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East Midlands region update
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East Midlands region updateSeptember 2008 |
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East Midlands news
Welcome to the September update from the East Midlands. I hope you enjoyed your summer break. We want to extend our congratulations to “Get Active in the Forest” for winning Best Sport Project at the recent National Lottery Awards. There has been much to celebrate over the summer months with the announcement of 62 awards to the region totalling almost £3 million. These awards include the final round of Children’s Play grants and I am pleased to report that every local authority area in the region has now received a Children’s Play award. Other grants cover a wide variety range of topics, including learning opportunities for families affected by domestic abuse, social activities for people with learning disabilities and a vibrant village community hub. Good news I hope you will agree. Recent awardsReaching Communities
Two projects in the region received grants totalling just over £500,000. Helping vulnerable families cope with disability, isolation, low income and relationship difficulties, Home-Start Blaby District Oadby & Wigston received £431,518. The scheme will provide training on a range of skills, such as decision making, confidence building, coping with stress and positive parenting. The project, which will also host fun family play sessions and healthy eating courses, will provide a home visit service and offer advice on specialist support available from other helper organisations. Reducing isolation for adults with learning disabilities in Nottinghamshire, Just Good Friends Club are awarded over £69,000. The project, which aims to offer those aged 16 and over the opportunity to create their own social and leisure activities within a well-structured and safe environment, will hold weekly social evenings, in Whitwell, Pinxton and Bolsover. The club will host a wide range of activities, such as bingo, charades, fancy dress, and special themed nights with dancing, music and food. Tell me more about Reaching Communities Community Buildings
The Treswell Community Hall project has received a £275,000 grant from the Community Buildings programme to replace their decrepit 150 year-old village hall which serves as the community hub. The funding will enable the villagers to maintain popular quiz nights, discos and dances, car boot sales and the annual bonfire party, Christmas Fair and Children’s Christmas Party as well as encourage new groups to use the hall. Tell me more about Community Buildings Family Learning
Family Learning is our programme that helps parents understand more about how their children learn and encourages adults and children to learn as a family. Over 200 women and children affected by domestic abuse in Derby can now learn together in a safe environment at Hadhari Nari which provides support to women and children in abusive relationships. The Learning Together project has just received a life-changing grant of £212,442. Hadhari Nari supports women and children, primarily from black and minority ethnic backgrounds through an advice centre and two refuges. Learning Together will offer women accessing Hadhari Nari’s support a varied programme of family learning activities including after school homework sessions and developing essential first aid skills through to sports and arts activities. Over 900 local disadvantaged families with children aged five to 16 will be able to spin into action with Bikes4All at a series of events throughout Leicestershire over the next three years. Bikes4All, part of Groundwork Leicester and Leicestershire, has just been awarded a £280,368 grant. The ‘Ride to Knowledge’ programme has been developed out of a successful pilot project for families plus its existing work with NEET (not in education, employment or training) young people. ‘Ride to Knowledge’ has incorporated the views of children with the needs of parents to create learning projects which will appeal to the whole family. Please note the Family Learning programme has now closed to new applications. Find out more about Family Learning awards Search for Grants If you are interested in finding out more about the awards made in our region, you can use the grant search facility on our website. You can search by programme, area or date. Children's Play
The final tranche of a multi-million pound investment in children’s play was announced in August. BIG’s play initiative is one of the largest-ever investments in play infrastructure for England with a legacy of close to £124 million. In the East Midlands, awards were granted to local authorities in Melton, Rutland, East Northamptonshire, Amber Valley and North Kesteven to provide children and young people with free local play spaces and services. This means that every local authority in the region has received an award, with a total of £10,695,307 invested in play facilities in the East Midlands. North Kesteven District Council will provide use their award of £200,000 to provide a mobile play bus while Melton Borough Council will build BMX and skateboard facilities.with their £200,000. The £200,000 award to Rutland County Council will fund the council’s Space 2 Play In Rutland, including the Mobile Play in Rutland project that will reach the most rural parts of the county, bringing with it a mobile skateboard ramp. In East Northamptonshire the £200,000 award will enable ‘Play 4 All’ to provide new toys, sport and creative play sessions for under sevens and also young people from between 13 and 18 years old. The Rural Pursuit play project will ensure that youngsters living in rural and more isolated areas will not be forgotten and the Urban Challenge play project will cater for children and young people in the district’s larger towns. Leading the fun will be an energetic and dedicated team of play rangers. The £243,725 award to Amber Valley Borough Council will fund three ‘Amber Valley Play’ projects. The majority of the grant will enable a new flagship play area to be created in Alfreton Park and a games area and new play equipment will also be on offer for children of all ages at Cray Hills Recreation Ground. It will also mean splashing fun for younger children as an existing paddling pool in Heanor is improved to provide an innovative water play area. Tell me more about the Children’s Play awards Awards for All
A total of £364,382 was distributed to 52 groups across the East Midlands in the latest round of awards. Among them were Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust (Young Persons Specialist Service) who will spend £6,500 on developing a play that will tour schools and community groups, with a final performance set to coincide with World Mental Health Day in early October. Another group toasting success is Sneinton Play Centre in Nottingham, who receive £7,857 to run the ‘Healthy Living Project’ for children. The group will run workshops in health and the environment during school holidays in an area that has struggled with unemployment and low income. The history of Braunstone women will be celebrated with the help of a grant of £2,580. Women of Wisdom will produce a book and DVD featuring personal recollections of women from the Braunstone area. From now until May 2009 the group will interview locals and piece together material in anticipation of a showcase launch in June. Tell me more about Awards for All in the East Midlands Open programmes
Changing SpacesChanging Spaces is our environmental programme, which is being delivered in partnership with other organisations, who are either delivering a large strategic portfolio or an England wide, open grants programme on our behalf. The programme has three priority areas, community spaces, local community enterprise and access to the natural environment. All of our award partners have now been announced – they are:
If you have a project that you thinks fits under one of the programmes visit the websites listed on this page or call the Changing Spaces Advice Line on 0845 3 671 671 (textphone 0845 6 02 16 59). Tell me more about Changing Spaces.
Young People’s FundYoung People’s Fund 2 Local Grants programme opened on 19 May 2008. The programme has up to £38 million to spend across England on projects that involve young people from start to finish. The programme will only fund youth led projects. All projects must meet at least two of the programme outcomes and also at least two of the Every Child Matters outcomes. Grants of between £10,000 and £500,000 will be available for up to five years funding for voluntary and community organisations. The closing date for outline proposal forms is 16th October 2008. Tell me more about Young People’s Fund 2 – local grants News in brief
Funding advice The East Midlands Policy team will be out and about the region this autumn offering advice on our funding. Catch up with them at the following venues:
Newark and Sherwood Funding Bus, 24 September. The tour bus will be stopping at the following locations:
Full details of all these events can be found on our website.
Publicising your Grant We will be holding two workshops this autumn offering publicity advice on how best to publicise your grant. The workshops will cover the basic principles of branding and working with your local media. The sessions will be a good opportunity for us to explain in more detail what we do in the East Midlands, and to hear about your project and how you see it progressing in the future. There will also be time to network with other organisations and share ideas. Details of the workshops are as follows: Tuesday 14 October, 10am-2pm, Voluntary Action Leicester Wednesday 5 November, 10am-2pm, Nottingham Voluntary Action Centre To obtain more information and booking details, please email us
Participation Works Participation Works is a consortium of six organisations that provides expert advice to anyone wanting to give a voice to children and young people.They are holding a series of events and workshops this autumn that offer advice and training on involving children and young people in decision-making. Full details can be found on their website. East Midlands officeIf you have any questions about the work of the East Midlands office, email us. If you have any general enquiries contact 0845 4 10 20 30. |
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