May's Community Stories

Tile Hill Community Partnership - Coronation Party on the Green

The Coronation Party on the Green took place on Monday 8th May. The event was a huge success in bringing the community together.

There was a whole range of activities for everyone to enjoy including a picnic lunch, free raffle, children's entertainment, a disco, face-painting and craft workshops to name a few!

Over four hundred adults and their children attended. The organisers gathered hundreds of completed questionnaires which are currently being analysed. The results will be used to plan future ways in which the lives of the Tile Hill Community can be enhanced.

The Community Resilience Team secured a £2,000 grant to support the event.

The organisers wish to thank Bowmer + Kirkland, and Balfour Beatty for providing a huge number of free novelty gifts. TESCO provided soft drinks and the children at Finham 2 for assembling five hundred picnic bags.

The event was supported by volunteers from the University of Warwick who ably erected marquees and supervised craft sessions, by a Girl Guide leader, children from Finham 2, Coventry City Park Rangers, by Jardine Crescent Library staff and by committee members of the THCP planning group and stakeholders’ group. Two volunteers/employees from the Family Mosaic Hub also led craft sessions

The event was such a success, organisers are now in discussion about repeating the event in 2024!

If your community organisation needs support applying for funding, please get in touch with the team communityresilience@coventry.gov.uk

EuroCan-Can - Never ending Coventry Community Can-Can Line

Coventry digital arts organisation, Ludic Rooms, created a never ending digital can-can line as a 'love letter' to Eurovision and Ukraine, working with Coventry communities.

EuroCan-Can is Ludic Rooms’ pop up project, using greenscreen to bring random dancers together digitally, in a never-ending can-can line. The project is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and supported by the Community Resilience Team.

Ludic Rooms visited community venues in Earlsdon, Canley, Foleshill and the city centre to film people dancing and holding messages of optimism and solidarity. The organisers worked closely with Coventry’s Ukrainian Community Centre and the EuroCan-Can line includes Ukrainian dancers wearing traditional costume.

The project is about bring different people together in a fun way to show support for Eurovision and Ukraine. Organisers said "Its ultimately about togetherness and bringing people from all walks of life to do something and have that together moment"

The creative project aims to empower communities to come together and co-create a piece of digital artwork.

EuroCan-Can line was shown throughout May on the Coventry Millennium Square big screen. You can watch the Eurocan-can line on Ludic Rooms website.

WATCH (Working Actively to Change Hillfields) 25th Anniversary

During May WATCH community centre held a community event to celebrate their 25 year anniversary along with the Coronation of King Charles III.

The event brought the Hillfields community together to enjoy live acts including Keno Demus and Liz Max, Feisty with Cazzy and Zeze, Soulful Choir as well as Kadence Drumming, Indian Dancers and a Tai Chi demonstration.

The Community Resilience Team worked with WATCH to secure over £9,000 funding to support the event and ongoing projects in the community.

The celebrations also had a number of information stalls highlighting the support services available across Coventry. These included: Positive Images Festival, The Highlife Centre, Creative Kindness, Creative Optimistic Visions, Voluntary Action Coventry, St Giles, Coventry Libraries and Information Service as well as Transport for West Midlands with their Let’s Chat Bus!

Children were kept entertained with several activity stations including giant games and free face painting. Food was kindly provided by Sky Blue Support.

Kate Hills, Event Organiser said, "It was extremely positive to see so many community members come together to celebrate"

More photographs of the event are on the WATCH Community Centre website

Photographers: Waleed Sadeq and Wai Sang (Wilson) Chan