The City-wide Small Grants Fund totals £2.46m, with funding aimed at community organisation projects to address health inequalities for communities of identity and experience who are spread across the city.

This fund is now closed.

City-wide Small Grants is distributed in partnership with Heart of England Community Foundation. You can find more information about this fund’s availability, eligibility and application information on Heart of England’s website here.

Available Funding

The grant amount of £15,000 will be available per annum or up to £45,000 for individual projects in a three-year period. However, there is no requirement for organisations to bid for a 3-year delivery period – applications should be welcomed irrespective of value or length of delivery period; subject to the upper limits of 3 years and £45,000.

Multi-year projects will be assessed at each end-of-year and continued funding will be dependent upon performance/meeting monitoring requirements.

Applicants are limited to apply for funding to target one distinct theme per application. Groups/Consortiums leads are invited to apply for a maximum of two small grants only.

To receive grant funding, projects needed to be able to clearly demonstrate the following:

  1. Innovative, new or additional services you will deliver in addressing long-standing health and wellbeing inequalities for the specific health and well-being inequality(s) your project is designed to impact
  2. An evidence-informed rationale for how the project will show impact on fund priorities, patient behaviours, knowledge and/or clinical outcomes against identified health and well-being inequalities for one or more specific priority for the fund:
  • Best start in life
  • Healthier lives in communities
  • Better outcomes through earlier intervention and treatment
  • Empowering and connecting communities

Applications/Outcomes

Applications for the Citywide Small Grants scheme opened on 20th March 2024 and closed on 12 July 2024, with applicants notified of the outcome of their bids in October/November 2024.

To date, 42 VCFSE projects will be funded and delivered in Birmingham over 3 years as a result of Citywide Small Grants Fund. 

Citywide Small Grants Fund may have further funding opportunities in the future.