The London chapter can donate some of its funds to projects who need it, please let me know how much funding you would like to ask from OWASP London. Keep in mind we will be donating to a few efforts this year.
I am not sure if you know this but on of our talks this year from Sagepay mentioned how they use OWASP Dependency Check as part of automated security testing in their SDLC: https://youtu.be/HyBhsH5Eo8s