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A great day is here Indeed it is a great Year to celebrate the BMECP Centre Official Opening.

In 2012 we’ve celebrated the Diamond Jubilee,

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the Olympics and Paralympics and it is only fitting to use the achievement of our Olympians to take you through our story so far

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Fourth time lucky: Grainger added Olympic gold to her three silver medals

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SRB5 Citywide Consultation

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The SRB5 Identified Services

Business advice and start up support servicesICT services and training

Employment advice and trainingElderly services - Women’s specific services

Health and related services - Housing servicesLegal advice - General adviceRacial harassment services

Youth related services - Children related servicesOne stop shop service provision for refugee/asylum seeker

communitiesInterpreting and translation - Arts and cultural events

Social and family related events

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The consultation identified several issues:

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Separateness At the heart of this was not a desire for separateness,

Insensitive but rather a recognition that service provision

across a range of statutory, mainstream and other service provision

did not always fully engage with, and was insensitive to the needs of the BME people

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Striking Gold

BMECP was delighted to learn that The SRB6 BID was successful this time and that SEEDA committed £960K

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The Property Search

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Challenges to Date4- The reality/ Challenges - BMECP experienced problems in securing appropriate sites.

• Most properties available for development were designated for housing or business use.• Vendors were not in a position to wait for the long SRB funding processes. • Sites were not large enough to accommodate both the housing element and the Centre the

community wished• BMECP had to negotiate the scaling down of the facilities. • This was not acceptable to some of the community members and is still an issue now.• Refusal of the planning for one of the most suitable sites was perceived as being due to both

political and locally driven agenda as local residents had objected to the development of a BME Centre and affordable housing within their area.

• This was a blow to BMECP as a lot of resources including extensive work had already been undertaken including a feasibility study.

• The Adventure Capital Fund (ACF) processes were long as we had to meet certain milestones before drawing down the funds. Working with consultants funded by ACF helped us tremendously.

• The community groups were very diverse with differing and sometimes competing priorities • Funding was a challenge

Finally

In October 2004 BMECP was informed of a possible site Block D a brand new development near the Station.

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New England Quarter Block D

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The Offices

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BMECP Offices

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View from the HUB

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The Offices

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The Meeting Rooms -The Rose!

Shell and Core

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The RoseCommunity groups rent rooms for community events which include Regular community meetings

Wedding celebrations / Religious celebrations

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The lagoon/Mulberry!

As a Shell and Core

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The Lagoon

Training

Celebratory events

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The Mulberry

Board /Committee Meetings

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Agencies such as these

Hire the Centre for their meetings and events.

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BMECP Services and activities• BME Infrastructure – provide support to diverse BME Community Groups and Organisations• BMECP works with diverse BME community groups and organisations providing support and

representing their issues. • About 50 groups benefit from this work.• This also includes the management of the BMECP Centre. • BME Elders Groups Activities and support• BMECP provides support to the following elders groups: • BMECP Elders Group, • Chinese Elders Group,• Hindu Elders Group and • Arabic Speaking Elders Group • BME Women’s Groups Activities and support• One Stop Shop Service for Refugees and Asylum Seekers • BME Engagement and Participation programme • BME Mental Health Contract• Community development work and support

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The Future

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“The prejudices of our minds that continually distort and hinder what we really see”

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SEE YOU

IN 2016