Deadline: Ongoing
The Heart of England Community Foundation’s Wesleyan Foundation Large Grants to continue to support various good causes throughout the UK.
The aim of the fund is to support projects addressing the needs of the community in the West Midlands and Warwickshire during the current Covid-19 pandemic. Grants will be considered from charities, constituted voluntary and community groups that focus on supporting communities by issues caused that are intrinsically linked with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Areas
Grants can be awarded for applications demonstrating how the project will provide services and improve outcomes in one or more of the following areas:
- Mental Health
- Bereavement support
- PSE (Personal Social Education)
- Domestic Violence Support (including women’s refuges)
- Isolation / Befriending / Listening Services
- Vulnerable and Elderly
- Dementia / Quality of Life
- Social prescribing – alleviating the pressure from the NHS
- Getting back to work – innovative travel (cycle schemes) / reducing carbon footprint
- Employment – reskilling people (not so much those that support with CV writing) but those that actively prepare people for a new job / new career, interview prep etc
- Outdoor projects – making changes so that services can be delivered outside
Funding Information
- Grants are available between £2,000 – £10,000 and must be spent within a year.
Priority Areas: Grants are available across Birmingham, Black Country, Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire.
The Foundation will Fund
- Groups that have been running for at least 2 years.
- Salary, equipment or volunteer costs that are clearly budgeted and only used for the project – evidence will be required.
- Grants can be made for a wide range of purposes including consumables, project or activity costs.
Eligibility Criteria
You can apply to this fund if you are one of the following:
- Registered charities
- Constituted Community groups
- Companies Limited by Guarantee with charitable aims
- Community Interest Companies
- Co-operatives – registered Community Benefit Societies and registered Industrial and Provident Societies
- Social Enterprises
For more information, visit https://www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk/wesleyan-foundation-grants/