Projects Funded South Leeds Health For All Leeds, Yorkshire & The Humber
Activity SLHFA project works with partners such as Joseph Priestly College, the Health Authority and the EU-funded Aspire Project to deliver training and courses on both a health awareness and learning basis, these include: Diet and Healthy Living, Yoga, Breast and Cervical Cancer Awareness, ESOL, ICT for Beginners and British Sign Language, amongst many others. In addition, SLHFA provides support and coordination to the community groups which serve the Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Indian, gypsy and traveller, asylum seeker and refugee communities. To assist the groups in reaching selfsufficiency and sustainability, it provides support on matters such as organisational development, project and funding application development, and project management.
Grant 2006–2009 £118,235
Stepney Community Trust London, E1
SCT operates a range of ICT training and related services from a community centre in Stepney. CC+ has enabled the organisation to develop its training arm and provision, and employment-related activities to all ethnic groups in an area of high BME residents. It has also provided ESOL certificate courses to enable greater employability within the community.
£120,837
Steps to Work Walsall, West Midlands
The project provides IAG, training leading to qualifications, upskilling, employment opportunities and brokerage to the unemployed and low skilled from Wolverhampton and Walsall’s most deprived communities. The project targets BME communities.
£158,306
Stockport Women’s Aid Ltd Stockport, North West
CC+ funds a BME worker at this established women’s refuge to provide specialist emotional and practical support to women from BME communities who have, or who are, suffering from domestic violence. It also funds a children’s outreach worker for children exposed to domestic violence and who need support in learning about its consequences. In addition, SWA supports other key service providers in learning how to set boundaries, and talk about and unpack the issues involved in domestic violence, so that they might better support their own clients.
£156,428
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