Witton Lodge Community Association

Registered charity 1039005 · since 1994wittonlodge.org.uk·Birmingham·Updated 30 October 2026

At a glance

£295k

Annual giving, year to 31 March 2025

From filed accounts

Key takeaways

If your work helps people over 50 or adults with disabilities stay independent, active and connected, or tackles loneliness, healthy living or money worries in the Erdington Constituency, it fits the Erdington Neighbourhood Network Scheme.
Ask the scheme contact by email or telephone for an application form, as no other application process is published.
The scheme's grants go up to £10,000, but no typical grant size is stated, so keep a request modest and tied to a specific activity.
The charity reviews requests case by case against its available resources, and the scheme says it prioritises bringing people together, tackling loneliness and social isolation, healthy habits, and helping people make money go further.
Groups working outside the Erdington Constituency, or whose activities do not support people over 50 or adults with disabilities, should not apply to the scheme.

Overview

Witton Lodge Community Association is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1039005).

Witton Lodge Community Association is a registered charity that began as a Community Association and Community Landlord, set up by residents of Perry Common after the announcement that 908 houses would be demolished. It owns and manages over 200 homes for social and market rent, including a 40-apartment Independent Living Scheme. Its stated purposes include providing social housing and associated amenities for people in necessitous circumstances, and promoting charitable purposes for the inhabitants of its area of benefit, in particular the advancement of education and relief of poverty. The annual report gives total awards of £295,232, and its named grant programme is the Erdington Neighbourhood Network Scheme.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Witton Lodge Community Association’s published grant activity includes small grants through the Erdington Neighbourhood Network Scheme. It works with community organisations and small voluntary groups across the Erdington Constituency, supporting local groups that help people over 50 and adults with disabilities stay independent, active and connected. The scheme’s grants support local offers for older people and people with additional needs, aiming to strengthen communities and improve health and wellbeing. Funded activities include exercise classes, social events, skills workshops, gardening groups, mental health support and creative arts sessions. More broadly, the Association reviews potential grants to organisations and individuals case by case, according to the resources available and whether they support its charitable objects.

Themes

Older people’s wellbeing
Disability support
Social connection
Healthy living
Financial wellbeing

Geographic Focus

Priority: Erdington Constituency.

What they don't fund

Erdington Neighbourhood Network Scheme (ENNS) only: Activities that do not support people over 50 or adults with disabilities to live life to the full; Activities outside the Erdington Constituency

How to apply

For the ENNS Small Grants Programme, groups can email or telephone the scheme contact to request a funding application form.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

Potential recipients are reviewed case by case according to the available resources of the charity.
ENNS prioritises bringing people together and tackling loneliness and social isolation.
ENNS prioritises healthy habits and ways to live well locally.
ENNS prioritises helping people make money go further through benefits, budgeting and financial advice.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Birmingham

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Witton Lodge Community Association.

Brownhills Community AssociationNo public process Yardley Great TrustRollingGave £10,288 The Grimmitt TrustRollingGave £342k The Jabbs FoundationRollingGave £6.7M The Michael Marsh Charitable TrustRollingGave £367k The Roger & Douglas Turner Charitable TrustFixed deadlinesGave £957k Harborne and Smethwick Charitable TrustRollingGave £223k Baron Davenport’s CharityFixed deadlines Laslett's Hinton CharityFixed deadlinesGave £242k Wolverhampton Voluntary & Community ActionRollingGave £124k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£2,410,952	£1,768,450	£138,932	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£2,646,971	£1,909,857	£120,992	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£2,948,789	£2,502,764	£227,270	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£3,411,104	£2,823,332	£465,637	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£3,996,839	£3,543,990	£295,232	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

Income vs grants paid

IncomeGrants paid

Total value each financial year

YE 2021

£139k grants

YE 2022

£121k grants

YE 2023

£227k grants

YE 2024

£466k grants

YE 2025

£295k awarded

Grants paid stayed within income across the 5 years shown.

Grants paid, year to 31 March 2021; year to 31 March 2022; year to 31 March 2023; year to 31 March 2024: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).
Grants paid, year to 31 March 2025: grants awarded in the year, as reported in the accounts.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.