We will notify all applicants of the outcome of their application whether successful or unsuccessful in July 2025. It is unlikely you will hear from us until this time.
We will notify all applicants of the outcome of their application whether successful or unsuccessful in July 2025. It is unlikely you will hear from us until this time.
Our application process opens on Monday 14th October 2024 and closes on Friday 6th December 2024. The result of whether you have been granted funding will not be made until July 2025 and payment will then be made in September 2025.
We have kept our application process as straightforward as possible.
There is only one form for you to complete which can be downloaded from our website and then emailed back to [email protected].
Once this has been emailed back to [email protected] it will be shortlisted and moderated before a final decision is made by our Board of Trustees.
Our grants cycle is open once a year with a strict deadline. Notification of the outcome of your application will take place in July 2025.
Yes. Grants are available up to £20,000.
As we wish to maximise the impact of our grants, we encourage grant applicants to apply for smaller grants of between £1,000 and £5,000 in this grant cycle. This will mean that we can potentially help more organisations. There will still be the opportunity for a few larger grants (of up to £20,000) to be given but in the main we will be concentrating on helping the wider community with smaller grants.
No. We will not fund a project that requires funding over several years. We only fund projects that can be implemented and completed within 12 months of payment.
Yes. Please note however it is possible for an organisation to apply and be successful in receiving a grant for up to 3 consecutive years. Following this, the organisation must allow a gap of at least one calendar year before they can submit any further applications. After which, the same 3 consecutive years rule will apply once again.
We only accept one application per organisation per year.
No. We only accept one application per organisation. The first application received will be the one we consider for a grant.
No. We do not consider applications made by individuals. A list of which groups we fund can be found in our guidance document.
Yes. Ideally, we would like applicants to be from WMCA region but we will accept applications from outside of this area if the project takes place within a local authority who is a member of the West Midlands Combined Authority.
