful wiring at a table, the instructor handing them parts

    31

    projects in the first call, instead of the 20 planned

  • Four older people in tracksuits exercising on the grass in a park, all stretching their arms above their heads

    8

    fields, from education to ecology

Have a question about Re_Action?

Ask Centrum OPUS through the Grantomat about the application and the settlement. Write to us about the programme itself and about working with the Zone.

The programme’s account manager

Have a question right now?

+48 42 208 06 00

The Zone’s helpline

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