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Community Regeneration

Below you will find detail of the Association’s ongoing Community Regeneration Activity (July 2020) as well as details of the various funding available.

 Supporting Communities Funding (FUND NOW CLOSED)

Barrhead Housing Association were successful in obtaining £85,000 of funding from the Scottish Government’s Supporting Communities Fund. Funding has been distributed to a number of vital partner community support agencies already who are responding to the challenges created by Covid-19 in various ways, namely:

  • All About Barrhead and I Love Clarkston are supporting local businesses, charities and organisation in sourcing PPE, social distancing materials, organising webinars and training  related to Covid safety and response, producing lockdown experience videos which is all aimed at supporting people/communities back using the high street / business with confidence that they can be safe as possible .
  • Alzheimer Scotland are reaching out to people living with dementia in the community, and their family care givers, to provide one to one emotional support via phone calls and video chats using the Alzheimer Scotland Near Me and Attend Anywhere platforms.
  • Back 2 SchoolBank will be supplying brand new school uniforms to children living in hardship and deprivation in East Renfrewshire, primarily in Barrhead and Dunterlie and are working with local agencies, East Renfrewshire Social Work, HSCP, Citizen’s Advice, Women’s Aid and directly with local schools.
  • Care for Carers are providing snack boxes which could include meals to be made in the ward (tins, cuppa soup etc) snacks, confectionery, soft drinks, tea, coffee, bread, fruit and veg to NHS Services and Staff based in East Renfrewshire.
  • Citizen Advice East Renfrewshire are identifying those who are struggling with fuel costs, and administering a fuel grant scheme to support those most in need and provide advice and support.
  • East Renfrewshire ASN Parents Action Group are providing wellness packages with includes STEM activity, relaxation products and meditation CDs for the family they work with
  • Flair Gymnastics will now be running their gymnastics sessions via Zoom & producing resources and activities on their social media & Google Drive to keep young people active, positive & inspired during lockdown.
  • Include Me 2 are able to react and support our membership base of children, young people, adults and families who experience learning difficulties, by providing telephone support and the preparation and delivery of meals.
  • Parent Network Scotland have developed a Wellbeing Toolkit to deliver with Parents and Children and this will be rolled out across East Renfrewshire as an online resource. The toolkit is focused on health and wellbeing for parents and children together to take part in and aims to alleviate stress, trauma and promote wellbeing.
  • Self-Directed Support Forum East Renfrewshire have purchased IT Equipment that will help provide Information, Support and Advice to individuals who have been assessed and require a care package from the Health and Social Care Partnership.
  • Strathclyde 4×4 Response are delivering and collecting prescriptions to those who aren’t able to, they are purchasing Broadnet Transceivers to enhance their communication capabilities. These two-way radios work across all the cellular networks, and provide private talkgroups which ensure that confidential messages can be passed between their controllers and responders.
  • Thornliebank Together are working with the families who access their Food Share and provided a bespoke age-appropriate package of small and a printed information leaflet detailing the help and support currently available. Including information on food supplies, fuel costs and other financial help, along with softer information on self-care and good mental health.
  • Totnosh are preparing and delivering meals on a weekly basis to 42 residents of a Sheltered Housing Complex.
  • Voluntary Action East Renfrewshire are administering a Connectivity Fund to give financial payments to suitable households who are struggling to meet digital related bills, exceed data allowances or funding towards digital devices such as tablets.

Brighter Futures Barrhead

BHA have received a £100,000 National Lottery award from The National Lottery Community Fund’ to take the popular DIY Dunterlie model forward and expand into Auchenback and continue in Dunterlie. Brighter Futures Barrhead will launch in Autumn 2020 and the project will:

  • Support families on low incomes to manage their finances appropriately, enabling them to make their resources go further and are accessing all financial entitlements they are eligible for.
  • Reduce food insecurities
  • Supporting families, parents and children
  • Reduced household spend of families on low incomes, again directly increasing the amount of money available to families
  • Run the BHA Community Fund using Participatory Budgeting

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The National Lottery Community Fund, Scotland Director, Neil Ritch: said: “In these uncertain times our priority is to ensure that National Lottery money continues to flow to charities, voluntary sector organisations and grassroots groups. I would like to congratulate Barrhead Housing Association on their award, theirs is an important project which and  will support people now and in the future when they can physically come back together to make great things happen in their communities”

 

Digital Connectivity Fund 

Barrhead Housing Association has just agreed with Voluntary Action East Renfrewshire to run a fund on our behalf and which is available to East Renfrewshire residents struggling with the costs to access the digital world.

The Digital Connectivity Support Fund has been set up to ‘provide financial support for digital connectivity for people from East Renfrewshire’. This may include the following:

o             Payments to households/individuals struggling to meet digital related bills

o             Payments for data / maintaining household/individual Wi-Fi

o             Payments for devices / tablets to individuals

o             Or, potentially, a combination of the above.

A maximum of £150 (one-off payment) per household or up £200 for a three-month period per household.

Application

Click below for further details and the application form:

https://wecareeastren.org.uk/digital-connectivity-fund/

 

 

General

You can find a copy of the Associations 2018-2020 Community Regeneration Strategy here – BHA-Community-Regeneration-Strategy-2018-20

For detail of community regeneration activity which has taken place across FLAIR partners during 2019, see below or click here for a PDF copy to print off

 

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