Our organisation's objectives is to bring people together to participate in sport physical exercise activities for fun, participate in leaning programmes to increase awareness, increase social engagement and cohesion and improve physical and mental wellbeing. We are locally based in Newtown Birmingham working with people in our local community and people visiting our local community including those connecting with us via our social media platform.
People are still slowly coming back to normal after Covid-19 and lock down which gave a lot of people including us several challenges most of all financial challenges. January 2022 we contacted BVSC the centre for voluntary action for advice and funding opportunity, our organisation was awarded grant fund via the Common Wealth Games (CWG Grant) for project to bring people together focused on migrant women in our community for the women old and new to meet make friends, learn English gain confidence and socialise and another project to train young journalist to gather and record information of people living in our local area what they think about the CWG games. both project gave us a legacy in our local community.
Having successfully completed CWG project with good outcome, National Lottery awards for all, awarded further grant to continue what we were doing that worked well our learning programmes and physical exercise activities for free to the people. Arnold Clark awarded grant funding for sport equipment and our summer holiday sport activity project this attracted lots of families and children who participated in the activities it made a great difference to people in our community many thanks. ASDA foundation awarded grant funding for a family fun day event the children and families had fun.
Thanks to Health Exchange Sport England , BCC BeBoldBham grant funding for project delivery to increase number of people taking part in physical exercise activities, we currently engaging families children and elderly in these activities . The people in the community truly appreciate and are grateful for all the support, and our organisation is thankful for these grant funding enabling us to provide our services to the community for free, creating job opportunity, voluntary opportunity business and community development and helping us to accomplish our goals as an organisation
All projects are advertised via our social media platforms, word of mouth, flyer distribution to homes and local community centres and via our network groups. In delivering our projects our organisation work with the involvement of all our stake holders, we collaborate with other organisations, leaders and people in the community using several communication methods which includes in person and virtual meetings, via social media platforms and via other communication methods such as emails and news letters / flyers.
Our activities are showcase via social media post and on-site events. our services ids designed to add value to existing services in our local community to support fulfilling the desire of the local government in increasing the number of people participating in sport activities to improve peoples physical and mental wellbeing. We look after four generations and we are changing lives, there is increase in number of participants attending and benefiting from these activities we organise and participants are feeding back the changing impact its having on their physical and mental wellbeing and on the local community.
Our organisation is a relatively young organisation still learning in all aspect of our charitable business, facing teething problems with our bid writing which sometimes may not reflection what funders expect to read but we are working on that through individual training from our business support development organisation BVSC. We hope and ask that grant funders understand developing grass root organisations are in their learning stage, not financially stable and will make mistakes, bidding application may not reflect true picture of what an organisation does, grass root small organisation can be trusted and they do perform.
Please look at our social media platforms for further justification of the service we offer, and look at the need in the community with an understanding that we are helping to change lives of people living in a an area classed as deprived low social economic community.
A big thank you to all our investors and supporters, please continue to support to enable us effectively continue providing our services for free to the people in our community including those visiting who take part when these activities are taking place in our local parks. Please contact us, we welcome grant funding from Charitable Organisations, Local Council, Government funding Associations, Groups and Individuals to support our course and to help develop our organisation and our community.
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