Crisis Skylight Birmingham
Crisis has teamed up with a number of local Birmingham organisations to launch Crisis Skylight Birmingham - a new arts, education, employment and training service for homeless and vulnerable adults.
Operating in south central Birmingham, Crisis Skylight Birmingham will offer a range of floating services delivering workshops, courses and one-to-one sessions in local community settings. Over three years, we expect Crisis Skylight Birmingham to almost double in size, to include its own building and to increase the scale and scope of the workshops, courses and sessions available.
The new services will include:
- Engagement activities, such as dance and wellbeing classes using art and creativity to start homeless people on the process of learning and rebuilding their self esteem and confidence
- Accredited learning, such as basic skills and ESOL
- SmartSkills - an innovative, intensive, one to one coaching programme leading to a City and Guilds qualification, designed by Crisis to support some of the most isolated and vulnerable adults in Birmingham develop the skills, confidence and aspirations to move into education and towards employment.
- A high quality coaching and Information, Advice and Guidance service co-ordinating support for vulnerable adults to successfully follow sustainable education, employment or training routes.
Our partners
Be Birmingham - the local strategic partnership in Birmingham. Be Birmingham brings together partners from the business, community, voluntary, faith and public sectors to deliver a better quality of life in Birmingham. Be Birmingham is leading on the local delivery of the Working Neighbourhoods Fund.
The WNF Innovation Fund - a grant programme for research and feasibility studies, and opportunities for testing innovative approaches that tackle the issues of worklessness in Birmingham's priority super output areas, which are defined as those areas with 25% worklessness or above.
SIFA Fireside - established in 2007 following the merger of two long running local charities, SIFA Fireside works with those who are affected by their use of alcohol and / or are homeless, isolated, lonely and unemployed. SIFA Fireside runs: daily ‘drop-ins' for rough sleepers, group-based programmes for offenders with alcohol problems; and a residential project for people with alcohol problems.
Trident Group has almost 50 years of delivering homes, services and innovation to 6,000 people in 3,100 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. It has £130 million in assets and an annual turnover of £22 million, employing almost 700 staff. Trident is also part of the Matrix Housing Partnership. The Group comprises of: Trident Housing Association, Trident Reach, Trident Charitable Housing Association and Trident Star
St. Anne's Hostel - operating in Birmingham for over 30 years, St. Anne's hostel provides: a direct access facility for single homeless men over 25 years of age; supported accommodation offering clients their own self-contained apartment and basic living skills; shared supported accommodation.
Allison Hostel - a mens' hostel operating for over 30 years for homeless adults, particularly those suffering from alcohol misuse.
Anawim - originally a single issue agency working with female street sex workers, Anawim now provides ‘one stop shop' women's centres, which offer a complete pack of support including drug and alcohol, educational courses and workshops, alternative therapies, crèche and child protection work, housing advice, advocacy, benefit and debt advice, legal support. As a recognised alternative to custody, Anawim run a women only Un-paid Work package with Probation and take women on Specified Activity orders.
DanceXchange - a partner organisation with Birmingham Hippodrome and Birmingham Royal Ballet, dx is housed in the theatre complex and creates exciting opportunities for people of all walks of life to engage in dance, either as a participant, performer or audience member. DanceXchange has both a national and a regional remit and provides artistic support, education, performances and participation opportunities, and advocates for dance at all levels.
ACE dance and music - based at The Link in Digbeth ACE combine captivating & energetic contemporary dance with African/Caribbean movement style, layering rousing music scores & media techniques, creating an entertaining & enriching experience appealing to all. Pushing the boundaries of performance, ACE use music technology & traditional genres to create accessible & exciting dance experiences, complimented by outreach work engaging thousands of people annually.
Find out more
To find out more about this project please call the Birmingham Crisis team on 0121 348 7950. Crisis Skylight Birmingham, PO BOX 15850, Birmingham, B9 9HL
