Youth Charter Birmingham Community Campus

The Birmingham Community Campus project is now being delivered in partnership with Sport Birmingham over the next 3 years with the support of Sport England.

The project will bring together facility providers and stakeholder partners. It will train Social Coaches to deliver Youthwise Projects (Sport, Art, Culture and Digital) with young people and their communities. For more information about the community campus model click here

Youth Charter would like to invite you join this exciting project by completing the following Engagement Steps:

• Sign Up to the Community Campus Portal
• Stakeholder Expression of Interest
• Stakeholder Safeguarding Declaration

Youth Charter can then arrange an introductory meeting as part of the Stakeholder Partner Consultation.

Birmingham's Place Partnerships: Growing Stronger Together

Back in 2016, Sport England recognised that they needed to better understand how working with places could address the stubborn inequalities that exist among the least active; they invited communities from all over England to test a new way of working by becoming one of 12 ‘local delivery pilots’. Birmingham and Solihull became one of these initial local delivery pilot areas.

Roll forward 8 years or so, Sport England announced 53 new places they’re expanding place work into (alongside the 12 existing Place Partnerships), to address regional inequalities in activity levels across England. Following this announcement, Birmingham’s Place Partnership (Sport Birmingham, Street Games UK, Birmingham City Council, and The Active Wellbeing Society) invited a broad range of partners and local sport and physical activity delivery organisations to come together in January at the Alexander Stadium to discuss the impact of place-based working, and to consult stakeholders around the future design and delivery of support and provision locally.

Later on in February, Birmingham partners held another consultation event convening over 30 National Governing Bodies and System Partners, providing an opportunity to network and to discuss the learning from the local delivery pilots and Active Birmingham.  For the full article click here.

Funding and Training Update

New Funding Search Tool Out Now!
BVSC Members are offered free access to a user-friendly funding search tool that will enable them to see for themselves what external funding is available. For more information click here.

Sport England Movement Fund
If your organisation and project are eligible for funding, and your project aligns with Sport England's goals, you could receive up to £15,000. The scheme provides funding as either a contribution to a crowdfunding campaign or as a grant.
For more information and guidance and to apply click here.

Fairer Futures Fund and the Neighbourhood Network Scheme
Grants of up to £15,000 per year are available to innovative, new or additional services to address long-standing health and wellbeing inequalities. Before submitting an application for this fund, it is essential that applicants connect with their Neighbourhood Network Scheme (NNS) lead. For more information, eligibility criteria and to apply click here.

Meet the Funder Events
Get Grants are holding a series of Meet the Funder events, which allow fundraisers to connect with funders and find out more about their programmes. For more information click here.

Buddle
Buddle have a fantastic range of free online training workshops for sport and physical activity clubs and organisations. Topics covered include community engagement, social media promotion and financial and legal matters.
Check out their full range here.