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

Ashby Road Estates Community Association

Towards refurbishment of the Hut.

£500

Bangladesh Youth & Cultural Shomiti

To fund a 12 month ICT access and learning programme targeted at children from the BME communities in the Highfields area

£5,600

Belvoir Castle Cricket Trust

Towards coaching equipment for children

£1,000

Bright Sparks

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

Brooke Hill Primary School

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

CKI School of Martial Arts

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 Waltham on the Wolds

To run holiday clubs for children age 0-11 in the village halls at Waltham and Scalford

£500

Crossroads Care East Midlands

Caring for unpaid Carersto 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 bowling green.

Match funding secured from Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council.

£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 Brownlow School

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 South Leicestershire

 

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 Rutland

£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

Leicester Basketball Development CIC

To support a Cultural Diversity Development Day

£490

The Leicester Cobras Wheelchair Basketball Club

To fund wheelchair taster sessions and development sessions

£10,000

Leicester & District Organists’ Association

Towards a bursary programme for young musicians

£821

Leicester Rape Crisis

Towards volunteer expenses and clinical supervision costs to safeguard the centre at Jasmine House and meet increasing demand

£5,000

Leicester Visually Impaired Bowls Club

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 Rutland

£2,000

LOROS

Towards the Walk on the Wild side event raising funds for terminally ill patients of Leicestershire and Rutland

£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

Ratby Town Cricket Club

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

Sage Cross Methodist Church

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

Sileby Boxing Academy

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

St John's Ambulance Leicestershire and Rutland

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 Leicester

£1,180

Syston Town Cricket Club

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 Rugby Football Club

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

Wordsworth Road Supported Housing

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