The Allens Croft Project
Key Facts
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Project Criteria
Project funding
£60,464
Funding round
The Allen's Croft project is a Birmingham based community development organisation that works with local people on issues of concern to bring about change. We are a charity set up in 1991.
Our Parenting Fund project will work holistically with local parents in families experiencing disadvantage and isolation, in particular women living with domestic violence, BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) parents including refugees and asylum seekers, and new families to the area. We want to reduce isolation and promote community cohesion. The project will:
- set up a support group for local women who are experiencing, or have experienced, domestic violence. It will provide mutual support and better access to support services
- set up a support/learning group for BME parents with a focus on ESOL and health
- extend our work with parents to provide mentoring and advocacy for individual families
- set up training on parenting skills and positive family relationships (e.g. managing children's behaviour, family learning)
- set up effective referral procedures (with health, social services, housing and education providers)
- meet local needs by collaborating with relevant agencies (both statutory and voluntary sector) to develop multi-disciplinary approaches to parenting services
- support parents to present their families' concerns in local forums
- produce and distribute discreet domestic violence materials
- set up a Reporting Centre to facilitate direct and third party reporting of racial harassment and domestic violence to the West Midlands Police
- produce a practical, user-friendly guide to good practice that could also be used as a tool by other organisations.
Allen's Croft's services are non-judgmental and user-led. In working with generic services locally our aim is for them to become more effective in addressing the challenges that confront disadvantaged and isolated families.