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Section A

Your contact details

A1 Organisation's name

A2 Unique Reference Number

A3 Project name

A4 Project year (one, two or three)

A5 This report covers the period

A6 Changes to main contact details
If there have been any changes to the details of the main contact for this grant since we
were last in touch, please tell us about them here.

Do you have any specific communication needs?

Section B

Your project's achievements and progress

B1 People or organisations you have helped  

B2 In your application you stated the types of beneficiaries or types of organisations your project will .

How many people or organisations in each of these beneficiary groups have made use of your project's activities and services?

Your project may have helped other people as well. Tell us who these are and
how many.

B3 How did you gather the information to give us these numbers?

B4 How you helped them

Please describe below the services or facilities you have provided with our grant this year to the people described in question B2, with numbers. (If the URN of the grant begins with MK or ML, we have listed below the that you planned to give. You can amend or add to it if you need to. For all others, please refer to the note)

B5 Are these the same type and amount of services or facilities as those you planned to provide when we gave you the grant?

(Tick one box only)

The difference your has made

You do not have to answer questions B6 and B7 unless the URN of the grant begins with ‘MK' or ‘ML'. When we gave you this grant, you told us that you expected your project would bring about the following changes in the lives of the people or organisations it helped. (We call these your project outcomes.)

We also agreed how you would monitor whether or not these changes were happening.

B6 Has your project brought about the changes you expected it to?

If you ticked ‘Yes in part', or ‘Not at all', tell us what changes your project did bring about in the lives of the people or organisations it helped.

B7 If your project brought about other kinds of changes than those you expected, please tell us about them here.

B8 Please tell us how you know your project has helped bring about the changes described in your answers to question B6 and B7.

Section C
Your evaluation of your project

C1 Overall, how successful were you in completing the activities and delivering the improvements to the lives of the people or organisations that you expected?

Please tick one box

                    
C2 Please show whether the factors below influenced the success of your project. Tick one box on each line; ticking ‘Not an influence' if the factor made no difference to your project.

C3 If there were other factors that had a strong positive influence on the success of your project, please note them below.

C4 If there were other factors that had a strong negative influence on the success of your project, please note them here.

C5 When you look back on how your project went, have you learnt any lessons that will be useful to you in the future or might be useful to others? If so, briefly describe these below.

C6 Please note below any further comments that might us to understand what your project has achieved.

C7 What will happen to your project now that the Community Fund grant has ended? Please tick one box or complete the ‘others' box

Section D

Your project and our grant agreement
Financial information about our grant

D1 How much of our grant* did you spend over the past year of your project?

Total Community Fund costs for the past year

[Please note I have used the budget agreed in a letter from BLF in July 2005.]

* In this table we only want you to tell us about the spending of the Community Fund grant.

If the difference in any budget line is more that £500 and you have not already sent us a Notification of changes to your project form or a Request for changes to your project form which explains the difference, you must do so now. Please see the note for which form to send.

D2 List below all contributions to the total project costs for the last year including any made from you own organisation's funds.                                                                                   
 

D3 Please write here any capital item over £1,000 purchased with our grant during the
period of this report.

Information about your organisation

D4 Since your application or your last End of year report, have you changed your constitutional document or set of rules or become incorporated?

If you have made any changes over the last year that we are unaware of, you must send us a copy of your current constitutional documents with proof of adoption (eg signed minutes of
your AGM).

D5 Have you enclosed your annual accounts?

If no, please remember to send us a copy of your accounts once these have been approved and signed by your Chair, Treasurer or Company Secretary.

D6 Since your application or your last End of year report, have there been any changes to the Office bearers of your organisation?

[followed by a list of names and addresses of new office bearers, from May 2006: (Chair: Rob Tilling; Treasurer: Phil Beardmore, from September 2006; Secretary: Ruth Wilson), sections for projects in Northern Ireland and Wales, a section for further information (see F1 below), and the signature section]

Section F

Further information

F1 Use this space to tell us any further information about your project which you may think will help us to understand what you have achieved.

A minimum of 100 people from different households in the immediate inner city area (and 16 people from outside the area) came to a stall or to the drop-in centre and bought items to improve their gardens, in some cases many times.  (Most of these people were or became members of Balsall Heath Jungle, which enabled us to keep in touch with them.)  The true figure is higher, as the first six months of the project were covered by another accounting system.   We always gave advice with these purchases.

We know from our surveys that the average number of people benefited per household was more than 2: we catered for single households as well as households with several children, and we have evidence on a sample basis that very often at least one child and the partner of the Jungle member were involved in gardening activities.  We also know from our surveys and from other feedback that the combination of these visits, reading the newsletter, and purchasing inputs led to a change in behaviour: respondents reported that their quality of life was enhanced, albeit in a small way for most.  In addition, some visitors to the drop-in and at our special events did not buy goods.  We have records of all visitors but have not added them to the total to avoid double counting.  We also had customers who did not leave any name and were not counted.

A certain number of visits were also made by staff to members' gardens, in some cases these members did not buy anything, so may not have been counted.  We know that some of the women who attended the weekly women's gardening group, or who went on the final trip experienced quite a profound and long-lasting sense of inspiration and support to grow some of their own food, but this difficult to quantify.  We also know that during the course of the project our clientele, already multicultural, added many more Asian and some more black faces.

By concentrating on fruit trees and bushes, we have encouraged beneficiaries to invest in their future as organic food gardeners: in some cases benefits will be greater in future years than in the lifetime of the project.

In addition to the above, over the lifetime of the project 110 children were directly and enthusiastically involved in lunchtime gardening activities at Tindal Primary School, which our staff ran as part of the project, growing vegetables, harvesting fruit, sometimes taking seeds and plants to grow at home.  This low-academic-attainment Balsall Heath school draws its pupils overwhelmingly from very local Muslim families.