Partners

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT) provides a comprehensive mental health care service for residents of Birmingham and Solihull and to communities in the West Midlands and beyond. We serve a culturally and socially-diverse population of 1.2 million spread over 172 square miles.

We work hard to support and improve the mental health of people across our patch through a range of locally based inpatient and community services. We have developed close links with partners from education, local authorities and voluntary organisations and work in partnership to provide integrated health and social care – a very real benefit for our service users.

For more information about BSMHFT or to become a member, please visit www.bsmhft.nhs.uk.

The Jericho Foundation

The Jericho Foundation Charity began in 1993 based at Edward Road Baptist Church providing advice and guidance and help with finding employment for prostitutes, the long-term unemployed and other disadvantaged people in Balsall Heath.

Many of Jericho’s clients had never had a normal job so in 1998 Jericho purchased its current premises and set up a social enterprise to enable clients to learn work related skills and develop a real work history whilst also undertaking a programme of personal development and training.

Today we run 5 successful businesses providing jobs, training and work experience for our clients in the areas of construction, landscaping and grounds maintenance, printing, catering and cleaning. We also deliver a broad range of employment and training contracts for public sector funders and provide mentoring and specialist business support to new and emerging social enterprises.

For more information about Jericho, please visit www.jcp.org.uk.

Local Leagues Ltd

Local Leagues Ltd is a voluntary (not-for-profit) organisation whose aim is to provide people from inner city areas of Birmingham with interesting, exciting, supervised, structured and sustained physical activities that take place within walking distance of their homes. To this aim, Local Leagues pro-actively works to train coaches from the local communities to play an integral part in the delivery of this concept. We aim to create a coherent sports, leisure and recreation strategy for young people and provide constructive environments in which they can develop social and personal skills.

Local Leagues has been instrumental in raising the profile of sport and the social benefits sport has to offer in developing cohesive communities. Local Leagues works towards the ethos of “Sport For All” in the belief that this will create more harmonious and unified communities and our ideology has developed from a successful pilot project called “Sport in the Community” in which Undergraduate students from Birmingham’s three universities volunteer their leisure time to assist school P.E. coordinators and provide extracurricular sports coaching and elementary skills training.

For more information about Local Leagues, please visit www.localleagues.com.

Riverside Church

Riverside Church has been actively involved in reaching out to communities across Birmingham since it began in 1984. The church attracts people from a wide range of backgrounds and walks of life, many from Moseley, Kings Heath, Stirchley, Selly Park and other surrounding neighbourhoods, but also from across Birmingham.

Riverside currently engages with local people through many diverse activities such as youth groups, stay & play groups, drama workshops, its own theatre company and sports ministries. Riverside also birthed its own football club in 2003, Real Riverside FC and the team is one of many who have used the facilities at Holders Lane in the past and are keen to see the site redeveloped.

One of our charitable aims is to provide leisure, recreational and other community facilities with the object of improving the conditions of life for those living in the communities for which such facilities are provided, thereby demonstrating Christian concern for the welfare of the whole person.

For more information about Riverside Church, please visit www.riverside-church.org.uk.