Project Reference No:

M3/49

 Project Name:

Osaba Women's Centre Capacity Building Project

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Applicant Organisation Osaba Women’s Centre

23 Victoria Street

Hillfields

Coventry

West Midlands

CV1 5NA
Contact Details Penny Kelly

Telephone: (024) 7622 1816 Fax: (024) 7663 1236
E mail address N/A
Description and Objectives
The project aims to continue with building the capacity of the Organisation to enable it to continue with the level of activities that Osaba provides to its members and to attract resources for sustainability.
  • A series of empowerment and development programmes will be embarked upon to continue to offer black women the support and empowerment to effectively organise themselves and engage in the wider regeneration strategy that has ignored the gender difference in the participation rate of local residents.
  • To strengthen the organisation for the long-term sustainability through effective management of resources and systems and to assist management Committee members to fulfil their obligations under charity-law.
  • Build the membership of the organisation through cultural activities, which will in turn provide opportunity for volunteers to acquire skills and apply them.
  • Encourage Partnership activities and networking though visits to other similar organisations.
  • To implement services and support which directly assists and meets the needs of the community.

The benefits of the Project are:

  • The capacity of the organisation will be enhanced so that it can play an active role in the regeneration of Hillfields and will encourage its members to participate in the local regeneration strategy thereby generating a sense of local ownership and control, which will in turn encourage sustainability.

The project contributes to under measure 3b of the Hillfields URBAN Action Plan.

Project Outputs
Programme Outputs Forecast Outputs
Number of temporary jobs created 1
Number of voluntary groups supported 10
Number of support weeks for community groups 80
Voluntary Initiatives supported 10
Number of residents involved in voluntary work 30
Qualification gained 45

TOTAL PROJECT ELIGIBLE EXPENDITURE by Calendar year

Main source of funding followed by other sources

 Type of expenditure Previous year’s expenditure

1998

£

1999

£

2000

£

2001

£

Total

£

ERDF

Revenue

 0 0 11,910 47,640 37,309 96,859
Coventry Social Services

Revenue

 15,510 21,037 26,660 0 0 63,207

City Development

Revenue

 25,702 34,270 2,535 0 0 62,507
Total

Revenue

 41,212 55,307 41,105 47,640 37,309 222,573

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