|
Organisation |
Project Title |
Project
Description |
Funding
Awarded |
| Young People Afloat |
Increasing sailing opportunities to
children in West Suffolk |
As the only sailing in West Suffolk, this project
would allow more youngsters (aged 9-18) to learn to sail. A
new young volunteer recently qualified as a sailing instructor
which enables club membership to increase. At present we can only
take 8 beginners a year - a similar number on short courses and
taster session, because we only have 8 beginner boats. An
extra instructor means we need to increase the number of sailing
dinghies. |
£11,664 |
| AFC Sudbury Football Club |
AFC Sudbury Community Project |
AFC Sudbury have developed and are
continuing to deliver a community project and a football
development plan to enhance the health, welfare, participation and
education of youths, adults and special needs groups within the
community. In conjunction with our community partners, we
have launched a scheme that now needs to be supported by permanent
facilities of which there are none at AFC Sudbury. The total
project cost is approx £2.1m and AFC Sudbury will be investing
approx £1.3m into the scheme. The building started in June
2009, we expect to be complete in June 2010 but we are currently
approx 100k of the capital funding. In two years we have
developed a Grassroots scheme that has gorown from 30 to over 200
local youngsters and through sport we have been able to increase
our commitment to the vulnerable and provide further support to
those with special needs. In 2009 AFC Sudbury were voted best
Charter standard club in Suffolk and in the region of East Anglia,
by the Football Association, in relation to our commitment ot youth
participation in sport and our community work. |
£50,000 |
|
Suffolk Young Carers |
Young Carers affected by somone's
alcohol and/or substance misuse |
Targeted work in West Suffolk Community Clusters within the
WSLSP area to support Young Carers who are affected by the
alcohol/substance misuse of the person they care for. Work
will be undertaken within each of the clusters to ensure that Young
Carers are firstly identified and that they are then offered
support and guidance in their caring role to enable them to
undertake this role but also to achieve within the education system
plus make healthy choices. PSHE lessons will be delivererd
within the Clusters to help identify affected Young Carers and to
ensure that support and guidance is available for them as well as
information about healthy lifestyles. Targeted training will
also take place with affected young Carers (in conjunction with
Maggi Rose Training) where anger/anxiety management is an
issue. by March 2011 we will have identified and supported,
or signposted, an additional 150 Young Carers. |
£27,807 |
| Monks Eleigh School Community Hall
(MESCH) |
Monks Eleigh School Community Hall
(MESCH) |
MESCH, a registered charity, is a partnership between Monks
Eleigh Primary School and Monks Eleigh village. Its aim is to
provide facilities for the local community, including Monks
Eleigh, the surrounding villages and the school, by building a new
hall attached to the school, replacing the existing village hall
which has concrete cancer and asbestos in the roof (both elements
have been safely stabilised short term). The existing village
hall is fully used by the residents of Monks Eleigh and nearby
villages and the school, and plays a major part in underpinning of
the cohesion of this rural community. It is vital that the
needs of the expanding school and community are met, to ensure the
future viability of this very rural area in Suffolk. A new
community hall would enable improved provision to be offered to the
children, young people and elderly in a safe and health
environment. |
£50,000 |
| Kernos Centre |
Positive Coping Strategies for Young
People |
To provide 12 young people indentified as having
behavioural/social difficulties with combined support to enable
them to develop healthy ways of functioning. Helping them to
develop new ways of regulating powerful emotions and to develop a
realistic sense of self and raised self-esteem and
confidence. The Kernos Centre would provide 6 weekly
counselling sessions for each young person and then Suffolk Youth
and Connexions would provide a 6 week group programme offering
extra support where young people can access information, have peer
support and experience using and developing positive ways of
relating to others, setting their own limits and experiencing ways
of self-care. |
£1967 |
| Newmarket Community Partnership |
West Suffolk SOS Bus Project |
The SOS bus is a multi agency designed to meet the needs of
those participating in the night time economy in West
Suffolk. It will be a first point of contact for those whose
well being is threatened by an inability to get home, illness,
injury, emotional distress or other vulnerability. the
voluteer team, led by a paid Team Leader, who mans the bus, will be
able to offer basic first aid treatment and practical help to
clients an deal with a variety of issues ranging from simple
information provision through to issues of drug and alcohol
abuse. Age range of clients attending the SOS bus will vary
but the main group will be 16-25 year olds. Further use of
the bus will be tailored tomeet community need and initial thoughts
on use include: rural youth provision, mobile community
facility/information centre, raising employer awareness. |
£50,000 |
| Suffolk Constabulary |
Safer School Partnership Hadleigh
High School and Hadleigh Safer Neighbourhood Team |
The introduction of a Police Community Support Officer to work
under the Safer Schools Partnership Project embedded within
Hadleigh High School and its feeder schools. Safer School
Partnerships are supported by the Home Office and Department of
Education who have stated that "Safer School Partnerships can
benefit all schools and they should be the norm, not the
exception. They are not indicative of a school with problems
but provide an opportunity for all schools to promote and develop a
safe climate of learning for pupils and staff. The Youth
Crime Action Plan set out objectives of SSPs becoming the norm in
schools. Safer Schools link to the Partnership Working to Keep
Pupils Safe series of conference between November 2008 and February
2009 at which police, schools, local and central government
representatives from around the country discussed how to get the
best from SSPs. |
£35,000 |
| Hadleigh High Leisure Centre
(Hadleigh High School) |
Floodlit Astro Turf |
To construct a floodlit all weather Astro Turf training
facility on the School site at Hadleigh High; making is available
to the community for a number of outdoor sports; evenings, weekends
and during school holidays, from 35-70 hours per week.
Football activity at both Hadleigh and East Bergholt would be moved
to the new facility, freeing up time indoors at both centres for
more diverse sports and leisure activities, ie gymnastics, adult
trampoline, yoga, table tennis, tai chai, dance, basketball and
volleyball. The Astro Turf would allow a local ladies hockey
club that folded due to lack of local facilities to be reformed and
developed. It could help increase the range, quality and
depth of leisure activities available and allow increased access
to: girls, women, 50+ and the latent community residing between
Brantham and Bildeston. It would build community cohesion and
help people get involved in voluntary or paid work. |
£17,500 |
| Volunteer Centre Bury St Edmunds |
Flexibus |
A capital project to purchase a new wheelchair accessible
minibus that would benefit more than 200 disadvantaged individuals
and/or community based organisations across West Suffolk and East
Babergh. The minibus would transport up to 12 individuals and 1
wheelchair-user per journey and would be used exclusively for
flexible community transport. The minibus would enable elderly and
disabled passengers to undertake 40 excursions per year. This
service is demand led and excursions would include pub lunches;
seaside shows; river cruises; seaside visits and Christmas shows.
Community groups will be proactively targeted to hire the new
minibus for its members and we aim to hire the minibus out at least
35 times per year. Services supporting young people will be
proactively targeted and encouraged to hire the minibus. Voluntary
drivers, passengers assistants and wheelchair-pushers will be
sought to increase the capacity and sustainability of the
service. |
£28,500 |