Community Grants 2023/24

Description

Amount  

Jun-23

£400.00

To provide a beach trip for residents of Whitleigh to attend. This will provide an event, which will benefit the community and provide a positive social experience for those involved. The money will go towards any costs involved in putting on the trip.

£250.00

Whitleigh Youth FC to support with cost of facility hire, nets, footballs, trophies and additional costs of running the club. Current rising costs are going to parents, many of whom cannot afford to support the club but whose children benefit from it.

£150.00

Jul-23

£250.00

To support Plymouth Artists Together with a contribution towards art supplies and protective coatings for the installation of artwork on Whitleigh Bridge.

£250.00

Aug-23

£300.00

To support Plymouth Artists Together with their Youth Boards Project. This will support youths in the Whitleigh area to spray paint mobile boards where they can experiment but more importantly taught to do it right and respect others work. In the past, this approach has proven to significantly reduce random ugly tagging and resulted in some talented artists in producing great murals around their areas which have brightened up and neatened some dire city areas.

£150.00

To support Whitleigh Big Local with their summer coach trip to Teighmouth. Supporting the local early residents with meeting up and enjoying a summer day out.

£150.00

Sep-23

£300.00

To support Municipal Charities of Plymouth with a contribution towards a garden bench and a plaque

£300.00

Oct-23

£100.00

To support The Legacy Choir, with a contribution towards the cost of transport and accommodation to allow them to take part in the Music for Youth Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.

£100.00

Nov-23

£350.00

To support Porkies Cafe with the Christmas Dinners for those who can’t afford one in their own homes

£250.00

To support Whitleigh Big Local with their Christmas Fair

£100.00

Grand Total

£1,700.00

Community Grants 2022/23

Description

Amount  

Aug-22

£500.00

To support The Barefoot Project with a two-day residential trip to Lopwell Dam for 14-18 year olds including activity/excursion. This will help build stronger relationships between the young people and between them and the youth workers.

£500.00

Oct-22

£500.00

To support Woodfield Primary School with Sensory Grab Bags for the children that attend.

£350.00

A contribution towards fuel for the South West Blood Bikes that provides free volunteer out of hours emergency courier services to the NHS and other medical facilities (including University Hospitals Trust Plymouth and St Luke's Hospice)

£150.00

Nov-22

£750.00

To support Porkies Café with providing Christmas Lunches for the community.

£250.00

To support the 165 Port and Maritime Regiment RLC with a contribution towards their plans for events for Veterans.

£500.00

Dec-22

£326.00

To support the OWSI project working with the Peninsula Dental School to bring dental health education to primary schools within the Budshead Ward with a contribution towards to costs of books and other items.

£126.00

To support the Salvation Army with a contribution towards the costs of a new cooker and the associated materials needed so that organisation can provide support to vulnerable residents in the area.

£200.00

Mar-23

£2,924.00

To support the Derriford United Reform Church with a contribution towards the costs of organising and preparing a street party to bring the community together for the Coronation.

£300.00

To support the Four Greens Community Trust with a contribution towards the development of a Veterans Outreach programme as well as support for ongoing Befriending Services, Community Larder provisions, and the Community Cafe.

£2,624.00

Grand Total

£5,000.00

Community Grants 2021/22

Description

Amount  

Nov-21

£200.00

To support Plymouth Musical Activities Club (MAC) with a contribution towards their Christmas Carol Concert, Future Events and the Purchasing of Musical Instruments. This will benefit hundreds of children across Plymouth.

£200.00

Mar-22

£4,800.00

To provide books for the annual Whitleigh Big Local Book Hunt aimed at encouraging both children and adults to read more over the Easter holidays.

£400.00

To provide materials and venue hire for local community event, Whitleigh's Got Talent, designed to bring the community together.

£200.00

Sessions for up to 15 young people ages 13-15 to take part in high energy, team building activities through Whileigh Community Trust and Barefoot Youth.

£500.00

Donation to cover cost of Coach Hire for Nifty Fifty, an older people's social group, to enable them to go on a day trip together. This group supports local people's health and wellbeing.

£350.00

To help purchase willow and willow working tools for the Whitleigh Lantern Parade community event in November 2022.

£200.00

Donation towards purchase of materials and items to enable Whitleigh Community Trust to host a Whitleigh Jubilee Community Event.

£600.00

Donation to Derriford United Reformed Church Community Jubilee Event to purchase party items such as food.

£600.00

To purchase café equipment and consumables for the Four Greens Trust who use the café for Community Groups including a Veteran's Café group and the foodbank.

£1,450.00

To support St Chads Church with the purchase of a mobile basketball frame, net, blackboard and balls for their Youth Group to use.

£500.00

Grand Total

£5,000.00