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Human rights and equality grants in West Midlands

Grants made 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 by UK trusts and foundations that publish through 360Giving to charities registered for human rights and equality with a registered address in West Midlands.

24grants
£505ktotal awarded
£13kmedian grant
12funders

Top funders

Trusts and foundations that gave the most to human rights and equality charities in West Midlands in the last 12 months. Names link to their free funder profile where we have one.

FunderGrantsTotalMedian
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust1£155k£155k
A B Charitable Trust3£75k£25k
The Veterans' Foundation1£73k£73k
Rank Foundation2£62k£31k
Garfield Weston Foundation2£45k£23k
Benefact Trust4£32k£6,650
Herefordshire Community Foundation2£21k£10k
Youth Music1£15k£15k
Heart of England Community Foundation5£12k£2,400
The Clothworkers Foundation1£10k£10k

Open and recurring programmes

Funder programmes behind these grants that have made grants in at least two years, so are likely to run again. Check each funder's website for current deadlines.

ProgrammeFunderGrants (12 months)Years with grantsLatest grant
Migrants and RefugeesA B Charitable Trust32013 to 202611 Jun 2026
Community Impact GrantsBenefact Trust32023 to 202618 May 2026
CommunityGarfield Weston Foundation22017 to 20267 May 2026
Birmingham & Black Country Communities FundHeart of England Community Foundation22022 to 202519 Dec 2025
South Bham Friends Institute FundHeart of England Community Foundation22023, 202524 Nov 2025
Building GrantsBenefact Trust12023 to 202627 Apr 2026
SalaryThe Veterans' Foundation12023 to 202612 Mar 2026
Teme ValleyHerefordshire Community Foundation12022 to 202619 Jan 2026
Small Grants ProgrammeThe Clothworkers Foundation12018 to 202510 Dec 2025
Rights and JusticeJoseph Rowntree Charitable Trust12017 to 20256 Dec 2025

Open government schemes charities can apply for

13 open schemes on Find a Grant covering West Midlands in related sectors (live Grant Radar list). The 5 closing soonest:

SchemeFunderGrant sizeCloses
DCMS Place-Based Philanthropy Community of PracticeDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport£996k to £997k9 Nov 2026
Economic research on the returns to R&D investment (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Economic and Social Research Council£1 to £308k19 Nov 2026
Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation: CR&D Round 2Innovate UK£500k to £1m2 Dec 2026
Gambling harms research grants (Grant)UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Medical Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council£1 to £2m8 Dec 2026
Condition Improvement Fund (CIF)Department for Education£20k to £4m15 Dec 2026

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Source: grants data published by each funder through 360Giving (GrantNav), grants awarded 23 Oct 2025 to 23 Oct 2026 to registered charities, companies and other organisations (grants to individuals are left out). Cause and region come from the recipient charity's entry on the Charity Commission register (its registered charitable purposes and the postcode area of its registered address), so cause and region snapshots cover recipients registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Open government schemes are from Find a Grant (UK Government) via Grant Radar. "Recurring" programmes have grants in at least two calendar years. Figures are our own summary.

Licences: each funder publishes its data under its own open licence; we use only data licensed CC BY 4.0, CC0 or the Open Government Licence. Data from A B Charitable Trust, Allen Lane Foundation, Benefact Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation, Heart of England Community Foundation, Herefordshire Community Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Making a Difference Locally, Rank Foundation, The Clothworkers Foundation, The Veterans' Foundation, Youth Music: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Find a Grant: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Last updated: 23 October 2026. Information only, not funding advice; check each funder's own guidance before applying. Brightbench is not connected to these funders.