Partners

Community Connexions Community Partners [pdf]

 

Refugee Alliance	Soho Road Bid	Spring Housing Association
Nishkam Centre	Saathi House	Refugee Alliance
ILEYS community Centre	BLESST centre	KIDS charity
OSCAR Birmingham	Sikhs of Sutton	Age Concern Birmingham
Café Oasis (United Reformed Church)	Our Place Community Hub	NEW Heights
William Wilson Turner Foundation	Aspire & Succeed	Church of England
Neighbourhood Network scheme (NNS)	Qadria Trust (Sparkbrook Representatives)	Legacy West Midlands
Communities Engage and Thrive	Concord Youth Centre	SOS Education

• Aston University:
  • Tackling health inequalities and Sandpit project with Aston where 5 community organisations were supported through micro-grants to run a community-led project: videos and full report
  • ARCHA panel and Research advisory project is a short project funded by BCHC. This is working towards improving involvement of seldom heard communities into research advisory panel at Aston to make it a more inclusive and diverse representation for Birmingham.
• University of Birmingham:
  • ELSA project- 4 Community clinics so far.
  • Gambling project: study from University of Birmingham exploring and understanding adverse effects of Gambling in the wider population. The bid has been successful for this study. CC supported with initial application through community feedback.
  • QUERCC workshop: study exploring the continuity of care in primary care and how does it affect individuals in the community. CC participated in the two workshops organised by the team and contributed with the feedback.
• University of Leicester
• University of Warwick
• University of Keele
• University of Wolverhampton
• Birmingham City University
• Staffordshire University: patient service user group survey

 

Patient and public involvement, engagement and participation (community listening) event
exploring how patient service user groups are involved in the delivery of care within the NHS

 

University of Staffordshire: stage 2 application focus group: PSUG

• Birmingham City Council: working closely with Public Health and Communities team.
  • HDRC project: Health Determinants Research Collaborative. CC supported by organising a community roundtable with various community and academic partners.
  • Smile Month Oral Health session: delivered in collaboration with the health protection team & NHS to address oral health and promote oral hygiene and toothbrushing in school going children. Toothbrush packs were also distributed.
  • BVSC: Steering Committee member
    • REND: The purpose of REND is to identify, define, and develop plans to remove or mitigate systemically embedded, specific barriers to inclusion of groups who are underrepresented in research participation. The programme is seeking generalisable, real-world solutions to remove or mitigate these barriers within an ICS context.
      • Workstream 1: Mapping and gap analysis exercise supported by BVSC Research, Catalyst 4 Change, Community Connexions and Flourish.  Who is out there and who is being engaged and how?  How does this map across Birmingham and Solihull’s population?  Who’s missing?
      • Workstream 2: Mapping the existing research networks, groups and activities, supported by University of Birmingham.  What networks, frameworks, strategies and working groups exist to enhance engagement with local communities?
      • Workstream 3: The development of resources and good practice to redress power imbalances, supported by Catalyst 4 Change, Community Connexions and Flourish. Bringing together toolkits, best practice guides and webinars to support organisations to engage further.
      • Coproduce practical solutions to help overcome the barriers to engagement that still exist.
    • Healthwatch: steering committee member
    • Ladywood and Perry Barr Locality Partnership
      • FLOURISH: West Birmingham Community Health collaborative.
      • Health Hacks: this project included addressing issues like asthma, oral health, and obesity in school children. CC collaborated with Ladywood and Perry Barr Locality Partnership, City Council Health protection team and the NHS to deliver multiple sessions in some of the schools in Birmingham. The sessions were well attended and appreciated by the schools.
      • NHS ambassadors and schools
      • Birmingham Family Voices

 

• Projects within BCHC NHS Foundation Trust
  • Sutton Cottage project: Community Connexions (BCHC) held a series of listening events/sessions and asked patients, residents, clinicians, and the voluntary sector from Sutton Coldfield about their experience of, and hopes for future provision of services, for both older people as well as the children’s services that the Cottage Hospital currently provides. The first stage of this engagement completed by 24/02/2023 with feedback from 170 participants area, to meet the business plan timescales, but of course we plan to continue engaging with existing and future services users as project begins to take shape.
  • Reach out project.
  • MSK team.

 

• Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Clinical Research Network West Midlands (NIHR)