Birmingham and Black Country Communities Fund grants are awarded from the earnings of a number of endowment funds, which are created from contributions by individuals, companies and trusts and managed by Heart of England Community Foundation. The fund has grants up to £3,000 and aims to support people in Birmingham and the Black Country.

The deadline for the October Half Term funding applications is 12.00 Noon on Friday 20th September. Unlike the DfE HAF programme, ALL school-age children that are residents of the City of Wolverhampton are eligible to participate in the Yo October Half Term provisions. 

The HAF team have recently met with the Environmental Health Team who have informed us that any organisation that handles food needs to register as a food establishment. This would mean moving forward if you are applying for HAF or half term activities you would need to be registered.

£3K for organisations who are making the lives of older people better. The funding is for UK registered charities which promote a proactive approach to the physical and mental wellbeing of people who are over 65 years of age.

Evidence into Action – Youth Futures Foundation has up to £225k grants available for voluntary, community, and social enterprise sector organisations across the West Midlands (Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and Sandwell) to design and deliver evidence-based practises that address youth unemployment among young people aged between 16 and 24 from minoritised ethnic backgrounds. 

The Footwork Trust has £5k for a mentoring programme and a supporting restricted grant are available to enable community innovators to turn their bold ideas into projects that deliver long-term change for their neighbourhoods. 

New Funding Opportunity from The Prudence Trust have up to £500k available for charities and community interest companies across the UK to support the delivery of high-quality early support hubs for young people aged between 11 and 25.

Severn Trent has launched this initiative to give our communities a helping hand on existing or new schemes/projects, through funding and hands-on volunteering.

This £5k scheme provides small grants to support independent UK registered non-for-profit organisations for grassroots, community-based projects that fall within its core funding themes

The Police and Crime Commissioner makes money available to support communities in the West Midlands who want to make “My Community” a safer place to live and work.

Charities and other not-for-profit organisations that want to help communities come together and make the UK a better-connected society can apply for grants of between £500,000 and £5 million through the National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) – UK Fund.

Landscape Connections is National Lottery Heritage Fund’s new 10-year initiative, which will invest £150m in our most treasured countryside across the UK.

Up to £200k grants are available to local not-for-profit organisations for local projects that support the wellbeing of communities in the Severn Trent region.  Three levels of grants are available.

Grants of between £2k – £5k are available for charities and not-for-profit organisations to deliver practical, focused programmes to boost skills and improve employability for those furthest from the job market in communities in the Midlands, South West England and South Wales where National Grid distributes electricity.

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The newly launched Access Programme supports social enterprises and charities in the West Midlands addressing the pressing cost-of-living crisis.