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Harborne Parish Lands Charity

Grants to Organisations

Grants for established (or newly established) organisations that relieve need among residents of the Ancient Parish of Harborne, which covers parts of Harborne and Quinton in Birmingham and parts of Smethwick in Sandwell. The aim is to protect known and valuable services threatened by cuts in other funding. For 2026/27 the priorities are NEET provision for young people, social isolation, debt and money management, and food and household goods distribution. The charity usually budgets about £215,000 a year for organisational grants across two rounds. Applications are scored against the priorities, and the charity says the rounds are usually oversubscribed.

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You could get
Amount not specified
Deadline
110 days left
5 February
Effort
Heavy
budgets, references, often several stages

Who can apply

  • Established or newly established organisations relieving need within the Ancient Parish of Harborne: the parishes of St Boniface Quinton Road West (Birmingham); St Faith and St Laurence, St John and St Peter (Harborne); and St Albans, St Chad, St Mary, St Matthew, St Michael and All Angels, St Stephens, St Paul and Old Church (Smethwick)
  • Activity must be within the boundary or for the benefit of its residents, and must comply with the Equality Act 2010
  • Organisations may apply once per year, meaning at least 12 months since any previous award
  • Applications for a third year and beyond are examined for dependency on HPLC funding
  • Applicants should check that the charity's investment strategy is compatible with their own aims

What it funds

Activity that relieves need within the Ancient Parish of Harborne or benefits its residents, and that addresses one or more of the 2026/27 priorities:

  1. Provision for young people who are NEET, or of school age and at risk of becoming NEET
  2. Services addressing social isolation, including isolation of a whole community
  3. Debt and money management
  4. Food and household goods distribution

If demand for the main priorities is low, the charity may also consider core funding for organisations working with disadvantaged groups hit by funding cuts, and programmes supporting people with poor mental health.

These are held to the end of the year and are unlikely to be funded.

Applicants must also state how they manage COVID-19 issues and how they could respond to another pandemic.

How to apply

  1. Contact the Grants Officer, Peter Hardisty (0121 426 1600, 07773 304631, peter.hardisty@hplc.org.uk), for a pre-screening conversation and to request the application form
  2. Complete the grants to organisations application form
  3. Send the application by email if you wish, but also send a hardcopy, preferably by 'signed for' post, with your accounts, by the deadline
  4. Stage 1: the application is checked for compliance
  5. Stage 2: the Grants Officer visits, a Scoring Panel scores the application, and the Charitable Activities Committee and then the Board of Trustees decide

if you have not received a formal notice of receipt by the deadline, contact the Grants Officer urgently

if a round is oversubscribed, the highest-scoring applications are funded first and the lowest-scoring are declined or scaled down

Have ready

  • Grants to organisations application form (hardcopy)
  • Most recent audited accounts, or management accounts if the audited accounts are more than 12 months old

newly formed organisations without accounts must give a full breakdown of project spend

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