The Ileys Community Association, based at Victoria Skills Centre at Corbett Street in Cape Hill was awarded the grant from the council’s Local Area Budget.
The money will be used to help to provide healthy meals for members of the local authority and to support efforts to run a youth club at the centre.
Councillor Zahoor Ahmed, town chair for Smethwick, said: “The group will also pay for training to Level 2 food safety courses for volunteers, for workplace first aid facilities and help to buy food and ingredients.
“This is a an excellent scheme because it will provide seasonal and healthy food, which will include cuisine from different parts of the world.”
The funding has paid for an oven, cooker and extractor fan, a food counter, marketing costs and has also funded volunteers’ food safety training, first aid equipment and ingredients.
