Deadline: 14-May-2024
We Love Lichfield is offering grants to enhance the provision of service, provide new services, help to make organisations more efficient, or to improve the scope of their provision.
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.
These grants will be awarded to organisations that provide facilities or services for local people.
Grants from the We Love Lichfield fund can be used for either capital or revenue projects, and can be spent over the course of a year. It would be unusual for the fund to make an award to the same organisation for the same project two years running, unless you can demonstrate that their have been significant developments or increased demand for your project.
Any organisation that receives a grant will be invited along to a presentation event. No funding will be issued until the presentation event. Details of the event will be sent to all successful applicants at the time of award notification.
The We Love Lichfield Fund meets the UN’s first, third & tenth SDG. This includes: No Poverty, Good Health and Well-being & Reduced Inequalities. The fund is dedicated to supporting communities across the district of Lichfield.
Project Aims
- Your project must meet one of the following criteria:
- Provide a service for the local area, or for local residents
- Improve the lives of local people
- Be providing a service or facility that would otherwise not be available
Funding Information
- You can apply for a grant of up to £1,000.
Beneficiaries
- Beneficiaries They Can Support
- In order to qualify for a grant from this scheme your project must be supporting the following types of beneficiary;
- People usually resident in the Lichfield district
- Beneficiaries They Cannot Support
- This fund cannot support any organisation whose primary beneficiaries are
- Not usually resident in the Lichfield district
Geographical Reach
- Geographic Reach They Will Fund
- In order to apply for a grant from the We Love Lichfield fund, you must be based in, or working in, the district of Lichfield, including the city of Lichfield, Burntwood or the surrounding villages.
- Geographical Reach They Cannot Fund
- This fund cannot support organisations that are based in, or working in, the following local authority areas;
- Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Newcastle under Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Stoke on Trent or Tamworth, (even if the majority of participants would come from Lichfield)
- Any area outside Staffordshire
- This fund cannot support organisations that are based in, or working in, the following local authority areas;
Eligibility Criteria
- They will support the following types of organisation;
- Constituted community groups
- Constituted voluntary groups
- Registered Charities
- Social Enterprises
Ineligible
- This fund will not offer funding to the following organisations;
- Non-constituted community groups
- Non-constituted voluntary groups
- Statutory agencies
- Organisations that have been established less than 6 months
- Organisations whose annual income is more than £1m per annum
- Organisations that do not have a proven track record of service delivery
- Limited companies, sole traders or partnerships without charitable aims
For more information, visit We Love Lichfield.