Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - ENGAGING DUNDEE AFRICAN FAMILIES IN GARDENING AND VOLUNTEERING ACTIVITIES |
£10,000 |
08/08/2018
|
The additional funding will help us to consolidate the success we have made with the African women and also help us scale up the project to involve African men and their young people. This project
....more
The additional funding will help us to consolidate the success we have made with the African women and also help us scale up the project to involve African men and their young people. This project will increase the number of beneficiaries from just women to focusing on the entire African families who are lonely and isolated to help them get involved in community work through gardening activities and volunteering. The funding will help us increase the hours for the sessional worker from 12 hours per week to 20 hours per week which will enable the worker to create 3 project delivery groups: a group for young people, men and women; recruit an additional 9 volunteers to help with the project delivery and deliver 12 training and awareness sessions for young people, men and women for 12 months. The sessional worker will bring in new specialists from garden specialists, welfare specialists, employability/volunteering specialists and welfare people to help the African people in Dundee to overcome the negatives as a result of welfare reforms. The sessions will be attended by 10 men, 10 young people and 15 women monthly. The sessional worker will also invite gardening specialists to help the 35 people with weekly gardening activities. The sessional worker will also organise and coordinate outreach work involving 5 women going out in the community to recruit that hard to reach and isolated African families in Dundee to get involved in the project. The sessional worker will have more time to help the women, men and young people build support networks that will help them cope with the negative outcomes of welfare reforms. By supporting the whole African families in Dundee to overcome their loneliness and isolation through the gardening activities, community outreach, training sessions and awareness sessions, community events and volunteering will help such families to integrate easily in the society.
|
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - ENGAGING DUNDEE AFRICAN WOMEN IN GARDENING ACTIVITIES |
£5,000 |
10/11/2017
|
From pilot project delivered by STRIDE, it is very apparent that African women suffer from a myriad of social problems. The main problems encountered by African women in Dundee city are: • Through
....more
From pilot project delivered by STRIDE, it is very apparent that African women suffer from a myriad of social problems. The main problems encountered by African women in Dundee city are: • Through funding from Voluntary Action Fund (VAF) Social Isolation and Loneliness Funds (SIALF) we reached out to more than 100 African families in Dundee through community events, outreach work and a variety of indoor activities. • Feedback from the participants indicated that African women were very much lonely and socially isolated as a result of child-caring responsibilities, no recourse to public funds due to their immigration status, poor communication skills due to lack of English language, very poor networks of friends due to lack of a common community project that could bring such women together. • There is a problem of high levels social isolation and loneliness among African women and their families living in some of the most deprived neighborhoods of Dundee city and nearby towns. • Their social isolation and loneliness is made worse for lack of an African led community project and the welfare reforms that are impacting negatively to such families. In response to the demand from African people especially women for STRIDE to set up a community project that can bring them together, we have recently acquired an allotment at the Dundee Law Hill. The allotment is managed by Kinnaird Gardens Association located at Committee Hut, Kinghorn Road, (at the west end of allotments) in Dundee. • We would like to set up a volunteering project aimed at bringing together African women and their families in gardening activities to improve their health, reduce social isolation and loneliness amongst such women and their families. • We will recruit a sessional worker with some gardening skills working 12 hours per week for 9 months to coordinate and bring together 10 African women and their families in Dundee City to engage in gardening activities aimed at encouraging them into volunteering. • We will recruit the sessional worker from some of our volunteers who have been doing some gardening, and they have skills on how to do gardening. • We will also recruit an occasional gardening professional to come and deliver 8 gardening sessions to the participating African women, their families and other volunteers. • The sessional worker will train the 10 African women on the basic skills of gardening helping them to understand the crops, vegetables, and fruits that they can grow in the Scottish weather. The sessional worker will organise 18 gardening sessions (which will be busy during the summer time). The women will engage in weekly gardening sessions. During winter time in the month of December to March, the sessional worker will be busy recruiting the African women to be involved in the project through church groups, ethnic minority organisations and by relying on our STRIDE members to reach out to the hard to reach families to get involved in the project. The sessional worker will publicise the project widely to community centres in Dundee, GP surgeries, mum groups, African women groups and any other gathering where African women can be reached. We will put posters in the local shops and supermarket to reach out to many women. • We will use the funds to buy seeds and gardening inputs. • We will also use the funds to buy gardening tools and equipment. • By bringing together African women living in Dundee area to engage in volunteering through gardening activities will help them and their families learn how to grow food, it will help the women to get out and connect hence reducing levels of social isolation and loneliness. • This project will also help African families to easily talk to other families at the allotments hence helping to increase community integration. • Gardening is a very good starting point to engage lonely and isolated African women into volunteering. • By the women growing some vegetables at the allotment will help to supplement their nutritional needs of their families. With the welfare reforms now affecting many vulnerable people, some families cannot afford to buy fresh vegetables for their families. By growing their own greens and fresh vegetables in the allotment, it will help the women to make savings. • The allotment will also enable women who are lonely and isolated in their own homes due to lack of support with childcare will be able to come out and meet other women at the allotments and share parenting skills. The welfare reforms have resulted in reduced support for families with children forcing the women to stay home and look after children exacerbating their loneliness and social isolation. • By the women engaging in the gardening activities, they will meet other women and learn from them about volunteering opportunities, further education, and job opportunities to help them improve their lives. • The women who participate in this project will be motivated to start small gardening projects in their back gardens as a source of food and earning extra income.
|
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Stride |
£10,000 |
28/08/2017
|
Researching, documenting and sharing the heritage of black history in Scotland
|
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - TRANSFORMING THE LIVES OF ETHNIC MINORITY WOMEN IN DUNDEE CITY THROUGH VOLUNTEERING |
£6,500 |
02/12/2016
|
Our project is aimed at ethnic minority women living in the most deprived areas of Dundee city such as Hiltown, Lochee, Kirkton who have been adversely affected by the welfare reforms such as the
....more
Our project is aimed at ethnic minority women living in the most deprived areas of Dundee city such as Hiltown, Lochee, Kirkton who have been adversely affected by the welfare reforms such as the sanctions from the job centre plus. Our project is aimed at ethnic minority women with young children and not in employment due to child care responsibilities. This project is also focused on ethnic minority women with no recourse to public funds due to their immigration status. Most ethnic minority women this project will target to work with are people who have come to the UK as asylum seekers, refugees or spouses joining their husbands coming to study in the UK. Such women lack proper skills and training to get employment within the Scottish economy. Furthermore, due to the welfare reforms such women have been denied access to child benefit, employment support allowance and house benefits. Such women and their children have endured negative outcomes with their children not having enough food to eat, some women cannot afford childcare hence they are isolated, lonely and locked in their houses with no social networks and support. The outcome to some women has been very negative with some women developing mental health problems. We would like to recruit a Sessional Worker to bring together 10 ethnic minority women affected by the welfare reforms to help them to develop their skills through volunteering and groups support sessions. The Sessional Worker will recruit 5 volunteers to help deliver the networking and volunteering sessions for the women. The sessional worker will also organise merry go around child care sessions which will enable ethnic minority women to go out and meet other people, engage in volunteering and socialise. This is an innovative project as it will help such women overcome loneliness and isolation.
|
National Lottery Community Fund - Engaging African Communities to Lead More Active Life Styles |
£10,000 |
03/09/2015
12 |
This group seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of African people living in Tayside, Angus and Fife. The funding will be used to lead a community consultation project aimed at identifying
....more
This group seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of African people living in Tayside, Angus and Fife. The funding will be used to lead a community consultation project aimed at identifying interventions to promote outdoor physical activities among African people of all ages living in Dundee and Angus.
|
National Lottery Community Fund - VOLUNTEER ROLE MODELS |
£10,000 |
03/12/2014
12 |
Not Available
|
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Stride |
£10,000 |
28/07/2014
|
Keeping African heritage alive in Scotland
|
National Lottery Community Fund - Commonwealth awareness among African Families |
£10,000 |
14/02/2014
12 |
The project will run 12 community events over a year across Fife, Angus and Dundee. To deliver these events 10 volunteer ‘role models’ will be recruited from target communities and trained.
....more
The project will run 12 community events over a year across Fife, Angus and Dundee. To deliver these events 10 volunteer ‘role models’ will be recruited from target communities and trained. The events will incorporate learning about the Commonwealth, outdoor activities, sports sessions and presentations from local sporting heroes. A larger community event will then be held in Dundee everyone together with other stakeholders in t raise awareness and celebrate the Commonwealth spirit and Games 2014._x000B_
|