Spitfire Support

Separate from The Pioneer Group is the independent charity Spitfire Support and Advice Services, running the library and a community cinema. The Pioneer Group commission Spitfire to provide advice, welfare support, and a drop-in to support people in financial crisis.

The Community Environmental Trust

The Community Environmental Trust delivers a Forest Schools programme, and manages the Farnborough Fields Conservation Area and Castle Vale Community Pool, which was transferred to the Trust from City.

People

We can provide programs designed to meet the diverse needs of the communities you would like us to work with, at all stages of their lives. The services we provide and are able to offer include Health and wellbeing and People and families.

Employment & Education

Services range from careers advice to sexual health programs; from parenting skills classes to tackling obesity and even social prescription pads for GPs to refer people to ‘swap a tablet for a tablet’.

Community

We can gather information about communities, using a variety of tools and methodologies that enables us to compare the statistical evidence to what is really happening within them. Working with LocalGrowth (our consultancy partner), we have successfully developed a Neighbourhood Diagnostic – that has been successfully deployed in a number of neighbourhoods in Birmingham and beyond.

We are then able to facilitate solutions and neighbourhood plans that include strategies and targets, in conjunction with the local partners who will drive them. We can also help develop local structures and build the capacity of the community – through volunteering, community development and local democracy – to turn these plans into a reality and to ensure that the community remains firmly in charge.

Housing

Housing is essential to meet peoples’ basic needs and we can ensure these are fulfilled by offering affordable housing solutions and products for all residents. In your community, we can deliver first-class, community-led housing services and also develop new and innovative housing options – including community ownership and tenant management – to meet the needs of communities and individuals.