BCBN Grant Initiative Launch
KPMG headline sponsors of the launch of BCBN’s Grant Initiative
Over 100 individuals from a business and professional background, joined as at KPMG for the launch of the Better Community Business Network Grant Initiative with guest speaker, previous Attorney General, Rt Hon Dominic Grieve MP.
BCBN’s Grant Initiative aims to empower local charities and community projects. BCBN awards up to £3,000 per charity ever month to support grass root community causes and charitable projects across the UK.
We would also like to show our deep appreciation to KPMG for their generosity and welcome in hosting the Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP. Cheque presentations were made to representatives of the Date Palm Project alongside BCBN Grant Initiative awards to Art4Space, Sufra NW Food Bank, Metropolitan Blind Sport and Hounslow Asian and African Youth Association.
Art4Space new centre in Lambeth delivers a range of community art activities and training courses to local schools, youth groups, local residents, tenants and residents groups, and local people experiencing ill health, disability or unemployment and will become the outward facing community focus of the development running projects that make a real difference in this local community. BCBN’s £3000 grant is for a community mosaic and ceramic art piece celebrating the history of the local area. The artwork will be designed and created by children and adults from the local community.
Sufra NW London is a community food bank and kitchen that works to reduce the impact of food poverty in Brent. A significant portion of those who access the food bank are vulnerable young people between the ages 16-25 years who live independently in hostels or council flats, which may have limited cooking facilities. The Project will train vulnerable people who have recently left care, suffered abuse or domestic violence and/ or access drug rehabilitation BCBN’s £800 grant award to Sufra Food Academy will help teach young people basic cooking skills for 10 weeks.
HAAYA (Hounslow Asian and African Youth Association) is a minority ethnic led voluntary organisation based in the borough of Hounslow. HAAYA’s activities and services are centred on around the educational, welfare, spiritual and physical development of young people from the Asian and African communities. BCBN’s Grant Award of £3,000 has been allocated to HAAYA’s Saturday Supplementary School which seeks to raise academic and general standards of underachieving youngsters aged 11 years to 18 years from the minority ethnic communities in the Hounslow and surrounding boroughs in West London by motivating their attitudes towards learning and building their self-esteem.
Guest speaker, Dominic Grieve QC MP met with grant initiative recipients, beneficiaries and guests. He commented:
“It is an honour and a privilege to be associated with the Better Community Business Network. As a politician, we are all too often brought society’s problems to solve by some magical wand, so it is refreshing to come across BCBN, which aims to provide solutions from within society itself for intractable issues. I am very happy to associate myself with BCBN’s simple message, that those who are able should seek to help those who are not so fortunate”.
