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.
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We are expanding our work to support those most at risk from Covid-19, through communicating accurate public health information, encouraging vaccine take up and more widely, engaging and supporting communities to tackle the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had on certain ethnic and social groups.
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We asked brap to assess the long-term impact of our small grants programme and leadership development work in order to understand what difference Near Neighbours has made on people and their neighbourhoods.
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This 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.
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John 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.
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Near Neighbours funded the Lees Moor TRA project in Dewsbury, last year in August. The project started a children's gardening club to teach children about where food comes from, how it's grown, and how to cook with it during sessions every weekend.
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