Currently Funding
Harrow Community Fund
Funding for projects and services supporting Harrow residents with a focus on projects that reduce isolation. Funding has come from Edward Harvist Trust, Harrow Giving Supporters and Harrow Wins Supporters.
We intend to run Dressmaking /Craft/ recycling old cloths/alteration Classes for the disadvantaged, house bound and vulnerable adults aged 18yrs to 70+years as a social /educative lifestyle skill activity to facilitate peer support and help reduce loneliness, Isolation and enable some participants to use their skills to gain employment.
FirmFoundation’s Day-Drop-in service provides a safe space, food, showers and access to services for single, 18+ individuals at risk of homelessness, homeless and rough sleeping in the Borough of Harrow.
It will be a continuation of “Chat and reconnect” and include educational themes.
The main aim of this project is to help more disabled residents of Harrow to reconnect after being adversely affected by Covid-19. The project was successful and has helped people to re-engage by holding weekly drop-in sessions.
We are a cycling club based in Harrow who have recently launched a Go-Ride club for children. We are currently looking for funding to cover the cost of first aid training for our coaches, new equipment and road bikes for the children.
We want to restart our popular family group in Kenmore Park so isolated and struggling families with pre-school children can get active, learn and make friends. Our two-hour weekly sessions will start with a healthy breakfast followed by a changing weekly programme of physical, creative and educational activities.
Befriending service using experienced, skilled staff and volunteers to make phone
calls, and home visits to our most vulnerable and disadvantaged elderly residents to
relief loneliness and isolation.
Develop healthy African recipes and learn healthy cooking methods.
Provide basic IT learning to gain skills and knowledge to access online services.
We deliver, indoor and outdoor, in two consecutive classes, mobility exercises for the over 60’s followed by qigong exercises for everyone. We limit the mobility class to 30-40 participants for safety and up to 60 for the qigong class. This supports the mental, physical, and spiritual balance of residents.
Our aim is to provide face-face wellbeing training which includes building up resilience, breaking isolation and empowering individuals with skills that will build their confidence. This will be a two part session that will include learning through group discussions and physical activities for 4 hours a week, such as Tai Chi, Yoga or dance.
Soul Kitchen will provide regular nutritious meals and food packages to those in hardship within the Harrow area, through a co-ordinated campaign and distribution service, supporting the disadvantaged, young families, the elderly and refugees. Soul Kitchen provides nutritious meals to those in hardship and need within the Harrow area.
We open our doors to local elderly Harrow residents; providing them with a safe, comfortable, and welcoming social space on Tuesday afternoons to fend off feelings of isolation and loneliness. Creating this warm environment for our older community members encourage social interaction, kindles friendships, and promotes organic emotional support.
More Than Just A Choir provides weekly choral singing and socialising, in-person and online, for adults affected by mental ill-health and social isolation, as well as additional workshops, tuition, and public performances.
Harrow Health & Wellbeing Fund
Funding for projects and services supporting the health and wellbeing of Harrow residents.
Our aim is to invest in Tai Chi sessions for our members. The sessions aim to provide members with a holistic approach to their wellbeing incorporating wellness for both mind and body.
Blossom Together Walks
Weekly walks co-ordinated by our Blossom Representative. These will take place in a variety of parks across the borough.
Blossom Breastfeeding Peer Support
Paid peer support to be offered to support the regular Breastfeeding Drop-In led by the trained Breastfeeding Peer Supporters.
Antenatal Education
Infant Feeding (Breast and Bottle) at Childrens’ Centres.
We will run three physical events (outdoor fitness festival, indoor health and wellbeing brunch and mental health conference brunch) The project will promote and raise awareness of positive mental health and well-being, including nature-based therapy and outdoor activities that promotes physical activities that improve health.
We will also run a series of mental health, health and bereavement sessions led by community leaders and health practitioners.
EPIC will be collaborating with NOMADs and Harrow College to deliver a 12 week programme with marginalised young people and residents from Harrow to improve their emotional well-being, reduce anxiety through self-expression and learn transferable skills to deal with adversity.
The aim of the project is to promote deaf people’s health and well-being, by reducing social isolation, reaching out to those who have been cut off from the community as result of COVID pandemic which is impacting on their mental health. We would encourage referrals from health and social care colleagues who comes across those deaf people. As Sick of It report, many deaf people may not be known to GP until at the point of crisis. Equally, we are also keen to work with hearing communities, especially families of deaf people where 90% of deaf people are from hearing families to raise awareness about the importance of supporting deaf people, promoting better health and well-being in accessible format to deaf people and their families whose first language is not English but BSL and for hearing members, it is usually in their mother tongue.
Acting up is a weekly drama and performing arts workshop which will bring together people with learning disabilities to take part in inclusive drama activities with the aim of improving mental health and wellbeing and tackling social isolation and loneliness.
“Live Well Age Well”:
1) Health and Wellbeing workshops on evidence-based clinical priorities delivered and facilitated by black doctors and nurses, such as:
*Weight management, healthy eating, Physical activities
*Managing diabetes and hypertension
*Early cancer diagnosis
*Long Covid, Mental Health and social isolation
*Accessing Health services, challenges, and barriers
2) Intergenerational IT learning and public health messaging design workshops
We aim to provide free and low cost 1:1 Counselling and run an emotional support group and provide training to improve resilience, confidence, resourcefulness and their mental wellbeing.
Chai and Chat Wellbeing Café
• Workshops will run on a fortnightly basis for 2.00 hours over 12 sessions
Our aim will be to:
• educate, empower residents to manage their physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing
• embed behaviour change and take control to improve health and wellbeing
We aim to provide six 1 hour sessions during six months for those members of the Romanian community who are accessing our food hub to improve their mental health awareness.
We will create:
– a support group for 15- 20 women to tackle social isolation and loneliness through sewing/embroidery activities which will also constitute the ideal setting to communicate and forward information on various issues affecting the community (mental health, well-being, isolation, health etc)
– befriending phone services for Romanians living in Harrow
– monthly online meetings with qualified therapists and psychologists
We will offer Indian dance workshops devised specifically to increase physical activity and enhance the mental well-being of young people aged 5 – 18 years who are Harrow residents and of Indian, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan ethnicity, especially those affected by Covid-19 and typically who experience social, economic and health inequalities.
The Lunch Club provides free lunch and a weekly meeting place for anyone in our community who wants, or needs, company and a meal. The Club provides important social and mental wellbeing opportunities, through making new friends, joining in with a game, or just enjoying conversation with others.
Domestic Abuse Training in Romanian to Romanian Speaking Victims of Domestic Abuse
Mental health & wellbeing support for adults who have been directly affected by the Ukraine-Russia war.
Mental health training, group support & supervision for staff members who are working with the community.
