Bath And North East Somerset

Bristol City

People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Economic/community Development/employment

The funding will be used by a charity to run activities that will support and engage young people who are at risk of the effects of anti-social behaviour. The project aims to build community relationships and empower those taking part.

The National Lottery Community Fund

Creating Aspiration For Youth Attitude Change

The organisation will recruit and train community change actors to address the issues linked to the lack of vaccine take up within the BAME community providing them with the tools to hold discussions and raise awareness.

BAMEs COVID-19 MYTHS & TRUTHS

The funding will be used to create a support directory and network for people from ethnic backgrounds. The project aims to provide access to help and support.

Creating Aspirations for Empowerment

This new two-year project will deliver a series of topical monthly workshops on a range of issues such as education, employment, health, crime and the environment, which will take place in community centres across Bristol. The workshops will take a round table format and aim to enhance community well-being, increase mental agility and combat loneliness among Black and Minority Ethnic elders in the Ashley, Easton and Lawrence Hill areas of Bristol. Participants’ views during sessions will be recorded, summarised and disseminated and a core group of 15 volunteers will manage the project.

People's Health Trust

The Kitchen Table Conference on Well-being

This two-year project organises monthly discussion workshops and seminars for younger and older people from Black and Minoritized Ethnic communities living in Ashley Wards, Bristol. There are discussions on the long term effects of Covid-19 on their lives, families, friends and the impact on sociability, togetherness, worries, and fear and other topics such as cooking and healthcare. The project aims to create awareness, dispel fears, social/Covid-19 myths, mistrust, and virtual/online conspiracies in addition to bringing the community together and improving social connections and community cohesion. A group of participants form a Project Management Team and deliver the project with support from the organisation.

Moving Forward After Crisis COVID-19 Pandemic

This is a project by a charity in Bristol. The group will use the funding to engage, train and support 12 local people to be neighbourhood champions and 15 local disadvantaged people to be community connectors with the result being a local support network. The project aims to create more active citizens working together to tackle their problems and to improve community cohesion._x000B_

Connect Up Disconnected People

This is a project by a group in Bristol. They will use the funding to stage a question and answer event on local issues involving a multi-cultural audience and panel. This will provide knowledgeable answers to inform the community about local issues, which will then be used to create a reference book of community ideas and suggestions for use by local organisations.

Community Question Time

"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."