During the financial year, Mindseye Development CIC continued to advance its mission of improving the social mobility and wellbeing of young people and families across Birmingham. Our work focused on equipping individuals from disadvantaged and marginalised backgrounds with the skills, tools, and opportunities needed to positively transform their social and economic circumstances. We delivered multiple contracts and community projects in partnership with Birmingham City Council, Public Health, and local schools, focusing on addressing inequalities experienced by Black African and Caribbean communities within health, education, and social systems. Through these initiatives, we designed and delivered a series of community engagement and co-production activities, including: - Hosting Discussion for Change forums to explore themes such as health equity, education, policing, and community safety. - Conducting community surveys, focus groups, and social media engagement to gather data and amplify community voice in local decision-making. - Organising community events where residents accessed on-site health checks and engaged directly with healthcare professionals, improving trust and accessibility within local health systems. In addition, our multi-tiered mentoring programme provided structured one-to-one and group mentoring support to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who were facing social, emotional, or behavioural challenges. The programme offered three levels of intervention, from early preventative support to intensive behavioural mentoring and developmental mentoring focused on transition and future planning. Working collaboratively with schools, families, and external agencies, our mentors embedded relational practice within school inclusion frameworks and acted as bridges between home, school, and services to strengthen early intervention and safeguarding pathways. Over the 12-month period, Mindseye Development CIC delivered: - 405 one-to-one mentoring sessions supporting 27 young people. - 40 group sessions reaching 35 participants. - Family support interventions with 7 households. - A series of community-led forums and digital engagement activities involving more than 100 community members. Through these activities, we have enhanced young people’s confidence, resilience, and school engagement, while also strengthening family relationships and increasing community participation in decision-making processes. Our work has contributed to reducing inequalities, promoting inclusion, and building stronger, healthier communities across Birmingham.

Mindseye Development CIC works with a broad range of stakeholders, including: - Young people and families participating in our mentoring and development programmes. - Schools and education partners such as Stockland Green School, Fairfax Academy, and Two Rivers High School. - Local authority partners including Birmingham City Council, Public Health, and the Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP). - Community organisations, health providers, and voluntary sector networks across Birmingham and the West Midlands. - Community members and residents, particularly within Black African and Caribbean com-munities, who are affected by inequalities in health, education, and opportunity. - Staff, mentors, and volunteers, whose lived and professional experience informs programme design and delivery. Throughout the year, stakeholders were consulted through a variety of mechanisms, including: - Discussion for Change community forums (Take Note Live events) where residents, service users, and professionals discussed local issues and co-designed solutions. - Feedback sessions with schools and pastoral teams to review pupil progress, identify emerging needs, and tailor mentoring approaches. - Surveys and online discussions used to gather community perspectives on health inequalities, trust in public services, and local priorities. - Internal reflection sessions and supervision meetings with mentors to refine practice and ensure quality assurance. Actions taken in response to feedback include: - Developing a multi-tiered mentoring model that better reflects the range of pupil needs identified by schools. - Strengthening family engagement and parental liaison, following requests from both parents and schools for more joined-up support. - Expanding our community engagement work to include on-site health checks and direct dialogue with healthcare professionals, addressing barriers to access raised in consultations. - Exploring new funding and commissioning models (including contribution fees and external grants) in response to feedback on sustainability from school partners. - Creating an AI-supported funding and tender tracker to improve responsiveness to opportunities and reduce reliance on school budgets, directly addressing financial constraints identified during consultations. These consultations ensure that Mindseye Development CIC remains responsive, co-produced, and community-led, embedding lived experience and local voice at the heart of our planning, delivery, and evaluation processes.

Total amount payable to directors was £50,9013

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