Funders shaping a fairer and stronger West Midlands

We are a cross-sector network of people and organisations who give funding to charities, voluntary organisations and community projects in the West Midlands. We work with trusts and foundations, local authorities, lottery funders and corporate investors, helping them to use their resources effectively to support local communities.

Latest News & Insights

News
Members Roundtable Exchange 23rd January 2024
Members Roundtable Exchange 23rd January 2024

The first members roundtable exchange of 2024. A full agenda of programme funding updates, discussion on embedding sustainability and environmental concerns in funding practice, and Birmingham City Council Section 114. To read more……

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WM Funders Network AGM and Strategy Discussion
WM Funders Network AGM and Strategy Discussion

The 6th AGM and Strategy Discussion was held on the 22nd November @ Investec, Birmingham……

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WM ONS Data Insights Seminar 22nd November
WM ONS Data Insights Seminar 22nd November

The latest ONS data (2021) provides public policymakers with further evidence of demographic and household changes in the UK. Many local authorities and public health have been analysing the data with other service data to understand the socio-economic changes at both place and community interest levels and how it might impact on funding policy, resource allocation and service priorities ………….

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Members Roundtable Exchange 25th October
Members Roundtable Exchange 25th October

Updates on new Commonwealth Games Legacy funding programmes; HLCF 10-year strategy, Social Enterprise support and winter support for vulnerable households and responses to cost of living

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Latest Events & Workshops

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Members Roundtable Exchange
Apr 23
Members Roundtable Exchange

The next Members Roundtable Exchange will be held on Tuesday 23rd April starting at 12.30pm. Please book your place and join us. Bring funding programme updates or insights and evaluations from funding programmes. An update on Birmingham City Council’s 2024-25 budgetary announcement and implications for the VCSE is planned.

Funding Birmingham: What does the data tell us?
May 1
Funding Birmingham: What does the data tell us?

This joint hands-on workshop with Birmingham City Observatory and Digital NNS is a follow-on from the WMFN November 2023 seminar on the latest ONS data insights. Feedback from members indicated an interest to explore in more depth and become familiar with different data sets with funding data that can help improve understanding of how data can be used to support work on funding, hence this event.

Places are limited.

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