Lichfield District Community Lottery
Grants up to £1,000 are available! These grants will be awarded to organisations who provide facilities or services for local people. The aim is to enhance the provision of service, provide new services or to help make organisations more efficient or to improve the scope of their provision. This might include extending provision to other people. […]
We Love Lichfield
We Love Lichfield is an endowment fund, and provides funding to community and voluntary organisations across the whole Lichfield district, including in Burntwood and the surrounding villages. In 2017, Lichfield District Council devolved their local community grants to the We Love Lichfield fund, and there are currently 2 rounds of funding every year, one in […]
The Harry Payne Fund
Grants are offered to registered charities for a range of community and social welfare projects taking place within a 25-mile radius of Birmingham city centre. The Harry Payne Fund is administered by the Heart of England Community Foundation as part of its grants programme. The Fund was founded in 1939 (as the Harry Payne Trust) by Harry Payne, a Birmingham businessman who had a particular interest in helping the disadvantaged and in […]
npower Business Solutions Foundation
The npower Business Solutions Foundation is a new fund to help create stronger, greener and more sustainable local communities. If you’re a not-for-profit or educational institution that’s at least two years old and based within a 50-mile radius of our two offices in Solihull and Leeds*, then you’re eligible. The npower Business Solutions Foundation is controlled […]
Lichfield District & Tamworth Volunteering Information Drop Ins
Thinking of Volunteering but have questions about the What, Where and Who. Come and have a chat to find out more at one of our drop in sessions, there is no pressure and no need to book a appointment, just come along and find out more, in no time at all you could find yourself […]
Support Staffordshire Stories: Men’s Shed Lichfield
Linked to the global awareness campaign of Movember (Men’s Health Awareness), here in the U.K there is a specific focus on Men’s Mental Health. The distressing fact remains that suicide is the leading cause of death in men under 50 in the U.K. Although 36% of all NHS referrals for psychotherapies are for men, it […]
Lichfield City Council Grants 2025/26
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 2025/26 funds now open in readiness for being awarded in April 2025. The closing date for applications into this main grants round is 20 January 2025. Grant applications are considered by […]
Whittington & Fisherwick Fund
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 by a local panel within the village of Whittington. This fund transferred to the management of The Community Foundation in 2016 with the support and recommendation of the Charity Commission. […]
Swinfen Broun Charitable Trust
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.
Lichfield District Council Councillor’s Community Fund
Deadline for applications is 30th November 2024. The Councillor Local Community Grant Fund was set up in 2021 to enable councillors to award funding to grassroots organisations in their ward. Under the fund each councillor has £300 per annum to award to local projects and activities to make a positive impact in their area. Awards […]
