Community Fund

The £6m Community Fund is designed to ensure that the council maximises the benefits of hosting the Commonwealth Games for its residents, through enabling all communities of the city to play their part in celebrating the Games and realising the legacy opportunities that are available.

£2m has been allocated to Celebrating Communities, a small grant fund aimed at distributing community grants within all of Birmingham’s wards. The amount allocated to each ward is weighted depending on the size of the ward and local deprivation data. These grants will enable community groups to carry out more localised activities, such as heritage trails, physical activity in local parks, street parties, and community celebrations. The aim is to excite communities, to drive up local level engagement and use the Games as the catalyst to celebrate Birmingham’s local communities and their linkages to the Commonwealth.

£2m has been allocated to Creative Cities small grants programme, delivered in partnership with the B2022 Organising Committee. Community Organisations across the city will be working with local artists and creatives to flood the city with art during the 6 month B2022 Cultural Festival.

Over 200 applications have been received for the fund from right across Birmingham with the final programme of events due to be announced early next year.

A further £2m will fund a range of programmes including:

The Stronger Communities programmes which aims to ensure the council, and Birmingham’s citizens, maximise the benefits of hosting the Commonwealth Games in a way that builds cohesion, inclusion, and civic pride and uses the Games as a turning point in uniting the city’s population and tackling inequalities.