ABOUT CARS AREA TOGETHER
MISSION & HISTORY.
Cars Area Together is a resident-led, voluntary and community initiative established in 2012 as part of the National Lottery’s “Big Local” initiative. We provide valuable community services to the Cars Area and Smith’s Wood for the people and by the people.
We're called the "Cars Area" as Vauxhall Crescent, Rover Drive, Morgan Grove and Austin Croft are just some of the roads on our estate named after famous car makes, as a nod to the area's manufacturing heritage.
We believe that our residents should decide how to improve our community and be in-charge of local spending, from training and employment schemes to tackling anti-social behaviour, creating new community facilities or providing more activities for young people.
We work with local Cars Area residents to do this and meet as a Partnership every month to review the latest needs and plan future events. We always encourage new residents to get involved and help to further develop the area that we are proud to be a part of.
OUR HUB.
Since receiving our funding, we have helped to bring the once defunct Auckland Hall back to life as a thriving community hub and ensured that Bosworth Field is used regularly.
The Hub hosts many of our community events and facilities, including our Food Bank and can be hired through Solihull Community Housing. Facilities include the main room, kitchen, toilet with disabled access, car parking and outdoor space.
If you have any questions or are interested in hiring the hall, click here to email.
WHAT IS THE BIG LOCAL INITIATIVE?.
Operated by "Local Trust", an independent charitable trust established in 2012, the BIG Local programme has committed £200 million to 150 neighbourhoods across England, to make their communities better places to live in, now and in the future.
Supported by a range of partner organisations, BIG Local targets pockets of the country that have been overlooked for funding and resources in the past and may face issues including the decline of local industry, high levels of unemployment, or a pressing need for new support services or activities.
The National Lottery Community Fund and Local Trust are taking action to put this right and help build communities by putting residents in charge of spending on ways to improve their community from training and employment schemes to tackling anti-social behaviour, creating new community facilities or providing more activities for young people.