Fair Shares Trust – Community Chest – North Solihull

Colebridge Trust’s Community Chest provides grants of up to £1,000 for to smaller community groups in the North Solihull area to help them sustain and develop their activities. The Community Chest is a hardship fund for isolated activities that support existing projects. Long term project will not be supported by this fund.

The Local Priorities for Fair Share Trust in North Solihull are to:

1. Improve and establish community wide communication and information mechanisms
2. Develop and support existing community groups through training, administrative support provision of facilities and commonly owned equipment
3. Form new community groups and projects with particular emphasis on cross community groups and projects
4. Support the acquisition and development of community owned assets and facilities

The deadline for the first round of applications is Friday 6th January 2012 at 12.00 noon and we will be distrbuting £5k with a second round in March 2012 when the same amount will again be distrbuted

Guidance & Application Pack

Please download the following:

Guidance Notes – Community Chest

Application Form – Part A

Application Form – Part B

Localgiving.com Leaflet

Please note that all grant recipients will be automatically registered to Localgiving.com, in order to ensure the sustainability of their activities. This provides access to online fundraising tools, automated donation and Gift Aid processing for both charities and community groups. The first 3 months on Localgiving.com are FREE, after which there is an annual charge of £75 inc VAT. This will be automatically deducted from your grant allocation if you are successful. Further details about Localgiving.com can be found on http://localgiving.com/.

For further information about Colebridge Trust’s Community Chest programme, please contact Janet Johnson, Funding Manager Colebridge Trust Ltd on 0121 711 3148 or janetj@solihull-sustain.org.uk

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About the Fair Shares Trust Fund

The Fair Share Trust Fund is a ten-year project, which targets those areas that suffer considerable disadvantage and have previously received less than their fair share of National Lottery funding. The areas within the West Midlands that are eligible for funding are: Dudley (St Andrews), Walsall (Alumwell), Sandwell (Great Bridge) and North Solihull.

Fair Share Trust funding aims to:

• Connect people with their neighbours, become part of networks, meet other groups and form relationships with others;
• Enable communities to pro-actively improve their local environment, through enabling them to influence local decision making;
• Increase the confidence of group members and individuals through learning new skills, raising morale and developing new aspirations;
• Build a stronger voluntary and community within FST areas through funding, training and volunteering encourage inactive members of the community to become active;
• Improve the quality of local facilities and access to services;
• To enable all groups to feel that they belong to their local area and are responsible for improving their environment

Further information about Fair Share Trust in Birmingham and the Black Country can be found on the Birmingham and Black Country Community Foundation website