In Blackburn, Near Neighbours supported The Greenhouse Project to run sixteen sessions for women from diverse backgrounds, enabling them to enjoy wildlife walks, arts and crafts, faith discussions, gardening, and cooking.
Read MoreAs the Windrush Grant Scheme for 2022 comes to a close and projects have completed their final events for this round, we reflect on some project highlights and feedback.
Read MoreA cooking course on a CD, designed to teach visually impaired people how to cook safely, increase their confidence in the kitchen and encourage them to be more independent.
Read MorePlaces of Welcome is an extraordinary network. Run by local community groups, and there are now over 250 of them.
Read MoreOur East Midlands Near Neighbours co-ordinator attended an event with people from communities in Nottingham that met to champion the campaign to end the horrific practice of Female Genital Mutilation.
Read MoreFor six weeks at the start of 2018, local church members from All Saints, Luton, have had the opportunity to learn authentic Indian cookery skills alongside members of their local Gurdwara.
Read MoreInter Faith Week is a yearly national event that brings people of different faiths together. Naturally, we at Near Neighbours love this time of the year. It's an opportunity to meet old and new friends as well as learn new things about different faiths.
Read MoreAlthough this may sound cliché and far-fetched, but believe me when I say catalyst changed my life, it really did. Catalyst for me really opened my mind in a way that I didn't know before, it broadened so many horizons and opened so many doors for me.
Read MoreThis is the story of Near Neighbours' first small grant and the friendship that has continued to blossom and flourish since. Jimmy, a Bradford vicar, and Rifaqat, the secretary of a mosque just down the street, got to know each other and began working together.
Read MoreJohn McCallum, East Midlands Near Neighbours Coordinator and Development Officer, shares a touching story about meeting a past grant applicant two years after they first met to discuss her idea about working with vulnerable women.
Read MoreI had heard about Near Neighbours before applying for my role because I was part of setting up Hope Café in our local school – a meeting place for women from different faiths and backgrounds over coffee and cake.
Read MoreThe SFiCE Foundation have partnered with Christ-Citadel International Church in Nottingham to provide a space to hold their activities, offering a variety of services for homeless and vulnerable people, completely free of charge.
Read MoreThe Lea Road Community Church in Wolverhampton led a community clean up day following a similar event in 2016. Building on new relationships forged during last year’s Community Clean Up, a real need has been identified for further Community Clean Ups.
Read MoreThe Polish Expats Association helps Eastern European migrants integrate into their local community in Birmingham, and in 2015, the organisation was funded by Near Neighbours to develop two art exhibitions.
Read MoreMammas was launched in 2010 as a Community Breastfeeding Peer Support Group and continues to grow with the support of Near Neighbours grants. Today around 400 mums and babies benefit from the project.
Read MoreFriendships which stretch cross faiths and cultural backgrounds are forming in North Wembley thanks to the welcome of St Cuthbert’s church there, which hosts a weekly ‘Memory Café’.
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