The 4 Clowns of the Apocalypse

A series of recreational activities will be funded to support older people and people with disabilities. This will improve the wellbeing for those taking part alongside addressing issues surrounding isolation.

The city speaks: Language diversity and the spaces of Montreal

A composting toilet will be installed on an allotment site, improving the facilities for plot holders, as well as local school children and disabled people during open days.

A pilot scheme will be conducted about providing social care for isolated older people. This will help the group to better identify the needs of older people and improve their quality of life.

Woodworkers - Jumberjills and woodland in WW1

Toro: DeNada Dance Theatres Beauty and the Beast - Creation and Touring

A Singular Deception

Art workshops and days out will be funded for older people in the local community, helping to reduce social isolation.

Living Lakes

BH Project

A Seat at the Table (Working Title)

This school will use the funding to purchase fixed play equipment, encouraging physical activity and healthier lifestyles.

The funding will allow the extension of existing youth provision in six towns by offering additional activities sessions during the week. This includes a football programme, advice and guidance, an employability programme, a positive wellbeing programme and a team of youth workers to engage with young people out and about. New activities will be provided in each of the organisation?s hubs, informed by consultation with young people.

A programme of personal improvement activities will be funded, which will enhance skills of volunteers. This will create community champions and improve support for people who have hearing impairments.

Chance Glass Works Regeneration Project

Spectra 3

Developed in Birmingham

Legacy of Industrial Textiles Enterprise (LITE) Project

Invisible Places R and D

Soho and Victoria Youth Sports Project

This group will use the funding to organise a number of events including festive celebrations, days out and activity sessions for elderly people. Participants' isolation will be reduced, helping improve both their physical and mental wellbeing.

This group will use the funding to hold a programme of activities to help people young people not in education, training or employment. Participants will be given specific help in areas they are lacking in order to improve their chances in life.

This group, which engages with isolated older people, will use the funding to expand their services, reaching out to new beneficiaries and areas. The project will enable members of the community to work together to tackle isolation, using skills and knowledge as assets.

A community health project will be delivered with this funding. It will help improve levels of fitness for difficult to reach beneficiaries who are experiencing the effects of obesity.

Hysteria 2016

This is a project for people in Birmingham and Smethwick. The group will use the funding to provide counselling sessions and networking groups for Eastern Europeans affected by hate crime, culminating in an end of project event. This will enable people to access advice and support, leading to improved mental wellbeing.

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From a Small Island RandD

The group will use the funding to provide a series of community events to support and provide advice for parents and families of the school. This will reduce social isolation and discrimination in a culturally diverse community.

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Introducing 2016

The group will use the funding to soundproof the main hall and improve the foyer lighting. This will enhance the experience of hall visitors, and improve the space for future usage.

Bearwood Festival 2016

The organisation will use the funding to continue to provide resources and outreach services to vulnerable people living in Sandwell and West Birmingham, particularly asylum seekers, refugees and migrant groups. The focus of the project will be on improving the health and wellbeing of beneficiaries and aims to create a new pathway to employment and training resulting in greater economic independence and resilience.

The organisation will use the funding to continue to provide resources and outreach services to vulnerable people living in Sandwell and West Birmingham, particularly asylum seekers, refugees and migrant groups. The focus of the project will be on improving the health and wellbeing of beneficiaries and aims to create a new pathway to employment and training resulting in greater economic independence and resilience.

Position Applied for: Baby Daddy

Untitled: A Collaboration with Alysia Harris

The group will use the funding to run a drop in centre to support single parent refugees and asylum seekers. This will offer beneficiaries non judgemental peer support which will improve their confidence, mental health and socialisation.

The group will use the funding to purchase camping equipment and provide trips for young people. This will enable participants from this disadvantaged area to take part in activities which benefit their development and wellbeing.

The group will use the funding to purchase camping equipment and provide trips for young people. This will enable participants from this disadvantaged area to take part in activities which benefit their development and wellbeing.

The group will use the funding to provide assisted craft and community activities to socially isolated older people. This will reduce social isolation in the community and enable beneficiaries to participate in community life.

The group will use the funding to provide a celebratory day trip for isolated older people. This will enable beneficiaries to take part in a social event, leading to improved mental wellbeing.

Where memories remain (Smethwick's WW1 memorials now and then with expanded information)

Precise Ingenuity ÔÇô the manufacturing legacy of Oldbury and Langley

Primary Spaces

The group will use the funding to provide activities for isolated older people. This will engage beneficiaries in social activities, reducing social isolation and improving their mental health and wellbeing.

The group will use the funding to setup an IT suite and deliver training sessions in using computers. This will improve beneficiaries? confidence, employability and increase digital inclusion.

Tinned Goods

The group will use the funding to provide support and guidance sessions and workshops for parents and preschool children in the local area. This will improve beneficiaries parenting skills, life skills and increase their confidence.

ABUELO by Amahra Spence

Spectra 2 (working title)

EMPOWER

The group will use the funding to provide training and volunteer work opportunities for people who are currently unemployed. This will enable beneficiaries to gain experience and qualification in order to lead a better life.

The group will use the funding to organise a number of events including festive celebrations, days out and activity sessions for elderly people. This will reduce isolation amongst the elderly, helping improve both their physical and mental wellbeing.

Grandma's Apple Crumble

Chance Glassworks Heritage Trust Ltd

The Flying Tales of Folklore

Discovering soldiers of African and West Indian origin who served in WWI

Restoration of Heritage Features in West Smethwick Park

My Mother s Child

Px: Creative Lab - Research and Development

The group will use the funding to fit astro turf tiles for safety purposes, replace its lighting and heating equipment and secure its premises. This will enable the group to have a safe, energy sufficient facility and meet health and safety regulations.

The group will use the funding to provide training for young deaf people in all aspects of car ownership responsibilities, including road safety and mechanical vehicle maintenance. This will engage beneficiaries in activities designed to improve their skills and confidence.

This project will use the funding to improve facilities at the local community centre and its facilities, in order to deal with increased demand for activities at the centre.

The group will use the funding to deliver an after school music club for the benefit of the children. This will encourage them to learn new skills in music, develop their social skills and engage in positive activities.

The group will use the funding to develop their outdoor space into gardening and play areas for the benefit of children and their parents. This will encourage families to use this space to socialise, learn new skills and be more active.

The community organisation in Sandwell will use the funding to erect secure boundary fencing around their allotment plot. This will improve the environment while securing the area by reducing crime and anti social behaviour.

The community organisation in Birmingham will use the funding to create 30 wooden bears that will be decorated by the community and placed around the area to create an organised walk and a picnic to bring the community together. This will create community cohesion.

Birmingham Dance Network: PROJECT BHAM

The project aims to support people with mental health issues in Dudley, Sandwell, Wolverhampton and Walsall. Beneficiaries will be able to manage their own health and wellbeing through group therapies, self-help support groups, educational and vocational groups, individual therapies (massage, aromatherapy, reflexology), social, leisure and physical activity groups and events, and via information, peer and specialist advice.

ScratchBHAM: Series 2

This is a project by a community organisation in Birmingham. The group will use the funding to undertake a community consultation to identify how the community would like to use a community building in Cradley Heath and to identify any gaps in services. This will strengthen voluntary community sector capacity and infrastructure.

This is a project by a community organisation in Birmingham. The group will use the funding to work with local communities to identify issues and priorities, and to develop action plans through the use of leaders and volunteers. This will support an improvement in the local environs through cohesive engagement amongst communities.

This is a project by a community organisation in Smethwick, West Midlands. The group will use the funding to provide film making workshops to young people and their families who experience difficulties in school. This will develop intergenerational learning opportunities and life skills.

This is a project by a charity in Birmingham. The group will use the funding to provide staff training and welfare and debt support, for people from Somali and refugee backgrounds. This will develop the capacity of the group to build beneficiaries' skills and confidence.

This is a project by a charity in Smethwick, West Midlands. The group will use the funding to expand their weekly sessions for disabled children and young adults and their parents and carers. This will enable the group to increase their capacity to provide support services, employment training and help the disabled people to live independently.

This is a project by a school in Telford, Shropshire. The group will use the funding to deliver a breakfast music club for children and their families. This will provide support for beneficiaries and opportunites to take part in engaging activities to help develop positive relationships, community cohesion and aspirations.

This is a project by a community organisation in Smethwick, West Midlands. The group will use the funding to deliver commemorative quilting and advanced arts and crafts workshops to isolated and vulnerable people living with disabilities. This will help reduce isolation and develop the skills of the beneficiaries to an advanced level.

Victoria Park Primary Academy - Memories of Spice from Smethwick

Community Relationship System

Community Relationship System

This charity in Smethwick will use the funding to provide support services and activities to adults with learning difficulties. This will provide the beneficiaries with the opportunity to extend their social circle and reduce isolation.

This organisation in Smethwick will use the funding to install new boilers in the community centre. This will develop the group's facilities and improve energy efficiency and accessibility of the building for activities and events for the community.

Letters from Birmingham: B6/B19

This academy in Sandwell will use the funding to run a series of arts, environment and healthy eating activities, culminating in a community celebration event. This will broaden young people's experiences and increase their understanding of different cult

Break Away from No Man's Land

This school in Smethick will use the funding to develop their school grounds and deliver extracurricular activities for children and their families. This will improve the groups' facilities and provide an outdoor space for beneficiaries to learn together

This community organisation in Smethwick will use the funding to deliver a programme of creative writing and graphic design activities for young people, culminating in production of a magazine. This will enable beneficiaries to develop transferable skills

This community organisation in Smethwick will use the funding to deliver a programme of creative writing and graphic design activities for young people, culminating in production of a magazine. This will enable beneficiaries to develop transferable skills such as literacy, communication and self-confidence, which will improve their future employment prospects.

The school will use the funding to run an extracurricular ICT skills project for pupils and the local community. This will improve the ICT abilities of beneficiaries, encourage parents to learn with their children and provide access to a ICT community roo

The school will use the funding to run an extracurricular ICT skills project for pupils and the local community. This will improve the ICT abilities of beneficiaries, encourage parents to learn with their children and provide access to a ICT community room for use outside school time.

This community organisation in Tipton, serving beneficiaries across Sandwell will use the funding to provide extracurricular learning, residential courses and personal development sessions for young people. This will support beneficiaries to achieve highe

This community organisation in Tipton, serving beneficiaries across Sandwell will use the funding to provide extracurricular learning, residential courses and personal development sessions for young people. This will support beneficiaries to achieve higher academic attainment and develop their interpersonal and life skills.

First Do No Harm

First Do No Harm

The group will use the funding to create a play area on the community centre grounds. This will improve this community venue by providing access to safe and secure play facilities.

This school in Smethwick, West Midlands will use the funding to provide a covered area in their playground with a climbing frame and soft surface. This will improve the group's facilities making an attractive space where the beneficiaries can play safely.

This is a project by a school in Sandwell, West Midlands. The group will use the funding to build a substantial cultural food growing garden and Poly Tunnel for the most vulnerable and isolated members of the local community. This will create a stronger s

This is a project by a school in Sandwell, West Midlands. The group will use the funding to build a substantial cultural food growing garden and Poly Tunnel for the most vulnerable and isolated members of the local community. This will create a stronger sense of community spirit and enable the beneficiaries to develop skills in permaculture, gardening, harvesting and cooking. This project will also improve an area of land within an urban environment that is not being used.