The City Council invites applications for grants to be funded from the City Council’s budget each year, with the main application round for payment from

You can apply for a grant of up to £2000. The former name of this fund was the Whittington Poor Fund, and it was held

Small grants for organisations working in the City of Lichfield.

The aims of the Trust Fund as taken from the Trust Deed are as follows:

• Provide or maintain or assist in the provision or maintenance of public halls, meeting places, playing fields, sports facilities for the public at large in the interests of social welfare, with the object of improving their condition of life, places for housing the arts, libraries, museums or other educational institutions to which the public have access.
• Provide or maintain or assist in the provision or maintenance of public gardens or public open spaces.
• Provide or maintain or assist in the provision or maintenance of equipment or items for use in or with any of the objects mentioned in the above.

Funding is for capital project costs.

Applications are accepted throughout the year and are considered at a meeting of the Trustees held quarterly.

An application form can be found on the Swinfen Broun Charitable Trust website. It is preferred that the \’Word\’ version is downloaded with the completed form sent via email as an attachment to the Trust\’s Clerk. A copy of the organisation\’s last audited accounts should be submitted along with the completed application form.