• Key Achievements
• A selection of client groups, partners and organisations that CEMVO Wales has supported
• Wales Active Communities

Key Achievements

• Worked with over 30 BME Organisations
• Helped various BME Communities to set up their own voluntary organisation
• Provide Mainstream Organisations with diversity training
• Established a ‘hot desk’ in Newport and Cardiff
• Published newsletters that are distributed to over 200 organisations
• Helped organisations secure just over £1 million of funding
• Assisted partner organisations in events planning
• Contributed to various pieces of research including leading the EMSMAT task group
• Helped prepare business plans for various BME organisations
• Facilitated meetings between major funders and BME groups

A selection of client groups, partners and organisations that CEMVO Wales has supported

• All Wales Saheli
• African Community Centre
• Baraka Mother & Toddler Group
• CYAN
• Progressive Women Wales
• WAASILA
• RAHMA
• SMYle
• EYST
• WELCOME
• Somali Integration Society
• Women Connect First
• Pakistan Assoc. Newport & Gwent
• Newport Somali Association
• Muslim Council of Wales
• ISSA
• Big Lottery Fund
• Lloyds TSB
• Sports Council Wales
• Arts Council Wales
• Wales Funders Forum
• St John’s Ambulance
• Cyfanfyd
• Communities First (Wales, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Cardiff)
• Swansea Local Authority
• Newport Local Authority
• Neath Port Talbot Local Authority
• Voluntary Action Cardiff
• Cardiff Local Authority
• Swansea Council for Voluntary
• Service
• Comic Relief
• Home Office Refugee Development Fund

Wales Active Communities

CEMVO Wales was awarded a grant by the Active Communities Initiative of the Welsh Assembly Government. As part of CEMVO’s National Capacity Building programme, the CEMVO Wales scheme seeks to empower the country’s ethnic minority voluntary and community organisations by providing them with the support and skills necessary to enable them to achieve long-term sustainability; thus ultimately improving the quality of life for Wales’ ethnic minority communities. In addition to setting up the Wales office, we have managed to establish a regional advisory committee consisting of representatives from various ethnic minority communities and organisations and mainstream bodies; these include amongst others, the Muslim Council of Wales, Holland House, Ethnic Business Support Programme and the Welsh Local Government Association.

CEMVO Wales has also managed to hold high profile events and also launch its own newsletter. 34 Wales-based organisations enrolled on CEMVO’s Capacity Building Programme, with work now well underway towards strengthening and developing those organisations, including attracting increased funding. To date CEMVO Wales has secured just over £1 million in funding for these Welsh organisations. CEMVO Wales also held a series of Capacity Building and Funding Seminars in locations across Wales at which over 25 different funders showcased their grants and programmes to an audience of over 70 ethnic minority and other voluntary organisations. CEMVO Wales has issued numerous editions of its 4 page newsletter, which includes the latest voluntary sector news and grants information, and which is sent to over 200 ethnic minority and other voluntary sector partners across Wales.