To celebrate International Women's Day 2024, we bring to you a story of Women's empowerment delivered through our Community Benefit Fund. Pathways to Healing is an exclusive 6-week group programme designed for women who have survived Domestic Abuse (DA) and are ready to embark on their journey of healing. The programme offered support, strategies, and resources to the women, encouraging them to be resilient and set goals for the future.
The project provided enterprise training to socially excluded young adults (18-25 years old), in the London Borough of Hackney, who had barriers to education, employment, or training and came from impoverished backgrounds. The pandemic made things worse for these young people with the crisis resulting in social isolation, job loss, and education disruption.
Through this project wellbeing workshops for 3 cohorts of older adults (8-12 participants) were organised, in the Hillingdon Borough, which offered crucial mental health support. The groups greatly benefitted from more emotional support and a space that provided the opportunity to connect, in turn gaining peer support through shared experiences.
The Arts for Health programme was awarded the community benefit fund to provide an innovative initiative developed by MORE HORIZONS Charity to use Bollywood dance and music for workout sessions. Aimed to improve physical activity, mental well-being and reduce isolation and health inequalities.
The funding for the Open Havelock regeneration project has helped many residents who have lived there for over 30 years to enjoy the Grand Union Canal, which is unique to the local area, and which was previously underutilised. It has also contributed to the redevelopment of disused garages a footbridge, creating a new pedestrian and a cycling link to the Havelock estate.
Hilltop Community Centre project is a fantastic project to have been awarded the LHC Community Benefit Fund last year. A total amount of £6,376 was secured to help expand Hilltop Community Centre's kitchen facilities to ensure a better and safer space to serve their community.
As part of its mission to meet the areas’ affordable housing needs, CHP, an Essex-based housing association and community benefit society, launched a heating installs and refurbishment programme.
Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) NHS Foundation Trust has an ongoing commitment to reducing its carbon emissions, and through its sustainability strategy, has already cut emissions by 20%.
Through CPC's Schools and Community Buildings (SCB2) framework, a new state-of-the-art Degree Apprentice Centre was built for students, which consisted of a three-storey building with an IT Teaching Lab, small amount of meeting rooms, nine teaching rooms, open plan break out area and a ground floor science lab.
During 2019, Brent Council wanted to use a platform to take their out of hours call handling services to a more intelligent and efficient system and decided to procure this through the LHC Framework.
