Birmingham Community Matters (360G-HeartofEnglandCF-A442105)

Grant to Birmingham Community Matters

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Grant Details

Amount Applied For 2335
Amount Awarded 2000
Award Date 2017-04-20T00:00:00+00:00
Beneficiary Location: Country Code GB
Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code E01008952
Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type LSOA
Beneficiary Location: Name Birmingham 112B
Grant Programme: Code 2017
Grant Programme: Title Sport Relief Community Cash 2016
Impact Category Maximise ability to strengthen community cohesion and build social capacity
Last Modified 2018-04-30T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Duration (months) 5
Planned Dates: End Date 2018-04-30T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2017-11-01T00:00:00+00:00
Primary age group All Ages
Primary beneficiary Local residents
Primary ethnicity All Ethnicities
Primary issue Stronger communities/Community support and development
Recipient Org: Description Birmingham Community Matters’s aims are: • Provide micro community organisations with face-to-face support to enable them to be more effective in their communities. • Inspire and support individuals and unincorporated groups to get from ideas to action. • Encourage social change by empowering communities to take positive action to help themselves. • Support and develop those volunteers who offer to provide support to others (the surgeons). • Build a face to face and virtual Birmingham wide network of citizens active in their community. We seek to achieve these aims currently through delivering of local surgeries. “Surgeries” are drop-in events held in familiar, informal venues where anyone with an idea to improve their community can come and have a chat. Surgeries are held regularly around the city in locally accessible venues alongside other community activities. Volunteer “surgeons” – people with experience of running voluntary organisations – offer 2 hours of their time at a BCM Surgery. The “surgery” is facilitated by a Surgery Manager who meets and greets attendees and pairs them up with the surgeons based on the questions they need answers to. The aim is for the “surgeon” and “patient” to be in a dialogue and a shared search for information – not for someone to ask a question and an “expert” to provide the answer. So far the questions asked at surgeries have included: ● Do we need a constitution and what is it? What governance structure is right for us? ● Where do we raise money? Should we take on our community building? ● How do we organise ourselves? How do we link in with similar organisations? Currently, due to limited volunteer capacity, no support is available outside of the surgery but “patients” are welcome to return to future surgeries to develop their ideas further.
Recipient Org: Web Address http://www.birminghamcommunitymatters.org.uk