Projects Archive - 10/11
Wychall Farm Family Club
Amount Received £15,000.00
The purpose of this project is to provide positive sports and other activities for young people. From toddlers through to 18 years of age within the Wychall Farm Estate in West Heath and the immediate surrounding residential area.
The project will seek to engender increased community cohesion by engaging with the parents of younger children to support these activities and also the use of structured volunteering and training. The delivery group ‘Wychall Farm Family Club’ are all local volunteers and have been established as a group since 2005 and hold their own ratified constitution and club rules. This will mean that local people will be delivering their own scheme for their own community, acting as positive, accessible role models to create a safer and stronger community. The group was awarded £15,000.
Catch Them Young Fishing Initiative
Amount Received £38,700.00
One of the main targets in relation to the management of young offenders is that of stopping the offending before it starts. The initiative is intended to divert potential offenders away from the factors that are influencing their poor behaviour and encourage them to become responsible and trustworthy members of society through the sport of angling and supervised fishing trips to a local lake in Abbots Bromley, secured purely for this initiative. To assist this group in becoming self sufficient they were awarded £38,700 to help them take forward their fish baiting and fish breeding programmes
Pioneers Leading the Way
Amount Received £12,500.00
By using Role Model Mentors is helps to prevent young people from becoming socially excluded, engaged in criminal or anti-social behaviour. To ensure that all young people are engaged in some form of education, training or employment. The project was awarded £12,500 with a review to be carried out within the next six months.
Young Vibes
Amount Received £10,000.00
This project will teach young people, who are at risk of entering the criminal justice system, how to make money, legally. Young people will work alongside real entrepreneurs, graphic designers and a real clothing company to show young people how to research, design, make, market and sell T-shirts, caps, and hoodies. It will also develop the employability skills of young BME people and their awareness of careers within the West Midlands Police. The group were awarded £10,000.