Towards a fairer, happier and healthier Midlands.
We are the Community Foundation for the West Midlands and Warwickshire. As the leading, independent grant making foundation in the region we have proudly awarded over £40 million to over 8,000 great causes since 1995.
Latest News & Insights.
Warwick Uni offers ‘Helping Hack’.
University campus teams, Warwick Data Science Society and Warwick Statistics Society, have joined forces this month to host an online Charity Hackathon to support the Foundation. The Hackathon will take place on 14 and 15 November and promises to a host a range of...
Great example of easyfundraising.
Back in September the Foundation partnered with easyfundraising to help organisations in the West Midlands generate additional income and offset the financial impact of lockdown. One group to take advantage of the scheme is Just Caring Midlands. Based in Birmingham,...
Amazing support as needs increase.
Since the start of the pandemic, the UK’s Third Sector has seen donations plummet, leaving behind a £10 billion funding gap. Now facing the added pressure of the recession, charities, trusts and foundations are issuing urgent appeals to dig deep and support their...
World Homeless Day gets BBL boost.
With World Homeless Day (10 October) just a few days away, the Foundation wanted to highlight issues surrounding homelessness and reveal the latest updates on three major projects which demonstrate the immediate housing needs facing society. Latest figures from the...
Extra support for homelessness in Birmingham.
As Birmingham lives through a local lockdown and people are once again urged to stay at home, the city’s charities, hostels and soup kitchens continue to rally together in order to help those facing homelessness. To help alleviate the pressures being felt, the...
Youth clubs return in Warwick.
Thanks to a grant from the Foundation’s Doing Things Differently Fund a Warwick charity is reopening several youth clubs. The Gap Youth charity, based at the Oakwood Grove Gap community centre near Spinney Hill, has received £16,000 which will enable youth clubs to...






