Voluntary & community sector funding programme 2024 - 2027
We are distributing £787,288 over the next three years (2024 - 2027) to fourteen organisations, who are delivering projects and activities that will help to achieve the Lichfield District 2050 strategy goals of creating confident, prosperous, green and active communities. The organisations we are funding are:
| Organisation | What it does | Find out more |
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Spark Burntwood |
A family and community centre delivering and hosting a wide range of pregnancy, baby, toddler, child, family, adult, wellbeing, financial and SEND groups. It runs community projects such as a baby bank, community fridge and social action projects. | Visit Spark Burntwood's website |
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Burton and District Mind |
Provides a programme of activities to support better mental health. Activities include sports programmes, targeted peer support groups and mindfulness sessions. | Visit Burton and District Mind's website |
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Support Staffordshire |
Supports Staffordshire communities, individuals and organisations to work in collaboration to bring about positive change in the community. | Visit Support Staffordshire's website |
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Grace Cares |
Saving care equipment from landfill and making it available to the public, NHS, health and social care providers. Grace Care also supports the community with a range of monthly sustainable and dementia friendly activities. | Visit Grace Cares website |
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Burntwood Be a Friend |
Supporting food and financial resilience through a community store which provides food at low prices. Also supporting emotional health and well-being and overcoming isolation through a men’s and women’s weekly community well-being walk and a community garden for growing vegetables. | Visit Burntwood Be a Friend's website |
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Fun Club Hub |
Youth provision offering a variety of services including youth clubs, bespoke school programmes, training for young people as well as community events and social action projects. | Visit Fun Club Hub's facebook page |
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Men's Shed Lichfield |
A community space for men to connect, converse and create. Activities are similar to those of garden sheds or a workshop at the side of the house, but for groups of men to enjoy together. Helping to reduce loneliness and isolation. | Visit Men's Shed website |
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Fradley Football Club |
Providing a range of fun and inclusive football activities alongside a community outreach programme. | Visit AFC Fradley's website |
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Lichfield Discovered |
Exploring Lichfield places, people, stories & archaeology. | Visit Lichfield Discovered's Facebook page |
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Lichfield Arts |
Providing a range of concerts, festivals, outreach projects and wider community events. | Visit the Lichfield Arts website |
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Lichfield Festival |
Delivering the Lichfield Festival and Lichfield Literature Festival Programme as well as supporting community involvement through the ASPIRE programme. | Visit Lichfield Festival's website |
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Survivors of Bereavement By Suicide (SOBS) |
Offering peer-to-peer support to those impacted by suicide loss. Helping those bereaved by suicide to support each other through support groups, online virtual support groups, a national telephone helpline, an online community forum and email support. | Visit the Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide website |
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South Staffordshire Cruse Bereavement Support |
Helping people experiencing grief through bereavement support including resources on their website, the national helpline as well as group, zoom, telephone or one-to-one in person support sessions. | Visit the Cruse website |
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The Hub at St Mary’s |
The Hub is a multi-use heritage and arts venue, in the centre of Lichfield, running a community coffee shop, gallery and varied programme of performing arts events. | Visit The Hub at St Mary's Lichfield website |
If you have any questions please email policyandstrategy@lichfielddc.gov.uk