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Grants Available Now…But Be Quick

Grants Available Now…But Be Quick

Fund Announces Grants Available Across The District The We Love Lichfield Fund has announced its next series of grants and is asking voluntary groups and organisations across the District to apply for funding.   Grants are awarded twice a year by the Fund to voluntary organisations and up to £5000 […]

by × November 3, 2013 × Comments are Disabled
Handsacre Nursery Celebrates First Birthday With Donation To We Love Lichfield

Handsacre Nursery Celebrates First Birthday With Donation To We Love Lichfield

Handsacre’s Poppins Day Nursery have celebrated their first birthday with a donation of £250 for local charity ‘We Love Lichfield’ after being inspired by the fund’s work in the community.   Jan Hughes, Director of Poppins said: “I was privileged to see the We Love Lichfield Fund donate its last […]

by × July 24, 2013 × Comments are Disabled
Spreading the love across Lichfield district

Spreading the love across Lichfield district

We Love Lichfield Fund grants nearly £5000 to local voluntary groups GOOD causes across the district are set to benefit from almost £5,000 donated by the We Love Lichfield Fund.  At a special presentation last Friday (May 10) representatives gathered at Darnford Moors Golf Club to receive grants of up […]

by × May 16, 2013 × Comments are Disabled
This is why We All Love Lichfield

This is why We All Love Lichfield

We don’t get many sunny bank holidays.  We don’t get many opportunities to break a world record.  We don’t say often enough why the District of Lichfield is brilliant. Today, over 400 people achieved a first…they competed in the World’s Shortest Fun Run in the UK’s smallest park…Princes Park in […]

by × May 6, 2013 × Comments are Disabled
World’s Shortest Fun Run Causes International Incident

World’s Shortest Fun Run Causes International Incident

Princes Park in Burntwood is Europe’s biggest park, second in the world to the official Guiness Book Of Record’s smallest park – Mill Ends Park in Portland Oregan.  KP Events Kevin Wilson who is organising the Virgin Active World’s Shortest Fun Run in aid of We Love Lichfield has sparked […]

by × April 12, 2013 × Comments are Disabled
Lichfield Gazette Raises £450 For WLL With 2013 Calendar

Lichfield Gazette Raises £450 For WLL With 2013 Calendar

Lifestyle magazine The Lichfield Gazette has raised £450 for the We Love Lichfield Fund after selling 2013 calendars for the District-wide charity and are the first recipients of the We Love Lichfield ‘Certificate of Thanks’.   For the second year running Editor Paul Oakley and his team collated photographs from […]

by × March 13, 2013 × Comments are Disabled
World’s Shortest Fun Run In Aid Of We Love Lichfield

World’s Shortest Fun Run In Aid Of We Love Lichfield

55 PACES, 25 SECONDS, 1 WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT Lichfield-based events company KP Events, best known for organising the Lichfield Half Marathon and the unique Lichfield Cathedral Dash are staging a World record attempt; the World’s shortest ‘fun run’ on Monday 6th May 2013 to raise money for the charity We […]

by × March 7, 2013 × Comments are Disabled
£150,000 and rising

£150,000 and rising

We Love Lichfield, the fund which raises money and then makes donations to voluntary groups only across the Lichfield District, has reached an amazing milestone in only two years of existence.  Through money raised through We Love Lichfield, the endowment fund which is managed by the Staffordshire Community Foundation, is […]

by × February 12, 2013 × Comments are Disabled
Apply for funding in spring 2013

Apply for funding in spring 2013

Worthy causes across the District of Lichfield can apply now for a slice of £5,000 being offered by the We Love Lichfield Fund. The charity helps groups and organisations in need in the form of individual grants of up £500 which can be spent on equipment, training and events. Many […]

by × February 12, 2013 × Comments are Disabled
New website is live

New website is live

Say ‘hello’ to our new website.  To celebrate our second birthday and the achievement of raising £150,000 for our fund we thought we’d get ourselves a nice shiny website.  We hope you find everything you need here from how to apply to where the money is going to a big […]

by × February 11, 2013 × Comments are Disabled