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Collaborative Community Projects

Collaborative Community Projects

Creating collaborative and sustainable community projects. 

The Baptist Care SA Foundation makes funding available to SA Baptist Churches through Collaborative Community Projects funding.  Collaborative Community Projects must facilitate partnerships between SA Baptist Churches and Baptist Care SA, and be community-informed, collaborative and sustainable. SA Baptist Churches can apply for funding from the Baptist Care SA Foundation for amounts between $500 to $20,000 per year, for up to three years.  SA Baptist Churches must commit to matching the funding with the equivalent amount during the funding period. This is to encourage greater congregational engagement and ensure the sustainability of the project.

Funding considerations 

Projects that will be considered for CCP funding must include: 

  • Approaches to relieving and mitigating disadvantage.
  • Activities that strengthen community connections for vulnerable people.

For the purpose of the Collaborative Community Project, people considered to be vulnerable are defined as: 

  • At risk of or experiencing homelessness.
  • Recovering from addiction.
  • Affected by family violence.
  • Suffering financial hardship.
  • Experiencing unemployment/under employment.
  • Experiencing physical or mental illness.
  • Living with disability.
  • Experiencing disadvantage as a result of social isolation.
  • Refugees and asylum seekers.
  • First Nations peoples.

2023 CCP Funding Guidelines.

 

2023 funding applications close 1 September. 

For further information, please email Baptist Care SA’s Project Coordinator.

 

Funded projects 


2021

  • Christies Beach Baptist Church – The SAFE Centre Support for people experiencing of domestic violence by working with the Southern Pathways Centre.
  • Grange Baptist Church – Kids COACH. Connecting primary school students to volunteer mentors to build on strengths and develop confidence.
  • Clovercrest Baptist Church – Family Coach. A mentoring program to connect families with young children with mentors and support by working with the Pathway Community Centre and Baptist Care SA’s Family Mental Health Services

 

2020

  • Blackwood Hills Baptist Church – Driver Mentor Program. Building on the church’s 2018 Get Out program to support people who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness, and do not have the finances or social connections to be able to achieve the required 75 hrs of supervised driving practice, to enable them to obtain their provisional driver’s license.
  • Whyalla Baptist Church – COACH Mentors. A mentoring program to connect families with mentors and support to achieve self-identified life goals by working with community partners through The Hub, an established Collective Action.
  • Port Pirie Baptist Church – Port Pirie Community of Hope Creative Arts Project. An outdoor community arts program focusing on the local indigenous community that celebrated artistic talents and encouraged the sale of art.

 

2019 

  • Soul Food Christian Community – Community Meals Program. Meal preparation training and mentoring to support people who are experiencing unemployment to develop their strengths and skills, become more socially connected and increase their employability.
  • Rostrevor Baptist Church – Enrich Life Café Ministry. A café-based hospitality training and mentorship program that supports participants to develop their strengths and skills, become more socially connected and increase their employability.
  • Enfield Baptist Church – English as a second language class. Weekly classes to support participants develop their English language skills, become more socially connected and increase their employability.

 

2018

  • Blackwood Hills Baptist Church – Get Out. Connecting people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with a community of volunteers to facilitate friendships and develop life skills. An adventure-based program in partnership with Baptist Care SA’s Crossroads and Inner Southern Youth Homelessness.
  • Clovercrest Baptist Church – Kids COACH. Connecting school students to volunteer mentors to build on strengths and develop confidence.

 

 Funding provided by the Baptist Care SA Foundation.

2023 Applications

2023 funding applications close 1 September, 2023. 

‘To discuss a project area or to find out about the next round of funding please email Rachael Foster, Project Coordinator.

2023 CCP Funding Guidelines.

 

 

CCP funding amounts

Churches may apply for matched funding* of $500 to $20,000 per year for up to three (3) years.

It is anticipated most successful projects will be funded for approximately $5,000-$15,000 per year for three (3) years.

Requests for larger amounts will be considered but are less likely to be funded and all such project ideas must be discussed with  Baptist Care SA before application. 

Preference will be given to dollar-for-dollar matching contributions in order to create greater congregational buy-in and project sustainability.

Discretion will be used in considering in-kind volunteer work or community funding as matched funding.

Matched funding can be staged per year- that is, church contributions can begin as smaller amounts but increase over the funding period. This would need to be clearly articulated as part of the application process.

*Matched funding means the applying church will commit to contributing the equivalent value of the funding received from Baptist Care SA toward the project over the funding period.

CCP funding considerations

Projects that will be considered for CCP funding must include: 

  • Approaches to relieving and mitigating disadvantage.
  • Activities that strengthen community connections for vulnerable people.

For the purpose of the Collaborative Community Project, people considered to be vulnerable are defined as: 

  • At risk of or experiencing homelessness.
  • Recovering from addiction.
  • Affected by family violence.
  • Suffering financial hardship.
  • Experiencing unemployment/under employment.
  • Experiencing physical or mental illness.
  • Living with disability.
  • Experiencing disadvantage as a result of social isolation.
  • Refugees and asylum seekers.
  • First Nations peoples.

 

Current and previous CCP funded projects

Blackwood Hills Baptist Church

Get Out – Young people are engaged in mentoring or group activities with many becoming fully integrated into their local community, learning life skills such as camping, meal planning and how to prepare for a house inspection.

Clovercrest Baptist

Kids COACH Mentoring – A school-based COACH Mentoring Program in which trained Christian mentors from Clovercrest Baptist Church offer friendship through onsite activities at local schools to vulnerable children referred by the primary school.

Rostrevor Baptist

Enrich Life Clay Cup Ministry – A café training and mentoring program designed to upskill vulnerable participants struggling with unemployment, mental health pressures etc. with both hard hospitality skills and soft inter-personal skills that build their confidence and capacity and increase their employability.

Soul Food

Community Meals Program – A meals preparation training and mentoring program designed to upskill vulnerable participants with the skills to create meals and increase confidence and employability.

Enfield Baptist

English as a Second Language Program – A variety of English as Second Language classes each week at different levels to help students with language learning and connections.

Blackwood Hills Baptist

Hours – A driver mentoring program that works to see economically and socially vulnerable young people at risk of homelessness supported to gain the required hours of driving practice to achieve their provisional license.

Port Pirie Baptist

Community of Hope Creative Arts Project – An community art program that aims to foster artistic expression and community connection.

Grange Baptist Church

A school-based COACH Mentoring Program in which trained Christian mentors from Grange Baptist Church offer friendship through onsite activities at local schools to vulnerable children referred by the primary school.

Clovercrest Baptist Church

Family COACH Mentoring: A strengths- based family mentoring program, based around participants self-identified goals. This program supports vulnerable people with children under twelve years old to increase their connection with others, be empowered to recognise and use their own strengths and local resources to find solutions for their own self-identified challenges. Clovercrest have strong opportunities for referrals through their Pathway Community Centre.

Christies Beach Baptist

SAFE Centre – Focusing on domestic violence in the southern suburbs. 

Baptist Care SA, lives, works and walks on Kaurna, Peramangk and Boandik lands. We acknowledge Aboriginal people as the state’s first peoples, recognise their traditional ownership, and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs, deep connection and continued guardianship of land and waters. We value the contributions of Elders past and present, and are committed to learning from those emerging.