It is great to see so many of you at our virtual Coffee Mornings and Tea Tmes. If you have not been to one then we woud love to welcome you to join us. They will be run every two weeks.
Celebrating Communities Fund for Commonwealth Games
Residents and community groups now have the chance to apply for money from a £2million fund to help people in all 69 of the city’s wards feel involved with the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The Celebrating Communities Small Grants Scheme has been assembled by Birmingham City Council to maximise the benefit and legacy of being the Proud Host City for the games.
Grants will be available to run initiatives which deliver against one of three themes:
Get Active – encouraging communities to get out and get active by participating in sports and recreational activities.
Ready, Steady, Fun – delivering community projects to ensure a local area is Games ready
Celebrating Culture – developing community-led cultural events and initiatives that encourage intergenerational activities.
The deadline for Round One applications is 1 June 2021. Ward Forums and community voting will then take place to select the successful bids between July and September, with projects then commencing in October.
An application process for Round Two will then get underway with projects being selected and going live in early 2022.
Naturally Birmingham are happy to announce thier Future Parks Accelerator Update for February. This has been a busy month for the team preparing for the Mid-Point Review, they have summarised progress in the programme so far and outline the plan for delivery in the future – there has been a huge effort from everyone to assemble all the required paperwork, ready for the review panel later this month.
The deadline for the Earth Stories Grant has been extended for organisations that would be interested in helping them collect stories from residents from underrepresented areas of our community. The new deadline for return of the expression of interest form is the 12th March, and stories need to be with us by the 4th May.
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