VENTURE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 

Grant to Venture Community Association (PU)

Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10040059

Venture ArCH Programme

Hardship Fund

Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10009397

COVID19 related funding. The project is about supporting the mental health and wellbeing of BAME Women from Somali, north Africa and other African countries. Some of whom have had issues with the ....more

COVID19 related funding. The project is about supporting the mental health and wellbeing of BAME Women from Somali, north Africa and other African countries. Some of whom have had issues with the criminal justice system. The women we seek to support are marginalised even within BAME communities and suffer multiple issues of deprivation, poverty and isolation which severely impact on their ability to take of themselves, their children and families and lead healthy and normal lives. Women we have worked with also suffer significant substance abuse and self - harm. They are literally living on the edge. In terms of women offenders, a recent report by Revolving Doors found that 60% of women offenders had experience domestic violence and the same proportion had drug and alcohol problems. Somali women for example are often isolated because of language issues are not only isolated because of this but are often left alone trying to manage their children and have no one to turn to. This often leads to all sorts of problems including increased poverty and problems with the criminal justice system for their children involved in gang problems, which sometimes has led to tragic outcomes resulting in immense stress for mothers of these children. PAN has over the years been involved in supporting these women in collaboration with local Somali organisations. Project Activities 1) We will run 6 weekly online sessions for 6 times over the year. (36 weeks over a year) to commence from April 2021, 2) Lockdown restrictions permitting we will make provision for face-to-face physical support. (because some of our service users are more comfortable and engage better with this approach), 3) Each weekly cycle we will provide information booklet on maintaining a good mental health wellbeing regime including healthy eating, physical exercise, support services contacts, 4) We will maintain regular contact and engage them with any other relevant activities that the project develops, 5) We aim to reach 120 women in total, 6) We will also engage with other key partners who can offer support, including. Specialist mental health services, local authority, VCS organisations. The sessions will involve one to one therapy, exercise, presentation, and discussion on topics that will educate and bring awareness, address issues of stigmatisation, help them open up, connect to other women and support that maybe available to them. Outcomes 1) Improved mental health and physical wellbeing, 2) Reduced isolation, 3) Improved connectivity with others and support networks, 4) Improved Confidence and self- esteem, 5) Improved self-care, 6) Improved outcomes for children and families. The project is therefore really important in addressing some of the needs of BAME women described

Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports

towards the organisational development costs as outlined in your application

The funding will support 12 weeks distribution of food to those families most in need. It will fund staff costs, van and delivery costs and volunteer expenses. With this money we will distribute 100 ....more

The funding will support 12 weeks distribution of food to those families most in need. It will fund staff costs, van and delivery costs and volunteer expenses. With this money we will distribute 100 tonnes of food to over 1200 households through our food-bank (also avoiding food waste).

towards additional play worker salaries, new family play sessions and enhanced opening hours at the Notting Hill Adventure Playground holiday play service, to support the organisation's response to ....more

towards additional play worker salaries, new family play sessions and enhanced opening hours at the Notting Hill Adventure Playground holiday play service, to support the organisation's response to the Grenfell Tower fire

We will deliver a fantastic holiday programme for children from low income and disadvantaged backgrounds. Children will play, learn life skills and experience magical trips.

This is a project by a project by a voluntary organisation in Kensington. The group will use the funding to deliver a series of community events and excursions that will focus on isolated and hard to ....more

This is a project by a project by a voluntary organisation in Kensington. The group will use the funding to deliver a series of community events and excursions that will focus on isolated and hard to reach people who reside in the area. This will improve community cohesion and participation for people taking part in the project.

the salary costs of the Centre Manager