Caia Park Partnership has received funding to facilitate an on-going conversation with local people in Caia Park.
Community Focus offers:
The Local Conversation
Be part of the “local conversation” , come and have a chat and make change happen in your community.
Through supporting and recruiting volunteers and administering a small grant fund for new and existing groups in Caia Park, Community Focus aims to identify and build on community assets and capabilities.
Support Groups
The Community Focus Development Worker can:
- Offer effective capacity building support to community groups to enhanced community activity within Caia Park.
- Work with the community to plan for change and take collective action too address issues identified.
- Support, empower and enable the community to have genuine control over the development and implementation of new ideas in their area.
- Offer support to access a small grants fund.
- Provide training and support to ensure the growth and development of existing and new community groups
Volunteering
A few hours of your time on a regular basis not only helps to improve your community but gives you the opportunity to develop personal skills, self confidence and gain experience in different areas of work.
The Community Focus Development Worker can:
- Identify volunteering opportunities
- Recruit volunteers and ensure they are appropriately matched to volunteering opportunities.
- Ensure Volunteers are supported within their volunteering roles.
- Support volunteers to access training and develop new skills.
If you attend a community group, would like to set up a community group or would like to become a volunteer, please contact Tracey Byrne on 01978 310984 or email Tracey.byrne@caiapark.org
Community Focus is funded by the People’s Health Trust which is an independent charity addressing health inequalities by investing in local organisations with great ideas to create fairer places to grow, live, work and age. It works closely with each of the 51 society lotteries and make grants using money raised by the society lotteries through the Health Lottery.
