Since 1996, the Smethwick Bangladeshi Youth Forum (SBYF) has been working in partnership with many private and public sector organisations to improve the social and economic wellbeing of the disadvantaged communities in the North Smethwick area.

In recent years we have built up a client group comprising more than 50% of people who don’t live in the Smethwick area, are not young and are not Bangladeshi. Therefore, we felt that the SBYF name no longer accurately reflected our client base and may even be preventing us from reaching out to more communities.

As a result we have decided to create a powerful new organisation known as the Community Connect Foundation. This will allow us to operate across the West Midlands - not just the Sandwell area – and even further afield as our services develop.

The creation of the Community Connect Foundation is an exciting development in the history of our organisation. It demonstrates our determination to reach out into all sections of our communities to provide essential services to those that need support the most.

We will shortly be unveiling our new website so watch this space!!