Black Country Near Neighbours

One of TCT’s major pieces of work is our delivery of the Near Neighbours programme in the Black Country.

Through our partnership with the national Near Neighbours charity, we help to bring funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to the Black Country.

We work with grassroots groups, communities, faith groups and councils.

Near Neighbours brings people together in communities that are religiously and ethnically diverse, so that they can get to know each other better, build relationships of trust, and collaborate together on initiatives that improve the local community they live in.

Our current work includes:

• Small Grants
• Real People, Honest Talk (RPHT), which brings people together to talk about the tough issues around how we live together well.
• Events to bring people together around current topics chosen by listening to the lived experience of our community partners:

#WorkingTogether

We caught up with our friends at Stratton Street Community Centre in Wolverhampton to see what impact a Near Neighbours grant has on their community building.

Impact

A number of case studies of our work in the Black Country are featured in the latest Near Neighbours impact report.