Festival of Light

This project works to improve the life-chances of people affected by complex drug and alcohol addiction. It will deliver meaningful activities so that people can gain practical work experience, qualifications and skills, which have been identified as being key to their sustainable recovery and reintegration into society. It will support them to take the lead in delivery to build their social networks, self-confidence, independence and life-skills in a supportive, non-judgemental environment.

Create More Netball Coaches

This project works with refugees and asylum seekers to help them become Community Champions who support other new arrivals to the UK. The Champions will be from the same country of origin as those they support and will speak the same language. This will enable them to address issues and concerns, expand local knowledge and help those new to the area settle and integrate into their new lives. The project will be delivered across Blackburn with Darwen.

This project will improve the mental, physical and economic wellbeing of people aged 25 and over in Higher Croft, Blackburn with Darwen. Community Game Changers, who will have experienced and overcome similar challenges, will work with participants to develop activities and training in various areas including woodwork, horticulture, creative writing and sport. Learning and knowledge across the project will be shared with the wider community to help strengthen support networks and build resilience.

This project will use peer mentoring to support 360 vulnerable people to realise their potential and actively contribute to their communities. The peer mentors will use their lived experience of severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD) to empower, build resilience and improve the well-being of the people they support. The project will improve life chances of all involved by connecting people with their local community, building their confidence and skills and providing volunteer opportunities.

The group will deliver mixed martial arts and boxing sessions, alongside diet coaching, for young people. This will reduce obesity and long term health issues through increasing exercise and knowledge of healthy eating.

The group will deliver an annual series of events and activities for the community in a local park. The provision of a further programme of public events will continue to develop community cohesion, reduce antisocial behaviour and reduce social isolation.

Active @ Blackburn College

Darwen library cultural hub

Upbeat Project

The group will carry out improvements to their club which will include the installation of a ladies toilet and an enclosed annex area for the benefit of new and existing members. This will enhance the current facilities and enable the club to run additional activities with the aim of reducing social isolation and encouraging physical activity.

The funding will be used to run a four day training conference for blind and partially sighted people. The project aims to provide people with skills in maintaining and repairing pianos and the knowledge and support to run their own business.

The funding will be used by an infant school to build an outdoor classroom to allow them to run activities for pupils and families at evenings and weekends. The project aims to encourage people to spend more time outdoors.

The funding will be used to offer free British Sign Language courses to adults and children who live with a person who is deaf or hard of hearing. The project aims to allow families, colleagues and friends to engage in everyday life and be able to communicate with each other effectively.

The funding will be used to install outdoor play equipment for pre-school aged children. The project aims to engage parents with their children, and provide a facility for use by other children's groups in the area.

The funding will be used to run a range of therapeutic arts sessions for people experiencing mental health issues including self-harming. The project aims to engage people in positive activities in order to build their confidence, reduce isolation and improve overall health and wellbeing.

This Is Your Life - Bringing Generations Together

This project will continue to offer practical daytime services and mentor support for homeless or vulnerably housed young people in Blackburn with Darwen. It will also develop out of hours support to enable prevent issues escalating when other services are unavailable. It will encourage and enable young people to create their own support networks giving space for them to use the centre during the evening and at weekends for clubs and other activities.

The funding will be used to provide one-to-one counselling support to expectant and new mothers who are experiencing mental health difficulties. The project aims to improve people?s health and wellbeing by providing them with focussed support that they wouldn?t have access to otherwise.

The funding will be used to run a community hub which will provide the local community with a place to gain various skills in order to get into employment. The group will also purchase equipment for future community events to be held at the community hub. The project aims to provide help and support to those that need to develop their employability skills as well as a place for the local community to come together.

The funding will be used by an infant school to create a sensory room for the benefit of children with special educational needs. The project aims to increase provision of accessible activities and improve engaging and learning through multi-sensory stimulation.

Sliding Doors

The group will offer social activities for people with disabilities and older people who are lonely and isolated. They will set up a community hub offering various events including a weekly tea dance night out, and a mobile afternoon tea for people living in residential and sheltered housing. This will bring people together, help them stay active and reduce loneliness and isolation.

The funding will be used to run a range of weekly activities for adults with learning disabilities in a community library. The project aims to provide the opportunity for people with learning disabilities to learn new skills and improve their health and wellbeing.

The funding will be used by a primary school to create an active play area for the school children and local community. The project aims to reduce health issues through improved fitness, building motor skills and improving communication skills.

Making a Difference to a Rural Lancashire Community Treasure -The Barlow Institute

The funding will be used by a charity to upgrade their existing reception area to an appropriate and purpose built space, where people who have a sight loss can be met by staff and receive advice regarding their eyesight condition. The project aims to help people who are visually impaired have easy access to advice and services.

ÔÇÿWe Take Them and Make ThemÔÇÖ - a project inspired by Mitchell & Kenyon filmmakers

The funding will be used to run a peer support network for people in receipt of financial services. This will include training in working out costings, the function of brokerage and how social care and health systems work. The project aims to offer a support network to individuals with specific needs, to enable them to make positive decisions in the future.

The funding will be used by a school to run a number of learning courses for members of the community including English language and safety online. The project aims to provide people with knowledge and skills as well as an opportunity to come together as a community.

The funding will be used by a primary school to install play equipment to create a trim trail for the school children to access outside of the school day. The project aims to help develop motor skills and improve communication and interaction through increased physical activity.

The funding will be used to run a programme of activities including workshops, markets and music events for the local community. The project aims to being the community together and address issues including isolation, anti-social behaviour and hate crime discrimination.

The funding will be used by a charity to hold a conference for professionals in the community who work with refugees and asylum seekers. The project aims to provide people with the opportunity to address misconceptions in the area through a series of workshop in which issues can be explored.

WFG Remembering WW1

The funding will be used to deliver a new programme of activities at a community centre, invluding cooking and physical activites. The project aims to provide opportunities to bring people together from different cultures, backgrounds and religions from the local community.

The project will use the funding to run an education programme teaching children about the dangerous consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle. This will improve awareness and help improve health outcomes in an area which has high childhood obesity and low levels of physical activity.

Pennine Spring Music Festival 2017

Revealing the Hidden Heritage

The project will use the funding to deliver a series of youth led events aimed at understanding diversity and community engagement, to encourage greater understanding between different cultures in the community. There will also be a performance event, discussions and activities for young people including football, sharing of food and cultural activities. This will encourage greater understanding between different cultures with the aim of embracing a wider society.

The funding will be used by a nursery school to create an outdoor sensory space including shrubs and trees, seating, wind ornaments and shades. The project aims to provide young children, including those with additional needs, with a safe environment and stimulating activities to help aid their development and wellbeing through outdoor play.

PSO in the Community

This project will use the funding to create an outdoor forest activity area and train two members of staff to run activities with pupils outside of school hours. This will enable children to engage with the outdoors and improve skills, boost self-esteem and confidence and improve community relationships.

Blackburn Art and Design Saturday Club

Funding will be used for a new work experience project for young people to get them better prepared for work. The organisation will work with partners to provide a structured programme, with a diverse range of work experience opportunities, motivational talks and visits, as well as one-to-one and group mentoring and coaching sessions. The project aims to help 800 young people overcome barriers to work and employment by broadening their horizons and helping them to realise their potential.

This project will use the funding to deliver two courses to Muslim women which will provide cultural information in areas including justice and equality within their families and wider society, and awareness raising and training in counter terrorism. This will empower women to become fully functioning and contributing members of society and recognise indicators of possible radicalisation.

This project will use the funding to engage with young people to tackle issues around domestic violence, health and wellbeing. This will enable the organisation to provide young people with focussed workshops and activities covering issues such as coercive control and help them to recognise the early stages of domestic abuse, and by raising their self-confidence and self-esteem this will help them to avoid the abuse escalating.

This project will use the funding to engage with young people to tackle issues around domestic violence, health and wellbeing. This will enable the organisation to provide young people with focussed workshops and activities covering issues such as coercive control and help them to recognise the early stages of domestic abuse, and by raising their self-confidence and self-esteem this will help them to avoid the abuse escalating.

Bridging Blackburn: international artists? residency with young people.

Blackburn with Darwen: St Peter's Church, Darwen

Restoration of Woolridge and College Playing Fields

The organisation will use the funding to provide social job clubs run by experienced tutors who will provide individual led programmes to educate, influence and promote equality, to empower the deaf and disabled members of the community. This will enable the organisation to engage with the target beneficiaries to encourage their participation to try new activities such as health initiatives, wellbeing activities and training.

The organisation will use the funding to provide intensive group support and one-to-one mentoring to young people in the LGBT community and those unsure of their sexuality. This will strengthen the community by enabling young people to examine and address issues of sexual identity, isolation and homophobia in a supportive environment and develop peer support networks.

Golf development and teaching facility

The organisation will use the funding to continue to deliver sports activities to young people in the local area. This will act as a diversionary activity to anti-social behaviour and improve the health and wellbeing and aspirations of young people in the local area.

The organisation will use the funding to continue to deliver sports activities to young people in the local area. This will act as a diversionary activity to anti-social behaviour and improve the health and wellbeing and aspirations of young people in the local area.

The Blackburn College Games

This is a continuation and development of an existing project that supports unpaid family carers through the provision of inclusive, integrated and targeted support. The project will focus on reducing isolation and loneliness using a variety of methods including one-to-one and group support as well as a comprehensive programme of activities.

Bowling Green Maintenance

The organisation will use the funding to install an outdoor play area within the grounds of the school and engage with local residents who are long term unemployed, to provide them with volunteer opportunities to help with the before and after school club sessions. This will enable the organisation to engage with the target beneficiaries to boost their skills and gain experience to help aid them in their return to work.

The organisation will use the funds to set up an area within the school grounds that would function as a Forest School education and exercise environment. This will enable the organisation to engage with their pupils who have English as an additional language to become socially interactive with their peers and improve cohesion.

The organisation will use the funding to run a pilot volunteer programme to help people with mental health issues who have are keen to become community volunteers. This will enable the organisation to deliver workshops as a first step programme of supported taster sessions to develop the beneficiaries? skills such as organisation, administration, customer care, IT, communication, social care and event planning, to take up a place in one of 4 volunteer-led community groups.

The organisation will use the funding to create a risk taking play area in the nursery grounds including areas such as kitchen risks, water risks and road risks. This will increase risk awareness with the aim of making children less vulnerable to accidents and improving communication and social skills.

Golf development and teaching facility

The organisation will use the funding to provide a suitable outdoor area, resources and equipment to run forest school activities for the children within the wider school community. This will provide an outdoor play and learning area where they can run forest school activities and improve the development of children who are educationally disadvantage; improving language, social and communication skills and tackling behavioural issues to improve the chances of children within the local community.

Lancashire Not Forgotten - remembering how we lived, worked and played through shared heritage

The Art in Manufacturing

The organisation will use the funding to create a forest school on an area of derelict, unused land within the school grounds. This will enable the organisation to run a series of regular forest school/outdoor community activities which will be open to all members of the community aiming to build stronger community cohesion outside of school hours.

The organisation will use funding to refurbish the toilet facilities within the village hall, to include disabled access. This will provide the whole community with a safe, hygienic and accessible facility for events and activities, with the aim of reducing isolation in their rural location.

They will offer football activities for local adults who are socially isolated due to their experiences with mental health, homelessness, substance misuse or learning difficulties. Twenty-eight teams, each representing organisations supporting people with a variety of needs, will compete across four divisions, with fixtures taking place at Blackburn Rovers Indoor Centre.

A project to improve the employability, self-confidence and raise aspirations of disadvantaged black and minority ethnic residents, in particular women, by building on existing skills and developing communication, language, literacy and ICT skills. The scheme will include basic skills classes in English and Maths from Level 1, sessions on UK civic rights, culture and traditions, and job seeking and employment training to help improve integration and the skills and knowledge to gain independence.

A project to improve the employability, self-confidence and raise aspirations of disadvantaged black and minority ethnic residents, in particular women, by building on existing skills and developing communication, language, literacy and ICT skills. The scheme will include basic skills classes in English and Maths from Level 1, sessions on UK civic rights, culture and traditions, and job seeking and employment training to help improve integration and the skills and knowledge to gain independence.

The organisation will use the funding to create a new pedestrian access to the Dingle which is a local wildlife and recreational green space. This will enable the organisation to facilitate increased access to the area by disabled people, school children and people in the wider community, this will reduce social isolation and engage people in the community to enjoy this local facility.

The organisation will use the funding to create an outdoor woodland area on the grounds of the school. This will enable the school to provide opportunities for pupils to engage safely in outdoor play and exploration in an area where there are few green spaces to improve wellbeing, health and development.

The organisation will use the funding to create an outdoor woodland area on the grounds of the school. This will enable the school to provide opportunities for pupils to engage safely in outdoor play and exploration in an area where there are few green spaces to improve wellbeing, health and development.

The organisation will use the funding to set up a weekly meeting for adults with disabilities in Blackburn. This will help increase access to social activities, volunteering and learning opportunities and support link into other agencies in the local area. This will build the confidence, knowledge and skills of participants.

The Community Interest Company will use the funding to offer free British Sign Language courses to adults and children who live with a person who is deaf or hard of hearing. It will also be offered to people who are deaf. This will enable families to engage in everyday life and be able to communicate with each other in an effective way.

Wheelchair Sports Club Development

Found in Blackburn: Discovering Blackburn's hidden treasures

'Embracing the past to transform the future' - New life for Blackburn Cotton Exchange

The organisation will use the funding to run creative activity sessions to deliver advice and support to women in the local community. This will aim to reduce isolation, build confidence and increase skills and aspirations.

The organisation will use the funding to run creative activity sessions to deliver advice and support to women in the local community. This will aim to reduce isolation, build confidence and increase skills and aspirations.

Soundtracks - Engaging young people in musical journeys

Inclusion Sport

The organisation will use the funding to install imaginative creative play and physical activity equipment in the school grounds. This will improve the health and wellbeing of children in the area by providing them with a safe play environment in an area with few facilities or outdoor play space at home.

The organisation will use the funding to deliver a series of employability and skills development sessions and volunteering opportunities to vulnerable adults with mental health issues and learning difficulties. This will improve their life chances by developing skills and confidence to access employment opportunities.

The organisation will use the funding to install hard wearing surfaces on the paths in the garden. This will ensure that the gardens are accessible for all potential users of the site, including pushchair users, children, older people and wheelchair users.

Green Maintenance

Bringing Turton Tower Stables Back To Life

The organisation will use the funding to develop school grounds to encourage stronger links with parents and the local community.

The organisation will use the funding to engage two sessional workers to run workshops based on social entrepreneurship and using peer mentoring to develop skills of young people in the local community. This will enable them to offer young people support and advice in employment and enterprise skills with the aim of increasing their confidence to find employment.

The organisation will use the funding to engage two sessional workers to run workshops based on social entrepreneurship and using peer mentoring to develop skills of young people in the local community. This will enable them to offer young people support and advice in employment and enterprise skills with the aim of increasing their confidence to find employment.

The organisation will use the funding to develop a pilot gourmet mushroom micro-farm and create a social cooperative co-owned by ex-offenders, reusing energy and waste from used coffee grounds in Salford, Manchester.

A project to promote the independence and wellbeing for vulnerable adults by providing a wide range of affordable, quality assured and accessible services that meet peoples' ongoing needs. The scheme will connect vulnerable residents with local quality assured service providers such as electrical, gardening, building and handyman services, and will give training to service providers to identify people at risk, such as those with early signs of dementia, hazards in the home, and isolation.

The organisation will use the funding to run an employment skills training programme for people in recovery from alcohol or drug misuse. This will enable the organisation to prepare people for employment and help them maintain long term recovery.

The group will use funding to deliver a series of events and activities for the community to continue from the success of their previous project. The provision of a further programme of public events will continue to develop community cohesion, reduce anti social behaviour and reduce social isolation.

The Bureau - Centre for the Arts

The organisation will use the funding to install adventurous play equipment within the school grounds. This will improve the local environment by providing children with a safe and secure outdoor area for play and, thereby, increase their health and fitness and opportunities to socialise with their friends.

The organisation will use the funding to purchase ICT equipment in order to establish a community learning facility providing a wide range of training to the local community. This will enable the group to address the reduction in local support services and deliver courses covering health, ICT techniques and employability skills.

Restoration of century old oil painting of George slaying the Demon Drunknenss