Organisation/Contact details Typical grant Projects/activities funded Criteria/Restrictions Baron Davenport’s Charity Discretionary The Charity awards grants in four categories: The Charity’s area of benefit is the City of Website: http://www.barondavenportscha 1. Almshouses, hospices and residential homes for Birmingham and West Midland counties rity.org older people. not extending 60 miles (or 96.56 2. Organisations for the benefit of children/young kilometres) from Birmingham Town Hall. Email: [email protected] people. 3. Organisations supporting older people. Contact: Mrs Kate Slater, Charity Administrator 4. Individual widows, spinsters, divorced ladies, single mothers and fatherless children, who meet Tel: 0121 236 8004 certain criteria set‐out by the Charity. Address: Grants are awarded for special projects, equipment Baron Davenport’s Charity and running costs. Portman House 5/7 Temple Row West Birmingham, B2 5NY The Bernard Piggott Trust Discretionary Church of England, Church of Wales, educational, Does not make grants to individuals. Contact: Miss Jenny Whitworth medical, drama, and youth organisations. [email protected] Tel: 0121 744 1695 Address: 4 Streetsbrook Road, Shirley, Solihull, B90 3PL The Cadbury Foundation In addition to making Activities supported Website: https://www.cadbury.co.uk/cadbury‐ grants, the foundation Education/training foundation offers: The advancement of health or saving of lives Human resources Disability Contact: Mrs Kelly Farrell, Buildings/facilities/o Amateur sport [email protected] pen space Economic/community development/employment Advocacy/advice/inf ormation Who the charity helps Children/young people Awarded £8m over the Elderly/old people last 10 years People with disabilities Other charities or voluntary bodies 1 Previously supported: Prince’s Trust; British Paralympic Association; Help for Heroes; Business in the Community. Charles Brotherton Trust Discretionary Work that encourages young people to improve Grants to organisations based in Website: www.charlesbrothertontrust.com their lives by taking advantage of educational Bebington and the Wirral, Birmingham, opportunities and recreational activities. Leeds, Liverpool, Wakefield, and York. Email: [email protected] Also works to improve the standard of living of Will not give grants to Address: the elderly and disabled people and relieve the individuals. PO Box 374, Harrogate, HG1 4YW, North suffering caused by illness. Yorkshire Small student bursaries are available for students attending the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and York by direct application to the University Student Support Centres at those Universities. Priority is given to those studying science subjects. The Cole Charitable Trust Discretionary Applications welcomed from small and local Greater Birmingham area Website: www.colecharitabletrust.org.uk (as opposed to regional or national) (Birmingham City, Coventry City, organisations – or local branches of regional/national Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Email: [email protected] organisations. Wolverhampton) Cambridgeshire Working in the fields of: Kent Social welfare, all age groups Housing/homelessness Do not support large building appeals, Community and environmental development animal charities, research or further Opportunities for young people education. Promotion of improved quality of life Personal or community empowerment. Do not support individuals. Dickens Charitable Trust Discretionary Organisations/individuals in the Birmingham and West See adjacent column. Contact: Mrs Lainey Dickens Midlands area, working in: [email protected] Education/training The advancement of health or saving of lives Tel: 01564 781 380 Arts/culture/heritage/science 2 Address: Working with Lower Wavensmere Farm, Wawensmere Road, Children/young people Wootton Wawen, Henley‐in‐Arden, B95 6BP Elderly/old people People with disabilities Douglas Turner Trust Discretionary General charitable purposes at the trustees' Must be organisations in the West Contact: Mr Tim Patrickson discretion. Midlands. [email protected] Funding not available for individuals. Tel: 01386 792 014 Address: 3 Poplar Piece, Inkberrow, Worcester, WR7 4JD Edward and Dorothy Cadbury Trust Grants made on a one‐ The Trust’s programme of grant giving encompasses Grants are made to registered charities, Website: off basis of between six main areas: principally operating within the West http://www.e‐dcadburytrust.org.uk/default.asp £500 and £5,000. Arts and Culture Midlands region. Community Projects and Integration Email: e‐[email protected] Compassionate Support Conservation and Environment Contact: Sue Anderson, Trust Manager Education and Training Research Tel: 0121 472 1838 Address: Rokesley, University of Birmingham, Selly Oak Campus, Bristol Road, Birmingham, B29 6QF Eveson Charitable Trust West Midlands Discretionary Priorities: Helping people with disabilities; mental Grants are restricted to charitable Tel: 01452 501352 health problems; children in need; older people; organisations benefiting the residents of The largest grant made in homeless people; hospitals; hospices; and towards the following English counties: Address: 45 Park Road, Gloucester, GL1 1LP 2014‐15 was £60,000 medical research. West Midlands (comprising Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Walsall and Wolverhampton Herefordshire Worcestershire One application per year from any one applicant. 3 No longer considering applications for funding towards special facilities for people with disabilities to be installed in existing community buildings and churches. George Henry Collins Charity Discretionary Relief from illness, infirmity, old age and loneliness Within the Birmingham area and Contact: Ms Christine Norgrove through Charitable Organisations. sometimes those within a maximum Email: [email protected] radius of 25 miles around the City Centre. Address: Martineau, 1 Colmore Square Birmingham, B4 6AA Grantham Yorke Trust Discretionary One off educational grants for indirect costs for Applications should be submitted directly Contact: Ms Christine Norgrove people under 25 who were born in the old West by the individual or via a relevant third Email: [email protected] Midlands metropolitan county area (Birmingham, party such as a social worker, Citizens Coventry, Dudley, Redditch, Sandwell, Solihull, Advice or other welfare agency. Address: Tamworth, Walsall, and Wolverhampton). Martineau, 1 Colmore Square, Birmingham, B4 6AA The trust also makes grants to organisations and to individuals for educational purposes. The Grimmitt Trust Discretionary Causes that encourage and strengthen community The Trust does not normally support Contact: Mrs Vanessa Welch, activities in Birmingham, Dudley, Wolverhampton and national charities, CICs or social Email: admin@grimmitt‐trust.org.uk Walsall postcode areas. enterprises. Tel: 0121 251 2951 Address: 151B All Saints Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 6AT Harborne Parish Lands Charity Discretionary Grants to individuals for the relief of poverty ‐ only via Grantees must be based with the B17, Website: http://www.hplc.org.uk/ recognised referral agencies. B66 and B67 post code areas. Grants are made to established organisations to protect known and valuable services when they are threatened by a reduction in funding from other sources. 4 The Harry Payne Trust Grants are normally in Makes grants to charitable causes within the scope of Causes in Birmingham and within a 25 Website: the range of £250 to the trust deed. mile radius of the city centre, including http://www.heartofenglandcf.co.uk/harry‐ £1000. Black Country, Coventry, Warwickshire, payne‐fund‐2/ and parts of Worcestershire and Staffordshire. Tel: 02476 883 262 Income of <£500k Running for at least 2 years Do not fund General fundraising appeals Individuals Mainstream activities of schools & colleges Sporting clubs except when aimed at addressing disadvantage Promotion of religious causes Political activities Animal welfare Research The L and R Gilley Charitable Trust Discretionary Strong preference for the care and support of the Particular emphasis on causes based in Contact: Mr Richard Bettinson elderly, including those who are disabled and the Birmingham and Devon areas. Email: [email protected] terminally ill, together with medical research and five specific charities. Address: Tetstill Mill, Neen Sollars, Kidderminster, DY14 9AH Near Neighbours (via Church Urban Fund) Small grants of between Projects that bring together and involve diverse Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Sandwell, *UNTIL NOVEMBER 2016* £250 and £5,000 peoples of two or more different faiths and/or Walsall, and Dudley. Website: www.near‐neighbours.org.uk ethnicities to sustainably improve local communities. Email: [email protected] Tel: 0207 898 1508 Address: Church House, Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3AZ 5 Norton Foundation Grants to individuals fall The Norton Foundation holds funds to support young See adjacent column. Website: http://www.nortonfoundation.org/ between £50 ‐ £250, people who are under the age of 25, living in the with the highest award boundaries of Birmingham, Solihull, or Coventry, and Email: [email protected] being £500. are in need through some aspect of disadvantage defined as: Address: 50 Brookfield Close, Hunt End, Grants to organisations In care Redditch, Worcestershire,