Deadline: 14-May-2024
Applications are now open for the Whittington & Fisherwick Fund.
The Whittington and Fisherwick Fund is the new name of the Whittington Poor Fund, which transferred to The Community Foundation for Staffordshire in 2017. Grants are available to community based organisations who are working to provide services or facilities to residents who live in the parish of Whittington and Fisherwick, within the Lichfield district. This fund is ring-fenced, and so can only be used to support organisations in the parish, not the wider district.
Project Aims
- Your project must meet one of the following criteria;
- Increase or enhance your current service provision
- Make your organisation more efficient, more sustainable or more resilient
- Be used to improve services or facilities for your service users
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- The Whittington & Fisherwick Fund meets the UN’s first, second & tenth SDG. This includes: No Poverty, Zero Hunger & Reduced Inequalities. The fund is dedicated to supporting the communities of Whittington & Fisherwick through grant allocations to projects that bring benefit to local residents.
Funding Information
- You can apply for a grant of up to £2000.
Beneficiaries they Will Support
- In order to qualify for a grant from this scheme your project must be supporting the following types of beneficiary;
- People resident in the parish of Whittington and Fisherwick
- People who use locally provided services in the parish of Whittington and Fisherwick
Beneficiaries they Cannot Support
- This fund cannot support any organisation whose primary beneficiaries are
- Not usually resident in the parish of Whittington and Fisherwick
Geographic Reach they Will Fund
- They will support organisations based in, or working for the benefit of people in the following local authority areas;
- Lichfield, (but only in the parish of Whittington & Fisherwick)
Geographical Reach they Cannot Fund
- This fund cannot support organisations who 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, Tamworth
- Lichfield district outside of the Whittington & Fisherwick parish
- Any area outside Staffordshire
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 12 months
- 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 The Community Foundation for Staffordshire.