'Reporting on your Celebrating Communities project' is open to any group across Birmingham that was successful in receiving a Celebrating Communities grant in Round 1 & 2.

This session is particularly useful for groups who are new to running funded projects.

If your community organisation has been successful in securing Celebrating Communities grant funding to be part of the Commonwealth Games Festival: congratulations!

During the session, we will:

• work through the monitoring form that you will be asked to complete about your project.
• explain the meaning of outputs, expenditure, outcomes and case study
• suggest ideas for how you might collect information about who takes part on your project, reporting on what you spend, and the outcomes or positive change created by your event or activity.

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Other sessions that BCM & Locality are currently running to support groups who have been funded by Celebrating Communities are:

• "Running your community activity - a checklist" Click here to view and book your place
• "Completing your 'COGA' form " Click here to view and book your place "
• "Use of parks and green spaces for your project " Click here to view and book your place

We will be updating the Celebrating Communities pages on our website to include short videos, printable checklists, useful templates and sources of information on:

• Keeping people safe - this will cover completion of risk assessments, safeguarding, food hygiene, health and safety considerations, insurance.
• Involving volunteers in your community event - this will cover how to get people involved, communicate, and manage people that might be involved in your event.

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About Celebrating Communities

Birmingham City Council has awarded £2m of grant funding for Birmingham community and voluntary groups to celebrate the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games - through cultural events, sports and recreational activities, street parties, picnics and other community events.

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About your hosts

Birmingham Community Matters (BCM) helps people to start and run small voluntary or community organisations. We do this through our 'peer to peer network', by bringing people together to share their knowledge and experience.

Our motto is: 'Everyone has something to learn and everyone has something to teach'.

Locality is the national membership network supporting local community organisations to be strong and successful. Our member network of over 1200 organisations across England creates the services their community needs most in spaces where everyone belongs.

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Birmingham Community Matters and Locality are pleased to be working with Birmingham City Council’s Neighbourhood Development Support Unit to offer this Celebrating Communities grant applicant support.

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If you cannot make this session, we have more dates available. Please see our full events list for alternative time slots.

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We will send you a Zoom link to access the meeting on the day of the session.

If after registering for the event you find that you cannot attend, please email ccsupport@birminghamcommunitymatters.org.uk and let us know. This will allow us to allocate your place to someone else. Many thanks!

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For more information visit:

www.birminghamcommunitymatters.org.uk/cc

www.birmingham.gov.uk/celebratingcommunities