Celebrating Communities

Project support

If your Birmingham community organisation was successful in securing a slice of Birmingham City Council’s £2m ‘Celebrating Communities’ fund, congratulations! Here are resources and information to help you start and monitor your project.

Resources for your Celebrating Communities project

Above is a recording of the ‘Use of parks and green spaces’ session to help you get everything right when using a Birmingham City Council outdoor space for your event.

Above is a recording of the ‘Completing your COGA (conditions of grant aid) form’ session which will help you fill out the form for your Celebrating Communities grant.

You will find recordings from all our online sessions, and supporting materials, in this public Google folder.

You can download this document: Help to fill in the current ‘Use of Parks’ form to help you get the best from your application.

For inspiration, you may also find it useful to read Locality’s ‘Top tips for community engagement’ flyer.

You can download our presentation slides – ‘Creating a volunteer role description’ – from a session we held in November 2021.

You can download our presentation slides – ‘How to involve volunteers’ – from a session we held in March 2022.

Resources for your Celebrating Communities project

You will find recordings from all our online sessions, and supporting materials, in this public Google folder.

You can go to YouTube to watch a recording of the ‘Use of parks and green spaces’ session to help you get everything right when using a Birmingham City Council outdoor space for your event.

You can download this document: Help to fill in the current ‘Use of Parks’ form

You can go to YouTube to watch a recording of the ‘Completing your COGA (conditions of grant aid) form’ session.

You may also find it useful to read Locality’s ‘Top tips for community engagement’ flyer.

More information about Celebrating Communities

To help local people celebrate the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham City Council set up a small grants fund called ‘Celebrating Communities’. We loved working with Locality and the council’s Neighbourhood Development & Support Unit to deliver briefings and application support to community groups hoping to apply.