Apply for a Grant

Champion science, technology, engineering and maths with a grant from the Millennium Point Charitable Trust.

Apply for Funding

2024 Grant applications are now closed.

Save your application with your organisation’s name.

Email the completed form back by 6/12/2024

You’ll be notified of the outcome of your application in July 2025

Successful applications will receive their grant in September 2025

Do your project beneficiaries reside within the West Midlands Combined Authority?

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What Kind of Projects Do We Support?

Projects will need to fulfil one or more of the following:

Introduce exciting and innovative STEM projects or activities into the classroom which in turn engage pupils of all ages from Nursery up to school leavers.
Inspire an interest in STEM subjects in schools.
Engage underprivileged or marginalised groups in STEM learning, making it more accessible and inclusive.
Focus strongly on enhancing STEM across the curriculum.

Promoting STEM careers

Projects will need to fulfil one or more of the following:

Target young people to pursue careers in STEM from an early age.
Deliver ‘STEM-centric’ events to engage young people.
Encourage parents and or teachers to learn more about STEM opportunities and STEM career choices open to young people.
Develop school programmes of work to showcase STEM career opportunities.
Promote STEM learning in local communities.

Purchasing of STEM Resources

Projects will need to fulfil one or more of the following:

Enhance STEM education through the purchase of STEM equipment for schools or nurseries or other organisations.
Improve knowledge through the purchasing of STEM literature/books, ideally, this will be linked to a larger STEM project.
Provide digital resources for pupils (i.e. Laptops/iPads/Google chrome books etc.). Please remember to detail how this links to STEM education and provide an outline of the STEM project or education programme that the resources will be used for.
Reduce digital poverty and provide further opportunities to engage in new STEM skills and learning.

School/College
Voluntary or Community Group
Registered Charity
A Constituted Group or Club
Not-for-profit company or Community Interest Company (CIC)
Social Enterprise
Organisations whose project beneficiaries reside within the West Midlands Combined Authority area

Universities
Hospitals or Hospices
Individuals
Companies or Sole Traders that are aimed at generating profits for private distribution.
Organisations based out of the UK
Organisations whose project beneficiaries reside outside of the West Midlands Combined Authority area

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