Invitation for community grants to help children and families

Birmingham City Council has announced £0.8m emergency funding to help children and families. 

Community, voluntary and faith groups who are helping children, young people and families through the challenges of Covid-19 are invited to apply for grants of up to £10,000 to continue supporting families through this difficult period.

Birmingham has flourishing communities which have stepped up heroically to support vulnerable people.  This announcement extends our community grant scheme for older people to reflect the needs of our city, and responds quickly to the Covid-19 emergency. 

All voluntary, community and faith groups are invited to bid for funding to support their activities, through a simple and accelerated process designed to get the money out the door to where it will make the most difference.


All support should be designed to put prevention and early help first, for example:
• A local community group for parents of children with autism wants to provide online activity packs for the children but needs new software.  A grant of £300 would help to support the children and parents.
• A local mosque that previously ran family support sessions, with stay and play, and lots of activities for children wants to ring all the parents that are on their database, three times a week.  A grant of £2,500 will enable the mosque to pay a professionally trained worker to support families.
• A local charity runs services for families in the city, particularly more vulnerable families and young people.  The £10,000 grant will enable them to expand over their domestic abuse support programme over the next four months.

This is part of the Birmingham Children’s Partnership response to Covid-19 for our families.  Birmingham Children’s Partnership includes Birmingham City Council, Birmingham Children’s Trust, Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and West Midlands Police.
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