Solihull Celebrating Communities Fund

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has partnered with the Heart of England CommunityFoundation to help achieve four of its priorities:

• Enable communities to thrive – by supporting grassroots led and informed community activity • Taking action to improve the life chances in our most disadvantaged communities – by focusingand directing community activity towards those people who can most benefit from it • Revitalising our towns and local centres – by promoting a vibrant arts and cultural offer to residents and visitors to the borough • Introduces new participants to sport and /or, physical activity

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 andregistered Industrial and Provident Societies • Social Enterprise • Religious organisations that provide wider community benefit • Mutual aid groups (the funds will need to be held by a local organisation with one of the above legal structures – supporting information from your chosen organisation will need tobe submitted with your application)

**Funding to Community Interest Companies and other non-charities may include conditions torestrict funding to charitable objectives only.

Additionally, your organisation/company income level must be equal to or less than £500,000, as shown in your most recent annual accounts.

NB: Applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis. If your organisations income is larger than the above then please get in touch.