How previous successful applicants helped their community
Examples of the groups we’ve helped to give you inspiration for your own City Living, Local Life applications.
Marlborough Primary School Mural
We helped Marlborough Primary School work with a local artist on a mural that contained the work of children, parents and the staff, to send a powerful message of community. The work was inspired by the children of the school, and features hundreds of mosaic pieces.
Video: Marlborough Primary School Mural and the City Living Local Life Fund
- Marlborough Primary School Mural and the City Living Local Life Fund video transcript
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(00:03) I am Tomo. I'm the local design campus and we're all here today at Marlborough Primary School in Chelsea to look at this beautiful mosaic. And the council have been involved through City living local life. And I'd just love to hear a bit more about how it came about. So we wanted to create a piece of art that encompassed who the mobra was and it's been an absolute Delight to work with Tomah who is a local artist. Yes so we made a lot of small groups of children and their staff and the parents.
(00:50) And when they all took place and they made those Mosaic leaves there are 80 of them. Fabulous, it's so wonderful to know that that so many different communities were involved. It was so many different parts of the school Community were involved in doing this.
St John the Baptist Church
The City Living, Local Life grant helped St John the Baptist Church put on artistic and creative events throughout the year, including concerts, recitals and art exhibitions for the local community. The church also takes part in a number of community events, made possible by the grant.
Video: City Living Local Life at St John The Baptist Church
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(00:00) City living local life we use for different events here where we're attracting people from the local community to come and join us. So in subsequent years we've in previous years rather we've hosted a lunch for the over 70s, we hosted a tea at the coronation. And we've also used it to support some of the Arts events that we hold here at St John's in October of each year. We work with Koffa the K Olympia Festival of music and the Arts. And they put on a series of free concerts using local talent and we've used city-living local
(00:35) life to help us put those concerts on, and to open the Arts to people that wouldn't ordinarily be able to come and join us.
The Community Cook Off
The grant helped contribute to the Community Cook Off, an event where residents come together to share delicious food and compete to be the best chefs in the area. The event helps residents from different backgrounds meet and to form bonds that have led to long lasting friendships across North Kensington.
Video: How City Living, Local Life helped spice up the Community Cook Off
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(00:00) Hi I'm PC Charlotte uh wall. I'm a local Youth and Community police officer. I've been based up in North Kensington for about eight years. And I set up the community Cook off with a member of the community called Tariq Gotti. And we run the community Cook off event which is held here at Bay 20 Max of the gardens every summer. [Music] That's basically a cooking competition for teams of six chefs. We have a maximum of 12 teams and they compete to be named the best team or the best group of chefs in the local area.
(00:46) We have a really good Community Fund day. And we have a DJ and we have a local Chef that comes. So this year or last year I applied for um, 15500 from Notting Dale and from St Helens because as we're here it kind of sits on the border. And then with that money I was able to buy the aprons for all the teams which then the teams get to take away with them after the event. And the Pantry which is obviously all the food that we need to cook for the day. And then anything left over goes to Bay 20 where they distribute it to the local
(01:17) community as well. So yeah without City living fund this event funding wise would be quite difficult. So yeah I it's a great, it's a great application to put through on and it really benefits the community hugely. Because obviously it kind of runs full circle. So yeah I love, I love the city living fund and I think it's quite an underused and under valuable tool for local Community groups to be able to access. So yeah it's a thumbs up for me.
Ubuntu Pledge
Find out how City Living, Local Life is helping Ubuntu Pledge introduce residents to the digital world. The City Living, Local Life grant has helped Ubuntu Pledge deliver classes and workshops to students on email, the internet, and digital skills.
Video: Ubuntu Pledge
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(00:01) [Music] All right I work for pledge Ubuntu pledge, a digital skills training organisation. And we also train on life skills management. So we delivered digital upscaling. We also are part of the digital inclusion partnership. So we have been really at the front, supporting the elderly people who are really excluded from digital. People who speak English as a second language or as an additional language. And also people who face deprivation. Places like where we are now the world's the world's end states which
(00:47) really needed this type of training, So we are so happy to start off this training here. So what we are delivering is basically the essential digital skills. We've looked at how they can you know, send emails, receive emails. And also we've kind of like mentioned safety while receiving email to what to look at. Especially nowadays you know, there's scums and there's a lot of phishing emails. So we've been covering quite a lot and so the students are really benefiting from this subject. So the project we apply for City
(01:28) living funding is a digital skills. It's mainly good towards upskilling and also reskilling those who have been away from from the digital world for so long. But the long-term impact will be it will help them to go into the job market employment. It will help them also access other services that will help them to achieve the long-term goals.