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FINANCE
Aston Reinvestment Trust [ART]
ART is a specialist loan finance company that lends alone or alongside the banks or other financers, providing funds for cash flow or capital investment. ART aims to boost the local economy by supporting enterprise and helping to create and safeguard jobs.Since commencement in 1997, ART has lent a total of £4.7m to over 250 borrowers enabling them to create or protect in excess of 2000 jobs in the Birmingham area.Birmingham City Council - External Funding Support
The Council has now established the External Funding Support to enable local community groups to make the best use of the many different sources of funding available. A significant factor in the provision of this service is the ability to tap into external funding sources to support local priorities and help communities to grow and prosper. External Funding Support makes information electronically available on many external funding sources, e.g. regional funders, grant updates, tips for your funding application and areas of good practice etc, which is accessible by all. We also produce a Newsletter on a monthly basis where alongside news about funding streams we advertise successful projects. You can find the Newsletter (current and previous editions) at the end of this page and download it or you can e-mail the External Funding Support Team to add you on the mailing list.
Grantnet is a user friendly database which has been specifically devised to allow people to identify funding sources available to community, voluntary and other organisations.
Birmingham Foundation
The Birmingham Foundation, established in 1995 promotes and supports local charitable and community activity through a range of effective grant making programmes in areas of poverty and deprivation in Birmingham and the Black Country. The endowment fund is made up of a pool of donor funds, which are invested and the income of which used to meet local needs, forever – "the gift that keeps on giving"
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