Working together, One Walsall's collaborative projects

Voice, Project & Partnerships

Active Black Country

Active Black Country is the Active Partnership for the Black Country region providing the strategic leadership for sport and physical activity across the areas of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

Active Black Country believes that being active has the power to improve people’s lives, that it is everyone’s right to be active and play sport and that everyone in the Black Country has equal access to the benefits of a more active, healthy life. For more general information about Active Black Country contact via their website here.

One Walsall is proud to host an Active Lifestyle Community Connector who covers 3 areas of Walsall – Birchills/Leamore, St Matthews and Willenhall South.  For more information or if you are an organisation wanting to develop some activity for people in your community please contact us here. 

Big Local Trusts

One Walsall has supported Big Local Trust programmes for a number of years.

Local Trust is a place-based National Lottery fund initiative, supporting communities to achieve their ambitions. The Big Local was established with a number of core key features that make it different from other programmes. It is:

• Long term – providing certainty and continuity, over 10-15 years.
• Resident-led – working directly with individuals living, working, studying and playing in areas rather than through organisations; building confidence and capacity amongst those wanting to make a difference to their community and their local area.
• Non-prescriptive – enabling residents to spend on their own terms and in their own time, on the projects they judge to be most important to them.
• Patient and non-judgemental – giving communities the time and opportunity to learn, make mistakes, resolve disagreements and overcome challenges for themselves, on their way to achieving their ambitions.
• Accompanied by flexible and responsive support – to help communities to build the confidence and capability to make the most of the opportunities available to them, whilst not constraining their own ambition and initiative.

One Walsall has worked with 2 Big Local programmes in Walsall.

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