WHAT IS ‘OFF BEAT’? Off Beat is an 8-week introductory drumming workshop designed to help balance, manage anxiety, gain confidence and feel grounded through group drumming lessons. Each hour-long lesson will be co-led by professional drummers Hayley Cramer (Pop Evil) and Sian Monaghan (The Wandering Hearts, Jessie Buckley, Stick in the Wheel, She Drew the Gun, China Crisis)and trained Read more [...]

Gentle gardening volunteering activities while creating a sensory garden. Targeting over 50’s for guided sessions, and anyone else for general site development.

Proposed Community Workshops & Gardens @ Holme Farm CWG@HF is a multi-facility approach to health, wellbeing and community, and will provide a therapeutic environment in which people within North Surrey can socialise, learn and thrive.  A place for individuals to find support and get involved in activities and programmes, to Read more [...]

iCan has 14 years’ experience as a locally rooted female only fitness, health and wellbeing club, developed and run by women, for women. Increasing women’s abilities to engage in public life through health, fitness and mental wellbeing. Specially designed to engage inactive women from our community transforming attitudes from I Read more [...]

Gateshead Older People’s Assembly works to ensure that all over 50s in our borough have opportunties to improve their physical and mental health and maintain their independence.  We were established in 2002. We create and support opportunities for older people to socialise, exercise, and learn in their communities.  We currently Read more [...]

StarGarAllot is a community gardening project that was set up in Spring 2018 to work together to improve an area behind our local community centre.  We soon realised we needed more space to realise the dreams of the volunteers to grow fruit and vegetables to provide local people with healthy Read more [...]

A community growing space at Victoria allotment site in Woodhouse (Sheffield, S13). Established over 7 years ago, and now a thriving and active growing space. Join us this year as we create many projects using the site to think about health, community, food and recovery. We want to use the Read more [...]

Together for Colwyn bay supports grass-roots community action with a focus on improving wellbeing, and investing in the future. We do this as a collective of residents, working together, sharing our skills and connections, and making decisions on the direction of the project and how project funding is spent. Anyone Read more [...]

The Future Forests Network CIC (FFN) is an ambitious project which connects volunteers with tree planting & rewilding projects throughout the UK. The website contains a comprehensive map of not for profit projects, resources to help new community groups set up and is developing a dedicated schools map and resources Read more [...]

Our tree society would like to spruce up the local football ground with an additional 1000 hedging trees to not only help with local biodiversity but also as a means of managing flood risks, alongside increasing the aesthetics of the area. We have the trees already sourced, but we would Read more [...]

Axewoods is a not-for-profit volunteer organisation that aims are to provide free woodland management to local charities, woodland owners, farmers and other organisations.  We address local fuel poverty by supplying, free of charge, wood fuel to those in need. The Log Bank is an initiative to make dry, seasoned logs Read more [...]

Veterans In Crisis Sunderland (VICs) was set up by it’s founder, Ger Fowler in 2018. He used his own money, had a £10 pay as you go mobile phone and based himself in Greggs within Sunderland City Centre as a very makeshift office. Ger founded VICs as he was diagnosed Read more [...]

GAZ is a small charity that provides services and activities for children and young people in Grimethorpe, Barnsley.   We decide our priorities through looking at research, consultation with the community and from our own knowledge of the area.  The services we currently provide are after school and school holiday activity Read more [...]

GAZ is a small charity that works with children and young people aged 8 – 21 in the community of Grimethorpe, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.  Our aim is to provide free services and activities that help local children and young people overcome the effects of living in a deprived area and Read more [...]

We have a dream. We want to provide one million primary school aged children across the United Kingdom with the means to be able to get outdoors and explore all that the natural world has to offer. Who are we? The Waterproofs & Wellies Project is a charitable scheme championed Read more [...]

Our community group is dedicated to offering a varied and exciting programme of activities that encourage local folk into our park. We are very proud of our legions of volunteers who dedicate their time to support our efforts to look after the park landscape, improve and protect a very rich Read more [...]

The gardens of the community centre are very large and although the gardeners are doing a great job, we wish to expand. We want to relay paths so that these are safe for everyone and to clear some wasteland to create an orchard.  We wish to encourage more members to Read more [...]

Squilometres is an ongoing methodology, rather than a project. Interwoven Productions CIC helps communities to find creative ways to celebrate their own place by training residents themselves in the technique.  In this way, it animates individuals and communities to become agents of their own change in creative, active, collective citizenship.  Read more [...]

We aim to help make Women feel they have something to give, to show them someone does care and together help create a Women’s movement where we can all learn to laugh and grow together. We’ve worked hard to create a Voluntary organisation to engage with Women to become part Read more [...]

The Social  Hermit/Kindness Collective aims to be an umbrella organisation in Newcastle-upon-Tyne/Northeast England. Signposting people to community groups, companies, organisations etc active in (amongst other things) Kindness, Social Change, Combating Loneliness and Isolation. Eventually we (or I at present) hope to start running events.

The Community in Cradley are joining together with Severn Rivers Trust and the Greggs Foundation to clean up the River Stour. Right in the heart of the Black Country this project at Lodge Forge in Cradley and the surrounding area of greenspace. The area is underused by local people because Read more [...]

Energy Garden empowers communities to regenerate London from seed to solar power We support communities across London to turn Overground platforms into biodiverse, productive gardens with solar-powered station amenities. The sale of electricity from our solar portfolio provides funding for all of Energy Garden’s operations and social impact programmes. By Read more [...]