As well as supporting community organisations through our Main
Investment Fund, we also help organisations to become investment ready
through our Business Development Grant. Be Totally You, Cambridge
House and Elite Youth are three community organisations who were
awarded a BDG to plan and develop enterprise activities. These videos
showcase the organisations and the benefit they had from the BDG.
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Chopsticks (North Yorkshire) |
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Chopsticks is a community-benefit organisation with a difference. It is actually owned by its disabled service users.
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 Youth
development charity BANG Edutainment provides media training and work experience at community radio stations to help young people off the streets and
into employment.
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Moss Side and Hulme Community Development Trust, Manchester |
 When you hear about Moss Side, it’s usually for shootings or
stabbings,’ says Hartley Hanley, chair of Moss Side and Hulme Community
Development Trust. ‘But there are plenty of positives that rarely get
reported.’
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Hull Community Church, Hull |
 Hull Community Church isn’t just a
church in the ordinary sense: it’s a faith-based organisation working
to improve lives in a deprived part of Hull.
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Community Ventures Limited, Middlesbrough |
 Parts of Middlesbrough rank among the most deprived areas of the UK.
Chemicals, steel and heavy industries once provided jobs here, but
today there are communities where unemployment has been a way of life
for several generations.
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Centre for Music and Arts Technology, Birmingham |
 The Grosvenor Studio Complex in north Birmingham boasts an impressive
musical heritage. Everyone from reggae legend Jimmy Cliff to evergreen
pop star Cliff Richard has recorded at the historic Handsworth
facility.
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Alt Valley Community Trust, Liverpool |
 It’s difficult for us to consolidate,’ says Phil Knibb, executive
director of Alt Valley Community Trust (AVCT) in Liverpool. ‘We’re all
about creating employment, and that means taking opportunities when
they arise.’
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Action for Business, Bradford |
 During the notorious Bradford inner city riots of 2001, the business centre at Manningham, the centre of the city’s south Asian population, was a notably safe haven for the area’s multi-ethnic community.
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Ibstock Community Enterprises, Leicestershire |
 Ibstock Community
Enterprises (ICE) has a simple mission: “to make Ibstock a better
place”. Ibstock is a former coalmining community, and in 1995 its
high street bank closed down. This was a blow to the community,
because its already struggling economy depended on people having
access to cash.
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 Parent power is the
driving force behind Lister Steps. The Liverpool-based charity was
set up in 2000 by a group of parents determined to address the lack
of local childcare in Tuebrook, one of the most deprived wards in
England.
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 People living in the
London borough of Tower Hamlets typically face a tough climb to get
onto the career ladder. The second most deprived local authority in
England, Tower Hamlets has long experienced above-average
unemployment, particularly among its black and minority ethnic
communities.
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Fairfields Materials Management, Manchester |
 It may not be obvious how composting improves a community. But any
patch of green space, whether large or small, needs to be fertilised.
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