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A NON-PROFIT that is dedicated to providing inclusive play environments and entertainment has enjoyed great success in 2025, including becoming an award-winning organisation.<\/p>\n
Stourbridge-based Creative Active Lives CIC received the Excellent in Youth Impact Award at the Social Economy Awards for its \u201cunique hybrid\u00a0online and in-person inclusive play services reaching thousands of young people\u201d.<\/p>\n
The organisation is dedicated to helping improve the quality of life for older adults, disadvantaged young people, people with additional needs and people who are new to the country through a range of activities from dance classes and circus skills workshops to craft classes, live performances, and so much more.<\/p>\n
Held in Birmingham in November, the brains behind the business, Rachel Conlisk, picked up the award, which made up only a fraction of the organisation\u2019s success last year.<\/p>\n
On top of the win, Creative Active Lives CIC has been awarded\u00a0\u00a315,000 from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund\u00a0to create a vibrant new community space in the heart of Halesowen.<\/p>\n
The non-profit has also opened a new hub in Halesowen as it expanded in 2025 (Image: Rachel Conlisk)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n The funding enabled the opening on November 8 of the\u00a0Halesowen Community Space – a welcoming venue for families, young people, and adults to connect, create, and look after their wellbeing through a range of inclusive sessions and activities, supported with a venue by Centric Community Projects and the Cornbow Centre.<\/p>\n The new space is a joint project between\u00a0Creative Active Lives CIC (DigiTribe),\u00a0La Luz Life Coach & Wellbeing Services and\u00a0Active Bodies 4 Focused Minds, three local social enterprises working together to improve wellbeing and build community connections.<\/p>\n Reflecting on her success, Ms Conlisk said: \u201cAt Creative Active Lives we wanted to create a space where everyone feels they belong – where families, home educators, and neurodivergent young people can connect, learn and thrive together through self-directed learning and social activities.<\/p>\n “We also wanted to work with other social enterprises to be able to support the wider Halesowen community.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s nothing else quite like it locally, and we\u2019re proud to bring this to Halesowen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A NON-PROFIT that is dedicated to providing inclusive play environments and entertainment has enjoyed great success in 2025, including becoming an award-winning organisation. Stourbridge-based Creative Active Lives CIC received the Excellent in Youth Impact Award at the Social Economy Awards for its \u201cunique hybrid\u00a0online and in-person inclusive play services reaching thousands of young people\u201d. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2221589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[429690,429689,429688],"class_list":["post-2221588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-halesowen","tag-inclusive-play","tag-rachel-conlisk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Success-for-inclusive-entertainment-non-profit-with-award-win-and-funding.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221590,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221588\/revisions\/2221590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}