Providing Access to Opportunities

The Creative Community Coalition (C3) established in conjunction with Birmingham City Council to be ‘Strategic drivers of community cohesion and enterprise. Its role is to promote best practice and access to opportunities, whilst creating a better place for all its communities.

• The work of C3 is wide-ranging and includes:-
• Community Cohesion
• Communication Strategies
• Emergency Housing for Families at Risk
• Exit strategy for young people exiting gangs
• Education and Training
• Mentoring
• Young People forums
• Faith and Spirituality
• Business and enterprise
• Promoting good practice
• Legal

We also support a wide range of organisations that work together in clusters to promote enterprise; including some aimed specifically at stimulating community cohesion and innovation.

Established in 1989, BDS helps businesses survive and prosper by providing both generalist and specialist help through business advice, consultancy and training. They have a unique and proven expertise, having worked with over 6000 Midlands companies in the last 15 years.

They specialise in innovative thinking, top quality advice and in-depth business knowledge, and make sure that their team is equipped with the most up-to-date tools available so they can provide the best service possible. BDS has a strong record of delivering quality services across the West Midlands, and The Future Melting Pot is very excited to be working with them to help a new generation of entrepreneurs achieve their aspirations.

You can visit the BDS website at www.bds-uk.co.uk

iSE are a leading social enterprise support organisation working throughout the West Midlands Region. Their core aim is to create and sustain the employment opportunities for people with disabilities or other significant disadvantage in the labour market.

They work with a range of partners to ensure the support to individuals is second to none and that support provided meets the diverse needs of the people they work with. We are pleased to be working together to support enterprising behaviour of young people who are not in education or employment. TFMP and iSE are working together to secure resources to deliver innovative services for the NEET cohort within Birmingham.

You can visit the iSE website at: www.i-se.co.uk

PUK a malta are an education and employment agency based in Berlin, Germany. They develop projects for young people and adults, as well as promoting education and culture in Europe. They work to support people affected by situations such as homelessness, drug addiction, family problems and issues at school. They are involved in excellent, innovative projects such as ‘U2 to go’, which gave students the chance to produce a CD of street musicians, and ‘One Tree for Europe’, which encourages students from different nations to work together and strengthen their links by planting trees.

You can visit their website at www.puk-amalta.de

The aim of Young Enterprise is to build a connected world of young people, business volunteers and educators, inspiring each other to succeed through enterprise.

They work with over 300,000 young people each year, deliver programmes designed to boost confidence, ability and ambition to succeed. They have the support of over 3500 businesses and over 5000 schools, colleges, universities and local communities. They are the UK’s leading enterprise education charity, with over 50 years’ experience in the business.

You can visit their website at www.young-enterprise.org.uk