Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 1 Theme 1 - Tackling Cost of Living Crisis Scheme A - Advice, information and crisis support ID Organisation Project Geographica l Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG Rating 8662 The Felix Project Supporting residents of Tower Hamlets who are in Crisis to get access to nutritious food Boroughwide £30,000 The project is making very good progress on its KPIs and significantly exceeded its targets for the quarter GREEN Short Descriptio n Providing nutritious food and meals for 40,000 people in Tower Hamlets – each year – who are currently facing food insecurity and hunger. Working with 80 community partners in the borough to help people in crisis. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): During the period July through September 2024 The Felix Project has successfully continued the weekly surplus food deliveries directly to 61 community organisations located in Tower Hamlets and to the Tower Hamlets Hub. Some organisation received food from Felix directly as well as through the hub, others only received food directly from Felix, and some only received food through the hub (these would receive both Felix and hub-purchased food). • Felix only direct deliveries 31 • Felix and TH Hub deliveries 31 • TH Hub only deliveries 24 • Total number of organisations receiving Felix food: 86 Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 2 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officer’s Notes RAG rating 8705 East End Citizens Advice Bureau Advice Tower Hamlets Boroughwide £720,000 The project is making very good progress against its KPIs, overperforming on all of its six KPIs in the quarter, and for five KPIs cumulatively, often by a significant proportion. GREEN Short Descriptio n Advice Tower Hamlets provides free, confidential, independent, quality assured-advice to help Tower Hamlets residents resolve their cost-of-living issues relating to welfare benefits, housing, money/debt, employment, immigration, consumer, education, community care, family and personal issues at a generalist/specialist level. Citizens Advice Tower Hamlets leads the partnership with 12 local advice agencies. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): All MCGP target numbers and KPI are being achieved all partners are work very hard to make sure we are achieve our targets. We have again achieved great income gains for the residence of Tower Hamlets, Over 5 million benefit entitlements including in work benefits and under claiming benefits. Written off debts over 600,000. MCGP project has helped over 2612 clients improve their income through claiming benefits. All the partners are also working very hard with clients on the move to universal credit which has and will affect most Tower Hamlets residence. The rise in the cost of living is becoming ever so evident as client are seeking debt advice concerned by their ability to pay ongoing liability, especially utility bills this has become our largest debt issue this Qtr. The overall demand for debt advice is for support with a mixtures of priority debts (council tax rent arrears and utility) as well as non-priority such as credit cards, loans and overpayments. Universal Credit, PIP and Housing issues continue remains top enquiry especially in regard to entitlement to additional Elements and financial implication of missing out on certain Element which may become retrospectively due following reconsiderations and appeals. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 3 ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8854 First Love Foundation Foundation Advice and Advocacy Service Boroughwide; Poplar £30,000 Satisfactory progress on project. GREEN Short Descriptio n Tower Hamlets residents will have access to our AQS-accredited welfare rights advice and advocacy service in person, by telephone and through community outreach. We will explore why each individual and their household is in financial difficulty, what other challenges or crisis they face, and work with them to effect solutions. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): Over the course of the last three months, we have made several changes to our Advice and Advocacy Service. This has included additions to both our team and our outreach programs in the frontline service. As one of the team’s first developments, we onboarded an expert benefits caseworker in July. The purpose of the role is to enhance our offer for giving legal welfare rights advice to clients with higher level and complex welfare benefits cases, including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals. Appeals cases can take up to a year to finalise and thus have shown to require a dedicated caseworker to provide a full focus to them. By dividing such a responsibility, we are giving better structure to the team and as an addition, the role can give expert guidance to the rest of the advice and advocacy team. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8998 Stifford Centre Limited Advice and Crisis Support Project Poplar; Limehouse; Mile End; St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's £30,000 Project has made good progress on its KPIs, surpassing its targets. GREEN Short Descriptio n The Stifford Centre will deliver a comprehensive ‘Advice and Crisis Support Project', offering welfare benefit, debt, housing, employment & financial advice, emotional support, and peer-mentoring to local residents. Additionally, the project will manage a 'Crisis Support Fund' for emergency assistance, actively addressing the cost-of-living crisis. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): Last quarter, we had an increased number of people moving into Universal Credit from legacy benefits (tax credits, income support etc). We have delivered advice/interventions and were open to all who need advice but have tailored the service to meet the needs of the BAME community by delivering culturally sensitive services (e.g., segregated drop-in session) in mother- tongue languages. We had spread the hours of operation across weekdays/evenings/weekends, ensuring everyone has a chance to access support, and dedicated telephone/email time with the capacity for over-the-phone consultations for those who have Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 4 mobility/social anxiety issues. This quarter we have seen a rise in Universal Credit new claim applications as residents are being given dates to move from legal benefits. Also, a steady rise in housing applications. ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9072 Community of Refugees from Vietnam - East London Support and Advice for Older People in Vietnamese and Chinese Communities Boroughwide; Island Gardens; Blackwall and Cubitt Town; Poplar; Limehouse; Lansbury; Mile End; Bromley South; Bromley North; Bow West; Bow East; St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's); Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £20,000 Project has performed well on its five KPIs in the quarter, but has cumulative under- performance on four of them AMBER Short Descriptio n The "Older People Vietnamese and Chinese Project" offers crucial support and guidance to the Vietnamese and Chinese communities in Tower Hamlets. We provide comprehensive assistance to individuals aged over 50, delivering valuable advice and information. Our services are available five days a week at Old Poplar Library, London E14 6RN. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): The Advice Service project is dedicated to offering comprehensive support and assistance to individuals from Chinese and Vietnamese communities in Tower Hamlets. Our primary focus is on elderly individuals, providing free, confidential, and independent services covering various welfare benefits advice, housing guidance, referral for debt assistance, access to healthcare, and education on debt management, bereavement, and End of Life support. Additionally, we offer IT classes and befriending services. Our Drop-in advice sessions are held: • Every Monday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Dockland Settlement, 4 Saunders Ness Road, E14 3PS (except on Bank Holidays, Christmas, and New Year's Day). • Every Friday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Old Poplar Library, 45 Gillender Street, Poplar, London, E14 6RN (except on Good Friday, Christmas, and New Year's Day). Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 5 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9054 Wapping Bangladesh Association Tower Hamlets Bangladeshi & BAME-Led Advice Forum St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Weavers £70,000 Project has over-performed on all its five KPIs in July-September 2024 quarter. However, in terms of cumulative progress against these KPIs, it has under-performed on four of them. AMBER Short Description Tower Hamlets Bangladeshi & BAME-Led Advice Forum is a consortium of trusted and embedded local charities, led by Wapping Bangladesh Association, working together to bring quality information, advice, guidance and support to people at risk during the Cost-of-Living Crisis. Our work focuses in the south-west locality of Tower Hamlets. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): We have been successfully delivering the advice and information services for people living in Tower hamlets to improve their lives since November 2023. As a consortium we have delivered the services collectively as follows for this period of July 2024- September 2024: As a consortium collectively, we have seen total number of individual clients 328 with resolving the case matters of 346 and ensured income maximization of £157,757.29 towards addressing the cost of living for the vulnerable people living in the borough. Wapping Bangladesh Association: Delivered services to 151 individual clients with resolving 157 case matters on welfare benefits, housing, debt, utility, employment, education, immigration, family and other matters. We have ensured total income maximization of £71,626.19 with ongoing confirmed £37,04.48 and one off confirmed £4629.81, estimated income £63,302.00. Bangladesh Youth Movement: Delivered services to 137 individual clients with resolving 141 case matters on welfare benefits, housing, debt, utility, employment, education, immigration, family and other matters. They have ensured estimated income maximization of £86,121.10 with ongoing confirmed £15,460.20 and one off confirmed £9,340.60 and estimated income £61,320.30. Parent Centre: They have provided service to 18 clients dealing with 21 matters. The Advice worker who constantly receving training and guideline from WBA has progressed well. They are working hard to gain AQS mark. They undertook 1 awareness sessions and 2 outreach work to reach out the community about the service they are providing for the local community. Boundary Community School: They delivered service to 12 clients with resolving 15 matters. They have carried out 3 outreach sessions introducing their services to local community and have been doing regular publicity since November to ensure advice facility available for the local community. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 6 Wapping Noorani Masjid & Cultural Centre: Noorani Cultural Centre delivered service to 10 clients with resolving 12 matters. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 7 Theme 2 – Accelerate Education Scheme A - Education Attainment and Development of Children and Young People ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9020 Ashaadibi Education and Cultural Centre Aim Higher ~ Edify Boroughwide £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n The Aim-Higher Edify project aims to promote community-based study support and language development for children and young people in Tower Hamlets, delivering boroughwide. This project will accelerate education and growth through after-school clubs, language classes, and youth-work opportunities, leading to improved academic achievement and future success for participants in LBTH. Progress Update The project achieved its KPIs and targets and worked with 16 young people, empowering them from having no Somali language skills to confidently speaking and singing in Somali within 24 weeks. Partners they worked with included local Somali community organisations such as WIT and language instructors such as Galool. In addition to the monitoring form, Ashaadibi also provided a project report, income and expenditure document, photos and reported that they were was a slight overspend on the budget by £65 due to the end of cohort celebration event. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 8 ID Organisatio n Project Geographica l Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8807 Conductive Music CIC Music Beyond Imagination Boroughwide £30,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n Music Beyond Imagination (MBI), is a cutting-edge music-technology-led educational project for 1475 Y4-Y8 SEN students across 8 Special, Mainstream and Alternative Provision schools and in Tower Hamlets. MBI supports music creation by empowering children, bridging educational gaps, showcasing career pathways, and enabling growth for Tower Hamlets' youth. Progress Update This quarter organisation reported that 397 students took part in regular project activities. They have achieved their target for this quarter. Financial reporting shows spend on track with budget. Project monitoring demonstrates engagement of 5-18 year old participants (majority of students have Special Educational Needs) in line with application expectations on geographical and equalities monitoring. ID Organisatio n Project Geographica l Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8896 Four Corners Cameraworks: Young People’s Photography Workshops Boroughwide £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project is on track to achieve KPI objectives. GREEN Short Descriptio n “Cameraworks” provides young Tower Hamlets residents with the opportunity to take part in photography workshops and creative projects, improving their educational attainment, and also supports their wider personal development. Progress Update By September 2024 organisation enrolled nine participants onto Project 2 and started the six-week programme totalling to 19 participants on the project. 90% of the participants attended workshops. Activities included Intros and 7 Essential Lighting Techniques workshop. All participants reported: • new skills and knowledge acquired during project activities. • positive engagement with project activities. • enhanced well-being and ability to develop relationships with others because of the project activities. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 9 Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 10 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9035 Hornafrik Integration Projects Ltd E14 BAME Children and Young People Educational Attainment Project Island Gardens; Blackwall and Cubitt Town; Poplar; Lansbury £13,250 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n E14 BAME Children and Young People Educational Attainment Project will support Children and Young people from disadvantaged households for timely intervention in access to extracurricular activities and after school provision. Progress Update Organisation is on target with its KPIs and outcomes. Project monitoring demonstrates engagement of participants in line with application expectations on geographical and equalities monitoring. Number registered participants who took part in regular project activities in the period is 68. ID Organisation Project Geographica l Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8990 Newark Youth London Girls in Action Boroughwide £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project is on track to achieve KPI objectives. GREEN Short Descriptio n Girls in Action widens access to extracurricular activities for girls and young women, so they develop their confidence and life skills and increase their resilience. The project enables participants to participate in social action projects and other learning opportunities to enable them to develop their leadership, communication and organisational skills. Progress Update During July 2024-Sept 2024, organisation delivered the Girls in Action (GIA) project from Christian Street Youth Centre in Shadwell, every Thursday 4.30-7.30pm. They delivered 13 sessions and registered 10 new girls to the project. Overall, they worked with 25 girls in this period. 10 girls completed the evaluation form and had positive engagement with the project. 1 social action project was delivered. Alongside working on the social action project, the girls also participated in the workshops and activities such as Accredited Boxing Leaders Course, Introduction to Youth Work course, First Aid at Work course and Safeguarding course. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 11 ID Organisation Project Geographica l Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9028 SocietyLinks Tower Hamlets Rainbow Links Boroughwide £30,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n A SEND focused programme of activities providing stimulating activities for children and young people, support and peer network for parents, and family trips to enhance the opportunities available for SEND children. Progress Update During this period, SocietyLinks continued to support 24 SEND service users through integration and support within their wider services and have a committed group of young people who attend the Monday homework and youth session. During the summer, SocietyLinks ran integrated activities such as boxing, inclusive sports such as football, cricket and taekwondo. The Eco Arts project also welcomed three new SEND young people. SocietyLinks also held 2 webinars, one with Assisted Travel from LBTH and the other with Family Information Services. 99% of service users have reported positive engagement with the activities and services and 87% of parent participants report feeling more confident and supported in parenting their SEND child. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 12 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8866 St Hilda's East Community Centre Young People’s Development Programme Whitechapel; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Weavers; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's); Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £33,180 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n St Hilda’s East Young People’s Programme is an inspirational initiative designed to support children and young people to reach their full potential. Through weekly activities including sports, arts, and reflective sessions; the programme focuses on improving young people’s mental health, resilience and steering them away from anti-social behaviour and crime. Progress Update The Girls youth group is running well and has returned after the school summer break, with highlights from this quarter including a yoga workshop, henna session and karaoke party. The main focus of September has been an art project facilitated by a local artist in collaboration with Cheltenham Ladies College on the theme of community, which will culminate in an exhibition. As part of a review of the Girls group, the group is now split by age and a calm corner and de-escalation colour support system has been introduced to better support young people. The Boys group enjoyed a final session before the summer break which included a movie night and candy making. The weekly boys group has not started back up in September due to staff shortages, however St Hilda's East plan to run shorter blocks of activity for the boys group to keep engaging the cohort. This explains to lower participation numbers this quarter however, this project has already exceeded it's annual target and is taking active steps to restart the boys group so this is therefore not a concern. To address staff shortages, St Hilda's East have run ran a recruitment round and have held meetings with Mulberry Academy to explore outreach opportunities. They are restructuring staff currently to address shortages and the review of the mixed group 'Level Up'. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 13 Volunteer development has been very successful this quarter and youth volunteer have shown great initiative and are working towards their personal development plans. ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8862 St Margaret's House The Children’s Making Tree Boroughwide; Weavers; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's); Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £5,156 Monitoring from last quarter demonstrates the project is slightly under on the number of unique participants participating this year. However, the organisation has plans in place to address this and is confident it is on track to achieve KPI objectives GREEN Short Descriptio n The project empowers Tower Hamlets children to take part in enriching holiday activities in a variety of arts disciplines (circus, art, drama, spoken word). Sessions improve children’s confidence in their abilities and increase their cultural capital to help them pursue diverse activities outside of school to support their academic achievement. Progress Update The project is to deliver three two-hour children’s arts sessions a week for each of the following holiday periods during the funding period: • February Half Term • Easter Holiday (one of the weeks of the two-week holiday) • May Half Term • October Half Term Therefore no sessions ran in this Quarter. Last quarter it was reported that monitoring demonstrates the project is slightly under on the number of unique participants participating this year. However, the organisation has plans in place to address this and is confident it is on track to achieve KPI objectives. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 14 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8937 Tower Hamlets Parents Centre THPC Saturday Study Support Programme St Katherine's and Wapping; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Weavers £10,369 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n This Project delivers weekly Study Support Session on a Saturday morning in term times that help improve the attainment of disadvantaged local young people at Key Stages 1 and 2. Progress Update Until the end of July 2024, the Project delivered, a 3 hourly Study Support Session per week for 4 weeks, providing Educational Support for children in English and Maths, at Key Stages 1 and 2. There were 20 children on the roll and 17 attended regularly. The Lessons were activity orientated and participative. The Sessions involved single and Group work, giving children the opportunity to lead Groups. The weak children in the Group were given one-to-one support, engaging the Classroom Assistant with them, being supervised by the Tutor. The children were also given support in their Homework. In response to the Evaluation Questionnaire, the children confirmed that they improved their performance and attainment in Mainstream Schools, they improved their Mental Wellbeing, having made new friends. They improved their confidence, resilience and self-esteem, having developed relationships and aspirations, participating in the Sessions. This Cohort of children were recruited in September 2023, and thus, at this point, they completed attendance in the Provision for a period of one year. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 15 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9009 Toyhouse Libraries Association of Tower Hamlets - Toyhouse Accelerating Education for Pre-School aged children via Community Toy Library involvement. Boroughwide £14,992 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n Toyhouse supports a network of community-based Toy Libraries facilitated by a mix of parent volunteers and staff, that enables parents and pre-schoolers to benefit from weekly Play Learn sessions, enabling children to develop speech, communication, social interaction and Early Learning skills before they enter formal educational settings. Progress Update Weekly sessions continued for much of the services based in The Toyhouse Centre providing support to vulnerable families. Organisation launched a new GP Care Group Pilot initiative called Bright Beginnings during the summer, responding to the needs of 1-year olds which resulted in some very positive developments in behaviour and responses. Toy Librarians have also been engaging actively, giving enhanced information to families, encouraging playful interactions, social engagement, encouraging communication and language; all of which supporting the child’s learning and development during the pre-school phase. There has been ongoing contact with all 12 member Toy Library Groups and most have received two face to face visits. ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9063 Udichi Shilpi Gosthi Bengali Mother Tongue Project Boroughwide; Island Gardens; Canary Wharf; Limehouse; Mile End; Bow East; St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Weavers; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's); Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £18,768 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 16 Short Descriptio n Project provides mother tongue study support and community education for 300 disadvantaged Bengali children and young people in Tower Hamlets who will learn to read, write and speak Bengali and achieve Tower Hamlets Community Language Certificate. Boosts community cohesion via arts and cultural activities broadcast on Bengali media (TV, radio) Progress Update Udichi continues to successfully deliver the Bengali Mother Tongue project and are at capacity for this quarter, with 70 participants engaging in local Bengali culture and heritage and 70% of participants having a positive engagement with activities. The delivery of the Mother Tongue project is already having a positive impact and making a real difference to children who are developing their language skills and building confidence. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9056 Wapping Bangladesh Association A Bright Future - Wapping After-School Children Education Project St Katherine's and Wapping £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n After School Children’s Education Project raising the educational achievements of academically underachieving Bangladeshi children from poorer and disadvantaged backgrounds through a programme of activities and learning interventions that includes Mother Tongue Education and Study Support Learning. Progress Update During this reporting period, the project has recruited 2 new students. The project has already recruited 20 students for the Mother tongue class and 10 for the supplementary home-work support sessions. These students regularly attend the sessions. All the students are from the disadvantaged backgrounds. Students are mostly drawn from the Wapping area and few reside in other parts including St Katherine and the Shadwell wards. The Mother tongue sessions are delivered by experienced teachers every Mondays and Tuesdays and the Supplementary education classes are delivered every Tuesdays and Wednesdays. In the Mother tongue sessions (for the students from Bangladeshi ethnic background) students learn reading, writing, reciting poems, storytelling and group study performance. For Supplementary sessions, teachers support students with their Maths, English and Science homework. For this quarter July 2024-September 2024, the project has delivered 20 Mother tongue classes and 5 Supplementary classes. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 17 Staff organized a parents evening on 18th of September 2024. The feedback received from parents was very satisfactory. Children happily participated in the community fun day that was organised on the 18th of August 2024 and took part in various activities like storytelling, face painting and bouncy castle rides. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9044 Weavers Community Forum (WCF) Active Youth Project Weavers; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's); Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £21,903 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n Active Youth Project is to help inspire, activate & motivate young people to learn about themselves, others, and Society, through non-formal education activities which combine enjoyment, challenge and learning. Progress Update Organisation has exceeded target of 42 youth participating in the project per annum. Currently over 50 registered on the programme. The main project this quarter focused on enhancing community engagement through sports sessions and outreach programs. Their new football program aimed to provide a structured and supportive environment for young people. Along the establishment of regular football session some of the other activities that took place during this quarter ranges from Club activities, Cooking sessions, Jewellery making, Outreach sessions, Day trip, Workshops, Focus Group / Youth Forum. ID Organisation Project Geographica l Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8758 Westferry Community Organisation Education Matters Canary Wharf £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 18 Short Descriptio n Education Matters is a community-based initiative, which will deliver educational/learning activities to children and young people in the Canary Wharf area. This will consist of after-school/evening and/or weekend clubs for children, to assist in reading/writing, maths/arithmetic, and other curriculum/extra-curriculum-based learning. Also, weekend sessions for young adults providing life skills. Progress Update Organisation is on target with its KPIs and outcomes. Project monitoring demonstrates engagement of participants in line with application expectations on geographical and equalities monitoring. Number of registered participants who took part in regular project activities in the period is 30. They will continue to maintain this to ensure they continue to meet the KPIs and outcomes. ID Organisation Project Geographica l Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8913 Women’s Inclusive Team Maangaar (Young People - SEN Support) Boroughwide £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n This project will target children aged 6 to 10 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in LBTH boroughwide, who have limited after-school provisions. Maangaar (meaning 'unique child' in Somali) will create positive learning opportunities to enrich their development and their parents, ultimately improving their education and mental well-being. Progress Update Organisation is on target with its KPIs and outcomes. Project monitoring demonstrates engagement of participants in line with application expectations on geographical and equalities monitoring. Number of registered participants who took part in regular project activities in the period is 60. In terms of number of parents undertaking a SEND assessment the numbers were low due to holiday period. ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 19 9013 Young and Talented Ltd Triple Talent Enrichment Programme Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's) £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n Weekly, high-quality, performing-arts training for 6-16-year-olds. The free sessions will enable children from marginalised backgrounds to have long-term engagement with activities which support good mental health and wellbeing; develop personal and practical skills; enrich curriculum learning; and provide access to the infrastructure required to progress into arts/culture- related education and employment. Progress Update This quarter Young and Talented met their overall target young people engaged in this project. Number of registered participants who took part in regular project activities in the period is 47. The overall target per annum is 45. This quarter 32 young people come in for a taster session, of which 21 have enrolled which helped with achieving the target number. Financial reporting shows spend on track with budget. Project monitoring demonstrates engagement of children and parents in line with application expectations on geographical and equalities monitoring. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 20 Scheme B – Lifelong Learning ID Organisatio n Project Geographica l Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8967 Age UK East London Digital Buddy Boroughwide £39,997 During this period, the project has supported 96 older people with digital support services. Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n Digital Buddies will build the skills, confidence and motivation of digitally excluded older people, using a proven model, enabling them to get to grips with new technologies and use them safely and skilfully. It represents the best opportunity to build their confidence, skills and ultimately resilience in a digital-first world. Progress Update In this reported period the project has demonstrated good progress against its KPIs: 93.3% of participants (96 people) report that they are more confident using digital technology and getting online. 95.6% of participants (95 people) report that they have developed at least one skill to use digital technology 92.7% of participants (87 people) report that they have greater awareness of risks and feel better able to manage them 79.4% of participants (74 people) feel better able to manage cost of living pressures. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 21 ID Organisation Project Geographica l Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9021 Ashaadibi Education and Cultural Centre Aim Higher Adult Lifelong Learning Boroughwide £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n The e-Adult Lifelong Learning project aims to promote digital inclusion, language skills, and lifelong learning in Tower Hamlets to the BAME community. Through English language classes and digital skills training, it will reduce digital exclusion and improve the confidence and aspirations of marginalized and underrepresented residents of LBTH. Progress Update The adult learning course is on track and exceeded targets for the last quarter (July - Sept). According to the report, beneficiaries are reporting that they have a newfound enthusiasm for learning English, and several learners returned from the April cohort eager to continue their studies. Last quarter, 32 beneficiaries attended classes with 100% (32) reporting improvement in language proficiency (the original target was 70%). Similarly, 100% of respondents reported increased confidence in using digital devices and applications (original target was 70%). During this quarter, the project worked on and focused on the following: * Environment and suitability working with Faith in Environment Project Officer at East London Mosque. * Students engaged with LBTH council on a Community Engagement Workshop * Week 6 lesson focused on on Talking to Your GP and healthcare professionals * As a follow up to Week 6, in week 7 a cervical screening champion came to raise awareness about breast cancer screening to the students * Week 8 focused on writing complaint letters In addition to the monitoring form, Ashaadibi also provided a report on the ESOL class and a case study re ESOL challenges. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 22 ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8906 Bromley By Bow Centre BOOST North East Mile End; Bromley South; Bromley North; Bow West; Bow East £25,000 In this period the project has supported 142 participants. Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n Through Boost North East, the Bromley by Bow Centre is providing non-accredited English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), and digital inclusion classes alongside social mixing activities. The project will support people to become confident engaging with the local community, and services using English. 280 learners will be supported. Progress Update The project has demonstrated good progress in achieving the KPIs and outcomes this quarter which include: 18 learners (72% of the original cohort of 25 learners) have completed the ESOL course by the end of September 2024 – 30 hours of ESOL instruction plus 15 hours of social mixing groups 39 learners passed the ESOL end of course assessment (89% of the 44 learners from the expanded cohort who took an assessment at the end of the course; out of all 49 learners (5 of whom were absent) this is an 80% pass rate 16 learners progressed into further or higher learning – this is 33% of the expanded cohort of 49 learners. 42 learners (88% of the expanded cohort who answered our pre and post surveys) increased confidence in using English in at least one everyday setting. 20 participants from the BOOST summer programme reported an increase in English in everyday use. The project has been able to acquire the Aberfeldy Big local site in Aberfeldy village. This has allowed the project to provide some of the BOOST programme with the addition of ABL staff to deliver a much more enriched and well-resourced summer social mixing programme to the residents of Aberfeldy. The programme has exceeded its targets. Project monitoring demonstrates engagement of older people in line with application expectations on geographical monitoring. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 23 ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8929 deafPLUS Improving deaf and hard of hearing residents English, Maths and digital skills Boroughwide £30,000 During this quarter, the project delivered learning sessions on Maths, English, and IT. The project has supported 16 clients this quarter. Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n A borough wide lifelong learning project that will improve deaf and hard of hearing residents English and Maths and digital skills, reducing socio-economic deprivation in Tower Hamlets Progress Update During this quarter, the project has delivered learning sessions on Maths, English, and IT. This quarter the project has changed the dates of the sessions following clients raising that Tuesdays were not always accessible for them. After discussing with the clients, the project is trialling offering 2 sessions a week covering English, Maths and IT courses. Staff members have created sessions around topics which clients have raised as topic of interest. The project seeks active co-production of sessions to better meet the needs of the D/deaf and hearing-impaired community. The project has provided additional 1:1 sessions and recaps in the last month of the quarter to allow clients to revisit areas they may have found difficult, did not feel comfortable raising in group sessions, or missed due to to the date of the session or a schedule conflict. The main project Coordinator left deafPLUS in late August. The team had been working closely with coordinator which has allowed the support staff to offer recaps and one-to-one sessions over September building their confidence in leading these classes in the interim period. Feedback from the sessions has been positive, with client attendance improving perhaps attributed to the summer holidays, and a few new faces joining this quarter. Some clients have shared positive outcomes with the team, including one client who attended the English sessions, and shared how she had written a letter to give to her GP after learning about structuring a sentence, and brought it in to show the coordinator. Project staff have also observed clients reporting improvements in their mental health and wellbeing. The project has recruited a new Lifelong Learning Coordinator who is due to start in October so that they can continue to develop the service. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 24 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8700 East London Advanced Technology Training BOOST (Building On Our Skills Together) South West Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's £40,000 In this reporting period the project has supported 36 refugees and migrants. The project demonstrates good progress made against KPIs and outcomes. Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n BOOST South West provides accessible, entry-level ESOL classes to develop English language skills, digital inclusion, and preparation for lifelong learning for 300 migrants and refugees in SW Tower Hamlets, 2023-2027. Courses will be tailored to learners’ lives and include classroom activities, visits to places of interest and community engagement activities. Progress Update The Boost project has played a pivotal role in supporting refugees and migrants in Tower Hamlets by offering entry-level ESOL courses, enabling them to achieve vital qualifications. In July 2024, all students enrolled in the program successfully completed either the RARPA (Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement) or the Ascentis exam, marking significant milestones in their learning journeys. These qualifications represent essential steps for the students in developing their English language skills, providing them with increased confidence and opportunities in their daily lives. The Boost project incorporates ‘End-of-Term Reviews’ where students work closely with their tutors, usually on a one-to-one basis. These assessments are crucial in identifying progression routes for each student, outlining possible paths toward further education, volunteering, or employment. This tailored approach helps everyone recognize and take steps towards their personal and professional goals, ensuring that they can continue to grow and contribute meaningfully to society. A notable strength of the project is its collaboration with various local community venues, including Ocean and Chrisp Street Children’s Centres, as well as Ben Jonson Primary School. These partnerships have allowed ELATT to offer accessible ESOL classes to parents, eliminating common barriers to education such as travel and childcare. By scheduling classes conveniently after school drop-off or before collection times, parents can improve their English skills while managing their family responsibilities. This approach demonstrates a deep understanding of the challenges that refugees and migrant parents face, making education accessible and practical for them. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 25 8934 ICM Foundation CIC CORE News Community Newspaper Boroughwide £30,000 During this reporting period the project has supported 11 trainees. All trainees continue to report and display increased levels of confidence. Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n Adults with learning disabilities will develop skills and work towards a qualification to design and produce a tri-annual community newspaper, informing people of and reviewing activities to be distributed to community groups in London with the focus on reducing social isolation and increased participation through low cost or free activities. Progress Update Despite the steady stream of absences and 2 people leaving the project, the project has still managed to make good progress against its KPIs and is on target to achieve the overall aims and outcomes. All participants on the projects reported feeling increased confidence especially with delivering a workshop which some have not done before but are very excited to present in front of their peers. The project is continuing to build on the groups digital skills and employability skills by doing sessions relating to their qualification and all participants have demonstratively improved in those areas. During this reporting period the group produced the summer edition of the CORE Newsletter. They were involved with the Tower Hamlets Summer Roadshow programme where they participated in activities such as karate, music, exercise and a treasure hunt. They helped organise the celebration event at the end and chose the jobs that they were going to do on the day. The group co-designed their workshop, deciding on the content and deciding which role to take. Over the summer the group finished their workshop and have been practicing the delivery of the workshop. Due to significant absences within the group the workshop had to be postponed. The group will now deliver the workshop at the end of October. They have also started on another workshop to do with online safety and are currently creating the content for their slideshow presentation. Project monitoring demonstrates engagement of adults with learning disabilities in line with application expectations on geographical monitoring. ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 26 8974 Island House Community Centre DIGITAL DAY Boroughwide £25,000 During this reporting period 134 participants have been supported. Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n Digital Day will develop the existing SKILLS project, providing 3 levels of support to digitally excluded clients. Teaching basic digital skills and providing computer/internet access for necessary for life tasks that have moved online, supporting the digitally excluded, improving skills, reducing digital exclusion, and enabling access to health and social care. Progress Update The team at Island House working on the Digital Drop-in Day is a small but effective team with 2 staff and 4 volunteers both male and female. The languages spoken are English, Urdu, Hindi and Bengali. All volunteers have good computer skills and excellent communication skills, and work in a non-judgmental and empathic way. Clients present with varied general issues about benefits and general issues requiring digital skills, for example benefits checks, uploading documents, applying for freedom passes etc. The Drop-In sessions are run every Wednesday from 10am to 12 noon with pre-booked Appointments from 2pm till 4pm. The Drop-In sessions is led at front of house reception by the Island Advice supervisor and Island House staff who would take clients information and allocate their issues to the other workers on the day according to support needed. The clients that can be seen straight away are seen in separate rooms for privacy and confidentiality. All clients with assistance if needed fill in a registration form and skills form; staff also record information on a database for monitoring purposes and equally receive positive feedback verbally from clients as well. During this reporting period sessions continued to grow and weekly attendance has now increased to significantly over the required 12; the average in September was 16. In relation to project KPIs: 80 individuals have reported reduced digital exclusion. 25 individuals have reported improved confidence, self-esteem and resilience. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 27 8677 LifeLine Community Projects Creative English Poplar; Mile End; Shadwell; Whitechapel £25,000 During this reporting period, the project has supported 92 registered participants who took part in regular project activities. Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n Creative English is a volunteer-led English language programme that teaches everyday English speaking to people from marginalised and minority groups who do not speak English as a first/main language. Delivered by faith and community groups, Creative English uses applied drama techniques to engage learners in a fun and welcoming environment. Progress Update Despite the slow start to the project, it has now just about reached all its engagement and completion numbers. Wapping Bangladeshi Association ran creative English and had over 30 engagements with 20 completing 10 sessions or more. East London Mosque had also engaged at least 60 learners with at least 40 completing 10 sessions or more. Lifeline Community Projects has already visited WBA creative English sessions and is planning to visit ELM toward the end of November to see the course in action. The Project has received the learner registration forms back from WBA and will be uploading those shortly however it has yet to get the data from ELM but will upload that once received ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 28 8715 Limehouse Project ESOL & Digital Training Poplar; Limehouse; Mile End; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n Limehouse Project’s ESOL & Digital Training programme is a supportive coaching initiative funded by the Council which helps residents improve their command of the English language and basic digital skills. We hope to empower residents to improve their lives by learning new skills for life and life-long learning. Progress Update A new cohort of participants (18) started in September 2024, as per the organisation's target. Due to the course start date, the organisation did not have the evaluation information on the improvements of communication which will be monitored and captured for the next and final report. However, the organisation does not report any issues going forward with KPIs and were able to share two photos of their ESOL trip to Kew Gardens in July 2024. In terms of organisational update, their staff are now up to date with mental health safeguarding level 2 and 3 for supervisors and GDPR training and recently had their Advice Quality standard review and Matrix assessment with excellent feedback and will shortly be updating their Investing in Volunteers quality mark. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 29 8652 Quaker Social Action Made of Money - helping carers to increase their resilience to online financial scams. Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n Quaker Social Action’s ‘Made of Money’ financial education and financial wellbeing team, partnering with Carers Centre, Tower Hamlets, will devise and deliver digital inclusion sessions for local people, predominantly carers, focussing specifically on helping people be aware of and have a much-reduced risk of falling victim to online scams/fraud. Progress Update QSA have overcome their initial challenges faced in Q1 and Q2 and are now meeting targets and KPIs. The slow start was primarily due to recruitment, staff absences and challenges setting up partnerships. QSA also successfully submitted their report on time for the first time. This quarter, 24 people engaged in the Money Matters programme of which they 12 reported being able to identify aspects of concern in a fraudulent email or text message (6-8 original target) and 17 agreed that they know where people might reach out to them online and have good tools to help them work out how much they can trust the they meet. Finally, in terms KPI 3, 9 (100%) reported that they identify trusted sources of help for concerns about online scams/fraud (9 respondents due to poor attendance on feedback session). Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 30 ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8803 Social Action For Health Bengali Women's ESOL Walking Group Whitechapel; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's) £24,945 This quarter the project has supported 38 women from the target demographic group and are on track for meeting the target of supporting 40 women over a delivery year. Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n This project brings together Bengali women for a weekly walking group to enjoy some gentle movement, and practice conversational English, thus reducing isolation, improving physical and mental wellbeing and enabling more positive interaction with the wider community and services such as GPs and other health professionals. Progress Update This quarter the project has supported 38 women from the target demographic group (6 new this quarter) and are on track for meeting the target of supporting 40 women over a delivery year. 100% of attendees meet the target group of the project. The project continues to hold ESOL walking groups on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings in Collingwood Children’s Centre, improving their written and spoken English as well as improving their mental wellbeing. • Tutors are supported in session delivery by trained volunteers some of whom are themselves taking the opportunity to build their confidence in spoken English. • Weekly attendance is about 10-15 people. • Local walks or on-site gentle exercise takes place at all sessions. • An unexpected challenge is that women enjoy the session so much they wish to attend twice weekly. Project staff are working hard to support this whilst ensuring new participants can join. Project staff have responded to feedback and continued to develop the project as the project progresses: o Significant time has gone into supporting people to attend the GP surgery or try to make an appointment on their own in English. o Recognising different levels of English and confidence, sometimes the tutors will create small group work. Sometimes the groups divide into pairs and practice role play. o The women enjoy taking notes and they refer to their notebooks throughout the session and often practice at home during the week. o Some women prefer exercise in the session rather than going out for a walk – especially as they have walked to the session. Project staff will continue to keep this under review, especially as the project activities move into Winter. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 31 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8996 Stifford Centre Limited BAME Women’s Empowerment Programme St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's £29,000 During this reporting period, the project has successfully supported 45 participants. Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n Stifford Centre's BAME Women’s Empowerment Programme empowers BAME women in Tower Hamlets through comprehensive ESOL classes, employability work and digital skills training. Our goal is to bridge socio-economic gaps and boost integration, confidence, and participation in the local economy. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): During this quarter our women group we have organised an outing for our BAME women group. We have continued to deliver ESOL, Digital Upskilling, Online Safety, lifelong-learning and confidence building sessions. BAME Women’s Empowerment Programme, a comprehensive initiative designed to engage and uplift disenfranchised women living in Tower Hamlets, with a special focus on those of Bengali and Somali heritages who face challenges in language barriers, digital inclusion, employment and skill acquisition. The project aimed at giving BAME women who are long-term unemployed and economically inactive, a pathway toward employment with support at every step. We have provided a space where BAME women feel safe and welcome, this is very important in developing their confidence to learn and try new things. We also provided additional support to overcome the other barriers that they face, for example, advice provision, healthy activities were valued by the women who often found it hard to overcome the feeling of dislocation that they felt upon arriving in the UK. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 32 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8936 Tower Hamlets Parents Centre THPC Digital Inclusion Programme for BAME Women St Katherine's and Wapping; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Weavers £12,000 During this period, the project has supported 18 women. Participants report improved level of digital skills and an increase in confidence to accessing online services. Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n This Project will deliver a 36-hour Computer Training Programme that will improve the Skills, Employment Readiness and Inclusion of 140 local disadvantaged women from BAME Communities. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): During July 2024, we delivered 2 and a half hourly 4 Sessions to each of the 2 cohorts, that is 10 hours of ICT Training to each cohort of beneficiaries and thus, in total, we delivered 20 hours of ICT Training to both cohorts of beneficiaries, attended the 2 Courses, started in December 2023. At this point, these two Courses were completed, as the beneficiaries on both Courses received 50 hours of ICT Training Then, in September 2024, we again, started the delivery of another 2 new Courses, with 8 new beneficiaries recruited for these Courses and 10 beneficiaries, attended the previous Courses, who wished to attend the Training for a longer period to improve their Skills and knowledge of ICT further, in agreement with the Tutor. We delivered two and a half hourly 3 Sessions to each of the two new cohorts of beneficiaries and thus, in total 15 hours of ICT Training to the beneficiaries, attending the 2 new Courses. In response to the Evaluation Questionnaire, 10 beneficiaries out of the 20 beneficiaries, attended the first 2 Courses, stated that they have learnt the Basics of how the Computer works, navigating across the Screen, email basics, sending and receiving emails, opening and saving files, understanding the Microsoft Word Screen. They also confirmed that they felt less socially isolated, having attended the Course. Some of them also confirmed that they could do online shopping and find good deals online. However, 10 of the beneficiaries, attended first 2 Courses, stated they would continue to attend the Training for a longer Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 33 period to improve certain Skills like navigating the internet and useful websites. Accessing Services like Universal Credit, Housing and GP Surgeries and to speed up their word processing. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 34 Theme 3 – Culture, Business, Jobs, and Skills Scheme A - Employment and Skills Opportunities for Socially Excluded Residents ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9080 Account3 Ltd Jobs for the Girls - Employability for Marginalised Women of Tower Hamlets Boroughwide £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Description This project will provide unemployed women including returners with multilingual support to plan their futures through offer of MATRIX accredited career guidance, training and support to better understand the jobs market and make the right decisions to get into paid work that offers career progression and stable employment. Progress Update The Jobs for the Girls project has been running as agreed offering IAG and one to one support each week to Tower Hamlets residents. Achievements - new registrations 24 BAME women of which 9 women have commenced training, 2 people have secured employment, and one has found a volunteering placement. 2 were also offered jobs which they decided not to take due to other commitments, one care responsibilities and one childcare not meeting the needs of the employer. 7 Participants have attended job seeking activities such as CV workshops and Job Search. From the previous quarters' registrations, a total of 7 women have commenced training courses. Partnership with Workpath and Tower Hamlets Volunteering centre have continued but following up the outcomes with the latter is sometimes difficult. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 35 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8816 Circle Community Circle Community's Back Your Future @ Canary Wharf employability programme for young people Boroughwide £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description Back Your Future @ Canary Wharf will provide holistic employability support to 495 NEET young people. Access to work experience, job-seeking skills, sector knowledge, wellbeing support and entry level jobs with Canary Wharf employers will provide them with the knowledge, networks and confidence to find, sustain, and progress in work. Progress Update The project has continued to be successful in this quarter. Their relationship with Canary Wharf Group has resulted in an increase in new employers being introduced to them as well as co-location with Job Centre Plus helping them increase their referral process. They have delivered more sector-based sessions to show their young people a wider variety of job options such as security, insurance, hospitality etc. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 36 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8701 East London Advanced Technology Training Tower Hamlets Community Works Poplar; Limehouse; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's; Weavers; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's) £30,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description TH Community Works is an innovative, holistic programme of employability skills training, personal development, one-to-one support, volunteering and work experience to support unemployed refugees and migrant residents of Tower Hamlets into work. It will empower participants to build a career and navigate the UK job market independently. Progress Update The Community Works project in Tower Hamlets improves employability skills among local residents, providing them with the tools to secure meaningful employment. As part of their course, all participants are supported to create or improve their CVs, search for jobs online and practice interview and other employability skills. All students have taken part in online job searches as part of their course delivery. They have therefore gained confidence to find different opportunities online and developed skills in making online job applications. One of the key elements of this project is the Employability Club, launched at John Smith’s Family Hub. This club provides a supportive environment where parents can leave their children at the on-site crèche while attending sessions. The convenience of on-site childcare allows parents to focus fully on improving their employability skills, removing a common barrier to personal development. The Employability Club fosters not only skill development but also confidence-building and peer support. Feedback from the participants highlights the positive impact of the Employability Club. One participant shared, "I enjoyed this club, and it is very helpful," while another commented, "We shared our experiences and gained more confidence." These insights reflect how the project has built both practical job-seeking abilities and the confidence necessary to pursue employment. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 37 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9036 Hornafrik Integration Projects Ltd E14 BAME Skills Development and Employment Project Island Gardens; Blackwall and Cubitt Town; Poplar Lansbury £20,670 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Description Our project aims to work with the hard-to reach, excluded BAME, mainly Somali and other African communities who live in 3 wards in Tower Hamlets, who are long-term unemployed and/or economically inactive, including individuals with no formal or limited educational qualifications Progress Update In this quarter, 29 local residents successfully completed accredited SIA and CSCS training sessions. This achievement supports the project’s aim to equip residents with tangible skills that enhance their employability in the security and construction sectors. 69 local participants attended their weekly "one2one and group" employability workshops. These sessions were designed to improve skills like CV building, job hunting, interview techniques, and understanding job brokerage. The workshops also provided participants with the tools to approach the labour market confidently, especially those who had been previously disengaged or distant from employment opportunities. 15 participants secured employment across sectors such as SIA (security), construction, care, cleaning, and voluntary work. These job placements are a direct reflection of the project’s success in moving people closer to the labour market. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 38 ID Organisation Project Geographica l Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8742 Leaders in Community Youth and Community Social Action Hub Poplar; Lansbury £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description The project will create a safe and inclusive hub for youth and community social action work placements, which will help develop campaigns on equity and employment by addressing barriers to progress and raising aspirations for young people and older community members, particularly for people from Black, Asian, and Multi-Ethnicity backgrounds. Progress Update This quarter was a great success, marked by several impactful activities. The project hosted insight days with Telehouse, Sky, Barclays, Brands2Life, BNP Paribas, and Team Matrix, offering young people invaluable exposure to various industries. These insight days provided opportunities for young people to meet industry leaders, explore different career pathways, and expand their professional networks. Notably, young people secured work placements with Brands2Life and BNP Paribas, a significant achievement in enhancing their employability and industry experience. The placements were a direct outcome of the insight days and demonstrated the value of connecting youth with professionals in the field. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 39 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG ratings 8716 Limehouse Project More New Horizons Poplar; Limehouse; Mile End; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Description Limehouse Project’s ‘More New Horizons’ project seeks to support local women to gain the skills to get into work and/or to begin to run their own online businesses which can be managed around a work-life balance and household responsibilities. Progress Update During this quarter, the project continued to over-achieve in their yearly target by engaging 26 individuals. From these individuals 17 individuals took part in the More New Horizons courses and the remaining only accessed employability and workshop support in preparation. Continued efforts to strengthen and develop co-production partnerships to reach individuals at risk of social, economic, and digital exclusion and support their employability skills to improve their financial situations and develop their skills have taken place through outreach. A cohort of 17 individuals for the E-Commerce and Digital Skills course took place on the 27th and 30th of September 2024. One-to-one sessions have taken place for employability support, 1 x financial managing money workshop has taken place by 15 participants and the project have had successful progression into job roles due to the increase of employability skills and confidence reported. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9017 Mind in Tower Hamlets, Newham and Redbridge Mindful Barista Project Boroughwide £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n The Mindful Barista Project will support people living with mental health to access employment training and experience to become a Barista and gain work experience in local cafes. We will support up to 20 people per year to gain experience of working in a cafe and becoming a Barista. Progress Update This quarter, organisation faced some staffing challenges that impacted the café's operations including training. Due to this, they were unable to meet the one of KPI's this quarter. To address these challenges, they implemented the following measures: Increased work hours for the remaining staff member to ensure the café could stay open and continue supporting clients and Engaged previous trainees to support the café. However, they are on track with meeting the outcomes. Financial reporting Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 40 shows spend on track with budget. Project monitoring demonstrates engagement of children and parents in line with application expectations on geographical and equalities monitoring. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8885 Osmani Trust Pathway to Employment Boroughwide £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description To deliver an education, employment and training-focused project to reduce barriers to employment for NEET young people in Tower Hamlets. To develop their confidence and employability skills, help them gain qualifications and work experience and support them with progressing into education, employment or training. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): In Quarter 2, Osmani Trust provided crucial support to 67 individuals across various youth and adult support programs. With a strong focus on Information, Advice, and Guidance (IAG), training opportunities, and employment attainment. The data spans multiple wards and involves diverse individuals who have taken significant steps towards improving their employability and life skills through structured support. 37 participants successfully completed accredited courses that boosted their qualifications and employability prospects. 12 young individuals obtained Level 2 First Aid in Mental Health certificates, equipping them with vital skills to handle mental health crises, further 11 young people and young adults achieved a level 3 first aid qualification adding a valuable qualification to their profile. Young people also completed the Asdan Short Course in Personal Finance, designed to improve financial literacy and future planning skills. We also had NEET young adults who completed practical training, such as, CBT (Compulsory Basic Training) Licence for motorbike use, enhancing mobility for job opportunities and advanced training like HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle) Driver courses, and Gas Engineer courses, which are in demand, leading directly to employment in sectors like logistics and energy Our team also supported an individual into Sales assistant position at Sports Direct, providing hands-on retail experience, Others attained employment in sectors such as hospitality, Sales Assistants and skilled labour. Entrepreneurial outcomes were also noted, such as a participant opening an Indian kitchen takeaway business after receiving business plan support through Osmani Trust The diverse training opportunities, personalised IAG support, and successful employment placements show a clear trajectory of positive outcomes. The combination of hands-on qualifications, tailored guidance, and practical job experience has enabled participants to transition successfully into employment, further education, and entrepreneurial ventures. These achievements Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 41 underscore the effectiveness of the support programs in empowering individuals to attain better employment prospects and life skills. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8671 Providence Row Employability & Progression (E&P) programme helping homeless people get closer to, or into, employment Boroughwide; Spitalfields and Banglatown £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description Our Employability & Progression (E&P) project will support 110 extremely vulnerable, disadvantaged and excluded homeless people in Tower Hamlets, annually. Through our numerous tried-and-tested learning, training, peer mentoring, work- placement and employment opportunities we will help people get off, and stay off, the streets and begin leading more independent, self-sustaining lives. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): We had 35 referrals onto our Employability & Progression (E&P) project in Tower Hamlets during this quarter of the Mayor’s Community Fund project. Unfortunately, we had a short period where our previous Employability & Progression Programme Manager left their role (to take on a job elsewhere) and before their replacement started. This partly explains why there was a temporary drop off between referrals received and Information Advice and Guidance Assessments performed but this should be rectified going forwards. Otherwise, we continued receiving referrals from our wide variety of partner organisations to ensure we are reaching the hardest to engage clients and we have helped many of them to access various elements of our learning, training and work- readiness support as well as paid jobs. Furthermore, while we only have two job outcomes this quarter, we do now have two Peer Mentors that are volunteering at Providence Row thanks to the support of the Tower Hamlets Mayor’s Community Grant. These Peer Mentors are gaining work experience while helping other homeless clients via: - Supporting our Reset substance use services. - Volunteering in our day centre reception to help welcome new clients to our building and service. - They recently ran our first Service User Forum in quite a while. This is really positive as this means we will be able to start hearing the thoughts, concerns and suggestions of more of our clients thanks to this important work. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 42 The two jobs that we helped our clients achieve this quarter were as a Waiter at a prestigious hotel in Soho and, separately, as a brick layer for a large construction firm. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8952 Stepney Community Trust (SCT) “Employment Pathways” Boroughwide; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's; Spitalfields and Banglatown £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description “Employment Pathways” will develop training and support programmes for local people, farthest away from the job market, to improve employability and become better able to compete for jobs; the programme will comprise skills training, 1-1 mentoring, practical job search activities and work experience to progress along ‘employment pathways’. Progress Update In this quarter, the project focussed their efforts on promoting the project and its services across the borough. This is due to July and August being at summer time and schools were closed which led to increased childcare responsibilities. The project partnered with TH family hubs and attended their various public events in the following dates and areas: 31st July Meath Gardens, E2 7th August, Whitehorse Open Spaces E1 14th August, Bartlett Park E14 21st August, Stepney Green Park E1 As a result of attending these events they have formed a working partnership with Aberfeldy Big local; their EPP Coordinator is now based at the Aberfeldy Big Local Office in Poplar once a week and has been offering the EP service to residents from there. This has proved to be a success thus far as residents from that particular locality can access the EP service. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 43 ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9077 Streets of Growth Inspire Talent: Youth employability programme Boroughwide £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description We will support 16-25s Young adults who face complex barriers to work – showcasing their abilities and ensuring successful employment/training transitions. Engaging participants through outreach, we will develop their skills through strategic employer partnerships and a vibrant programme of life skills/work training, career mentoring, work experience and viable career pathways. Progress Update This quarter Streets of Growth delivered 30 workshops to 48 (registered and engaged) young people of which 25 are new, aged 14-27. During Q1 organisation worked with 51 yp’s, Q2 44 and this quarter they have gained 25 new- Totalling to 120 yp’s. Over the course of this quarter, organisation delivered 30 workshops. 19 yp’s from last and this quarter had work experience placements- for some this resulted in secured employment and 17 attended work careers. 28 overall have gone into further education and university. 46 yp’s from previous and this quarter have successfully completed various AQA accreditation in subjects like Goal setting, Doll making with recycled clothing, and post-production in filmmaking. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8957 The Bangladesh Youth Movement (BYM) “Opening Doors” [The Ethnically Diverse Women’s Engagement Initiative] St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Weavers £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n “Opening Doors” is an initiative customised to support those residents furthest from the labour market i.e. females from Bangladeshi and ethnically diverse communities who are regularly excluded from development opportunities; they will build confidence, work-related skills and experience through employment-driven training and work development activities to become ready for work. Progress Update Organisation reported that they are continuing to deliver range of activities such as Skills training courses i.e. ESOL, ICT job search, CV preparation, 1-1 support, AIG on employment and personal development training activities and volunteering. Organisation reported that around 15 individuals have participating in the activities each quarter, surpassing their annual target of 30. Financial reporting shows spend on track with budget. Project monitoring demonstrates engagement of BAME female participants over the age of 21 in line with application expectations on geographical and equalities monitoring. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 44 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9047 Volunteer Centre Tower Hamlets Improving Employability Through Volunteering Boroughwide £39,250 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Description Our project will support socially excluded residents from across the borough, including those who are further away from the labour market, to volunteer in local voluntary, community and statutory organisations, where they will gain workplace experience, training, references and improve their employability, skills and confidence. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): We have promoted our IETV programme to target audiences through bespoke presentations and stalls at events: Poplar HARCA Engagement & Services Exhibition Day Employer Event, Feldy Community Centre, E14 0XA Stall on 10 July 2024 Target audience: students/young unemployed people Attendance: 25 residents, young people, unemployed (10 individuals gave their details). The Tower Project Job Enterprise and Training Service, E3 4RL Presentation on 10 September 2024 Target audience: Learners with learning disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorder Attendance: 8 learners Her Wealth, Her Way event, Tower Hamlets Town Hall, E1 1BJ Stall on 17 September 2024 Target audience: women seeking financial independence Attendance: 20-30 participants took information Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 45 ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8964 Working Well Trust Upskill Works Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n We will support people with lived experience of mental health, learning disabilities and/or neurodiversity to address the barriers to progressing towards employment, to improve their employment prospects, to achieve and sustain their employment goals. Progress Update 43 residents in total supported over last 3 quarters 10 new residents supported this quarter has meant yearly target has been reached within 3 quarters. Two residents gain paid employment and a number of others accessing a range of courses and volunteering making progress towards their long term employment goals. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 46 Scheme B – Sports and Local Culture and Heritage ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9086 Bromley By Bow Community Organisation BBBCO Sporting Community Bromley South £15,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description BBBCO Sporting Community will provide sporting sessions to young people to improve their physical and mental health; develop their personal skills and social connections; act as a diversionary hook away from negative activities. Progress Update Increased participants during the summer holidays with delivery of various sporting activities. The project could only accommodate on the basis of absentees or provide a taster of the session due to space. Session plans slightly changed to give a refreshed feel to the session with team competitions arranged with Medal and Trophies awarded to individuals with a sense of achievement. Overall wellbeing recording was high along with participants. Participants are planning alternative funding to accommodate various other activities/provisions. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 47 8897 Four Corners East End Stories Boroughwide £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description “East End Stories” will provide seventy-two Tower Hamlets residents with the opportunity to participate in a programme of training and cultural activities which will culminate in them making films about their local community’s history and culture. Progress Update This quarter, the project recruited 7 volunteers (from LBTH) for their collaboration with Mulberry School for Girls. The aim being to give the volunteers skills in archival research that the school will then use to devise a play with their students. The play's working title is 'One House on Brick Lane' and will be shown in the borough in Summer 2025. Each volunteer chose a period in history of Brick Lane from the migration of the Huguenots to the present day to research. The volunteers will write their own blogs based on their research they've undertaken to help with the playwriting. The blogs will be published on Four Corners' website and social media channels. The volunteers have enjoyed researching the archival material, looking up names, fashions, occupations and imagery from the times. Activity also includes archival research, training with archivists at Oxford House, THLHLA and Bishopsgate Institute, presenting their research to Mulberry staff, learning about copyright and access and use of archives, guidance and training in blog writing. The project also recruited 7 volunteers (6 from LBTH) as part of the Workers Film & Photo League project to make short films, to be screened as part of an exhibition at Four Corners in Jan 2025. Volunteers are learning about the history of the Workers Film & Photo League and will learn Super8 camera skills and editing on Premiere Pro software. The project also recruited an additional 6 volunteers (5 from LBTH) as part of the Four Corners Film Workshop project. Volunteers will also make short films as well as receive training in Oral History interviewing and will conduct their own interviews with people connected to the history of Four Corners. These films will be screened as part of Four Corners' 50th anniversary celebrations next Spring/Summer 2025. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 48 9050 Half Moon Young People's Theatre Professional Theatre and Inclusive Participatory Drama for Young People Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Description Professional theatre shows and inclusive participatory drama opportunities in an accessible venue and in Children and Family Centres around the borough. Activity is for ages 0-18 (or 25 for disabled young people) from all backgrounds and abilities from across Tower Hamlets, with free access support for anyone with needs/disabilities. Progress Update The HMYPT reported a successful 2nd quarter with overall 225 registered participants taking part in sessions. Some of the themes of the activities and themes the YP were involved in included looking at the notion and definition of crime (15-18 age group), exploring a variety of performance styles from mime to physical theatre, storytelling and comedy (11-14 age group) as well as performing peer reviewed short plays (8-11 age group). Below is an update on outcomes based on their KPIs: * KPI 1: 182 participants reported an increase in confidence through attending weekly Youth Theatre sessions (110 target) * KPI 2: 164 recipients reported improved communication skills through attending weekly Youth Theatre sessions (110 target) * KPI 3: The number of children and young people and their parents/carers, who don't normally access the arts, reporting feeling enriched by their experience at Half Moon A written update was provided which estimates 594 new attendees visiting Half Moon. Actual feedback forms and audience data will be reviewed in the next quarter and details provided then. In addition to the monitoring form, the HMYPT provided a youth theatre impact report (which included photos and updates), an Excel document with ticket bookers ward breakdown date, as well as a summer programme brochure. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 49 8860 Kayd Somali Arts & Culture Tower Hamlets in Focus: Somali Arts Project Boroughwide; Canary Wharf; Blackwall and Cubitt Town; Poplar; Limehouse; Mile End; Bromley South; Bromley North; Bow West; Bow East; St Katherine's and; Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's); Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description Celebrate and showcasing Somali arts and culture in Tower Hamlets through a series of engaging events during the Somali Week Festival. Featuring a family weekend, a captivating documentary highlighting the historical significance of Somalis in East London, and a commissioned British-Somali play. Preserving cultural heritage &promoting artistic expression and storytelling. Progress Update During this quarter, they selected five steering group members who agreed to be part of the documentary Untold Stories, the documentary was filmed on July 13th and 14th. It was two days of long interviews and site visits. The documentary highlights the involvement and the arrivals of the Somaliland Community in Tower Hamlets. Some of the participants were between 70-80 years old and it is important for them to leave this legacy for the next generation. To celebrate Black History Month, Kayd is collaborating with Tower Hamlets Council to organize an event on Saturday 5th of October, 2024. This event is titled “Roots and Rhythms: A Celebration of Black, Somali Culture”. During this event, they screened Untold Stories, since many of Tower Hamlets residents are coming to that event. Additionally, the documentary was screened during Somali Week Festival (SWF) on Saturday, October 19th, from 6:00pm-8:00pm at Oxford House. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 50 8983 Magic Me CREATIVE MIX Weavers; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's); Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £39,958 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Description CREATIVE MIX: a year-round programme of relationship building, arts workshops and creative events in and around Bethnal Green that will bring older and younger residents together, increasing individuals’ confidence and wellbeing, building connections across different faiths, cultures and backgrounds, through creativity and the arts. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): During this quarter, Creative Mix has gone through an evaluation and planning phase in the lead up to restarting delivery in November. As we have been working in partnership with a secondary school the project model uses the academic year as a guide for session delivery. Throughout July and August we carried out a number of evaluation meetings with artists, partners (Gateway Housing Association and Mulberry UTC) and within the team. Over this period we highlighted key changes that we will make as we enter the next adamic year of delivery including: • Research and planning - assigning more time for artists to plan and develop the sessions plans and direction, to tailor them to local participants' needs • Project commitment - changing sessions from weekly to monthly, extending the duration of each session and working towards an exhibition to showcase the work created by participants • Outreach and recruitment - rather than partnering solely with one organisation, we will instead promote more broadly amongst multiple local organisations such as Age UK, Linkage Plus and Zacchaeus Project to name a few for the recruitment of older participants as we feel this can have a stronger impact on numbers. We will be moving away from running taster sessions and instead take time to visit existing groups to share information about the project and our work at Magic Me to then direct them to our monthly intergenerational sessions at Pott Street. Throughout September the artists have worked on developing a clear direction for Creative Mix and Mulberry UTC has identified that this project will be highly beneficial for their sixth form students to participate in. Through research we have also identified local groups we will be approaching to promote the project to. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 51 ID Organisatio n Project Geographica l Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9087 Ocean Youth Connexions Physical Health and fitness programmes St Dunstan’s £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n We want to continue deliver a Taekwondo Session for young girls from the BAME communities, a BAME men’s cycling activity and a weekend football programme that addresses social exclusions Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): We managed to register 36 young people onto our football programme of which 32 are from the borough and 4 out of the borough. The Saturday sessions have been very well attended with an average of 20 young people attending every week this quarter. Relationships young people has been very positive and our staff member is ensuring that young people develop skills and technique, learn to understand the game from different formations and commit themselves to the sessions. Young people entered the Sporting Foundation tournament and came runners up again wearing their new kit funded by Tesco’s. The players are involved in regular consultation work, a daily debrief takes place after the session to talk about how the session went, how they felt and how improvements can be made to the game play and feedback. Our programme has reduced loneliness of some young people, built new relationships, improved their general fitness levels and their general mental health and wellbeing. Some young people have attended our monthly careers sessions and we hope to get them onto apprenticeship scheme and part time work. Our cycle team managed to get 12 adults registered for the cycle sessions of which 5 are from the borough and 7 out of the borough and an average of 8 of them are regular cyclist. They went on a cycling residential trip to challenge their cycling abilities and this helped build better relationships amongst themselves and freshened their minds. This residential helped them relaxed, removed stress and gave them breathing space away from their busy lives they live. Our cycling sessions include roadside puncture repairs, as well as pre ride checks on chain adjustment and derailleur adjustments. Learning from the residential when one bike derailer snapped, another had a puncture but forgot to take their spares and one person gears were was not working well. All the cyclist are involved in route planning beforehand and we are seeing new challenges being created on their Strava app. Cycling has helped all of our participants to improve and maintain their fitness levels, their health, and making positive choices in healthier active lifestyles. The project is attended well and we hope to attract more participants from within the borough next year to become regular cyclists. This quarters weather has been great with not many rainy days or even high winds, making sessions come to fruition when planning rides. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 52 ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8882 Osmani Trust OC Active – Community Sports & Health Project Boroughwide £40,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n Our project will provide access to regular sports provision for BAME communities including young girls, women, young adults and men over 45; meeting their family, cultural and religious needs and enabling them to participate fully. The programme will support local people to become Volunteer Champions promoting sports and healthy living. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): This Quarter our OC Active Sports Project has gone from strength to strength with 45 new clients and participants registered onto the programme totalling 112 beneficiaries to date. This quarter has seen the growth of our service through large scale events, word of mouth and regular participation through our 6 weekly sessions leading to promotion of the funding and the commitment by the council and the Mayor of his support of sports for hard to reach, vulnerable and at risk groups. Through OC Active we delivered the Tower Hamlets Community Cup which mobilised and empowered teams consisting of young people, both male and female alongside the wider third sector here in Tower Hamlets and grassroots sports and volunteers and coaches with over 400 young people benefitting. We are proud to announce that Mindset Orange, Vallance, Impact FC and Onside Football were winners of the respective categories with huge interest and demand already in place for next year. We have also focused on workshops tackling issues pertinent to our community and utilising established partnerships with LBTH and other internal Osmani Trust services to deliver the “Know the Risks” Workshop focusing on Nitrous Oxide and it’s misuse to our over 45’s OC Active Participants who are also parents from the community. Our 5 Sports Champions are on their way to completing their training with this last quarter seeing them complete First Aid and Safeguarding with the FA Football Level 1 to be completed within the next two quarters. This will help sustainability of the groups and also add much needed technical knowledge and experience within the community for grassroots sports. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 53 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8875 Outside Edge Theatre Company East London Drop-in Drama and Write Now Boroughwide; Spitalfields and Banglatown £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Description East London Drop-in Drama and East London Write Now will provide free, accessible arts-based activities for vulnerable Tower Hamlets residents affected by addiction that will help improve their health and wellbeing and prevent relapse. Progress Update From July-September 2024, they delivered 13 sessions of East London Drop-in Drama for 52 Service Users who attended 200 times. These weekly 2-hour sessions offered fun, fast improvisation games and drama activities that help people to build confidence, reduce loneliness, improve wellbeing and develop commitment. From those who attended East London Drop-in Drama from July-September 2024 and who responded to our Follow Up Survey which were completed during the month of September: ● 100% said we strengthened their recovery ● 96% made meaningful connections at OETC ● 92% feel more physically active ● 92% helped to take control of their lives ● 88% said OETC helped them find a job/return to training/university ● 75% improved relationships 3 participants of East London Drop-in Drama who have attended consistently for at least three months took part in Write Two, our intermediate scriptwriting group July-September 2024. At the end of September, the 12-session course culminated in a table read of their final scripts read by LAMDA graduates. This year, the course was led by Olivier-award nominated playwright Isley Lynn. This intermediate writing course offered participants a fantastic opportunity to take their writing to the next level and to create a finished piece of work, honing different writing skills and exploring topics such as structure, dialogue and character. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 54 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8644 Platform Cricket (Tower Hamlets Youth Sport Foundation) Platform Cricket Hubs: Bethnal Green, Bow, Isle of Dogs, Poplar, Stepney, Wapping & Whitechapel Boroughwide £25,000 Due to staff leaving the project management has not been satisfactory with monitoring returns submitted late or not received. A meeting took place with the organisation in December to explain that this was not acceptable. The organisation assured us that delivery was happening, and a visit is arranged for January to confirm. AMBER Short Description Establish "pop up" cricket clubs at 7 locations across the borough, providing access for all children but particularly under- represented groups such as girls, ethnic minorities, and those from low-income backgrounds. Sessions will utilise cricket to support personal and social development outcomes. Progress Update No update provided by organisation Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 55 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9016 Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre (Also Known as ELMV Shadwell Basin Project) Discover Adventure Sport Project Boroughwide £9,294 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n The ‘Discover Adventure Sports Project’ will use outdoor and adventure activities as a vehicle to, both increase the engagement of girls in sports and improve health outcomes for inactive young people. It will target under-represented communities to address the inequalities that exist in the access to adventure sports. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): 4 new members were enrolled onto the programme in this quarter, so there are now 20 girls on this programme in total. There were 6 sessions that took place on Wednesday evenings over the three-month period. The number of sessions in this quarter was lower than usual due to the summer holiday period in the middle. 10 spaces were available on each of the sessions and attendance was very good, with an average of just over 9 girls attending each session and 56 attendances in total. A mixed activity programme took place, varying from week to week depending on the weather. Activities included climbing, high ropes, raft building, stand up paddleboarding, open canoeing, indoor bouldering and kayaking. Many of the girls taking part were aged 9 - 11, which is the lower end of the age range. It was very rewarding to see them building confidence and friendships and the growth in their skills throughout the sessions. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 56 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8703 South Poplar and Limehouse Action for Secure Housing (SPLASH) SPLASH Sports and Play clubs Poplar: Limehouse £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n In England's most densely populated borough, where 41.8% of kids face weight challenges, and 88% live in flats. SPLASH Play offers free supervised play and sport provisions for children aged 5-13. Our dedicated playworkers nurture creativity, empowering kids to explore their imagination, learn, and flourish in a safe, friendly space. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): This quarter saw a significant increase in children's engagement with outdoor activities. Children frequently visited local parks, where they participated in activities like playing on swings, navigating obstacle courses, and using slides. On the estates, children engaged in water games, including the creation of water slides using tarp sheets and soap. Despite heavy rainfall affecting the survival of our vegetable and herb crops, the remaining produce was utilised in cooking activities. In collaboration with SPLASH, we successfully hosted three estate fun days, featuring BBQs, dessert stalls, bouncy castles, and face painting to raise funds for Palestine. The children also designed and sold spray-painted tote bags, raising £150. Additionally, seven volunteers were recruited for summer project who also assisted with these events. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 57 ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9064 Udichi Shilpi Gosthi Udichi Performing Arts and Festival Project Boroughwide; Island Gardens; Poplar; Limehouse; Mile End; Bromley North; Bow East; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Weavers; Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £19,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n UDICHI Performing Arts/Festival Project works with Tower Hamlets Bangladeshi community increasing access and participation in cultural events focusing on Bengali & other cultures/heritages. Project provides quality teaching in music, dance, literature to 420 children/young people over 3.5 years and also delivers X 18 Festivals for 7,000 Tower Hamlets residents. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): Udichi has delivered music and dance classes for the quarter 1/07 -31/09. We have delivered the classes over the last three months 13 Weeks. Total students learned music; dance was 80 in this quarter. We have delivered 3 cultural events where 750 children and young people, parents and local residents attended the events and enjoyed the events. We have achieved all our outputs and targets in this quarter. We did not face any difficulties to deliver our activities. We have achieved significant outcome and there was an positive impact for children and young people. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 58 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8673 Vallance Community Sports Association SEND Health & Wellbeing Project (Adults) Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n A programme of weekly sports and physical activities and a social club for Adults (18 years and above) with special educational needs and disabilities for the purpose of increasing sports participation, improving health and wellbeing (including mental health), and reducing loneliness, isolation and exclusion. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): During this quarter, our Physical and Mental Health program for adults with disabilities participating in sports activities has once again made substantial progress and achieved significant outcomes. Here are some key highlights: Achievements: 1. Increased Participation: We saw a noticeable increase in participant engagement due to the summer months, with more adults with disabilities actively taking part in physical activities. 2. Skill Development: Participants demonstrated improvements in physical fitness, sports skills, and overall well-being through regular training and sessions. 3. Community Integration: The program played a crucial role in fostering social connections and community integration for individuals with disabilities. 4. Positive Feedback: Continuous positive feedback from participants, indicating high satisfaction levels and the beneficial impact of the program on their physical and mental health. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 59 ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8752 Wapping Youth Services FitLife: Wellness Through Sports Limehouse; Mile End; St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Weavers; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's); Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n FitLife: Wellness Through Sports initiative is a project that promotes improved health and well-being of residents. Through targeted activities, the project aims to foster engagement, physical and mental wellness, and a sense of pride in the diverse cultural community for all the residents of Tower Hamlets. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): During this quarter, we successfully completed all scheduled sessions, making significant progress in engaging the local youth through physical activities. Our football and BJJ sessions attracted a consistent group of participants, creating a positive environment for physical fitness, teamwork, and discipline. The impact of the programme was seen in increased participant confidence, physical fitness, and the development of essential life skills such as leadership and respect. Additionally, we have noticed improved social cohesion among the youth, as these activities provided a healthy outlet for building friendships and reinforcing a sense of community. Achievements and Significant Outcomes Weekly Football Sessions Activity: Conducted 12 football sessions, one each week. Participation: 24 local young people participated weekly. Outcomes: Regular Physical Activity: Provided consistent physical exercise, contributing to improved physical health and fitness. Skill Development: Enhanced football skills and understanding of teamwork and game strategy. Community Building: Strengthened bonds within the local community, fostering a sense of belonging among participants. Discipline and Routine: Reinforced discipline and structure through regular attendance and participation. Weekly Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) Sessions Activity: Conducted 12 BJJ sessions, one each week. Participation: 16 young people participated regularly. Outcomes: physical Fitness: Promoted physical strength, flexibility, and endurance through structured martial arts training. Discipline and Respect: Instilled key values of discipline, respect for others, and self-control. Confidence and Resilience: Helped participants build confidence, resilience, and mental toughness through challenges in BJJ training. Personal Development: Encouraged growth in self-awareness, problem-solving, and emotional regulation. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 60 Theme 4 – Investing in Public Services Scheme A - Physical and Mental Health Wellbeing of Older People ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8969 Age UK East London Activity Buddy Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description Our tried and tested, volunteer-led Activity Buddy scheme uses both 1:1 and group sessions to support older people to build the trust and confidence to get out into the community, connect with others and become more active and informed. Progress Update In this reporting period the project has supported 26 clients matched to date. 94.1% of clients on average report feeling less isolated and lonely ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8826 Asian People's Disability Alliance Can you See Us - Standing Up for Older People Spitalfields and Banglatown; Weavers; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's); Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Description This is a Daycare & Development Project for Older women with Disabilities and long-term Health Conditions. By supporting their physical, emotional, social, and environmental needs, we may improve the quality of life for older persons with impairments and health issues. Progress Update APDA had another successful quarter exceeding targets. As part of their Can You See Us project, they successfully delivered their twice weekly sessions to older women, supporting them to improve their overall health and wellbeing. They engaged with participants via arts and crafts skills training, physical exercise sessions and supported them to engage with their wider local communities. In addition, to this they also supported the ladies to arrange a social outing to the seaside, ensuring that participants felt empowered to arrange and organise their day trip using different modes of public transport. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 61 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9073 Community of Refugees from Vietnam - East London Vietnamese and Chinese Lunch and Social Club Boroughwide; Island Gardens; Blackwall and Cubitt Town; Poplar; Limehouse; Lansbury; Mile End; Bromley South; Bromley North; Bow West; Bow East; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's); Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description The Vietnamese &Chinese Lunch Club (VCLC) provides healthy food, a lunch club, a range of social activities and promotes healthy living in all forms for older people in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Progress Update During this reporting period the project has supported 52 members, improving their health and wellbeing and reducing their isolation. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9004 East London Mosque Trust The Senior Citizens Project Whitechapel; Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n The Senior Citizens Project at East London Mosque supports elderly men and women over 50 to tackle loneliness and isolation and improve their health and well-being through social activity, exercise, and awareness sessions in a culturally sensitive space and gives access to a healthy meal through a health cafe. Progress Update In this period the project has supported 69 participants in regular project activities which have included onsite activities and trips to external venues. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 62 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8868 English National Ballet Dancing East Canary Wharf; Blackwall and Cubitt Town; Poplar; Limehouse; Lansbury; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Weavers; Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description Dancing East is English National Ballet’s programme of creative ballet classes for participants aged over 50 living in Tower Hamlets and is designed to improve physical and mental wellbeing through dance in community centres across the borough. Progress Update The project (Dancing East) took a break during the summer period and the new autumn term began on Monday 30 September. During this time 57 registered participants who took part in regular project activities during this period. Below are the KPIs for the project which illustrate the project continues to meet expectations and outcomes: * At least 12 participants (80%) said they feel more connected to other people in the community (target was 12). * At least 9 participants (75%) said they have improved mental health as a result of Dancing East (target was 9). * At least 45 participants (90%) said that they feel welcomed, included and respected (target was 45). Feedback from delivery partners continue to meet expectations and highlight the positive impact of the project: St Luke’s centre manager “Watching my group all mixed together with the other groups performing their chair exercises, accompanied by the live musicians in the massive rehearsal room was amazing. I felt so proud of them & it made me feel a little emotional & pleased that I started a conversation with ENB almost a year ago now.” Toynbee Hall centre manager “For a first sharing day I would have to say it was organised and set up wonderfully, engaging at all times and a delight to get a glimpse of the wigs and costumes. I have had nothing but great responses and enthusiasm from our dancers about wishing to attend the next Sharing day, and any future events being held by ENB. They've been asking " when's the next one". Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 63 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8942 Globe Community Project Wellbeing for Elders Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's) £39,903 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description A powerful mindfulness-based programme serving over-60s at risk of severe loneliness and isolation in Tower Hamlets supporting them to increase connection with others and themselves and lead richer, more active and fulfilling lives. Participants improve their resilience using proven tools to improve awareness and agency over thoughts, emotions and behaviour. Progress Update During this reporting period the project has supported 9 registered participants who reported positive feedback as a result of participating in project activities. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8973 Island House Community Centre SENIORS Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description The Seniors Project addresses loneliness and isolation in older people within Tower Hamlets through regular initiatives covering physical and mental health, social needs, and practical skills. Extending our existing programme will increase the range of social and health activities available to improve mental and physical health amongst the over-fifties. Progress Update The SENIORS project continues to excel and this quarter the KPIs and targets have been achieved e.g. 21 attendees reported improved health (12 target) and 33 (target 27) reported reduced isolation. Island House also submitted case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of this project. Invoices and financial report demonstrate project is on track with expenditure this quarter. In the next quarter, the centre Director is planning singing workshops (targeted for the brain), Get Online event as well as a health workshop delivered by the NHS. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 64 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8903 Neighbours In Poplar Bengali Women’s Holistic Project Island Gardens; Canary Wharf; Blackwall and Cubitt Town; Poplar; Limehouse; Lansbury £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description Following extensive research by NIP, we have discovered that there is a lack of community provision for local elderly Bengali women. We therefore, propose to outreach to local elderly Bengali women residing in the E14 area to attend and take full advantage of the many services and activities from NIP. Progress Update During this quarter, the Bengali Women’s Holistic Project had 18 clients, 7 from Isle of Dogs and 11 from Poplar, providing tailored assistance to improve their overall well-being, both socially and digitally. Key Achievements and Outcomes: 1. Health Awareness Day: with over 30 clients attending. Stallholders from local GP surgeries, the Social Prescribing Team, Alzheimer’s Team, Reablement Team and other health organisations participated. This allowed clients to engage directly with professionals about their health concerns, facilitating access to much-needed support, especially during times when GP appointments are difficult to secure. 2. Financial Support: o They completed four Pension Credit claims - two PIP claims - two housing benefit - council tax reduction applications - three income and expenditure forms - a range of other benefit checks and applications. - Three clients with Attendance Allowance claims, securing higher-rate awards for two clients (£108.55 per week) and a lower rate for another (£72.65 per week). - They completed a carer’s allowance application, securing a weekly benefit of £81.90, with a three-month backdate totalling £982.80. These benefits have significantly reduced financial stress and anxiety, particularly with the rising cost of living as winter approaches. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 65 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8632 Shadwell Trust Bridging the Gap St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description Bridging the Gap will provide access to physical activity and mobility sessions to older people. The activities will be delivered from Tarling East Community Centre in partnership with Sonali Gardens, Linkage Plus and Tower Hamlets Community Housing. We also plan to run social club and activity classes for older people. Progress Update The project has supported 43 beneficiaries this quarter improving peoples' health and wellbeing and reducing peoples' isolation and loneliness. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 66 9032 SocietyLinks Tower Hamlets Growing Together St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel £40,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n A health and mental wellbeing improvement programme targeting older people through tackling loneliness, inactivity and isolation. The project will reduce digital isolation to give older people greater access to services and convenience and imbed strategies to improve intergenerational relations through a volunteering scheme with local young students. Progress Update According to the report and KPI data the organisation has once gains had a successful quarter with community volunteers and members all commenting on how lovely the atmosphere is in the sessions and they overwhelmed with visitors and volunteers wanting to support the group. During this period KPIs have been exceed and key activities included spending time in the orchard, walks in the park and external trips and events at other partner organisations. The BAME group have taken a keen interest in crafts and enjoyed weaving and embroidery. The report also mentions the group having enjoyed watching videos of cultural arts and crafts on Youtube. Over the Summer the project also benefited from regular sixth form students who work with the group as part of their placement from their health and social course. In addition to the report, the organisation submitted photos of Growing Together project covering the July- Sept 2024 period. They also reported that a lot of their attendees have issues with mobility and that they have worked on this by applying for taxi cards for those who are eligible and have also been working on pairing up volunteers who can become walking buddies for participants with mobility issues. KPIs achieved for Q3 are listed below: 43 participants attended (target was 20) 32 participants reporting feeling happier or content (min. target 20) 22 participants reporting having increased participation in physical activity (min. target 21) 20 participants attending the digital development sessions reporting having the confidence to use basic features on a digital device independently (min. target 18) ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 67 8956 Somali Senior Citizens Club “Granby Hall Seniors’ Club” Boroughwide; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's); Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description Granby Hall Seniors’ Club will promote health and well-being of vulnerable local elders, particularly, but not exclusively, from the Somali community living in Tower Hamlets experiencing social isolation, economic deprivation and reduced independence by providing a programme of health and developmental activities at our Granby Hall Centre. Progress Update During this reporting period, the project has supported 96 Somali older residents by providing them a mixture of cultural, social and health and wellbeing activities. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8864 St Hilda's East Community Centre Over 50's Feeling Good Boroughwide; St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell Weavers £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Description The aim of Over 50s Feeling Good is to provide a programme of activity for older people which allows them to experience joy through taking part in exciting and challenging activity, fostering social connections, and improving their physical and mental health in an environment that is comfortable, safe and inclusive. Progress Update During this reporting period, the Feeling Good project has continued to offer older residents a variety of activities including, Dancercise, Seated exercise, Bingo and Chit, Chat Chai which have improved service users physical and mental wellbeing. The project as supported 87 service users in this period. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 68 9002 Tower Hamlets Friends and Neighbours Befriending for Isolated Older People Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n A free befriending and advocacy service for older people experiencing loneliness and social isolation in Tower Hamlets through one-to-one befriending visits in people’s homes, group outings enabling people to meet others in a similar situation, and telephone befriending for additional support particularly at times of crisis. Progress Update During the second quarter, Tower Hamlets Friends and Neighbours has sought to consolidate its work, by setting up a new CRM, reconfiguring the way and in which it measures and captures outcomes. This has been an immense challenge for a small charity and while they have brought in a specialist consultancy to assist them there is still more work to be done. During this period THF&N have lost a key member of staff, who has chosen to retire after 39 years with the charity. THF&N have secured additional funding from Mercers' to replace the post and also increase capacity by 1 day a week, this will allow THF&N to reduce waiting time for assessment and matching. THF&N have secured funding to start rebranding the organisation with newer fresher leaflets. THF&N have also secured funding for supporting older people around digital capability. The Hobson Charity have paid THF&N to buy 12 tablets to loan to older people. The monthly Get Together's are growing in popularity with an average attendance of 30 people each month. THF&N are working to see if they can secure more funding to enable more frequent sessions and use this as a step-down service for some older people and move them away from weekly befriending. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 69 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9052 Wapping Bangladesh Association Active Plus - Wapping BME Older Person's Day Club St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description WBA’s Older Person’s Healthy Living Club is a community-based day club run at the Wapping’s Youth Club that will a Lunch Club Programme and a variety of social and cultural socialisation activities that bringing improvements to the physical and emotional well-being to vulnerable Bangladeshi and BME older people. Progress Update The lunch sessions are running well. It has registered 40 elderly men and 40 women at the beginning of the project. It has delivered total number of 33 lunch sessions including 26 for men and 7 for women, 12 complementary therapy sessions, 7 health awareness sessions, 6 exercise and fitness sessions, 7 walking sessions, 3 improved meal with socializing events in this period of July-September 2024. The project has carried out feedback and project surveys based on the sessions and activities delivered for this quarter and has found that 98% of users said they are very happy to be a part of this project. The rest of the 2% said they are just happy and will continue to attend the project activities. The lunch club project does not only provide freshly prepared hot food for service users but opportunities for service users to socialize with each other and connect with new people. By participating in exercise and complementary therapy sessions they report positive physical and mental wellbeing; they feel better mentally and are physically more active. In this reporting period the project organised two big events such as the Wapping Fun day on 18th August and a Day Drip to Margate on 25th August 2024. Everyone from the elderly project actively participated and enjoyed the events. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 70 8979 Zacchaeus - Methodist Church in Tower Hamlets Zacchaeus Health and Wellbeing for Older People Bow East; Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description Zacchaeus aims to provide a range of wrap around/holistic offers of advice, information, access to benefits, support groups and health, social and therapeutic sessions to reduce isolation for older people. Aiming to promote healthy lifestyles, increase opportunities for physical activity participation, working towards a better mutual understanding of different cultures. Progress Update This quarter the Project has delivered a range of health and wellbeing activities to reduce isolation and promote healthier lifestyles. 105 people have been supported. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 71 Scheme B - Physical and Mental Health of Residents ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8857 Body & Soul You Are Not Alone Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description A suicide-prevention programme for young people (aged 16-30) most at risk of suicide in Tower Hamlets, addressing increasing demand and complex needs, particularly among marginalised communities that have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic and rising cost of living. Progress Update During this quarter, the organisation supported 21 young people from Tower Hamlets who were at risk of suicide. First intervention included therapeutic intervention, with a dedicated under 20's team; a subsequent graduate programme, workshops, volunteering opportunities and member-led creative communities initiative. In the organisation's lifetime, they report a 100% reduction in self-harm, 100% of members are enrolled in a 1 or more graduate pathways at the organisation, 0 suicides since starting the programme, and 93% have made no further suicide attempts since joining the programme (one individual did, reported in quarter 2). The organisation reports 6 new Tower Hamlet participants this quarter. Organisation reports that it is too early to report if they have met their target KPI as members are unable to report or ascertain a positive change in mental health at this stage. Organisation reports this has been discussed with the grants manager. The organisation added meaningful testimonials of graduates who gained positive experience since being with the organisation. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 72 8905 Bromley By Bow Centre Connect for Health Mile End; Bromley South; Bromley North; Bow West; Bow East £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project is on track to achieve KPI objectives. GREEN Short Description Working alongside local self-employed sessional leads (physical activity coaches, artists, and facilitators) to support residents to participate activity sessions. Sessions are designed to improve health and connection and include both broad open access activities and those targeted at specific audiences. Progress Update Between July - September 2024 organisation delivered 56 sessions. A total of 96 unique people made 678 attendances at those sessions. In terms of the target to support people not attending group activities prior to engagement with the organisation there were 29 such people supported this quarter who made 149 attendances. Organisation has started using the registration form to identify 'people not currently attending groups'.” ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8947 Canaan Project Canaan Project: Young Women's Mentoring Island Gardens; Canary Wharf; Blackwall and Cubitt Town; Mile End £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description A mentoring programme offering 1-1 support for young women with the aim of seeing them flourish, have broadened horizons and raised aspirations. Progress Update Between 1st July and 30th September the organisation worked with 24 different young women through 1:1 and group mentoring sessions. Organisation explains the cohort saw delivery challenges with summer break, new term, and two staff changes and annual leave. The organisation runs cohort 2 (Includes June and July) and cohort 3 (Sept start), as they both fall either in part or in full during this quarter. The organisation have met both KPI 1 and 2, as 9 young women (KPI:8) have self- reported feeling more confident, and 14 (KPI:8) young women have had increased access to support. Organisation notes decreased capacity due to 2 staff vacancies. Recruitment is currently ongoing, and a sessional worker has been hired for an October start. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 73 8858 Carers Centre Tower Hamlets Building Resilience and Resourcefulness for Unpaid Carers Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description Carers provided with a range of therapies, respite, and learning opportunities including, wellness days; art and creative activities; practical workshops on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle; and courses delivered by professionals to develop the skills required to effectively manage their caring role; and look after themselves. Progress Update Between 1st July and 30th September 2024 , this organisation delivered weekly drop in sessions for 21 unique unpaid carers, at the London Buddhist Centre in Bethnal Green. The project has a KPI of 150 unique users annually and saw a total of 12 sessions with 119 attendances overall. Organisation found 90% satisfaction rate amongst participants in feedback, with 20 out of the 21 participants completing the evaluation survey. Carers stress was reduced by 12.3% The feeling of being less isolated and less lonely increased by 19% Carers physical wellbeing increased by 50% Carers emotional wellbeing increased by 55% Carers felt that they had more me time increased 10% Carers felt that the importance of and improving and maintaining their own wellbeing increased by 12% ID Organisation Project Geographica l Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 74 8736 Council Of Mosques - Tower Hamlets Council of Mosque Healthy Mind, Healthy Lifestyle Reach Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n This healthy living project aims to improve the physical and mental health and wellbeing of BAME residents through a programme of community events, practical workshops and one-to-one health support, advice and information that will raise awareness of health risks, illnesses and diseases most profound amongst the borough’s BAME communities. Progress Update During this Quarter they delivered a total of 8 sessions providing 24 hours of physical activities and 120 Participants took part in the programme. The participants taking part reported: -Increased in self-esteem and gave a boost to their mood, improved their sleep quality and energy. -Enjoyed taking part in the exercise and fitness - some for the first time. -Participants said they felt happier and wanted to do physical activities more regularly and independently. They facilitated a twice monthly themed Healthy Living Workshop and Coffee Club Sessions through 7 Mosques: Stepney Shahjalal Mosque; Locksley Estate Cultural Association and Mosque; Mazharul Uloom Mosque; Lansbury Mosque; Al Aqsa Community Masjid; Wapping Noorani Masjid and Islamic Centre Mosque; London Muslim Centre CoM organised 4 Summer Meet Your Neighbours Community Events during July and August across the borough: Bow Community Event; Whitechapel Community Event; Wapping Community Event; Docklands Community Event The events helped promote community cohesion, promoting health living activities with stalls run by local organisations providing information such as Quit Smoking, Mental Health awareness bringing communities together through social and community activities, barbeque providing health food options, and cultural activities. The Project Adviser provided presentations on different aspects of having a healthy life. The sessions had a question-and-answer session with participants raising queries, matters impacting their health and emotional wellbeing. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 75 8932 deafPLUS Improving the Health and Wellbeing of the deaf and hard of hearing community Boroughwide £40,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description A borough wide health and wellbeing project that addresses health inequalities for deaf and hard of hearing residents, addresses their mental health issues and enables them to make healthy lifestyle choices. Progress Update This quarter, the organisation held a variety of engaging and accessible workshops and activities for the physical and emotional well-being for D/deaf and hard of hearing clients. This includes yoga sessions, accessible tours and trips, coffee mornings, and workshops focused on BSL. The organisation have exceeded their KPI of 10 participants by end of year with 16 unique clients this quarter. 28 clients have reported positive engagement with project activities through feedback. Organisations report that they have seen improved wellbeing outcomes, increased awareness empowering clients to identify and address serious issues relevant to their personal safety, and stronger community connections grown through social activities. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 76 8940 elop (East London Out Project) Tower Hamlets LGBT+ Support Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description LGBT+ Community Support to enhance peer networks, lessen isolation and provide mental health crisis prevention support. Two facilitated social support groups targeting older people, people with mental health needs or other disabilities, and LGBT asylum seekers, and one to one mental health support providing individual mental health crisis prevention support. Progress Update This quarter, the organisation have run 13 sessions across two weekly groups, with 15 attendees and an average of 5-7 people attending per session. The organisation reports over 50's group to be steady, with 9 people attending this quarter, with most weeks seeing 3-5 people attend. Organisation reports new staff member to have settled in successfully, and to be continuing working with volunteers. One user testimonial says: "This group has provided social contact and fun with likeminded people from our community. For me it has given me a place of safety to talk about being trans". For their social support group, the organisation reports 9 new people with individual mental health support this quarter. The organisation reports in detail the 17 new people who provided feedback this quarter, with 100% of respondents reporting increased confidence, social connection, and decreased loneliness. This exceeds the organisation's KPI of 85% and they are currently on track with 145 out of target 170 participants accessing provision. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 77 8966 Mind in Tower Hamlets, Newham and Redbridge Our Voices Sakinah Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description A co-produced, community-based project for diverse Muslim women to come together to support each other’s mental health and wellbeing through creating a network of safe spaces. The project supports women to have a greater voice and access services that promote positive mental health. Progress Update The organisation held 2 groups with multiple events discussing financial independence, mindfulness, cultural identity and diversity, and notes the cafe as an integral space of caregiving within the organisation. The organisation provides a number of individual member feedback who expressed positive change as a result of the sessions and events. The organisation has an annual KPI of 75 but reports 39. They note that this quarter has seen less participants due to summer holidays and family commitments. The organisation reports a difficulty in receiving filled questionnaires from participants and have opted to ask at the end of every session instead. The organisation has a KPI of 70% of participants reporting not accessed mental health services prior to their service, and 85% positive engagement with project activities. KPI 1: Number of carers participating in weekly wellbeing sessions (since April) Target: 150 This quarter: 21 KPI 2: 90% satisfaction rate amongst participants providing feedback Target: 135/150 This quarter: 20/21 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 78 8663 Positive East One-to-one counselling for residents living with HIV and poor mental health Boroughwide; Whitechapel £16,222 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description People living with HIV in the UK are at increased risk of anxiety and depression compared to the general public. Poor mental health can lead to non-adherence to antiretroviral therapy and reduced retention in HIV care. We will provide one-to-one counselling supporting people living with HIV in Tower Hamlets. Progress Update In the past quarter they have taken on one new volunteer counsellor, and another is currently moving through the application process – extra counsellors will help reduce waiting time to around three weeks. They have seen an increase in demand for face-to-face sessions in the past quarter. A key achievement of the past three months is that a Tower Hamlets beneficiary who previously accessed counselling support now attends twice weekly Mindfulness Meditation sessions as an ongoing wellbeing strategy, showing lasting effects and skills in managing their own wellbeing. Survey is currently ongoing. Results available next quarter. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8843 Sister Circle Healing Conversations Boroughwide £36,403 Monitoring demonstrates the project is on track to achieve annual KPI objectives GREEN Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 79 Short Description Healing Conversations provides minoritised mums of pre-school children/survivors of gender-based violence with complex needs with specialist, culturally competent, trauma-informed counselling delivered in community settings, in multiple languages. The project improves mental health, connects women to wider sources of support essential to health and wellbeing, and reduces health inequalities. Progress Update This organisation offers counselling and support service to provide valuable support to women in complex situations experience trauma related to domestic violence, FGM/C and other forms of gender-based violence. This organisation offered 54 counselling sessions to TH women; this quarter seen 5 out of 8 referrals made to the service be women from TH. The organisation has a KPI of 26 minoritised mums/survivors of gender-based violence with complex needs reporting an improvement in their mental health but has reports 4 women. The organisation has a target of 23 participants reporting satisfaction with service provision, and counts an actual KPI of 7 for this quarter. Organisation explains that 28% of participants who reported somewhat satisfied shared they felt it was too early in their journey to fully answer this. The organisation is looking to expand their trainee counsellor pool to reflect more community languages and targeted social media promotion, and shared participant feedback of positive cultural sensitivity. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8747 The Shadwell Community Project Grow, Eat, Cook! Children's Café Project Shadwell £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project is on track to achieve annual KPI objectives GREEN Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 80 Short Description We will provide access to free healthy meals for children especially from low income and ethnic minority backgrounds in Tower Hamlets. We will provide weekly sessions where children grow, cook and eat meals together in a supportive, active environment and increase their health, fitness and wellbeing. Progress Update During this period, the project delivered 26 sessions between July to September 2024 and engaged young people with 645 contacts/ visits. They now have 1889 young people registered to attend sessions. They provided 645 freshly cooked meals. This helped families suffering from the cost-of-living crisis and the children were eager to have their meals. They delivered 5 long sessions a week for 5 weeks in the summer holidays and had high numbers attending. There were 23 young people attending at least 10 times showing an increase in regular participants. There were 90 new young people have registered since the last report submitted in July. Participants reported: -33 out of 35 young people reported improved health and wellbeing in the surveys. 94% result. -34 out of 35 young people have reported on the survey that they feel less isolated. 44 young people have visited more than 10 times. 97% result. -30 out of 35 young people agree they are eating more healthily. 85% result. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 81 8939 Tower Hamlets Parents Centre Women’s Health Matters St Katherine's and Wapping; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Weavers £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project is on track to achieve objectives GREEN Short Description The Women’s Health Matters Project in Tower Hamlets will improve the Physical and Mental Health of over 1050 disadvantaged Women in Tower Hamlets, by developing their knowledge, providing Fitness and Nutrition Activities and enhancing their Access to Services. Progress Update During the Quarter, they served 60 beneficiaries, having delivered the following services; a) Tea/Coffee Morning - a two-hourly Session per week, for 13 weeks (attended by 10 beneficiaries) b) Walking Club - a two hourly Session per week, delivered for 13 weeks (attended by 10 beneficiaries) c) Advice and Information Drop-In Sessions - a three hourly Session per week for 13 weeks (attended by 15 beneficiaries) d) Healthy Eating Workshop - a two hourly two Workshop, two Workshops delivered, attended by 18 women e) Swimming Session – organised a Group of women to join free Swimming Sessions, offered in Tower Hamlets - only one Session delivered thus far, attended by 7 women. This Session will be continued in the current quarter. The Drop-in Sessions delivered aimed at improving the beneficiaries’ understanding of Health Issues and enabling them to access other Services through signposting them to other services delivered at Parents Centre and in other Agencies. The Activities delivered were evaluated through a Questionnaire and verbally, which showed that the Provisions were successful and effectively impacting the lives of the beneficiary women. The beneficiary women reported, having attended these Provisions, they improved their Physical and Mental Health and their quality of life, by exercising more and eating Healthy food. They also reported that they were managing their Health conditions like Diabetes, Obesity, Arthritis, High Cholesterol and Hypertension and were able to access Statutory Health Services. They reported that they were better informed of negative impacts of harmful behaviours and more able to manage their Health. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 82 8667 Toynbee Hall Playful Tower Hamlets - Nurturing Bodies and Minds Spitalfields and Banglatown £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description Creating edible gardens in underused areas of East London, the project connects children to nature, tackles food poverty, and improves physical and mental wellbeing. The project provides outdoor play activities, forest school and weekend gardening sessions for children and their families. Progress Update This quarter the organisation continued to deliver a variety of Play activities and workshops in both Christchurch School and at Canon Barnett, with a focus on watering and play, painting, gardening, harvesting and butterflies. They have organised multiple events across the summer holidays, including a fair, play club, and community day. This quarter, number of registered participants were 343 (297 children and 46 adults engaged in activities this quarter). ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 83 8850 Vallance Community Sports Association SEND Health & Wellbeing Project (Young People) Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description A programme of weekly sports and physical activities and a social club for young people (8-25 years) with special educational needs and disabilities for the purpose of increasing sports participation, improving health and wellbeing (including mental health), and reducing loneliness, isolation and exclusion. Progress Update During this quarter, the Physical and Mental Health program for young people with disabilities participating in Physical and sports activities has continued to make substantial progress and achieved significant outcomes. Significant Outcomes and Impact: 1. Improved Physical Health: The young participants showed enhanced physical health indicators, such as increased strength, stamina, and flexibility and that was showcased at the Disability Sports Day Festival. 2. Boosted Mental Well-being: Positive impacts on mental health were observed, including reduced stress, anxiety, and improved mood among participants. 3. Enhanced Self-esteem: The program contributed to boosting self-confidence and self-esteem among individuals with disabilities. 4. Empowerment: The young participants reported feeling empowered, motivated, and more independent as a result of their engagement in sports activities. Influences on Project Delivery: 1. Staff Training: Ongoing staff training and development plays a crucial role in ensuring high-quality program delivery and participant support. 2. Community Support: Collaborations with local organisations, volunteers, and community partners provided additional resources and assistance for effective project delivery. The Weekly activities: (i) Dedicated weekly Multi-sports sessions for young people (10-16 years) with disabilities (Wednesday 1pm to 3pm) at Beatrice Tate Specialist School. (ii) Inclusive* Football Session for 8–15-year-olds – (Fridays 5:30pm to 7pm) at Mile End Leisure Centre & Stadium (iiii) Inclusive* Indoor healthy activities session for 8–16-year-olds – (Sundays 10am to 12pm) at the Hason Raja Centre *disabled and non-disabled young people participating together. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 84 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8962 Working Well Trust Upskill Choices Boroughwide £25,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Description The project engages and supports people who have been affected by emotional or mental health issues to take steps towards improving their own health wellbeing and community involvement. Clients will work with project staff to identify pathways within the community to wellbeing, training and volunteering opportunities and to develop skills essential for wellbeing and future employment. Progress Update This organisation provides one to one and action planning support to residents of Tower Hamlets facing mental health challenges. The organisation reports to have a short waiting list and are working at full capacity to ensure that residents do not have to wait longer than two weeks for initial contact and support. This quarter the organisation saw 20 participants, totalling to 56 participants so far this year-- which exceeds their annual KPI target of 50. Baseline feedback shows positive engagement reported back by 80% clients; organisation aims to improve this next quarter to meet their target of 85%. 36 clients in total report improved mental health outcomes, on track to meet target of 50 for the year. Organisation notes they are oversubscribed. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 85 Theme 5 - Empower Communities and Fight Crime Scheme A - Inequalities Experienced by People and Communities Reflecting Different Equality Groups and Socio-economic Backgrounds ID Organisatio n Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8722 Account3 Ltd Dare to Lead - leadership development for Minoritized women of Tower Hamlets Boroughwide £25,000 The project has met and exceeded all required KPI's for this period. GREEN Short Description Dare to Lead is a customised and approved BAME Women focused leadership programme, which is accredited and externally verified and validated by the national examination board OCN, London. The leadership programme is designed to support BAME women who are in or aspire to leadership roles through a development programme. Progress Update This has been a strong period for the project, and they have had a busy successful period, some of the key highlights include; the Cohort developed a social action project addressing financial discrimination, they secured support from key stakeholders, including local councillors and financial organisations. The group of beneficiaries successfully organised a community event attended by over 90 women delivered in the Grocers Wing of the Town Hall. This fostered a collaborative environment and developed problem-solving skills. Other notable highlights for this period include referrals to the Met's Project deliveed by VCTH. This partnership was fostered as a result of the theme 5a partnership group meetings. The group also attended a theme 5a workshop delivered by the hate crime partnership team this period. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 86 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8631 Council Of Mosques - Tower Hamlets CoM Community Empowerment Project Boroughwide £25,000 The project goals for this period has been achieved GREEN Short Descriptio n CoM’s Community Empowerment Project is new structured service designed and developed by CoM to address racism, faith- based abuse such as Islamophobia and discrimination faced by particularly by the borough’s Muslim Communities areas of health, the criminal justice system, education, employment, immigration and politics experienced by the borough’s BAME communities. Progress Update Progress Update (extract from July-September monitoring return): During 2024-2025 Quarter 2 Period (July to September 2024) we continued to deliver the following programme of activities, events and meetings and workshop programme: We engaged formally with a 8 Local Mosques across Tower Hamlets: -Stepney Shahjalal Mosque -Locksley Estate Cultural Association and Mosque -Mazharul Uloom Mosque -Lansbury Mosque -Al Aqsa Community Masjid -Wapping Noorani Masjid and Islamic Centre Mosque -London Muslim Centre -Shahporan Mosque Formal engagement with these Mosques focused on discussions, consultations and feedback on the following areas so that the Mosques got to know more about our work, to look at ways for the Mosques to have greater input in the planning and involvement into the programme and to listen to areas where the Mosque had issues wanting to address as they represented large sections of their locality's Muslim communities, residents etc: We continued to discuss issues on the following: Ways to strengthen our Mosque Network To help strengthen / improve relationships between the Mosque, CoM and local residents. Building the capacity and skills of Mosque Trustees, Volunteers. Running capacity building programme programme. Promoting better community cohesion including stronger racial and religious relations and harmony of differing faith and no faiths. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 87 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8994 East London Advanced Technology Training Tower Hamlets Voices Limehouse; Mile End; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's; Spitalfields and Banglatown; Weavers; Bethnal Green West (formerly St Peter's); Bethnal Green East (formerly Bethnal Green) £25,000 The project has achieved all required outcomes for this period GREEN Short Description Tower Hamlets Voices will foster community cohesion by bringing together people from diverse backgrounds in six local West Tower Hamlets hubs. The project aims to improve inclusion, access to support, and overall equality and will support 220 participants, mostly from Black, Asian, and multi-ethnic backgrounds and other marginalised groups annually. Progress Update Overall, the project has had a profound impact on reducing isolation, building confidence, and creating opportunities for personal and professional growth among refugees and migrants from Black, Asian, and multi-ethnic communities. The combination of educational trips, social activities, and community engagement has laid the groundwork for a more connected, empowered, and resilient community. Activities delivered during this period included, trips in July 2024 to cultural and historical sites such as Tower of London, Tower Bridge and London Zoo, as well as the Poplar Union Arts centre (for a photography exhibition about migration entitled- 'Fragile: A Journey of Resilience') give participants opportunities for social engagement and community involvement. Students also took part in workshops around the theme of democracy and voting rights, leading up to participating in a mock General Election in July 2024. Survey data collected after the trips highlighted that 100% of participants enjoyed the experience, with 93% expressing a desire to return with their families. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 88 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8908 Real DPO Ltd All Inclusive Advice Boroughwide £30,000 The project is on track in achieving in it's lifetime targets. GREEN Short Description Tailored and evidence-based advice and support for disabled individuals in Tower Hamlets. Offering holistic assistance, including guidance on independent travel, financial independence, community engagement, and access to local services. It will cater to clients from diverse ethnic, cultural, and faith backgrounds and collaborate with other organizations for referrals. Progress Update KPI 1 target is 8 and the project achieved 5 for this quarter but have provided further information on the remaining 3 cases to be closed. Partnerships and referrals from a wider network including Real advocacy, THCAN, and social prescribers are still continuing for this period. The organisation is also in the process of recruiting to the information officer role as one of the positions have became vacant recently, they are interviewing for this post currently and are hopeful they will get a good candidate as information and signposting is heavily required for the successful delivery of this project. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9029 SocietyLinks Tower Hamlets Stay Smart Stay Safe St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel £25,000 The project continues to exceed its targets every quarter and is on track in achieving its lifetime targets. GREEN Short Description The Stay Smart, Stay Safe project focuses on empowering girls and women to make positive choices in their personal lives that allow them to prosper and lead fulfilling lives. Progress Update Highlights for this period include - Volunteered as facilitators for the Communities Keeping Well program. - Attended local community events to discuss health access and lifestyle choices. - Organised a cultural outdoor picnic to celebrate Bangladeshi cuisine. Visits to; The Tower of London and subsequently encouraged other women to visit with their families. Wellbeing sessions delivered this period include; - Participated in awareness campaigns for events like Breast Cancer Awareness Month. - Welcomed guest speakers to discuss health-related topics. - Engaged in workshops on hate crime and the importance of critical media consumption. - Collaborated with local police to address concerns and provide accurate information. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 89 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9008 TOYHOUSE LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF TOWER HAMLETS Empowering Communities:- Coming together, sharing their cultures, food and experiences Poplar; Mile End; Bromley South; Bromley North; Bow West; Stepney Green; St Dunstan's £14,983 The project has met all of the required KPI's for this period and is on track in achieving its lifetime targets. GREEN Short Descriptio n Toyhouse will facilitate a series of short courses for people from diverse backgrounds and 3 generations across equalities strands. 5 parents & pre-schoolers, plus older people, drawn together to discover and discuss, aiming to increase understanding and appreciation of different cultures - via food; games; traditions; clothing; beliefs; and celebrations. Progress Update The project continues to engage families in a variety of activities ranging from summer family picnics and get together's to family learning opportunities. The project continues to attract a wide diverse cohort of participants from different backgrounds, this is an essential part of this project as the participants learn from each other, this contributes to the levels of cohesion in the borough. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 9048 Volunteer Centre Tower Hamlets BAME Trustee Training and Matching (known as The METs Programme) Boroughwide £39,989 The project is on target in achieving it's lifetime targets. GREEN Short Descriptio n The programme will recruit, train and support residents from BAME communities (60% women) to become charity trustees. It will address inequality by empowering BAME residents to fulfil their potential and progress into leadership roles. Trained volunteers will be matched with local charities, creating trustee boards that better reflect our community. Progress Update Highlights for this period include; Five trainees have been appointed to trustee roles so far. Another 5 are awaiting appointment at AGMs or Board meetings in October/November 2024, having successfully interviewed for positions. We currently anticipate matching 10 trainees from Round 1. Of the 25 participants enrolled onto the METs programme during the year, 21 (84%) are women. One KPI will be reported on in the next period (Percentage of participants report increased knowledge and confidence Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 90 in applying for trustee roles) as the baseline questionnaires with all 14 trainees were completed before the training began in early October. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8961 Working Well Trust Upskill Reach Boroughwide £39,740 The project continues to exceed targets and is on track in achieving it's lifetime targets. GREEN Short Descriptio n Opening referral pathways and increasing access to opportunities for people with lived experience of mental health from Black, Asian and Multi-Ethnic Communities. We will support people to overcome barriers by addressing inequalities of access to support and resources. Progress Update Upskill reach produced leaflets in community languages this quarter including Bengali, Somali and Farsi languages to engage with hard to reach clients facing barriers of communication. The organisation did extensive work this period on managing the waiting list, the project is a success in he community and referral rates have increased this period. Clients are contacted and enaged as soon as possible after the initial referral. Residents are given an initial phone call and BAME residents are fast tracked to the project worker to reduce barriers to engagement. Caseload reflects the diversity of the borough, and the project continues to work to engage with Somali population as they are underrepresented within the project. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 91 Scheme B - Community Safety ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8900 Beyond the Streets Door of Hope Boroughwide £23,399 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n Funding our Door of Hope Coordinator, overseeing our project working with women selling sex in Tower Hamlets through street outreach, drop Ins and long term, trauma informed, 1:1 support that includes advocating for and enabling positive outcomes within themes of homelessness, income and food poverty, substance misuse, and physical/mental health Progress Update They have received 18 new referrals this quarter. They delivered between 22-26 street outreach sessions this quarter. They had had contact with 32 identified women and 5 unidentified, providing 72 signposts to 29 unique women. They continue to provide free psychotherapy sessions to 5 women every week. 72 women took part in regular project activities this quarter. KPI1 - Target 50% by the end of March 2025 but achieved 69%. They expect the annual figure to exceed the above target in March 2025. KPI2 - Target 90% by the end of March 2025, but 82% achieved. Slightly under the target but recognise they need to make improvements to reach the target. KPI3 - Target 95% but they have achieved 65%. They have stated this is significantly lower than historically so will be reviewing it to understand the drop. KPI4 - Target 65% by the end of March 2025, 33% achieved to date. Only 3 women needed to be referred to RESET, others didn't warrant referral as they didn't have any drug-related dependencies. KPI5 - Target 80% by the end of March 2025, 68% achieved. KPI6 - Target 30% by the end of March 2025 and 22% achieved this quarter. Beyond the Street continue to work closely with partners for referral, including working closely with TH Community Safety Team and the Hostel Relationship Teams. They have submitted their finance and equalities data in the attachments, as well as a case study for qualitative information. . Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 92 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8821 City Gateway Ltd ReBuild - Pathways to Employment for Ex-Offenders Boroughwide £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n Our programme, ReBuild, focuses on enhancing the life opportunities and employment opportunities of ex-offenders aged 16- 24. We provide dedicated assistance to this group through our education and training pathways, underpinned by one-to-one coaching, supporting them into sustainable education, employment and training (EET) outcomes with partner employers. Progress Update This quarter they delivered a Navigate Coaching programme to help learners. It was designed to tackle low attendance, lack of motivation and unacceptable behaviour. 121 coaching sessions have been delivered this quarter with coaches and student mentors. 20 registered participants took part in regular activities this quarter. KPI1 - Target 17 beneficiaries, actual achieved 20. They are all on the 'Navigate' or 121 Coaching programme. KPI2 - Target 50% or 17, actual is 20 individuals. Learners from Rebuild are either studying or in employment KPI3 - Target 12/17 beneficiaries (70%), 18/20 achieved Evaluation report and case study were provided as supporting documents. ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8678 D'awatul Islam UK & Eire Ltd "Our Park" - 'Safer Parks Campaign' Limehouse; St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green £30,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n The "Safer Parks Campaign" empowers local communities to tackle issues like anti-social behaviour, drug abuse, mugging, sexual exploitation, and violence in parks. A diverse team of 20 individuals, will work together to make parks safer through community organising, community listening, social action, and negotiations with authorities. Progress Update This quarter they have continued to make progress in empowering and upskilling their park safety champions. They participated in new training workshops, to develop key tools used in community organising. They have been busy organising a Social Action Campaign event for October with high-profile attendance from the local community. KPI1 - Target 16 for the year, Actual Achieved - 10 Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 93 KPI2 - Target 15 for the year, Actual Achieved - 25 KPI3 - Target 40 for the year, Actual Achieved - 25 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8792 Look Ahead Care and Support Children's Domestic Violence Support Worker Shadwell £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Description A specialist Children’s Domestic Violence Support Worker to support children living at the refuge who have experienced trauma due to early exposure to domestic abuse. The post will be embedded in the Tower Hamlets Domestic Abuse Service and support children while they stay in the refuge. Progress Update The support worker has helped women and their dependents with GP enrolment, school enrolment, and applications for benefits, including universal credit as well as other support like MASH referral and signposting to therapy for both mothers and children. The support worker has also arranged day trips to Regents Park for women and their children and arranged tickets for a science event at the O2. 8 participants took part in regular activities. KPI1 /KPI2- 7 families have been supported this quarter. 3 out 7 women have said 'they initially found it difficult to do everything on their own but with the support they are now able to keep a positive relationship with their children. One mother has discovered her daughter is neuro-divergent, she found this difficult to accept but getting the right support from staff and Early Help has been beneficial to her. All 7 families have commented positively about having a Children's Play Therapist on site. Feedback from both mothers and children suggests they are communicating their feelings better with the support they have received. KPI3 - Look Ahead mentions they are looking at developing training for partners, as well as raising awareness in schools KPI4 - 7 women/mothers have confirmed they are grateful for the services provided, and it feels like home, where they are able to rebuild their life with the necessary support from the team. Look Ahead work closely with Limehouse Project and Society Links for signposting on ESOL and other development courses. They have submitted supporting documents, including feedback forms from service users to confirm the benefits of receiving support through this project. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 94 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8883 Osmani Trust Schools Resilience Programme (SRP) Boroughwide £40,000 Monitoring demonstrates that the project is mostly on track. The project delivers in term time which is reflected in the progress update. GREEN Short Descriptio n The Schools Resilience Programme (SRP) aims to educate and mentor vulnerable and at-risk secondary school children on community safety and prevent them from becoming involved in crime, gangs and criminal exploitation. The project will develop their resilience, critical thinking skills and emotional intelligence so they make informed choices. Progress Update During the period from March to July 2024, the SRP engaged 14 young individuals through regular workshops and personalised mentoring sessions. Notable accomplishments included fostering strong relationships between mentors and participants, as well as providing activities aimed at boosting confidence, enhancing emotional resilience, and developing skills. A key success was preventing two participants from becoming involved in a serious conflict with students from another school, highlighting the programme’s effectiveness in conflict resolution and emotional management. Project activities featured one-on-one mentoring, where participants addressed their needs and explored avenues for personal growth. Group sessions particularly focused on identifying emotional triggers and understanding their impact on behaviour and influence over others. Utilising the emotional bank account model and interactive exercises, these sessions helped participants enhance their emotional intelligence, set goals, and navigate difficult situations, while also discussing attitudes toward rules and principles. Some challenges emerged, including the dropout of a few young people and varying levels of commitment, which affected engagement consistency for some individuals. Nonetheless, the programme made a significant impact on those who remained dedicated. To celebrate their commitment and progress, we concluded the project with a group trip to Wingstop, offering a positive reward and recognising the young people's achievements. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 95 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8738 Shadwell Trust Self Defence Classes and Creative Arts St Katherine's and Wapping; Shadwell; Whitechapel; Stepney Green £20,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Description Self Defence Classes and Creative Arts for Girls, Women and BAME Young People Progress Update Shadwell Trust had a challenging quarter in the last reporting quarter, due to challenges with the building repair works, namely fire safety doors that required emergency repair and was subject to the Housing Team's timeline. This impacted the participation numbers on their course. For the current reporting quarter, they were able to re-gain momentum and have continued the Saturday self-defence classes for girls, with an average of 10-12 girls attending each week. They are considering registering some of the girls for a martial arts competition due to their level of engagement during sessions. Over the summer period, they actively outreached to promote the classes for increased number of new users. Overall this quarter, they had 22 participants take part in the sessions. Target for each class was 15, and they have been achieving around 12. For KPI 1 and 2, they had 8 participants with 7 new joiners. For KPI 3, they have had 12 girls from Tower Hamlets with 3 from neighbouring boroughs. The annual survey in KPI 4 has not been conducted this quarter, it is expected to be reported back in the next quarter. Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 96 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8696 Step Forward (Tower Hamlets) Being Heard Boroughwide £40,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes GREEN Short Descriptio n Our Being Heard project offers a programme of preventative, early intervention activities to help keep vulnerable young people aged 11-25 safe, free from harm and prevent them being exploited. It also provides specialist support to young people affected by sexual violence to help them feel safe, cope and recover. Progress Update The last quarter saw a much higher response in the number of young people engaged with the project. They feel this is the result of staff training, which has ensured a better log of users of the service. Service provisions include counselling and 1-2-1 personal development sessions for a tailored approach. They have reached young people from 14 of the 20 wards in LBTH this quarter. The service users come from a wide range of backgrounds and include those with protected characteristics. The largest cohort of users have been Bangladeshi girls and young women. They had a total of 49 contacts in the last quarter. At least 20 young people reported feeling 'safe accessing the support at Step Forward'. The support includes helping victims of sexual abuse, violence and/or discrimination. KPI1: Target - 15-25 a year, Actual - 10 this quarter KPI2: Target - 75-85 a year, Actual - 49 this quarter KPI3: Target - 35-45 a year, Actual - 13 this quarter Mayor’s Community Grants Programme (MCGP) – Jul – Sep 24 Project Summary Appendix 3 97 ID Organisation Project Geographical Area Served Annual Grant Amount Officers Notes RAG rating 8914 Women’s Inclusive Team Haawa Project (Community Safety) Boroughwide £30,000 Monitoring demonstrates the project will achieve expected outcomes. GREEN Short Descriptio n The Hawaa Project is a tailored advice and guidance service for BAME women affected by domestic abuse. WIT provides a safe and confidential environment, where cultural and linguistic needs of minority women are catered for. Hawaa is set to help tackle a culturally sensitive issue that is often overlooked. Progress Update This quarter, they recruited a new project lead, who has made significant development with the project and is continuing to be inducted and taking part in training. WIT have also expanded the team by bringing on board a Domestic Abuse (DA) expert and a specialist in counselling. They held a stall at the Tower Hamlets Together Summer Fair 2024 with TH VAWG team. Over 200 people visited their stall where they promoted the Haawa Project and domestic abuse support services. They also organised an online event with over 50 participants in attendance. 18 regular participants took part in project activities this quarter. KPI1 - Target, 39 weekly contact/support for at least 10 individual women. Achieved support for 12 individual women this quarter, including a high risk case into the Sanctuary Scheme as well as other vital signposting and support provided KPI2 - Target 25 women participate in workshops with 90% reporting increased awareness. 50 women achieved this quarter, who participated in an interactive DV related quiz. KPI3 - Target 10 women to be trained. Actual achieved 10 this quarter Supporting documents attached, include case studies.