Building Strong Communities fund: round two recipients
We are pleased to announce the projects that we have funded from round two of the Building Strong Communities Fund. This Fund is for equity-led voluntary and community sector organisations to enable London communities to shape their recovery from COVID-19, through community-led projects.
Each of the funded projects will meet at least one of the following outcomes:
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Londoners are supported to shape their communities post COVID-19
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unheard voices are amplified and heard so that communities have influence and control over decisions
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feelings of belonging are increased; loneliness and social isolation are decreased
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feelings of connection within and across communities are increased.
Below you can find out more about the projects funded in round two.
Outcome one
Steel Pan Trust
This project will enable participants to learn to play steel pan online. This is for adult Londoners of all ages and abilities.
Step Up 2 Fitness
Smart cooking workshops, including a walking program that involves recycling and using local greenspace.
Outcome two
Advice Support Knowledge Information (ASKI)
This project will support 80 BAME lone elders who have mental and chronic physical health conditions. Individual support will be provided to enable participants to engage in a range of services that reduce isolation.
Archbishop's Park Community Trust
A gardening club at Archbishop's Park, which supports well-being for vulnerable adults and local residents. This will also provide work experience and training for young adults with learning disabilities who need to find entry level work or vocational training when they leave college.
Carers4Carers Ltd
This project will support 80 carers and their family members from different cultures and faiths with a focus on carers from Caribbean, African and Asian heritage communities. A minimum of 10 social activities will be held in Lambeth and across London to reduce loneliness and social isolation and improve the wellbeing of participants.
Community Centre for Refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
This project supports the older members from the Southeast Asian and wider community based in Hackney (based in Centre 151) and beyond by the provision of physical and healthy activities, community events, administrative support and a befriending service.
Company Drinks CIC
This project will support 500+ local residents of Barking & Dagenham with the provision of 150 days per year of activities in Barking Park and other garden spaces across the borough.
Deaf Unity
This project will benefit 15 individual parents of deaf children and their families (approx. 35 people) and 10 deaf immigrants by the provision of access to British Sign Language classes and a social/learning meet-up programme.
Early Years Cocoon CIC
This project will support 250+ families of young children (under 2s) by the provision of 2 additional monthly playgroup sessions in Barking & Dagenham for over one year.
East India Over 50's Consortium (Consortium50)
This project will provide innovative gardening, creative, social activities and 1-1 support to 25 adults living with mental and/or physical health conditions, experiencing isolation.
Headway West London
This project will build on work to support vulnerable, isolated, traumatic brain injury survivors and their families and care- givers. They will be helped to improve their health and well- being.
Invisible Palace
This project will enable 16 volunteers to get involved in gardening. People of all ages, from a range of backgrounds come together in the heart of Crystal Palace, through a common interest, and improve the local area both for people and wildlife.
London LGBTQ+ Community Centre Limited
This project will offer a holistic trauma-informed programme including meditation, art and crafts healing workshops, free therapy and resources.
Need To Talk
This project will help create a quality service for vulnerable women in the community, whereby their difficulties (domestic violence) have been exacerbated due to COVID-19.
Peer2Peer Education CIC
This project will support 1,200 young people through delivering Mental Health workshops and one-to-one peer mentoring in Barking and Dagenham.
Peninim
This project will support upwards of 40 disabled women to access outdoor and indoor social/leisure spaces through supported trips every other month to parks, shopping centres, museums and other public spaces in London. They will be joined by their non-disabled peers.
SFIDA Kosovan/Albanian/Macedonian and Gorani Group
This project will support ethnic Albanians pan-London, who have experienced domestic violence, human trafficking and modern slavery - to improve their mental and physical wellbeing, as well as become active and inclusive members of society.
Sport4Health Community Interest Company
This project will support the physical and mental health of Older LGBTQ+ People through providing 4 hours per week of structured programmes of sport, exercise and social activities in Wandsworth and Westminster.
Suvai Deaf East Community
This project will bring Deaf BSL users together from all across London to walk and have fun together, increasing the confidence of 300+ Deaf people to get out and enjoy what London has to offer.
The NO Collective
This project is a new Culture Club and dry bar for the LGBTQ+ community in Romford. With a focus on cultural identity and experiences, it will create Romford’s first safe, fun and educational space for people aged 17 - 24 to find solace, embrace their creative passion and to celebrate their identity.
The Sharp End
This project will support 100 older people in economically deprived parts of Hackney to improve their mental and physical wellbeing and to reduce social isolation. Through weekly activities and social events in local accessible venues, participants are able to increase engagement with their local community, whilst remaining healthy and independent for longer.
Ultimate Counselling C.I.C
The project will support 145 asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants by addressing barriers causing loneliness and social isolation through delivery of a befriending service and provision of mental health support in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
Afro-Brazilian Arts and Cultural Exchange Institute
Social Inclusion project for disadvantaged children and young people in Southwark, using martial arts, dances and rhythms as the vehicle to reduce isolation and facilitate their integration in the community.
Avant-Gardening
50 members of the LGBTQ+ community in Greenwich and Lewisham will devise and deliver a community-led and produced variety show for an older generation of LGBTQ+ community.
Family Emotional Wellbeing Project (FEWP) C.I.C.
This project will contribute to improving wellbeing and mental health in the adult Latin American community.
Healthy Minds, Healthy Bods
A unique four week course with a fresh approach to mental health, providing access to a personal trainer for group exercise sessions, building awareness of nutrition and how if affects the body, and an overview on why a healthy lifestyle is so important.
New Vision for Women
This project is to improve the life of new women refugees and asylum seekers who have just arrived in the unknown country to them.
The Association of Redbridge African Caribbean Communities
This Project will support 50 people from the African Caribbean community in Redbridge and surrounding boroughs of East London.
The Music Klub Project CIC
Trading Faces is a project about managing our mental health with music to combat bouts of depression and anxiety.
Whale Song Music Therapy CIC
This project will support 12 siblings of children with a disability to access group music therapy once a week for at least twelve weeks in Waltham Forest.
Outcome three
Arts Bridge Charity
This project will provide arts workshops that strengthens the emotional wellbeing of Black and Asian children from low-income families, empowering them to develop creative self-care practices.
Big Red Bus club
This project will fund a Volunteer Coordinator, to support 25 volunteers a year, who will each volunteer alongside their children to provide a daily free 'Under 5 Stay and Play' session in Charlton.
CSM Foundation (operating as CSM London FC)
This project will support 52 adult males, 75 per cent of whom will be from BAME backgrounds, by delivering football activities twice a week.
Quilombo UK Community Interest Company
This project will support up to 150 young Londoners to access the necessary skills and experience to support their pathway to employability.
RollaDome All Skate Limited
This project will support circa 100 young people aged 9-18 years-old from minority and marginalised groups in Hounslow to: participate in roller sports activities, and, create a digital asset that elevates their voices to reach decision makers and the wider community.
The Romanian and Eastern European Hub
This project will support 120 vulnerable Eastern Europeans with access to health, employment, welfare benefits, housing and education services.
Innovative Vision Organisation
Over 300 people will be supported - women, men, elderly, by provision of organised walks, music, dance and a soup club.
Outcome four
African Development and Advocacy Centre
The project will allow AFRIDAC to provide advocacy training and mentoring for 10 Community Advocates over six months in London.
Brownbaby
This project supports the local community of Trellick Tower - including hundreds of local residents in and around the tower - to lead on celebrating the 50th year of a world famous and highly influential icon of modern urban architecture.
RAaW Foundation
This project will support 50 children and young people, from minoritized communities, aged 12 - 20, by holding weekly workshops and support sessions in Camden, culminating in a spoken word performance and film, platformed on-line.
Asian Community Concern
Asian Community Concern helps the vulnerable women who are suffering from domestic violence and abuse. ACC empowers women to make positive changes to turn their lives around to become independent.