OVERCOME Project - (older, vulnerable, elderly, resource, community, outreach, motivation and encouragement) (360G-CFNI-A545595)
Funding Organization
£2,500
Recipient Organization
To implement the OVERCOME project during Covid 19, providing phone support lines, online resources, food and supply delivery services to older people living in the Lower Falls area
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Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 2500 |
| Amount Awarded | 2500 |
| Award Date | 2020-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | 95GG21S2 |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Falls_2 |
| Grant Programme: Code | Coronavirus Crisis Fund 2020 - 2 |
| Grant Programme: Title | The Older People's Fund (Previously Turkington Fund) |
| Impact Category | Promote reduction of isolation and disadvantage and access to local services |
| Last Modified | 2020-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 5 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2020-09-24T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2020-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary age group | Seniors (65+) |
| Primary beneficiary | Older People |
| Primary ethnicity | White |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | NIC101484 |
| Recipient Org: Company Number | NI027831 |
| Recipient Org: Description | The Roden Street Community Development Group, (RSCDG), operate Grosvenor Community and Recreation Centre as a multi purpose community capacity hub. The organisation aims to improve quality of life socially, economically, culturally and to turn the tide of disadvantage in the area and contribute to advancement of Belfast society. RSCDG sustain leasehold and managerial responsibility of Grosvenor Community Centre as a multi- purpose arena housing a 3g playing field, community wellness zone, main halls, training rooms, community garden and family support spaces. Services include, Childcare, Youth Development, Family Support, Group and Individual Capacity Building, health promotion and environmental projects. Grosvenor Community Centre is a hub of good relations and inclusivity through direct services supporting minority ethnic community members from the Belfast area, multi-cultural activity provision and cross community development projects. Grosvenor Community Centre is located in and managed by a community which is dealing with a legacy of conflict and historical disadvantage, the organisation provides services which are reflective of need and open to change to meet contemporary challenges. The organisation supports the age ranges of 0 to no upper limit and covers areas of work from older and younger persons health programmes, cultural inclusion and knowledge through to community sports and childcare. The centre is located on the Grosvenor Road, an urban, interface community located beside the Westlink motorway. The organisation works to challenge issues associated to physical environment, such as air quality, housing stock and estate design, as well as the connectivity of the community to the City core and to the wider region. The organisation continued to manage Grosvenor Community Centre, 3G Playing field at Grosvenor, garden and allotment site, playpark and grounds representing a direct provider of community management. Assistance was provided to other service delivery and programme focused groups in the period related to following similar operational procedures, including citation in Developing Trust NI guidance as ‘a model of good practice’. Organisations worked with in the period related to sharing of good practice of community management, included, Plough Men’s Shed, RB Community Group, Willowbank, Fire Blades, Pinoy Community Association and Spa Club. Grosvenor Community Centre assist groups with a shared ethos related to community development, with submissions and strategic visioning documents including business case compilation, grant submission, reporting and operational provision. The organisation recognise the scale of facilities at the site and are committed to ensuring the entire facility can be maximised in usage, diversity and impact terms. It can be a hard to meet the operational opening needs of Grosvenor Community Centre (related to 7 day opening, week nights, levels of health and safety and cleanliness), due to a small staffing team. The organisation overcomes this to some extent via a strong volunteer programme reliance and a flexible staff unit who realise that provision of the facility and programmes, for the benefit of the community, must mean flexibility in job roles and attitudinal approach. RSCDG offer links to apprenticeship schemes in an effort to generate employment of those who are NEET. The organisation through 2019 has sought to sustain professionalism but not to the detriment of local access. Grosvenor Community Centre has continued to be a dual vehicle of professional community management matched with an accessible, flexible, diverse and welcoming facility. Grosvenor Community Centre will never lose sight of the bedrock of the organisation, the community. OBA Approach has and will continue to be a founding feature of organisation work, in period RSCDG undertook outreach related to walkarounds, door to doors and home visits for individual/family problems. As well as in-depth research within individual projects including out of school hours, Grosvenor learning together and Summer School. This has begun to generate a body of work which indicates key area issues and the changes needed within the organisation as an evolutionary unit to meet such changes. This has also indicated a need to alter orgnanisational approach in terms of staffing levels to enable programme leaders to not have as a high a responsibility for facilities whilst also running a programme. The addition of other part time roles related to core opening responsibilities, (such as domestic duties and room risk assessment), is now deemed essential moving into 2020 based on the growth of programmes in number, hours and participants and the associated growth in responsibility for monitoring. We will make this an output for 2020 and 2021. In wider area terms the key issues in order are housing, environmental concerns such as parking, weeds, vandalism, infrastructure concerns, area design, fears over increased needle finds, lighting, road safety, mental and physical health. Obviously influencing community change and redressing years of deprivation necessitates a long-term focus and a strongly held vision of what the future could be. However, small steps, which are well measured and open to change, can combine to make long term attitudinal change. Grosvenor Community Centre visions the Grosvenor area as a vibrant place to live, work and visit where future generations have the means and access to higher level aspirations. The area still faces substantial deprivation; however, measurable impact has been achieved on figures in Falls 1 specifically related to significantly lower levels of crime and improved academic results. Measuring on a street to street and family to family basis has shown positive progress particularly in the Grosvenor, Roden Street and Distillery Street areas, Falls 1 is now 41 MDM (as oppose to 2). |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://www.grosvenorcommunitycentre.co.uk |