What you can spend the money on
We’ll pay for costs between £500 and £2,000 towards events taking place across the West Midlands on the weekend of Saturday 9 September and Sunday 10 September 2023, but expect the average grant to be around £1,000.
Funding can pay for costs of setting up and running an event including:
- staffing
- insurance
- transport
- equipment hire
- venue hire
- volunteer expenses
There are some things we cannot pay for, for example:
- activities that happen outside the West Midlands region
- alcohol
- political or religious activities (we can fund religious organisations only if their project benefits the wider community and does not include religious content)
- profit-making/fundraising activities
- general organisational running costs, including repairs and maintenance
- contingency costs, loans, endowments or interest
- VAT you can reclaim
- statutory activities