Cleaning up our neighbourhood

Young people understanding the importance of a clean enviroment for all.

Recognising a major problem within the inner city wards. Raising awareness amd helping members understand the importance of cleaner safer environments for all communities to enjoy and take pride in.

ESOL classes

Workshops delivered on empowering members of the community to take pride and respect each other to ensure communities are active in the welfare of each other.

People improving thier basic English skills which will help them to reach thier potential and apply for jobs which will help them intergrate in to society. This helps build up independance and confidence skills as part of the soft skills required by employers.

Trip to Birmingham Museum

Taking women from ethnic minority backgrounds to the museum to widen and increase the knowledge on the British history and give a better understanding of British values.

This also helped women empowerment in the socities we live in, with increasing the importance of history to mothers who can relay this information to the next generations.

A journey from Bangladesh to Birmingham

Oral History project of early settelers from Bangladesh

Recording the oral history of early settlers recognising the difficulties they faced and efforts they have made to help the next generation live in a diverse society with people from many different diverse backgrounds. Project supported by National Lottery Fund.

Our Projects

Project run by Lozells Community Initiatives, Please get in touch if you would like to get involved.

Future Projects

Employability & IAG

Training members of the community for basic work skills

Preparing members from the lozells district on what to do when applying and attending job interviews as well as attending job fairs. In our sessions it has included CV building, interview techniques and skills needed, completing application forms and the importance of time keeping for employers.

Women Empowerment

Chair Yoga

Giving women the skills of chair yoga to benefit health and well being. Chair yoga is a great way for older adults to get the wonderful health benefits of yoga. ... Yoga is an excellent way for older adults to loosen and stretch painful muscles, reduce stress, and improve circulation. It also reduces anxiety, helps lower blood pressure, protects joints, and builds strength and balance.

Clean up Project

Come and take pride in the area you live. Show the community to care. We will be meeting up on Saturday 27th April 2019. Litter picking event will take place at 1pm

Lets make our street clean and safe for everyone.

We are undertaking a community clean up of the Lozells Estate. All residents are most welcome to join in - we would welcome the opportunity to take part in maintaining our shared environment and have a chat about what's important to you locally.

First Aid (Women Empowerment)

With help from the National Lottery we were able to deliver First Aid training to over 50 ladies from the BAME community.

The response was amazing, we were able to give these ladies life saving skills. They felt very empowered and confident. They now have the knowledge and skills to assist a person in a emergency situation be it a family member or a member of the public.

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Hand Sanitiser & Masks

Hand sanitisers and masks distributed to the community throughout covid 19. The most vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals in our community were able to collect free PPE to protect and keep them safe during these unprecedented times.

This was appreciated by the community who were able to protect themselves and thier families from the virus that has impacted the BAME community in particular people living in the inner city areas and in extended families.

We hope to be able to continue to provide vital resources to our community and meet the needs of our most vulnerable citizens who reside around us.

I'm Here for you!

Calling all our vulnerable members to join us so that we can get through these difficult times together

We understand that many of our community members have been required to shield or isolate leaving them lonely and isolated. This has had a detrimental effect on the wellbeing and mental health of many of our community members. We have setup a support network and are here for you. We can provide information and guidance on the current government guildlines and discuss any issues you may be facing. If nothing else we are here for a friendly chat, one to one or you can join our group sessions. we look forward to speaking to you.

We are here for you!

We are here for you! Calling our community members throughout this difficult time. We have been able to maintain communication with members and provide support to people living in isolation. Speaking to our trained volunteers, members will feel comforted and help improve their mental health greatly.

People feel scared and alone but we encourage members to call, have a friendly chat and uplift all of our spirits together as a community.

The most vulnerable in society are being impacted the most during this pandemic and we urge you to pick up the phone and give us a call or your loved ones.

Talk to me!

We have found there are members of our community, particularly elderly who are are isolated and living lonely lives. We feel it is our duty and responsibility to reach out to them and tackle this issue. We are offering a befriending service and our trained volunteers will be giving advice on current government guidance, COVID-19 symptoms and local restrictions. We can provide this service in a variety of different community languages such as Bengali, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi.

Knife Crime

In January and February of 2020, Lozells Community Initiative successfully held an eight-week parent and training development programme.

This was part of a widerinitiative to tackle knife crime,gang activity and other issues affecting young people in our community.Through our existing work, we already understand specific issues in our community and know that local families face problemssuch as:

▪Drug dealingand drug related activity

▪Absent parents due to work commitments and working hours

▪Family communication breakdowns

▪Lack of trustand representation of BAME officers within the police force

▪Language barrierissues.