Groups we have supported in 2010
|
Group |
Project / Purpose |
Grant Awarded |
|
Action Deafness |
Signing Futures – a project
delivering an introduction to British Sign Language (BSL) to school children
so that they develop an awareness of the challenges facing deaf people and
become advocates for the integration of deaf and hearing communities |
£10,000 |
|
Adapt |
Towards
providing baby packs to Mums in the neonatal unit |
£1,000 |
|
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Towards
refurbishment of the Hut. |
£500 |
|
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To fund a 12 month ICT access
and learning programme targeted at children from the BME communities in the
Highfields area |
£5,600 |
|
|
Towards coaching equipment for
children |
£1,000 |
|
Bright |
Comedy Asylum project – to work
with people with mental health difficulties on a short promotional film on
their work for the Comedy Festival.
This will be a tool for getting work at other venues and festivals and
generate income for performers |
£5,000 |
|
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To develop part of the grounds for a
community allotment project |
£500 |
|
Castle Bytham Midsummer Fair |
To support the running costs of this
event raising funds for village improvements and activities |
£500 |
|
Charnwood Independent Youth
Action |
Somewhere Else Internet café –
to provide an internet café and drop in centre for young people |
£6,171 |
|
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To
purchase additional safety equipment for students: body protection, guards
and safety mats |
£500 |
|
The Cooke e-Learning Foundation |
Communicate with confidence –
the project links in with the national community learning champions
programme, to develop mentors who can encourage friends and neighbours to
engage in life long learning programmes, particularly ESOL and IT skills |
£9,912 |
|
Cool Club |
To run holiday clubs for children age
0-11 in the village halls at |
£500 |
|
Crossroads Care |
Caring for unpaid Carers – to provide short-term respite care
for unpaid carers in Market Harborough and the surrounding area spanning a
five-mile radius |
£2,000 |
|
Croxton Kerrial Youth Club |
Towards start-up costs and equipment
for a new youth club serving Croxton Kerrial and surrounding villages |
£545 |
|
Desford Bowls Club |
To provide a concrete surround
for the Match funding secured from |
£2,000 |
|
Earl Shilton Business Forum |
To extend the scope of the art gallery by running
a series of creative workshops for socially disadvantaged people, especially
young people, teaching basic painting and drawing techniques, working
with different media. |
£3,900 |
|
The Emerald Centre |
To provide a viewing platform
from the exisiting centre for disabled spectators and floodlights to enable
the centre to offer night time football/games activities |
£3,067 |
|
Evington
Youth Club |
Towards
external trips and activities for young people |
£402 |
|
Eyres Monsell Club for Young
People |
To sustain opening hours for the
youth club which has a track record for reducing crime and antisocial behaviour
in an area with higher than average unemployment and NEET rates. |
£14,000 |
|
Faith
in People with HIV |
Towards
website development and computer games/hardware |
£1,000 |
|
Friends of |
Towards the renovation of the
school’s environmental area |
£500 |
|
Glebe House |
To transform the Old Magistrates
Court in Loughborough into a community café, Fairtrade shop and meeting rooms
providing internet café services |
£9,912 |
|
The
Glenfield Project |
To
purchase games for a touch-screen computer adapted for disabled children and
sensory equipment for the hydro therapy area |
£1,000 |
|
Golden Hearts |
Towards a series of outings and Christmas dinner
dance for elderly people, the majority of whom live alone in an area of high
deprivation. |
£1,300 |
|
Grantham Flames Football Club |
To purchase football kit for the
expanding youth teams |
£557 |
|
Home Start |
To fund support groups in Market
Harborough and Lutterworth and a multiple births group in Shearsby |
£3,177 |
|
The Hope Foundation for Cancer
Research |
To fund research
into the causes and treatment of cancer in Leicestershire and |
£10,000 |
|
Houghton Field Association |
Towards new playground equipment for
the village |
£1,000 |
|
Judgemeadow Toddler Group |
To provide an access ramp, fencing and play
equipment for an outside play area. |
£1,300 |
|
Just Services |
Working it Out – a pilot project
between Just Services and CaSE-da promoting work opportunities for disabled
people within social enterprises |
£6,911 |
|
Just
Services |
To
develop publicity materials for Working it Out Project, enabling people with
Learning Difficulties to gain work experience |
£500 |
|
Learning for the Fourth Age
(L4A) |
To provide information packs and
train volunteers to support dementia sufferers in care home settings |
£2,500 |
|
|
To
support a Cultural Diversity Development Day |
£490 |
|
The |
To fund wheelchair taster sessions and
development sessions |
£10,000 |
|
Leicester & District
Organists’ Association |
Towards a bursary programme for young
musicians |
£821 |
|
|
Towards volunteer expenses and
clinical supervision costs to safeguard the centre at Jasmine House and meet
increasing demand |
£5,000 |
|
|
Towards
walkie talkies and transport costs |
£1,000 |
|
Long Clawson Village Hall and
Recreation Ground |
To provide a Multi-Use Games
Area on the recreation ground |
£6,350 |
|
LOROS |
To enable the hospice to care for terminally-ill
patients from Leicestershire and |
£2,000 |
|
LOROS |
Towards the Walk on the Wild side
event raising funds for terminally ill patients of Leicestershire and |
£700 |
|
Loughborough Cancer Self Help Group |
Towards the group’s 25th
Anniversary outing |
£549 |
|
Loughborough Dynamos Junior Football
Club |
Towards kit and equipment for the
U7’s team |
£500 |
|
Loughborough
Women's Aid |
Towards
security measures to keep victims of domestic violence safe in their own
homes |
£500 |
|
Love Hoops Foundation |
To buy equipment for a women's
basketball team |
£1,000 |
|
Measham Bowls Club |
To provide security fencing, to
ensure the future of flat green bowling and social activities for the future |
£5,000 |
|
Melton & Oakham Waterways Society |
Towards restoration of the Melton
Mowbray Navigation |
£1,000 |
|
Melton Borough Council Mayor's Appeal |
Supporting Mount Group Riding for the
Disabled |
£1,000 |
|
Melton Mowbray British Kyokushinkai
Karate |
Towards training equipment, mats and
wall mirrors |
£2,000 |
|
Moira Miners Welfare Club |
To make the single sex changing
rooms available to both men and women and accessible for disabled people |
£5,000 |
|
Mowbray Rangers Football Club |
To support the club’s International
Football Tournament for youth teams |
£500 |
|
Network for Change |
Network Link Project – to employ
a part time Link worker, working mainly with people who have been dependent
on benefits for 5+ years advising and mentoring on a range of issues from
well-being to finance, personal problems to opportunities for training /learning
for future employment |
£9,912 |
|
New
Dawn family Support Service |
To
provide volunteer support for home visits and hospital appointments |
£500 |
|
Newfoundpool Senior Citizens
Umbrella Group |
To repair a minibus (lottery funded 10 years ago)
which is regularly used by elderly and disabled people from the Asian
community attending health and wellbeing projects, lunch clubs etc. |
£3,000 |
|
Next
Generation |
To
continue the counselling service covering issues from sexuality, bullying,
domestic violence & substance misuse |
£1,000 |
|
Oakham Cricket Club |
To pay for Coach education costs
- training 13 candidates first Aid,training 3 to UKCC level 1 coaching course, 1 participant in
time to listen course and 11 for child
protection course |
£1,300 |
|
Open
Hands Trust |
Towards
food hampers and training in English and cookery |
£1,000 |
|
Pablos Horse Sanctuary |
Towards insurance for the volunteering
and work experience programmes |
£1,643 |
|
PACE |
The 'Mini Bigger Picture' will
enable 1500 local schoolchildren to paint and display self portraits forming
part of a public exhibiton |
£2,080 |
|
PDSA Grantham |
Pet Aid – a scheme offering free
veterinary treatments for pets of disadvantaged residents |
£500 |
|
Peter Le Marchant Trust |
To replace a computer and hardware used for the
administration of boating activities for disabled people |
£500 |
|
Public Help Desk |
To deliver a 12-week project supporting domestic
violence victims |
£2,500 |
|
|
Towards ECB training for coaches
and equipment |
£2,914 |
|
REMAP |
Towards
materials to produce custom made technical aids for disabled people |
£1,000 |
|
Rotary Club of Melton Mowbray |
To provide a Kids Day Out for disadvantaged
and disabled children |
£500 |
|
RSPCA Radcliffe |
Towards rebuilding the accommodation
for small animals |
£429 |
|
Rutland & District Health and
Leisure Group |
To develop an ongoing weekly exercise
programme for people with restricted mobility or chronic health conditions in
order to manage their conditions with more confidence |
£302 |
|
Saffron
Dynamos Junior Football Club |
Towards
the purchase of replacement goalposts |
£500 |
|
Saffron Resource Centre |
Disability Benefit Project – to
continue the funding for the existing Disability Benefits Officer and to
train volunteers to continue the work, once the funding has ceased |
£9,912 |
|
|
Towards facilities for community
activities |
£500 |
|
Saltby 2000 |
Towards the village's annual fête and
sports day |
£500 |
|
Self Advocacy in Action |
To replicate the successful self
advocacy group in Beaumont Leys at Shangton where the Care village is closing
down |
£13,880 |
|
Shama Women's Centre |
To purchase fitness equipment
and fund exercise classes |
£2,100 |
|
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To replace equipment for the
club |
£2,000 |
|
Speakeasy Theatre Company |
To support the Act Up Youth
Theatre for young people aged 7 to 19 in a creative project, facilitating
older members of the group to form a steering group which will make decisions
about the work they create |
£3,805 |
|
|
To support the Youth Team First
Aid Roadshow across the
counties |
£9,889 |
|
St Mary's C of E Primary School,
Melton Mowbray |
Towards the redevelopment of the
early years outdoor area |
£1,000 |
|
St Philip's Centre |
Towards inter faith days
tackling tensions in FE Colleges in |
£1,180 |
|
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To purchase new coaching equipment to
assist with the coaching of the club’s junior members |
£250 |
|
The Laura Centre |
Towards a bereavement counsellor post for the ‘For
when a child dies’ Project |
£5,000 |
|
Three Views News |
The project distributes a free
monthly community Newsletter to 1300 households |
£1,100 |
|
Turning Point Women's Centre |
Just Women Project – services in
the community for women at risk of offending or women in the criminal justice
system. To increase counsellor hours on an existing project to meet demand
and provide a therapeutic support programme |
£7,608 |
|
Twenty/Twenty |
Pre16 – supporting vulnerable young people at risk
of exclusion from school and increasing the area of benefit to Braunstone
area |
£3,684 |
|
The Unit - Youth and Community
Centre |
Towards a summer programme providing sports and
cultural activities for young people unlikely to have a summer holiday |
£1,000 |
|
Vale Owl Boxes |
To support the extension of a barn
owl conservation project |
£500 |
|
Wartnaby PCC |
To improve the churchyards for
use by the local community and visitors, and also as habitats for
wildlife |
£255 |
|
West Bridgford |
Towards floodlights, facilitating out
of school activities for young people |
£769 |
|
Whissendine CE Primary School |
Towards table tennis equipment for
use by the school and the local community |
£1,500 |
|
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To
purchase new furniture for the project |
£500 |
|
Zinthiya
Ganeshpanchan Trust |
Recruitment
and training of volunteer mentors to work with women released from prison |
£480 |