Grant to Bilston People's Centre (360G-HeartofEnglandCF-A457064)
Funding Organization
£5,000
Recipient Organization
This project is based in Bilston, Wolverhampton and provides numerous activities with the aim of improving lives in the local community. They are requesting £5,000 to carry out an impact measurement review and evaluation to identify any gaps in need.
Where is this data from?
This data was originally published by Heart of England Community Foundation. If you see something about your organisation or the funding it has received on this page that doesn't look right you can submit a grantee amendment request. You can hover over codes from standard codelists to see the user-friendly name provided by 360Giving.
Grant Details
| Amount Applied For | 5000 |
| Amount Awarded | 5000 |
| Award Date | 2017-11-02T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Beneficiary Location: Country Code | GB |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code | E01010450 |
| Beneficiary Location: Geographic Code Type | LSOA |
| Beneficiary Location: Name | Wolverhampton 029B |
| Grant Programme: Code | October 2017 |
| Grant Programme: Title | Comic Relief Core Strength BBCC |
| Last Modified | 2018-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Duration (months) | 12 |
| Planned Dates: End Date | 2019-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Planned Dates: Start Date | 2018-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 |
| Primary age group | All Ages |
| Primary beneficiary | Local residents |
| Primary ethnicity | All Ethnicities |
| Primary issue | Social inclusion and fairness |
| Recipient Org: Charity Number | 1165204 |
| Recipient Org: Description | Bilston People's Centre is a recently established community centre set up by Excel Church that is dedicated to delivering social action projects and activities that help to better the lives of people in our local community. Our mission is to: - be a focal point and safe space for the whole community of Bilston; - cater to all ages, faiths and cultures; and - promote and facilitate inclusive activities that seek to meet the needs of local residents. To this end, our current projects include: - a weekly community/soup kitchen (a free hot lunch and a friendly chat for anyone living in the local community with food parcels and hygiene packs provided to those in situations of hardship) - a weekly job search and welfare advice drop-in - a weekly over 60's lunch club and bi-monthly craft and coffee morning - a weekly stay and play group - a bi-monthly youth club External providers also use our facilities to host activities free of charge for the local community. These include a weekly craft class and chair exercise class run by Kaleidoscope and a monthly dementia cafe run by the Alzheimer's Society. The Brittle Bone Society also use our facilities every 2 months to hold a support group for local families. We also make our facilities available to local organisations and groups to hire in order to deliver training, workshops and other community events such as jobs fairs. |
| Recipient Org: Web Address | http://www.bilstonpeoplescentre.org.uk |