Organisations

• ACEVO

  The Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations is the professional association for chief executives in the Voluntary sector.

• Acocks Green Focus Group

  Campaigning on the fixed features of Acocks Green: buildings, trees, road and street layouts, street furniture. We aim to conserve the good and improve the not so good.

• African Community Council for the Regions

  The ACCR works to alleviate and improve ill-health and economic deprivation, remove the barriers to social, educational and vocational achievement, and combat the disadvantages, discrimination, unemployment, hardship and distress of African individuals.

• African Refugee Youth Association Uk

  Help for young and old people from our community in their education, sexual health...

• Afro-British Support Services 'IMPACT'

  "IMPACT" is a refugee led and managed community organisation assiting and supporting small and medium Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs).

• Al Ansar Project

  Provides supplimentary school activities for the yemeni community.

• Allens Croft Project

  South Birmingham Development Agency supports voluntary and community organisation in capacity building. Supports local residents with various issues including debt, family problems, domestic violence and advice/activies for 50+. Employment resources - c

• Amina Trust

  Community/ voluntary organisation

• Aquamacs Birmingham

  Aquamacs Birmingham is a Social Enterprise which provides employment opportunities for people with disabilities and those who are disadvantaged in the labour market.

• Arc Youth Project, Moseley School

  The Arc Project is jointly funded by Mosely School and Birmingham Youth Service. There are 5 part time youth workers at the project who have a vast amount of experience of working with young people in the area. Their job is to support young people and help them to plan projects and activities that will are fun and interesting. The Arc offers a weekly programme of activities, as well as offering activities during the school holidays. The Arc works closely with Moseley School, Birmingham Youth Service and the voluntary sector.

• ART (Aston Reinvestment Trust)

  Provides loans to small businesses and social enterprises in Birmingham and North Solihull.

• Art of Living Foundation Birmingham

  Stress Management Workshops, Relaxation, Yoga, Meditation, Ayurveda Treatments, diet and nutrition consultation. Yoga and relaxation classes every Saturday at 9.00 am to 10.30am at Hall Green Library Meeting Room, Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham Please email or call as places are limited. Providing service for individuals, corporate sector, groups, Statutory organisation, young people. For Women only sessions and Ayurveda therapies and consultations contact Sri Beauty on 0788 246 7358

• Ashiana Community Project

  Click for more info about Ashiana Community Project

• Ashram Housing Association

  Ashram Housing Association's Reducing Domestic Violence Project provides a culturally and linguistically sensitive support service to South Asian women aged 16-65 who are experiencing, or who have experienced domestic violence. "Having left home Asian women face isolation and usually condemnation from the Asian community. By providing comprehensive support, advocacy, information and advice we aim to empower South Asian women to reassert their cultural identity, self-confidence, motivation and pride."

• Association of Charitable Foundations

  National support organisation for grant-making trusts and foundations. Provides advice, useful publications and directories.

• Aston School for Social Entrepreneurs

  Provides training and mentoring for social entrepreneurs from all areas of Birmingham.

• B:STRONG

  B.STRONG is a city-wide organisation initiated and supported by the Community & Play section of the Local Services directorate. B.STRONG is based at Ladywood Arts & Leisure Centre. Telephone: 0121 464 2550/2548

• Balsall Heath Extended Schools Cluster

  Is a cluster of education providers in Balsall Heath. Its main objective is to improve services through working collaboratively and building on the strength of individual organisations. This approach allows the cluster to plan more effectively to ensure services are accessible across the area.

• Balsall Heath Forum

  Balsall Heath Forum. Works to improve the services in Balsall Heath Birmingham. Capacity building for agencies working in regeneration. Neighbourhood management and partnership building.

• Balsall Heath Healthy Living Centre

  Promotes healthy lifestyles within the Balsall Heath community.

• Balsall Heath History Society

  Celebrating the history of Balsall Hetah. Educational history programmes for schools and other groups.

• BASSAC (British Association of Settlements & Social Action Centres)

  Promotes and supports community development.

• BAYC

  "bayc works to create change in the lives of young people and the communities they live in. We encourage people to think and act differently about the way they engage with young people, and we support young people to make their aspirations a reality."

• Be Birmingham

  Be Birmingham is the local strategic partnership for Birmingham that brings together partners from the business, community, voluntary, faith and public sectors to deliver a better quality of life in Birmingham.

• BIRINUS Regeneration and Community Development

  Click for more info about BIRINUS Regeneration and Community Development

• Birmingham Asian Resource Centre

  The Asian Resource Centre is a front-line community-based, not-for-profit organisation in Handsworth. Birmingham, UK.

• Birmingham Association of Neighbourhoods and Forums

  The Birmingham Association of Neighbourhood Forums (BANF) is a city-wide umbrella organisation. It aims to provide neighbourhood forums with the necessary support to ensure that they are as effective as possible in involving and representing local people.

• Birmingham Centre for Inclusive Liiving

  To assist and support Disabled People to live independently and to set up services that allow us freedom of choice in how we lead our lives. Our services will support Disabled people in gaining full participation in society.

• Birmingham Citizens Advice Bureau

  we provide free legal Debt and benefits advice to the citizens of Birmingham

• Birmingham City Council Planning and Regeneration

  Provides grant funding for specialist support agencies and seeks to identify strategic and market opportunities for social enterprise.

• Birmingham Community Foundation

  The Birmingham Community Foundation promote and support local charitable and community activity through a range of effective grant making programmes in areas of poverty and deprivation in Birmingham and the Black Country.

• Birmingham Credit Union Development Agency (BCUDA)

  Supports the promotion, registration and development of credit unions in Birmingham.

• Birmingham Disability Resource Centre

  An organisation working with Disabled people, Carers and Health Professionals, offering advice and guidance on employment training and learning opportunities and providing general information on disability issues. Among the fee paying services available are Access Audits, Disability Equality Training.

• Birmingham Friends of the Earth

  Birmingham Friends of the Earth exists to advance the principles of sustainability and positive environmental change.<br></br> Birmingham Friends of the Earth is unusual as a Friends of the Earth Local Group, in that it owns and operates a building as a not-for-profit business whilst still having campaigning and the improvement of the local environment, in line with the mission statement above, as its primary aim and reason for existence.<br> </br>Campaign objectives are determined and regularly reviewed by the campaigning group of Birmingham Friends of the Earth.

• Birmingham Irish Community Forum

  BICF is a representative, "umbrella" group for over 60 affiliated Irish organisations within Birmingham. We have been working with the Irish community of Birmingham since 1993.

• Birmingham New Communities Network

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• Birmingham PlayCare Network

  Birmingham PlayCare Network (BPCN) started out in 1995 by a group of Birmingham based playcare professionals and providers in response to this rapidly expanding area of childcare provision.

• Birmingham Pride Community Trust

  To promote equality and diversity, advance education and eliminate discrimination in relation to lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people in Birmingham and beyond by such means consistent with Charity Law as the Trustees decide.

• Birmingham Rathbone

  Birmingham Rathbone is one of Birmingham's largest locally registered charities. Its primary focus is to enable people with moderate learning difficulties to achieve their full potential and to live independently in the local community. At any one time Bi

• Birmingham Settlement

  The Birmingham Settlement Development Agency works to support voluntary and community organisations to have access to resources they require to deliver services to communities in need more effectively.

• Birmingham Victory Youth Centre

  Media trainiing.

• Black Training & Enterprise Group (BTEG)

  A national organisation working to improve opportunities in black communities, specifically in the areas of employment, economic regeneration, education and enterprise.

• Bloomsbury Cyber Junction

  Bloomsbury Cyber Junction is a community based organisation that offers training, employment support services, youth provision and educational activities in order to improve the quality of life of the community in Birmingham.

• brap

  Birmingham Race Action Partnership

• Brumcan

  Community recycling business that provides a range of services to further sustainable waste management practices across Birmingham and Solihull.

• Business in the Community (BITC)

  A movement of UK companies committed to improving their positive impact on society.

• Business Link Birmingham & Solihull

  One-stop business support service providing access to business help, advice and expertise.

• Butterflies Childcare Services

  Moseley based Day Nursery , hollistic childcare meeting diverse needs of the community, multicultural workshops,training events,African Caribbean performing arts workshops, childrens/adult themed parties, healthy eating workshops , Caribbean cookery classes. Black History MONTH

• BVSC (Birmingham Voluntary Service Council)

  Supports the development of all parts of the voluntary sector including social enterprises.

• BYF (Bangladeshi Youth Forum)

  (A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN THE BIRMINGHAM AND WEST MIDLANDS AREA (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND PARTICULARLY THOSE FROM BANGLADESHI AND PAKISTANI BACKGROUNDS, WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED OR AT RISK OF EXCLUSION SO THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, DEVELOP THEIR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND TO REALISE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY AS A WHOLE. (B) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH INFIRMITY, DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE..

• Capacity Builders

  Across the country there are thousands of voluntary and community organisations, large and small, working selflessly to improve lives in their own communities and beyond. Many of these organisations would benefit from extra help and support to enable them to fulfil their potential and offer even more to the people they serve. Capacitybuilders has been created to give organisations this kind of help and support through the funding of a high-quality, sustainable infrastructure.

• Castle Vale Tenants and Residents Alliance

  Castle Vale TRA is a member of the Development Agencies network and provides support and advice for individuals and groups.

• CBC

  cbc is the Centre of Excellence in Social Economy Development. Their website is designed to provide useful information regarding cbc's products, services, strategy and even some of cbc's most exciting research findings.

• Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion (CESI)

  Helps individuals, families and communities achieve economic independence and access more and better opportunities.

• Charities Aid Foundation

  Provides specialist financial services to other charities and their supporters.

• Charity Commission

  Regulates charities in England and Wales.

• Charity Finance Directors' Group

  Helps charities manage accounting, taxation, audit and other finance related functions.

• Chrysalis Club 2000

  Chrysalis - Club 2000 are committed to developing appropriate alternative educational programmes / staff training for the Voluntary and the Statutory Sector.

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• Civic Trust

  Works to improve the quality of life and the built environment in cities, towns and villages.

• Co-Enterprise

  We provide business advice and support to community groups and individuals who want to develop their business ideas into sustainable social enterprises.

• Community Development Foundation

  Works to strengthens communities by ensuring the effective participation of people in community development

• Community Foundation Network

  National assocation for community foundations,charitable trusts which make grants to local community organisations.

• Community Health UK

  Promotes and supports community health initiatives in the UK.

• Community Matters The National Federation of Community Organisations

  Promotes and supports action in response to social, educational and recreational needs.

• Development Agencies Network

  The Local Development Agencies Network is a group of support organisations across the city who offer assistance to voluntary and community organisation in their areas. There is an online bank of resources and information for voluntary and community organisations on the Development Agencies website (above).

• Digbeth Trust

  The Digbeth Trust supports voluntary and community organisations in Birmingham and West Midlands by providing access to a range of capacity building support (including access to affordable consultancy) and grant programmes.

• Diocese of Birmingham Community Regeneration Department

  Co-ordinates and delivers development support to church-based community projects.

• DTA West Midlands

  The aim of the Development Trusts Association (DTA) is a successful development trust in every community that wants one. There are over 300 development trusts across the UK, all community owned and led. They cultivate enterprise and build assets. They sec

• East Birmingham Community Forum Ltd.

  Umbrella and support group for voluntary organisations

• East Birmingham Development Agency

  Click for more info about East Birmingham Development Agency

• Enta Training People

  ENTA is a voluntary sector, non-profit making training organisation, which provides courses, aimed at under-targeted groups in Birmingham. All our courses have been developed to break down those barriers that prevent some people accessing training and emp

• Enterkey Training

  Training provider

• Federation of Irish Societies

  a membership organisation of Irish organisations in England

• Finance Hub

  The Finance Hub is delivering to the Government’s ChangeUp programme to create voluntary and community organisations which are effective and independent because they are financially sustainable.

• Friends of the Earth Birmingham

  Click for more info about Friends of the Earth Birmingham

• Gateway Family Services

  Click for more info about Gateway Family Services

• Get Hooked on Fishing Midlands

  We use angling as a tool to divert young people away from crime & anti-social behaviuor, to re-connect young people with education, to build sel-esteem & confidence, as a theraputic tool, to combat isolation in the elderly, to help rebuild confidence to those who have suffered from strokes & depression.

• Governance Hub

  The Governance Hub offers trustees, chairs and boards sources of fresh ideas, inspiration and contacts to help you develop your organisation and become more effective.

• Harvest International Birmingham

  Committed to promoting health, conselling, prayer, advocacy and career development.

• Helen White Associates

  Consultancy - Community and Organisational Development

• Home Start Winson Green & Handsworth

  Investing in Families

• Horn of Africa Women Development Network

  Provides training services and support for womens groups.

• ICT Hub

  The ICT Hub is a group of voluntary sector organisations who have come together to plan and deliver a co-ordinated framework of ICT guidance, good practice, advice and support for voluntary and community organisations, accessible at a local level. The Hub was funded by the Home Office in August 2005

• Including Women!

  Empowering And Supporting Women In Birmingham. Including women is a network organisation which helps to support women working and living in the community.

• Institute of Fundraising

  Provides support to its members through training, networking and the dissemination of best practice. Offers a Certificate in Fundraising Management and in-house training.

• Intiative for Social Entrepreneurs

  ISE is a key strategic and delivery partner developing social enterprises within the West Midlands Area. ISE is a member of BSSEC and the regional development agency for Social Firms UK. ISE aims to support the growth of the social economy by capacity building, training and consultancy support.

• Irish Welfare and Information Centre

  Helping to build a vibrant Irish community

• Jericho Centre

  Jericho Centre seeks to help the most disadvantaged people in the community, whether due to poverty, lack of education, low social status, lack of adequate housing, unemployment, poor health or social exclusion

• Jericho Foundation

  Jericho - Breaking down the barriers Jericho is determined to break down the barriers that preclude people from entering and sustaining full time employment.

• Kajans

  Offers a range of training and personal development courses and delivers specialist support for the black social enterprise sector.

• Kinghurst Training

  A voluntary sector organisation providing information, advice, guidance and training in childcare related careers.

• Ladywood Centre Based Youth

  Local Youth Project running sessions for young people aged 11- 25 years of age. Groups on Monady and Wednesday evenings and a range of activities are offered. Such as sports, music,dance,arts and issue based discussion groups

• Mama Enterprises

  A new women's Charity organisation in west Midlands

• Midland Heart South Birmingham Community Development Project

  The project is engaged by South Birmingham pct to deliver the government Delivering Racial Equality (DRE) programme to Black and Minority Ethnic(BME) communities. It works as service access agents, change agents, service developers andcapacity builders.

• Midlands Regeneration

  Click for more info about Midlands Regeneration

• Moseley Community Development Trust

  The Formation Moseley Community Development Trust is an independent charity and company limited by guarantee, founded in 2001 by Moseley Society and the Central Moseley Neighbourhood Forum (*) with help from the Moseley and District Churches Housing Asso

• Muath Trust Develoment Agency

  The Muath Trust Development Agency is member of the development agencies network.

• My Time

  Click for more info about My Time

• National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux (NACAB)

  Provides free, impartial and independent advice in England, Wales and NACVS National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service works to promote voluntary and community action through 300 Councils for Voluntary Service across England.

• National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)

  Aims to give a shared voice to voluntary organisations and to help them achieve the highest standards of practice and effectiveness in all areas of their work. Members of NCVO enjoy access to a range of benefits including information, networks, influence and a range of discounted products and services.

• Northfield Carnival

  Event co-ordination including the carnival in Northfield held on first Saturday in July. Craft events and Christmas events in Northfield.

• Novas Scarman Group

  Click for more info about Novas Scarman Group

• Older People New Opportunities Consortium (OPNOCS)

  Older Peoples Networking organisation

• Parents And Children Together

  Pact deliver cultrally appropriate workshops, that are relevant to children,young people & parents. Provide residential & cultral experiences for families on our programme. Current programmes running: Family support Group Men's Support Group A

• People In Partnership

  Independent/Crisis Advocacy and Training -Learning Disabilities

• Performance Hub

  We work to help voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations achieve more. On this site you can learn more about performance improvement and access services and support. We are one of six national hubs of expertise funded by the Home Office through the ChangeUp programme.

• Pioneers

  Pioneers Leading the Way provides support to school-aged Pakistani and Bangladeshi-background pupils in Birmingham, particularly those at risk of failing or underachieving in school.

• pridestart community regeneration group

  Innovative Communities Regeneration and Recruitment Group.Pride Start is Innovative and Progressive Centre that provides various services to the communities in Birmingham and Westmidlands Region.PrideStart's core services are Recruitment and Job search employment

• Rachel Smith - Community Film Maker

  Making films with and for community groups and public sector organisations in and around Birmingham.

• Roshni

  Roshni provide accomodation, help, guidance and support for South Asain Women and Children.

• Rubus

  Consultancy experienced in supporting voluntary & community organisations and social enterprises in enterprise development, marketing, investment strategy and organuisational development

• Saathi Care

  Welcome to the Saathi care page of the Birmingham ChangeUp Consortium website.

• Saheli Womens Group

  Saheli Womens Group Work with women and young girls by delivering an activities adventure scheme for young girls aged 13-19 years. They can partake in rock climbing, skiing, canoeing, horse riding, quad biking go-karting and biking. Building their confidence and opening up opportunities for them to get more involved in the local community.

• Sakeena Womens Project

  Sakeena Womens Project provide counselling, support and advice to women effected by drug mis users.

• Satnam Training and Education Project

  Click for more info about Satnam Training and Education Project

• Shervington Third World Trust

  Shervington Third World Trust is a small Uk based non profit making, organisation which supports the improvement of public medical facilities in developing countries particularly in the Caribbean. The primary aim of the Trust is to enhance the quality of health care available to the socially and economically disadvantaged and their personal experience.

• Small Heath Shamrock Boxing Club

  We're a boxing club who take underpriveledged kids from off the street and give them a focus in their life. We have kids from different minorities and groups.

• Smethwick Youth and Community Centre

  Click for more info about Smethwick Youth and Community Centre

• Solihull Leisure Opportunities (SoLO)

  Solihull Leisure Opportunities (SoLO) was established in April 2000 by a group of interested people who wished to ensure that people with learning disabilities were able to access social and leisure opportunities within the borough. Underpinning that desire to provide these services was the recognition that parents and carers needed a break from their caring responsibilities. It was also recognised that volunteers needed training and supervision to enable them to support the work.

• Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council

  Involved in a wide range of inward investment and economic development activity.

• Somali Children and Women Focus Group

  We provide educational support, homework clubs and sports activities for predominately Somali children between the ages of 9 to 13 years and 15-17 years. We also provide suport for asylum seekers and Refugees to support them with housing and welfare advi

• Somali Disbility and Eldely Support

  Click for more info about Somali Disbility and Eldely Support

• Somali Youth Development Organisation

  Since in 2000, we are committted to provide continually support service to the somali children, young people and their families in Birmingham and Solihul.

• Sound It Out Community Music

  Sound It Out’s mission is to offer dynamic and vibrant music opportunities, by connecting people who have little opportunity to make music with musicians who want to inspire them and new audiences who want to hear them. Sound It Out has been in existence since 1992 and its musical activities and services are culturally and stylistically diverse. The organisation has developed a long history of highly successful partnership working, and a reputation for excellence in the development of and delivery of arts based activity across Birmingham and, increasingly, the West Midlands. The organisation delivers music projects that concentrate on four strands of work within the community: Youth, Health, Inclusion and Training and Development. Sound It Out views music making for creative expression, individual and collective well-being, in the regeneration of communities and lifelong learning to be of immense value. Sound It Out is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee.

• South Aston Community Association

  Click for more info about South Aston Community Association

• South Birmingham Community Radio

  SBC Radio provides bespoke training and promotional opportunities for the South of Birmingham

• Sparkhill Youth Project

  Sparkhill Youth Project is based in the hall green district, we work with young peple from the ages between 11 -- 25, we do a range of activities covered internationally and nationally. we take young people out to do adventurous activities to build on their self esteem and confidence to become active citizens within thier communities.

• St. Paul's Community Development Trust

  St. Paul's Trust is an education based charity providing a range of services for the local community including: a nursery; sure start childrens centre; venture playcare and holiday care; school for dissafected young people; personal development programmes.

• Stechford Youth Network

  Voluntary Organisation providing youth provisions including with an aim to reduce crime and antisocial behaviour. We provide football coaching , youth club, workshops, music, boxing.

• Step Up

  Step Up is an innovative charitable formed to ensure a full rang eof eduacational opportunities for all school students irrespective of ethnicity,age gender, background or location.

• Support Finder

  The Support Finder is a new online searchable database which helps third sector organisations (TSOs) in England find support to improve their performance. As you know, many TSOs value in-depth or face-to-face support to improve their performance. However, some don’t know where to go to find that support. This totally free service puts them in touch with you. TSOs will be able to find support by searching by topic, type of service, region and type of organisation. Register now at www.performancehub.org.uk/supportfinder If you know of another organisation that would be interested, please forward this message to them.

• SW Birmingham Community Association

  Second Tier support agency working in the south west of Birmingham. A member of the Development Agencies Network.

• Talking Drums

  Talking drums offer drumming circles, group therapy and one to one consultations as solutions to personal development issues including stress and anger management. We offer this facility in order that people are better equipped to deal more effectively with work, education and everyday life. We work towards empowering people to participate more fully in society in a positive manner. We do this by group discussion and using the African drum as an expression tool

• The 2005 Group

  Click for more info about The 2005 Group

• The Birmingham Inner Circle Credit Union

  Community Bank Offer savings accounts, low cost credit and BACS facility. Also offering funeral plans and young savers accounts.

• The Charities Information Bureau

  The fit4funding website provides 'Help & Advice' for community groups and voluntary organisations who are seeking funding. These resources can also be used by those giving funding advice in the Voluntary and Community Sector.

• The Colebridge Trust

  Supports the development of social enterprise in North Solihull.

• The Doli Project

  The Doli Project The Doli Project provides support to anyone who is affected by a forced marriage. Doli staff can provide culturally sensitive advice and counselling. The service is strictly confidential. The project works alongside other service providers such as the Home Office, police forces, social services and community organisations. If we are not able to help you we will do our best to put you in touch with someone who can. If you or someone you know is being forced into a marriage, contact us on 0845 658 1057 between 9:00am and 5:00pm Monday to Friday.

• The Ladywood Project

  The Ladywood Project offers support to local families, provides a drop in advice, childrens work, womens groups. Also offering money advice and advice from a social worker. There is a domestic violence network functioning.

• The Lantern Project

  The Lantern Project recruits volunteer mentors to support women living with domestic violence so that they can make plans for the future and move on in the way they want to. A Lantern Project Mentor provides practical and emotional support to female survivors of domestic violence to help them take more control over their lives and move on when they feel able to. By taking time to listen carefully they make sure that the support given is led only by the needs and wants of the woman and her family. Their work builds the confidence and self-esteem she needs to change her situation and manage all her responsibilities on her own if necessary. Volunteer mentors receive full training so that they can be there to lend a sympathetic ear, allowing the survivor to 'offload' and enjoy having someone they can talk to freely.

• The Learning Curve

  The Learning Curve

• The Play House

  The Play House is an educational theatre charity. It creates opportunities for children, young people and their families to explore and make sense of the world they live in through two touring companies â?? Language Alive! and Catalyst Theatre - and a range of Projects.

• Throughcare Housing & Support

  House & Support vulnerable people. Domestic, Forced marriages. Men, Women , Children. Also Homeless and unaccompanied minors

• Tindal Association for School and Community

  Provision of play care and afterschool facilities, parent support and training.

• Ulfah Arts

  Ulfah Arts works to develop audiences and artists for a diverse range of cultural organisations including, theatres, museums and arts organisations. We develop projects that engage different faith groups as artists and audience members. This in turn benefits the community, engaging them in mainstream, wider society, giving them a chance to contribute to British culture. Our work is also transferable to a range of sectors such as health, education, interfaith, community development and economic enterprises.

• UNLtd

  A charity that supports social entrepreneurs through a range of funding and support.

• Volresource

  VolResource aims to make it quick and easy to get to useful information on anything to do with running a voluntary organisation (whether a community group, charity or other non-profit body).

• Voluntary Arts Network (VAN)

  Provides information and training to those who participate in the voluntary arts sector, as well as encourages participation.

• Voluntary Organisations In Common Endeavour (VOICE)

  VOICE is a networking organisation providing support in building partnerships and building a solid voluntary sector. VOICE specialises in supporting organisations in the Sparkbrook Ward.

• Volunteer Development England (VDE)

  Formerly known as the National Association of Volunteer Bureaux, VDE supports, promotes and develops volunteering through volunteer bureaux.

• Volunteering England

  Provides a range of services to support volunteer managers and organisations that involve volunteers.

• Volunteering Hub

  Volunteering England is the accountable body for the activity of the Volunteering Hub. The Volunteering Hub will work to achieve the ChangeUp high level objective that by 2014 there will be a leaner, effectively marketed and high quality volunteering infrastructure reaching, recruiting and placing a greater number and diversity of individuals coupled with improved volunteer management. To help achieve the ChangeUp objectives Volunteering England has produced detailed plan for the development of a Volunteering Hub. The following documents provide key information for those seeking an understanding of our work.

• West Midlands European Network

  Technical assistance organisation for european funding.

• West Midlands Planning Aid Service

  The service provides free and independent town and country planning advice to groups and individuals who cannot afford to pay for professional fees.

• Wheelchair Recycling We Can Do

  We Recycle Wheelchairs and ohr mobility aids that need refurbishing

• William Dudley Trust

  The William Dudley Trust is administered by The Digbeth Trust.

• Windows for Sudan

  Support group Horn of Africa and womens networks, provide tier one services also.

• Women & Theatre

  Women & Theatre creates engaging work about thing that matter.

• Women Acting In Today's Society (WAITS)

  Click for more info about Women Acting In Today's Society (WAITS)

• Women's Business Development Agency

  free business advice, training and support for women: empowering women and giving them the confidence, skills and knowledge to successfully start, grow and sustain their own businesses.

• Woodgate Valley Urban Farm

  Charity No 701639 giving communities the opportunity to learn about animals

• Workforce Hub

  The UK Workforce Hub helps voluntary and community organisations make the best of their paid staff, volunteers and trustees through workforce development. We work to ensure that voluntary organisations have staff, volunteers and trustees with the skills they need.

• Working Families

  The Balancing Work and Home in the Voluntary Sector Project provides assistance, resources and guidance to voluntary sector employers in developing and implementing practices that support the work-life balance of their staff.

• Workwithus.org

  At Workwithus.org we actively help, advise and support over 700 charities and a range of public sector bodies, providing an invaluable range of specialist fundraising and marketing services.

• Yardley Community Development Trust

  Community Development Trust

• Yemeni Women and Childrens Society

  Click for more info about Yemeni Women and Childrens Society

• Yoga Village

  Providing Better Health through yoga and meditation

• YOUTH New Opportunities Way (YOUTH NOW)

  We work with young African refugees and migrants aged 16-25 to help them become active citizens and fully feldged memebers of their communities. Our organisation is unique in that it has a diverse membership drawn from communities that have migrated

• Zone Housing and Resettlement Services

  Zone Housing and Resettlement Services.