Programme Partners

See our work so far with Barclays

Together with Barclaycard Entertainment, we’re doing something constructive for arts and culture. Keeping the grassroots live music and arts scene alive by supporting venues with vital renovations and improvements, as well as equipping the next generation, VIY’s young volunteers, with Barclays #LifeSkills through their time on a VIY project.

See the live music spaces we’ve renovated together so far

We’re making a positive impact in King’s Lynn and West Norfolk through our partnership with West Norfolk Borough Council, supported by the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund.

So far, we’ve transformed 7 vital community spaces – Docking Village Hall, North Wootton Village Hall, Wootton Park Recreation Association, Springwood Family Centre, North Lynn Family Centre, St Augustine’s Family Centre, and Gardening 4 Health.

Read out programme of work here. 

Thanks to part-funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), we’ll be renovating nine vital community spaces across Bromsgrove, helping local young people to learn trade and vocational skills, whilst supporting them into positive next steps into the construction industry.

Read more on our programme in Bromsgrove here

We’re working with the City of York Council, part-funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) to work with 75 young volunteers to refurbish and transform five local community, arts and cultural venues in York.

See our first two projects here.

Expanding our work across to the north east, we’re working with Gateshead Council, part-funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), on three community projects in grassroots sports clubs and community spaces.

Find out more about our programme round-up so far here.

We’re working through two strands of the GMCA’s Community Grants programme – developing essential life skills and the Inclusive Employment strand of their UKSPF activity, engaging and re-engaging young people into inclusive employment and opportunities.

Take a look at our programme projects here.

Part of the community engagement programme for Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm, located off the Norfolk coast and further north off the Yorkshire coast. Here our VIY projects are all focused on retrofit works to help boost energy-efficiency in community buildings, whilst also delivering progressive green skills critical to the growing sustainability sector. See our work so far here.

Over the way in Yorkshire and The Humber, we’re working with Hull City Council, part-funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), on three initial community projects. Here we’ll be working closely with Keepmoat Homes, one of our construction partners whose HQ is on the doorstep.

Read more on our programme and first projects in Hull here

We’re delivering 30 projects renovating grassroots cricket clubs in 10 priority areas across Greater Manchester between June 2022-October 2024. This is in partnership with Lancashire Cricket Foundation, Cheshire Cricket Board, the England and Wales Cricket Board, Chance to Shine and Greater Manchester Combined Authority and its ten local councils on a 10-Point Action Plan to use cricket to improve young people’s lives and create stronger, healthier communities in Greater Manchester.

See our programme round-up so far

Expanding our established hub in the East Midlands, we’re working with Leicester City Council on three initial projects, all focused on the retrofit of community buildings to improve energy-efficiency and delivering green skills accreditations for young people, funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

See more from this programme here. 

Building on our presence in the South, we’re partnering with Medway Council on projects aimed at revitalising community sports venues and providing trade skills opportunities for local young people. Supported by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, these initiatives are helping to strengthen community connections and inspire learners for future careers prospects.

See more from this programme here.

Through the UK Government’s Know Your Neighbourhood fund, designed to increase volunteering and tackle loneliness, we’ve been working with the Norfolk Community Foundation to renovate multiple community spaces in Great Yarmouth, one of the most deprived towns in the UK.

More on this programme here

Following our success across Norfolk delivering 12 community projects through the Community Renewal Fund, three of which were in Norwich, we’re now working on 12 projects in Norwich across 14 months through the Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy (NCIL) – a community funding programme that uses money collected from developers, with spending led by the priorities of the community. 

See a round-up of this programme here

We’ve been awarded funding through Nottingham City Council’s share of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). Between January 2023 and March 2025, we’ll be supporting local young people with volunteering opportunities to support the refurbishment of 14 community venues and spaces in Nottingham City.  Through a variety of works, we’ll be improving their functionality and usability, enabling them to engage new audiences, supporting their existing members with new and/or improved services and helping to increase the venues’ confidence for their future sustainability.

See our programme round-up so far

Following our highly successful project launching the W.I.S.E youth hub in the centre of Redditch, we’ve now renovated three more community spaces across Redditch between 2023-2024. This is thanks to part-funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) and VIY National Partners including Toolstation, who have a central distribution centre in the local area. Here’s our programme round-up.

Growing our impact in Southend, we’re partnering with Southend-on-Sea City Council through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to revitalise key community spaces. These projects are providing young people with valuable trade skills and accreditations while transforming local venues into vibrant hubs for the community.

See more from this programme here.

Expanding our work again across the North East, we’re working with South Tyneside Council, part-funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF), on three community projects in grassroots sports clubs and community spaces. See our projects so far in South Tyneside here.

Our partnership with Sport Birmingham, together with Birmingham City Council, The Active Wellbeing Society and the Canal And River Trust, is funded through the Commonwealth Active Communities fund. Together, we’re embarked on five community projects in 2023, across five wards with the greatest levels of inactivity and low socio-economic mobility, to improve the quality and access to sport and physical activity for the local community. See our projects across Birmingham together.

Supporting Think Active’s vision for everyone to benefit from physical activity and enjoy a healthy and active lifestyle in safe and thriving communities, we refurbished six community spaces in 2023 across Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire. Enabling more physical activity to take place and ultimately, help more people in their local area to be more active. See our six completed projects