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 £65 million to over 14,000 great causes since 1995.
Latest News & Insights.
Spotlight on the CEO.
Tina Costello, Chief Executive of Heart of England Community Foundation, has always had a passion for making other people’s visions reality. Born and raised in Birmingham, Tina is fiercely proud of her heritage and has long fought for the region to be recognised as...
Foundation launches new fund thanks to Birmingham City Council.
The Heart of England Community Foundation has announced its plan to support over 50s in an all-new Edgbaston and Northfield Neighbourhood Network Scheme (NNS) Fund. The charity’s latest fund has a pot of £400,000, which will provide help to community projects within...
Bingo club gets full house!
A Birmingham bingo club which lost its regular home is aiming for a full house now, thanks to a kind couple and a grant for nearly £2000 from IM Properties’ Peddimore Community Fund. Husband and wife team, Steven and Karen Priestley, who run St Wilfrid’s Community...
Music Drives Kreativity
Thanks to a grant from the Foundation’s Coventry UK City of Culture Fund a break-dancer is sharing his skills with the city! Andrei Roman who came to the city for university now calls Coventry home and is trying to inspire a new generation of performers with his eyes...
They can help you achieve what you want to do.
One of the Foundation’s Community Matters partners, TLC College in Wolverhampton, has been running a job club providing tailored support to improve the lives and raise aspirations of marginalised individuals. Navdeep Kaur, Project Officer, said: “Today we’ve got...
Building 4 Hope.
Last year Building 4 Hope helped 25 individuals. An approved training centre in Solihull, the charity aims to give young, disadvantaged and marginalised people the opportunity, and support, to gain qualifications. Targeting vulnerable people aged 16 – 25 the...