 Below is a full list of People's Millions 2007 winning projects.
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ITV Anglia East
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| Open Road - Helping Families in Clacton |
The project will improve the condition of the Clacton Open Road Centre. The proposed refurbishment will enable greater use of the centre, providing improved areas for the support and treatment for alcohol and drug misusers. |
Clacton on Sea |
£48,920 |
| The Listen Here! Minibus, Norfolk Deaf Association |
The project will provide a mobile outreach service for elderly, deaf people in the rural areas of Norfolk. The group will purchase and adapt a minibus to make it accessible for people with physical as well as sensory impairments. The service will be operated by trained volunteers, who will offer support on hearing aid maintenance, as well as providing information and guidance on other aspects of deafness. |
Norfolk |
£79,280 |
| Splashing Out, Colneis Junior School |
The project will refurbish the currently unused open-air pool and transform it into a modern, enclosed and heated pool that can be used all year round. The facility will be available to the children at Colneis Junior School, as well as other primary schools in the Felixstowe area during the school day. |
Felixstowe |
£80,000 |
| The Town And Bridge Community Garden, Ipswich and District Council for Voluntary Service |
The project will renovate a number of vacant plots at Maidenhall Allotments, Ipswich, in order to create a community garden. The land is currently disused and will provide a valuable community resource for all ages. The garden will feature growing areas, a sensory garden and accessible toilets. The community will be supported to grow fruit, vegetables, plants and herbs as a way of improving their health and well-being. |
Ipswich |
£80,000 |
| Tennis for All at Wickham, Wickham Market Partnership |
The project will provide additional sporting facilities in Wickham Market. Three hard tennis courts will be installed, and a tennis club will be developed to encourage active participation by residents of the village and surrounding areas. |
Wickham Market |
£80,000 |
ITV Anglia West
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| Environment Project, Hillcrest School |
The project will provide a sensory garden for students and the local community. The students, who have severe learning difficulties, will have a more interactive learning environment and will be able to play outside with other local groups, play schemes and mainstream student bodies. Members of the local community will also be able to access the sensory garden free of charge, thus encouraging awareness raising of the school and its students, helping them to integrate into everyday community life. |
Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire |
£80,000 |
| Pavilion Project, Totternhoe Lower School |
The project will remove an old, disused swimming pool from the school site and replace it with an outdoor learning space in the form of a covered wooden pavilion, which would enhance the landscape and provide an outdoor facility for the pupils and the wider community. |
Totternhoe |
£68,276 |
| Golden Gardens, Bedfordshire Pilgrims Housing Association |
The project aims to convert two unused and vandalised garage sites into community gardens. The organisation will work with community policemen, street rangers, residents and children in Goldington on the designs for the sites and the delivery of the project. |
Goldington |
£80,000 |
| Crossroads Young Carers Project, West Anglia Crossroads Caring for Carers |
The project will provide help, support and group sessions to young carers under 19 whose lives are restricted by their caring responsibilities. It would offer one on one support, days out, life skills and focus days, short projects and residential trips. It will begin carer groups in schools and encourage carers to become volunteers. |
St Ives, Huntingdon |
£61,094 |
Shocott Spring Community Woodland, Marston Vale Trust |
The project will fund phase two of a three-phase expansion to the community woodland between the isolated communities of Shortstown and Cotton End, Bedfordshire. It will involve the local community in creating more green space to accomodate the growing community, which is likely to double in size within the next few years as a result of 1,200 new houses being built. |
Bedford |
£67,712 |
ITV Border
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| Playball!, Chirnside Primary School |
This project will create an all-weather outdoor sports facility available to the whole local community and located within a primary school playing field. This will both improve sports facilities for the school and offer a place to go for young people in the village. |
Chirnside, Duns, Berwickshire |
£75,000 |
| Coldstream Community Hall |
This project will convert part of a former church building, purchased by the Coldstream Community Trust in 1998, into a large multi-purpose community hall. Two thirds of the building has already been converted to a community centre owned and managed by the Trust and the conversion of the remaining third to create the hall will improve facilities for community groups and events. |
Coldstream |
£80,000 |
| Greystoke Green Room, Greystoke Primary School |
This project will redevelop a section of the existing playground to create a stimulating area to be used as an outdoor classroom. The area will incorporate a number of different stimuli for learning and play for both the school and local community. The school will work with a number of community groups to develop and sustain this area. |
Greystoke, near Penrith |
£54,600 |
| Tebay School Outdoor Project, Tebay Community Primary School |
This project aims to extend the school's range of outdoor facilities and activity areas. It includes two adventure play areas, a wildlife area, a gardening area, two outdoor shelters, play panels and rabbit hutches. |
Penrith |
£42,352 |
| Coldingham Public Hall Refurbishment |
The project is the third phase of developing a multi-use community space through the refurbishment of the village hall. The aim of the project is to provide a community space that will not only meet the needs of the residents of the village but also of the wider community and visitors.The Peoples Millions project is centred on the improvement of the theatre and arts function of the hall. |
Coldingham |
£78,661 |
ITV Central East
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| Village:School Field Eco PLOT (Play, Learn, Observe, Time Out), Friends of Kirk Ireton School |
The proposed project will install an all weather multi-use play area aimed at improving under 11 games and sports provision, and an eco-friendly pavilion extension for the school to be made available as a multi-use facility for various groups in the local area. |
Kirk Ireton |
£80,000 |
| Golden Valley Park, Midland Railway Trust |
The Golden Valley Park project will develop the park, constructing a new footbridge over a heritage railway line, adding new footpaths and fencing, and purchase 4.8 acres of woodland that adjoins the park. |
Derbyshire |
£80,000 |
| Project Inspire |
The project will convert the village church building into a church and community hall which will be used for community activities such as coffee mornings for older people, youth club and recreational activities for young people, and for social events for adults. |
Fernham |
£80,000 |
| Our Space, Kings Cliffe Community Sports |
The proposed project will transform an area of wasteland into a purpose-built, naturally landscaped youth leisure area. The area will feature games facilities and provide a place for young people in the area to meet. |
Kings Cliffe |
£80,000 |
| Dressing Room Rebuild, Corn Exchange Theatre Company |
The project will enable the group to remove existing theatre dressing-rooms and replace them with new ones to be built with lift access to the level of the stage. This will allow greater access for wheelchair bound users who are currently restricted due to stepped access. The improved facility will open the work of the organisation to the wider community. |
Stamford |
£80,000 |
ITV Central (West)
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| Conversion of Facilities for the 21st Century, Weoley Castle Community Projects |
Benefiting 400 people, the project would replace existing community centre toilets with modern ventilated facilities that would include provision for disabled users. The centre would also be rewired so that recently purchased computer facilities can be used by an after school club, and an asphalt access path to the hall would also be resurfaced. |
Weoley Castle |
£58,997 |
| Raising the Roof of the Peace Hall, Rowney Green Peace Memorial Hall |
Rowney Green Peace Memorial Hall would have a new roof if they secure the people’s vote. The existing flat roof at the rear of the hall is in a state of disrepair and reduces the hall’s capacity. The grant would fund a new roof and the building work necessary to support the new structure. |
Rowney Green |
£80,000 |
| Play in the Park, The Friends of Cripplegate Park |
The group would makeover an outdated and underused play area benefiting 5,000 local people. They also intend to develop activity spaces in different areas of the park, complementing those that already exist. They are working in partnership with the parks department and have carried out consultation to identify the needs of users. |
Worcester |
£44,558 |
| Pool Project, Friends Of Thomas Russell Junior School |
The project would upgrade the school’s open-air swimming pool with a conservatory style sliding roof extension. A disabled changing area and toilet would be added, together with a new gated entrance to make the pool accessible to all and improve security. The group would also install solar powered pool heating to reduce and the impact on the environment. The improvements would encourage increased use by community groups and the public. |
Barton under Needlewood |
£77,500 |
| Oak Farm Project, Pathways-Shropshire |
Pathways - Shropshire would refurbish an unused farm building to include a village history archive, bakery and farm shop selling locally grown produce. The local volunteer history group would run the archive and the farm shop would be run in partnership with a day service for adults with learning disabilities. |
Ditton Priors |
£47,253 |
ITV Granada
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| Adventure Zone Project, Sandside Lodge Special School |
Sandside Lodge Special School would create a multi-sensory adventure zone with their People’s Millions. The zone would be built in the school playground and used by local children with special needs and their families and carers. The playground would give users the opportunity to access multisport, sensory, and disability equipment. |
Ulverston |
£80,000 |
| Our Back Field, Hunger Hill Action Group |
The Hunger Hill Housing estate in Bolton would see currently redundant waste land adjacent to a busy motorway transformed to a wildlife haven.The land has naturally regenerated itself following demolition and copses of native trees, open grassy areas and ponds can all be found there. The site suffers from fly tipping, vandalism and off-road motor bikes so if successful the project could reclaim the space for safe community use. |
Bolton |
£80,000 |
| A Facelift for the Smallest Show on Earth, Plaza Community Cinema |
The Plaza Community Cinema would receive a facelift if they manage to secure the people’s vote. Based in Waterloo, Sefton, the cinema operates as a community facility providing social and education programmes that address a wide-range of issues in a deprived area. The building’s frontage would be renovated to enhance the overall appearance of the cinema in a bid to increase levels of attendance. |
Sefton |
£50,000 |
| Padiham Riverside Nature Trail, Padiham Town Council |
Padiham Town Council would like to make the river a focal point in the community, creating a well-defined riverside walkway with seating and litter bins. If they win the people’s votes the project would enable people to access the riverbank and observe wildfowl in their natural environment. |
Padiham |
£50,899 |
| Wishing Well House Arts Project |
This arts project would provide music, dance and drama classes for children with autism. The children would be taught new communication and social skills through one-to-one tuition from sessional staff and volunteers. A range of sensory equipment and musical instruments would also aid in their development. |
Poulton-le-Fylde |
£40,000 |
ITV London
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| The Juniper Crescent Play Project, Community Action |
This is a project to convert a rundown play area and communal garden in Juniper Crescent, a housing estate in a deprived area of Camden. The redevelopment will provide a brand new multi-purpose, modern play and recreational space. Volunteers will maintain the gardens and provide organised play activities. |
Juniper Crescent, Camden |
£80,000 |
| Sensory Garden Annexe Project, Streatham Darby and Joan Club |
This project will add a garden room and covered walkways to an older persons' resource centre, thereby improving access for an ethnically diverse group of elderly people, some of which have disabilities. The project will enable them to enjoy an urban green space, and will improve their local environment. |
Streatham |
£80,000 |
| Meanwhile Garden's 'Biodiversity Project', Meanwhile Gardens Community Association |
The project will create two educational areas in a community garden. It will develop an educational pond garden where the community can learn about improving biodiversity, conservation, sustainability, recycling and composting. The project will also develop an education food growing facility where the community can learn about the importance of growing your own food and how easy this process is. |
North Kensington |
£80,000 |
| Treehouse Landscape for Learning, The Treehouse Trust |
The project will transform the land around the National Centre for Autism Education into a wildlife area providing a habitat for birds, insects and wildlife. The group will plant trees and shrubs which, when matured, will provide a woodland walk to the boundaries of the site. The project will provide a safe, creative, sensory environment for the children at Treehouse. The group will work with local schools, other autism providers and community groups to extend opportunities and access to the facility. |
Muswell Hill |
£80,000 |
| e-Wise, Centrepoint Soho |
The project to be delivered by Centrepoint will involve the installation of an innovative computer system, e-Wise at Bruce House, which is a base for homeless people. The system will be installed in each of the forty-nine rooms and enable the residents to have access to the internet, complete their studies, interact with friends and search and apply for jobs. The project will also create a communal area where training sessions and social activities can take place. |
Westminster |
£80,000 |
ITV Meridian South
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| Simon Says Child Bereavement Support |
The project would extend the bereavement support services the group currently offer into the West Hampshire area. The project would benefit an estimated 1,600 children who have suffered bereavement. |
New Milton, West Hampshire |
£69,495 |
| Minibus Replacement, Bembridge Friendship Circle |
The proposed project will purchase a new minibus, fitted with facilities for transport of people with disabilities, to replace the existing 20 year old bus. This will help the group to extend their successful minibus project to the wider community. |
Bembridge, Isle of Wight |
£67,982 |
| Skateboard Park, Angmering Parish Council |
The project would use a piece of land to create a designated play area and skateboard park for the young people of the. The grant grant would purchase and install a new skate facility benefitting an estimated 2,000 people. |
West Sussex |
£80,000 |
| Kick Start, The Pompey Study Centre |
The project will refurbish and fully equip a new study suite for reluctant learners. This suite will provide a focus to education and employment training opportunities for young people aged 14-19 years old that have been unsuccessful in mainstream education. The award will also enable the centre to be moved from it’s current location within a school to a dedicated building. |
Portsmouth |
£80,000 |
| Making Some Quiet Time (MS Quiet Time), Multiple Sclerosis Society Of Britain & Northern Ireland |
The project would involve the extension to their current building which would provide a quiet room and garden area for people with MS within the Osborne centre. This quiet centre would enable people with MS to have access to an area to read or rest away from the daily activities of the day centre. |
West Parley, Dorset |
£80,000 |
ITV Meridian South East
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| Access for Everyone at Bearsted Woodland Trust |
Benefiting 8,000 local people, the Bearsted Woodland Trust would build a 2 metre wide pathway through newly acquired land to allow access for all. They also plan to purchase a mobility scooter for visitors, and erect chesnut fencing, handrails and information boards. Currently the new woodland is unsuitable for people with restricted mobility and families with puschairs. |
Bearsted, Maidstone |
£77,892 |
| Cool 2B Fit, Folkestone Sports Centre Trust |
The Folkestone Sports Centre aim to encourage young people to be more active through fun exercise. And if the public like them around 500 people will benefit from a fully inclusive dedicated toboggan slope and a young people's gym . The group would also start an after school club for children who do not take part in school sports. |
Folkestone |
£57,403 |
| Herne Bay Little Theatre, Playmakers |
The project will make improvements to the local theatre by refurbishing the site and installing a disabled toilet block and improve access for those in wheelchairs. An induction loop system and air conditioning will also be installed. These changes will provide much more comfort to service users, especially the elderly, the visually and hearing impaired. A total of 3,000 people will benefit. |
Herne Bay, Kent |
£76,651 |
| Sunlight Development Trust |
This People’s Million hopeful wants to transform a poorly used room in their local community centre to a resource that can be used as a pain clinic, youth drop in and community advice centre. the project could benefit approximately 700 people. The grant would fund refurbishment and development, therapists, youth workers and advice councillors. |
Gillingham |
£80,000 |
| Herne Bay Cultural Trail, Herne Bay Town Partners |
Herne Bay Town Partners would like to create a cultural trail in Herne Bay, linking the town, park, and sea front. It would feature murals and statues, and would be supported by a brochure, website, and signage. Around 62,000 people would benefit from the project and the grant could fund a statue of Sir Barnes Wallace and public information to name a few. |
Herne Bay, Kent |
£78,860 |
ITV Thames Valley
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| Maximising The Longridge Magic, Longridge Boating Centre |
27,000 young people would benefit from the Longbridge Boating Centre’s plans to construct a high ropes course to ‘maximise the Longridge magic’. The course would be a link across the river from the group's main site to an island that is used for adventure activities. They would also create an adventure playground for younger children who will not be able use the high ropes course. |
Marlow |
£80,000 |
| Tower Square Regeneration, Carterton Town Council |
Carterton Town Council would give their tired Tower Square a makeover if they win the public vote. Working in partnership with Carterton Fast Forward Environment Group, the project would see an area of the town centre spruced up in a bid to cut down on late night anti-social behaviour. The work would include an improved pedestrian area, a heritage related focal point, improved seating and bike racks and landscaping. |
Carterton |
£38,380 |
| Electric Lift for the Farmoor Reservoir Pontoon, Accessible Sailing |
It would be plain sailing for all If this group win the People’s vote. They hope to provide an electric lift and walkway approach enabling disabled sailors easy access to the pontoon when the water level is too low for ramp access. The project would benefit about 200 disabled sailors and the grant would contribute towards the design and construction of the walkway to the electric lift and the design, construction and installation of the lift itself. |
Oxon |
£80,000 |
| Put a hop, step and jump into Bicester athletics, Bicester Athletic Club |
Bicester Athletic Club would like to make their long, high and triple jumps, discus and javelin run-up areas into all weather surfaces at Bicester Community College sports field. This new facility would be available to all the children at the college, their feeder schools and Athletic Club members. 2330 young people would benefit from the project. |
Bicester, Oxfordshire |
£71,263 |
| Modernise Scout Headquarters, 22nd Oxford Sea Scouts |
The 22nd Oxford Sea Scouts want to replace their leaking roof so a range of community groups can use the building. Currently the building is not only used by the Scouting Association but also by the local cameo club, youth groups, the City Council and British Canoe Union training centre. With around 1,000 people benefiting, they hope to see their headquarters used more frequently if they receive a grant to fix it. |
Oxford |
£33,605 |
ITV Tyne Tees
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| ALL CHANGE!, Fenham Swimming Project |
All will be changing if Fenham Swimming Pool receive People’s Millions funds to update their pool and improve changing facilities. The current changing rooms are limiting to disabled users and are not suitable for families. The new cubicles would remove barriers to exercise and increase the usefulness of the pool which is also used by several schools and community groups including the girl guides and brownies. |
Fenham, Newcastle Upon Tyne |
£80,000 |
| Sir Bobby Robson Park, The EQUAL Partnership |
The EQUAL Partnership would create a recreational play area at Langley Park for the local community. The park would include a children's playground and skate park for young people which would create a sense of community ownership. There is a lack of parks In the area and 2,500 people would benefit. |
Langley Park, Durham |
£80,000 |
| Bandstand for Redcar, Flower Power for Redcar |
Flower Power for Redcar are battling for a seaside bandstand on the promenade for general use by the community and local groups to undertake musical performances. Based in Coatham, the bandstand would be a focal point for the area benefiting around 10,000 people in a relatively deprived location. |
Redcar |
£80,000 |
| Pontoons, Derwenthaugh Boat Station of the Sea Cadet Corps |
Derwenthaugh Boat Station of the Sea Cadet Corps would use the People’s Millions to create pontoons on the river to allowing better access to boats. Currently the boats are on moorings which are accessed by dinghies and can only be reached at low tide. The project would install a rise and fall pontoon and walkway benefiting 500 Sea Cadet members. |
Blaydon on Tyne |
£58,420 |
| ECO-ED, Pennywell Youth Project |
The ECO-ED project would create an open space for young people, community groups, and local residents to access and learn new skills and experiences. It would provide a safe and comfortable environment for accessing information, resources and training including crop rotation, healthy living, physical activities, awareness of the environment and social events. Around 800 people would benefit if they secure the public vote. |
Pennywell |
£61,578 |
ITV Wales
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| The 'Calon Lan' (Pure Heart) Project, Bryncynon Community Revival Strategy |
The project will provide a community space for local people containing sculptures and art work in the grounds of the Big Lottery funded Healthy Living Centre (HLC) at Bryncynon, Rhondda Cynon Taff. The project includes the provision of art workshop sessions that will lead to the design and construction of art to be displayed. |
Bryncynon, Rhondda Cynon Taff |
£49,100 |
| Partneriaeth Dolgellau Partnership, Partneriaeth Dolgellau Cyf |
The project aims to provide new facilities in the town's park in order to provide children, young people and the wider community with further recreational opportunities. The process of developing the project through cross community working is also seen as a key part of raising people's confidence and skill levels in the Dolgellau area. The land is currently owned by Gwynedd County Council, but it is intended that the partnership will lease the land in the long term. |
Dolgellau, Gwynedd |
£80,000 |
| EYST Urban Fix Up Project, Ethnic Youth Support Team |
The project will upgrade the youth drop-in centre whilst training young people in environmentally sound construction skills. The project will take place over 6-months and will train 12 young males and involve 100 members as volunteers. |
Swansea |
£49,700 |
| Aber Valley Water Play Feature, Aber Valley Communities Partnership |
The project will replace the existing redundant paddling pool facility at Senghenydd Welfare Park, with a fully automated, interactive water play system that is designed to stimulate children of all abilities including those with disabilities. |
Senghenydd Welfare Park, Caerphilly |
£80,000 |
| Gladstone Refurbishment / Regeneration, Clwyd Area Scout Council |
The project will upgrade a scouting centre for the benefit of the local community and visiting scout groups in North East Wales allowing opportunities to enjoy outdoor pursuits in a safe, comfortable and controlled environment. |
Hawarden, Flintshire |
£64,860 |
ITV West
| Project |
Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| Restoration of Castle House Gardens, Castlefields Canal and River Park Association |
The project would clear an overgrown area of the gardens, allowing full and safe access for the whole community. A hard standing area would also be restored for outdoor concerts, fixtures and fittings for seating would be installed and a picnic and barbeque area would be created. |
Calne |
£68,600 |
| School Road Park Project, Totterdown Residents Environmental and Social Association |
The project would develop a park that would feature new play equipment for children, new seating and picnic areas and benefits for wildlife. It would be an area to encourage creativity and imagination, with support from Avon Wildlife Trust and local schools. |
Bristol |
£80,000 |
| Wildlife on the Edge, South Somerset District Council |
The project would improve the environment around the lake at Yeovil Country Park and encourage local wildlife. Information of the plant and animal life would be available to visitors and a no-dog zone would be created as well as improved disabled access. |
Yeovil |
£78,830 |
| Community Involvement Project, Coalpit Heath Cricket Club |
The project would refurbish and upgrade the existing club to create a facility that is accessible to everyone. It will include installing disabled ramps throughout the building, upgrading the kitchen, converting the garage into an office and equipment store and renovating a decking and lounge area. |
Coalpit Heath, Bristol |
£89,305 |
The Waterways Trust - Brimscombe Portwalls |
The project would restore the walls of an eighteenth century port in the Cotswolds, by training local volunteers from disadvantaged groups in heritage construction. Access to the site will also be improved and community artists will be commissioned to provide installations to enhance the area. |
Stroud, Brimscombe |
£80,000 |
ITV West Country
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Project summary |
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Award amount |
| Dawlish Action For Youth Skate Park |
The project will create a skate park for young people in Dawlish. Local skaters are currently using unsuitable open spaces in the town causing danger to themselves and annoyance to other residents. The skate park will provide a safe and supervised area for them to use. The project will benefit 200 people directly and also benefit the entire community indirectly. |
Dawlish |
£80,000 |
| Disabled Sailing Adventure, Disabled Sailing Association |
The project would design and build a specially adapted thirty foot vessel to provide sailing activities to disabled and disadvantaged people within the community. Training would be offered so that disabled users could achieve recognised sailing qualifications and local people would have the opportunity to become involved as volunteers. |
Torquay |
£80,000 |
| Conversion of Chapel to Theatre, Kidz R Us Community Project |
The project would convert and refurbish a local chapel building into a permanent theatre for the local community to use and enjoy. It would involve the replacement of the existing temporary facilities with a permanent stage and orchestra pit and fit the building with a new roof. |
St Ives |
£78,428 |
| ExeAccess, Exeter Community Transport Group |
The project will provide a taxi service using a vehicle that can be accessed by wheelchairs and scooters, with drivers who are specially trained and employed by the group. The project would greatly benefit disabled users in the Exeter area and would run alongside the current Taxicard service, which enables disabled users to reclaim half of their fares. |
Exeter |
£80,000 |
| Community Action Through Sport (CATS) |
The project would tackle issues of anti-social behaviour and crime through the use of sports and community based activities. CATS would encourage young people to take part in activities that help and support the community and reward them for their positive action with vouchers for activities such as swimming, windsurfing and mountain biking. |
Bude |
£38,540 |
ITV Yorkshire
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| Field of Dreams, St Bartholomews C of E Primary School |
The project would develop a large field behind the school into a space that the whole community can benefit from. Access would be improved and facilities would include seating areas, pathways, wildflower gardens, children's play and sports area. |
Armley |
£79,930 |
| Calder Play, Hebden Royd Town Council |
The project would create a new playground for children in the area of Calder Holmes Park. As part of the project the Town Council will carry out workshops, competitions, and discussions with local schools and children’s groups to allow the community to have a say in its design. |
Hebden Bridge |
£68,000 |
| King's Mill Outdoor Play Project, King's Mill School |
King's Mill School is an area special school for children and young people aged 2 to 16 years with a range of learning, physical and sensory difficulties. The proposed project will redevelop the school playground into a stimulating learning environment, available to both school pupils and after school clubs from other special schools who make use of the site. The area will incorporate areas for teaching, studying, play and socialising. There will be an estimated 170 beneficiaries. |
Driffield |
£49,989 |
| Roots 2 Shoots, The Yorkshire Waterways Museum |
The project aims to landscape a derelict area and turn it into a large allotment with a picnic area and play area. They want to fence off the plot and volunteers will grow the produce that will be used in the organisation's café. The project will directly benefit 120 people. |
Old Goole, South Ward |
£62,500 |
| HYENA's Holmewood Youth Project, North East Derbyshire District Council |
The proposed project will develop a multi-use area for sports and recreation, in an attempt to reduce anti-social behaviour. The land earmarked for the project is located at the heart of the community to maximize impact. Coaching courses will be provided for football, basketball and netball. Support will also be provided for children wanting to engage in graffiti art for the area. Community open days will be arranged to volunteer for litter picking, cleaning, general tidying and planting. There will be an estimated 947 beneficiaries. |
Holmewood |
£80,000 |
STV Central
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| Pitheid Patter, Barony 'A' Frame Trust |
The Pitheid Patter project would provide interpretative materials, signage and a heritage garden at the site of the Barony 'A' Frame which was listed after the Barony pit closed in 1989. The project would also recruit and train volunteer heritage guides. This is part of phase two of an oral history project about the lives of the miners who worked at the pit. |
Near Auchinleck, Ayrshire |
£80,000 |
| The Seafield School - Sport for All, Quarriers |
The Seafield School - Sport for All project would develop an outdoor sports facility at Seafield School which would support many of Scotland's most vulnerable and challenging children. The facility would encourage the establishment of a football league involving the young people at Seafield and local schools. |
Ardrossan, North Ayrshire |
£80,000 |
| Healthy Communities Initiative, Glendoune Community Association |
The Healthy Communities Initiative would create a multi-use games area and provide new sporting equipment. This would be available for use by people of all ages and abilities and would contribute to improving the overall health and fitness of local people. |
Girvan, South Ayrshire |
£80,000 |
| Jump To It, West Dunbartonshire Council |
The Jump To It project would improve access to quality athletic facilities for young people in Dumbarton. A run-down facility would be upgraded and new equipment installed, which would be used by development staff from the local authority in taster sessions and coaching with young people. |
Dunbarton |
£79,674 |
| Bikeworks |
The Bikeworks project would reclaim and recondition bikes destined for landfill sites reducing the damage to the environment and encouraging people to exercise and enjoy the outdoors through access to low cost cycles. |
Glenrothes, Fife |
£49,000 |
STV North
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Project summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| Growing Together, Cearns Community Development Project |
The Growing Together project aims to enhance and protect the green belt area of the Cearns Housing Development, the largest social housing estate in the Western Isles. It would create a welcoming environment for the area and include the construction of a bandstand, seating areas and work done by a dry 'staner'. |
Stornoway |
£80,000 |
| Dolphin Centre Upgrade, The Dolphin Community Centre Tayport |
The Dolphin Centre Upgrade would improve a community centre in Tayport. The work would include renewing the kitchen and floors, renovating the roof, installing new toilets, improving the heating system and carrying out internal alterations to improve the layout. This would help to increase the range of activities in the hall. |
Tayport, Fife |
£80,000 |
| Rain Starts Play, Highland Council |
The Rain Starts Play project will equip every Pre-school Centre in the Highland Council area with waterproof suits and wellington boots to enable staff to take children outside for activities and play in most weather conditions. It would benefit 4100 pre-school children. |
Inverness, Highlands |
£80,000 |
| PRA (Pride, Respect & Ambition), Perth Grammar School |
The Pride, Respect & Ambition project aims to transform the external environment of Perth Grammar School. This would include the development of garden areas, landscaping and shelters to provide a visually pleasing and stimulating environment. Seating in the school drama theatre would also be replaced to provide a valuable resource for both school and community use. |
Perth |
£80,000 |
| The Harvest Community Hall Improvement Project, Harvest Community Church |
The Harvest Community Hall Improvement Project would renovate and improve the Harvest Community Church Hall in Peterhead. The work would inlcude relocating and renewing the kitchen, installing suspended ceilings, adding new lighting and creating disabled access. |
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire |
£80,000 |
UTV
| Project |
Project Summary |
Location |
Award amount |
| Killough 'Rope Walk' Activity Trail, Groundwork NI |
Groundwork NI would use the grant to transform the Killough Rope Walk, a popular walk in Killough village near Downpatrick. It is hoped that the scheme will increase opportunities for local people to exercise and have access to the environment. |
Killough |
£80,000 |
| The Playtrail Green Fingers Project, Liberty Consortium |
Liberty Consortium would use the grant to create a horticultural training and education garden within the existing Playtrail Park. The park is based in the Racecourse Road campus of Foyle View and Belmont House schools and is open to all local children including pupils at both schools with moderate and severe learning disabilities. |
Derry |
£80,000 |
| Community Garden Project, Bonds Street Community Association |
Bonds Street Community Association would use the grant to create a community garden providing equipment for a toddlers and junior and teens play areas and a sitting area for parents and older residents. The project will rejuvenate the currently derelict playground. |
Ebrington, Derry |
£80,000 |
| Carrosyl Multi Sports Arena, Carrowshee Park/Sylvan Hill Community Association |
Carrowshee Park/Sylvan Hill Community Association would use the grant to create a new multi sports arena which will provide sporting facilities primarily for 120 local children and young people but will be open for use by the whole community. |
Lisnaskea |
£80,000 |
| Reviving Outdoor Space for Everyone in Our Community, Dunsford Cross Community Resource Centre |
Dunsford Cross Community Resource Centre would use the grant to transform the outside area of a dilapidated community centre that is also going to be refurbished. If successful the project will get local people involved clearing the area so that it can be used as a recreational space with a playground, a BBQ area and a story area. |
Dunsford, County Down |
£54,751 |
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