Warm Up,Skill Up - Delves Community Hall

We have delivered twelve sessions, we postponed one session, 20th December 2025 due to lack of volunteer availability, this was delivered instead on the 17th January 2026. The sessions were held in the same venue and location throughout, and this was at the Delves Community Hall, Walsall, WS5 4PH. Our opening session was held on Saturday 13th September 2025 and the closing celebration session was held on Saturday 7th March 2026.

We organised a number of activities throughout the project to encourage participants to engage and find something of interest to do. Those who attended Zumba, Litter picking and Line dancing enjoyed the physical activity and exercise as well as socialising. The Virtual Reality session gave participants an opportunity to experience new technology and enjoy some fun and laughter. Various age groups benefited from attending these sessions including 65+ years old.

The activities were open to everyone in the community, from the survey results we can see different ethnic groups who participated, Asian, White, Black & Mixed. The activities enabled networking, bonding and forming new friendships. Free IT support was available. Some of the adults for example asked to be shown how to use google maps, my three words, others got help with accessing their emails, saving and uploading documents and printing. We also had some participants who lived out of Walsall attending. Canvassing also gave us the opportunity to speak to members of the community informing them of the project, some of which were already aware of the project and members of their family had attended.

Twelve volunteers took part in the project.