Support for Birmingham community groups reacting to the coronavirus crisis

Funding: grants and programmes

We’re now listing all relevant grants and funding we find, so they’re not necessarily all Covid-19 related. And this isn’t an exhaustive list – rather programmes we’ve spotted while doing our day-to-day work. 

Arts Council England
Project Grants (open until April 2021)
Covid-19 Support 

ASDA Foundation 
Feeding communities grant – grants of up to £1000 to help with providing food parcels / meals to the local community.

BBC Children in Need 
Grants 

Betty Messenger Charitable Foundation 
Grant Programme for Small Charities: grants of between £100 and £1,000 are available to small charities which are temporarily struggling but otherwise viable. This is a rolling programme, with the deadline for applications the 20th of each month.

British Muslim Covid Fund 
Grants from £250 to £5000 to help charities, organisations and voluntary groups, irrespective of faith, affected by Covid-19.

Fat Beehive Foundation 
Digital funding for small charities

Government 
Windrush Community Fund, offering financial support (£2,500 to a maximum of £25,000) to UK charity, community or grassroots organisations to fund projects which raise awareness of the Windrush Scheme, the Windrush Compensation Scheme or both. Phase 2 will be open from Thursday 1 April to Wednesday 30 June. 

Heart of England Community Foundation
Available grants are listed here and include:
Birmingham Sports Fund offering grants of up to £1,000 for projects that develop sports participation or support emerging talented sports people. In particular, the fund aims to support projects that encourage sports participation from disadvantaged communities, Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, women and girls, and disabled people.
Emergency Assistance Food & Essential Supplies Grant, providing grants of up to £5,000 in the Edgbaston and Northfield areas to support ideas and proposals providing social support, volunteers for shopping and essential supplies, support with food/foodbanks and enhanced information, advice and guidance.
Peddimore Community Fund, supporting community projects in the areas closest to the new Peddimore employment park, in northeast Birmingham.

McLaughlin & Harvey (lead contractor at the Alexander Stadium redevelopment)
You Matter Communities Scheme, offering volunteer time, small grants, and the use of excess materials from the Alexander Stadium redevelopment. 

Morrisons Foundation
Covid-19 Homeless Support Fund (grants of up to £10,000 are available to charities supporting homeless people)

The National Lottery Community Fund
Here’s a useful overview of all of the National Lottery’s funding programmes

Persimmon Community Champions
Persimmon Community Champions: grants of up to £2000 for groups or charities supporting people over 70.

Screwfix Foundation 
Grants of up to £5000 for registered charities and not for profit organisations to help all sorts of projects, from repairing buildings and improving facilities in deprived areas, to decorating the homes of people living with sickness and disabilities.

Selly Oak Neighbourhood Network Scheme
Selly Oak NNS is distributing grants of up to £10,000 to community groups/organisations to support local delivery and response to community needs. This will be a rolling programme, while money is available.
Download application form

Severn Trent
Severn Trent Community Fund is open for applications (not just coronavirus-related). It is a rolling programme so you can apply throughout the year. We are holding a workshop with funding officer Sue Heyes on Thursday 20 May: find out how you can attend. 
Through Severn Trent Trust Fund’s Big Difference Scheme in partnership with auriga, households on low incomes could get up to 90 per cent reduction on their water bills. 

Smallwood Trust
Grants and support to individuals (for women who are on low incomes who have specific needs and are struggling to make ends meet or trying to overcome financial problems). 

Trusthouse Charitable Foundation
Small grants and major grants for charitable organisations with a demonstrable track record of success working to address local issues in communities of extreme urban deprivation and deprived rural districts.

Veolia
Birmingham EnviroGrant Scheme, offering up to £1,000 to help people help people improve their environment and / or community.

Yapp Charitable Trust
Grants available for registered charities operating for at least three years. Please note this is not Covid-19 emergency funding. 

Youth Futures Foundation
Grants programme