Batchley Support Group [BSG] is a community based neighbourhood association

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Batchley Support Group [BSG] is a community based neighbourhood association (registered charity and company limited by guarantee) which aims to build resident participation and involvement in community activities, advance social inclusion and lifelong learning, reduce inequalities in health, and to speak up for Batchley. The objects of BSG are those of a voluntary community based organisation working on behalf of the residents of Batchley, a locality within the borough of Redditch in the county of Worcestershire.

Batchley Support Group aims to empower local people by building resident participation and involvement in community activities, promoting regeneration and access to services, reducing inequalities in health, advancing social inclusion and lifelong learning and campaigning on local issues. The BSG Management Committee and BSG members are all local Batchley residents.

BSG’s current range of projects includes:

• a Community Resource Centre(with meeting rooms)
• Tool Loan Scheme
• community drop-in/advice sessions
• support groups for vulnerable and older people
• Cool by the Pool (annual family fun day)
• a community outreach learning centre and meeting facility in partnership with New College
• a Community Café in partnership with New College
• a Breakfast Club
• a youth club in partnership with Redditch Borough Council
• a community allotment
• and we are preparing a large bid to purchase a key local venue and develop it into a world class youth facility that will be known as the Batchley Youth Foundation

Values of Batchley Support Group

Community Empowerment - Batchley Support Group exists to provide a voice for the residents of Batchley, and to turn residents’ ideas into practice.

Inclusiveness - Batchley Support Group celebrates the diversity of people who make up the community of Batchley, and aims to develop services and facilities that are attractive to all members of our community so that our group, and our community, is made stronger.

Equality - Batchley Support Group challenges all forms of oppression and inequality, and gives priority to working with people whose full participation in society is limited by economic and social disadvantage.

Partnership - Batchley Support Group believes in the strength of working co-operatively with other organisations, particularly those from the voluntary and statutory sectors, to achieve our objectives. Working in partnership enables Batchley Support Group to learn from the experience and skills of others, and we will actively seek to identify, develop and sustain working partnerships that will benefit the community of Batchley.

Sustainability - Batchley Support Group believes we will be successful in building the confidence, respect and participation of the community of Batchley when we can demonstrate that our projects will continue for as long as they are relevant to meeting the needs of the community of Batchley.

Best Practice - Batchley Support Group is committed to working to the highest standards possible, and to actively seeking better ways of working to achieve our aims.