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What is Community First?

Community First is an England-wide programme, funded by the Office for Civil Society, on behalf of the Government. It will run for four years, until March 2015. Two funds of money, worth £80 million, have been created to help communities come together, become more resilient, and make their local area a better place to live.

Neighbourhood Match Fund:

A £30 million fund to encourage people to give time and expertise to local projects. The funds will be distributed to 600 areas across England, which have been selected by CDF according to several criteria.

Community First Panels:

Each of the 600 areas will have their own panel, comprised of local people to represent their community. They will be involved in creating a plan for the local area, raising awareness of the funds, and planning how they will match and spend the money.

 What does this mean for you?

Tyburn has been selected as one of the 600 areas to receive Community First funding. Tyburn includes Birches Green, Pype Hayes, Castle Vale and Erdington Hall.

A Community First panel has been set up in your area, made up of local people. Their contact details can be found in the panel members section of this website. Get in touch to find out more or get involved.

 

The Community First programme is managed nationally by:

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Successful Applications – Feb 2013

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The panel met in February and considered applications from 8 groups and approved the following projects for funding:
Castle Vale Pool Users Group – replacement of water polo goal nets
North and East Birmingham Phab – contribution towards a trip to the seaside
Castle Vale Youth Council – new branded clothing and development support
234th Birmingham 1st Castle Vale Scout Group – training and membership of leaders and young people in scouting’

Panel meetings

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Tyburn Community First panel met on 4th October 2012 and notes and details of approved projects will be placed on this website shortly.

The panel next meets on 10th December 2012 and applications should be with Becky, Judy or Katie by 3rd December 2012.

Successful applications – May 2012

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The Tyburn Community First panel met at the end of May- the first meeting for the 2012-2013 financial year.

They considered applications from 18 groups and approved the following projects for funding:-

  • Home Start (Castle Vale and Pype Hayes) for a contribution for their family day out at Ash End House farm.
  • Castle Vale CRS – for their young people’s chess club.
  • Tyburn Boxing Club – to assist with their boxing activities with young people.
  • One Love Activity Club – a contribution to the summer activity programme.
  • Sutton Coldfield YMCA – a contribution to their “streetwise” programme for young people.
  • Active arts castle vale – for their Photoclub
  • Callum’s Wish – a contribution towards the Family memorial day for Callum.
  • CVTRA – to fund a Food Safety in Catering training course for volunteers helping in groups.
  • Aquarius- a contribution for the Aquarius service based at the Sanctuary.

The panel will meet again in October and welcomes applications from groups and organisations in Tyburn who wish to undertake activities which fall within the ward priorities.  For any further information, contact Katie Knight or Judy Tullett at CVTRA.

Nick Hurd Visit

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The Community First panel very much enjoyed welcoming Nick Hurd to Tyburn and were able to spend over an hour describing the work of groups and organisations in the Ward looking at some of the community activities. Nick then went to meet staff and volunteers and the local Switch radio station and undertook an impromptu live interview with one of the local presenters. We have had some very positive comments from him and his staff team since.