Community investment - Aim 4: sustain and develop community groups and organisations
Growing Together
Our Growing Together programme provides training grants to individuals who contribute to local community projects.
For example, two residents in Nottingham, June and Eileen, have turned a communal space in their sheltered support schemes into a hub of community activities.
We paid for them to attend a Food Hygiene course. This has helped them to cater for the events they organise.
Doing it for themselves
We believe that community projects should be led by residents. So in Clapham Park, south London, we are supporting residents to plan, fund and deliver the projects that they and their neighbours want.
Last year we ran taster sessions for activities including a language skills exchange group, parenting skills workshops and activities for senior citizens.
As a result, a steering group of residents (plus a fundraising consultant and a member of staff) is now developing the most popular or useful activities into larger long-term programmes.
Our aims
- Aim 1: reduce isolation and poverty
- Aim 2: develop the potential of children, young people and adults
- Aim 3: make places safer and greener
- Aim 4: sustain and develop community groups and organisations