Welcome to the West Midlands

Development support

The development team in the West Midlands provides free advice and support to all potential applicants to help you to develop your project ideas. So if you have a project idea – get in touch!

The quickest way to get help before submitting an application form is to complete a project enquiry form; a short form which will give the development team an outline of your project ideas. They will then contact you with advice on how to proceed.

Or our monthly funding support workshops are also a good opportunity to talk to the team.

Finally, we have identified a number of priority areas and groups that have benefitted less from our funding in the past. These priorities will not receive automatic funding however we aim to work in these areas and with these groups to encourage them to apply.

Our West Midlands priority areas are listed in the green column to the right - select a link to find out what is going on in your area.

We are also keen to hear from applicants from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) organisations or projects which target BAME communities.

Priority development areas

We have identified a number of priority development areas within the West Midlands. They will be the focus of additional targeted activity by our development staff who will be doing more to raise awareness about Heritage Lottery Fund programmes and supporting local organisations and groups in making applications for grants in these areas. Priority development areas will not receive automatic funding but our aim is to generate a greater number of good quality bids from these areas which will be able to compete with applications from other places.

A number of factors were taken into account in identifying the priority development areas including lower levels of HLF spend so far. The priority development areas in the West Midlands are listed in the right hand column.