What We Do

ENHANCING LIVES, ENHANCING COMMUNITIES:  Castle Bromwich Community Project  aims to bring people together in purposeful, mutually beneficial activities which promote greater understanding and respect between generations. Working with community members we undertake projects which enhance individuals and the environment utilising the positive resources that the young and old have to offer each other and those [...]

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Why It Matters

Both young people and older people experience ageism. By participating in  intergenerational projects, young and old gain a better understanding of and respect for each other reducing generational tensions and the fear of crime in the elderly. Many of the projects undertaken regenerate the environment and provide opportunities for socialising and learning. Overall the projects [...]

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What You Can Do

GET INVOLVED: There are many ways for you to get involved including volunteering, recycling your mobile phones and ink cartridges via or recycling scheme, making your online purchases via our webshop and participating in our events.

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Retail Therapy

Shop Till You Drop For CBYCP

Spend And Raise - Castle Bromwich Community Project

Shop and raise money for CBYCP – what could be easier?

Hosting many of the UK’s best known brands and retailers, such as ASDA, Amazon, HMV, ebay, M&S and Sky “Spend and Raise” enables you to generate a commission for us, when you buy online. Please go to http://www.spendandraise.com/cbycp/ and follow the link to your chosen retailer and start spending! Please send the link to your family, friends and work colleagues so that they can also shop for CBYCP – it’s such an easy way of giving a charity donation and incorporating it into your everyday life. Booking a holiday, buying a new tv – it all adds up and doesn’t cost you a penny extra and in some cases even saves you money.Thank you.

  • CHARM

    CHARM Comes to Castle Bromwich

    The Castle Bromwich Youth & Community Partnership is delighted to announce its CHARM cooking project which will run from February to May at the Castle Bromwich Youth & Community Centre. The CHARM initiative will help people to cook cheap and healthy meals from scratch with weekly cooking sessions allowing participants to produce healthy, cheaper alternatives [...]

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  • CBCP – Castle Bromwich Graveyard Renovation Project

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  • Castle Bromwich Community Festival

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  • Castle Bromwich Award

    Bloomin’ Wonderful Result

    The efforts of the Castle Bromwich Community Project to restore the closed graveyard have paid off with an excellent first time result in the Royal Horticultural Society Britain in Bloom Competition. Members are celebrating after receiving a Thriving Award in this year’s Heart of England in Bloom – It’s Your Neighbourhood Awards category. Representatives of [...]

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  • Community Project Unites Generations

    It has been deteriorating for years but thanks to a partnership between young people from Castle Bromwich Youth & Community Centre and members of the Castle Bromwich Community Project the closed graveyard by St Mary & St Margaret Church Castle Bromwich is getting a much needed facelift. Castle Bromwich Community Project with the support of [...]

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    Collaboration is Key to Success

      In two short weeks the Community Project’s renovation of the local graveyard has made remarkable strides. Key to the success has been the partnerships which the project has formed with other local organisations. During half term week, 32 volunteers from organisations as diverse as the Project itself, Castle Bromwich Lions, young people from Solihull [...]

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  • Question Time 033

    Young and Old Work Together in North Solihull

    Members of the Castle Bromwich Community Project were part of the organising team for the recent Intergenerational Question Time held at the Loft Room, Chelmsley Wood. Both the audience and expert panel consisted of young and old, the oldest being born in 1929 and the youngest in 1995, A cross-generational audience quizzed a panel of [...]

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