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Free promotion available for your community enterprise and group via community hour on Greater Manchester Rock Radio. Each session is pre-recorded and goes out at 3pm on Sundays – email studio@greatermanchesterrockradio.co.uk for more details and to set up your session. Greater Manchester Rock Radio is based on the internet and reaches a national audience, so … Read more

I am nine months into running Community Catalysts’ two-year project in Cherwell, Oxfordshire, working with local people who want to develop community and small enterprises offering highly personalised care and support to older and disabled people. The project is funded by Oxfordshire County Council. I am pleased to have received over 80 enquiries; I have … Read more

Disability Rights UK (DR UK) and Community Catalysts have partnered together to help more grassroots, smaller community enterprises benefit from Sport England’s Tackling Inequalities Fund. The Fund aims to reduce the negative impacts of Covid-19 by supporting more disabled people and people with long-term health conditions to get involved in sport and physical activity, thereby reducing inequalities. … Read more

If you’re based in or around Ryedale, you can get free tailored support and mentoring to help you set up your own community enterprise, small organisation or group offering care and support to others. Your local Community Catalyst and mentor, Kathy Peacock, can help you to: Work for yourself Work locally Choose your own hours … Read more

If you’re based in Oxfordshire, you can get free tailored support and mentoring to help you set up your own community enterprise, small organisation or group offering care and support to others. Your local Community Catalyst and mentor, Anita Wingad can help you to: Work for yourself Work locally Choose your own hours Think about … Read more

Today we relaunched The Buzz and we will be sharing a new exciting activity video every day throughout April and beyond. The new videos have been made possible through a Small Good Stuff grants scheme funded by Community Catalysts which has seen grants of up to £500 distributed to 23 small community enterprises from across … Read more

At the end of last year we asked Small Good Stuff members about some of the challenges they faced in their everyday work, as well as some of the positive experiences they’d had during Covid. As part of this consultation, we sent out a survey to gather more details about how we can help lobby … Read more

Cerebral Palsy Sport – the country’s leading national disability sports organisation for people with cerebral palsy and their families – are currently delivering a virtual offer focussed around social ‘cafes’. When they return to face-to-face events, they’ll be running various sporting events such as taster sessions to an Athletics and Swimming National Competition. They are also looking … Read more

The Buzz is back for a Christmas special this December! You can join in our accessible activities throughout this month either on our Facebook group or via our Small Good Stuff page. You can do all the activities from the comfort of your own home and the videos have been made by really good community … Read more

Back in May, at the start of the Covid lockdown, we launched The Buzz as a way to help support people to stay active and inspired through what we thought would be a short, temporary disruption to the ‘normal’. However, as things evolved it became clear that the temporary stand-in we’d created had become a … Read more