- Area:
- North East England
- Programme:
- Awards for All England
- Release date:
- 20 2 2012
A community group in Teesside has received £9,225 from the Big Lottery Fund to provide music activities for severely disabled people. The project by Small World: Big Drums is a sociable way for people to get mild exercise to help with coordination.
The group is one of 48 in the North East sharing grants totalling £389,471 from BIG’s small grants Awards for All programme.
Kev Howard, Project Coordinator of Small World: Big Drums, plays didgeridoo in the Middlesbrough organisation which uses a range of African drums and South American percussion instruments.
He said: “Without funding from organisations like the Big Lottery Fund there would have been no project. We work with people witha range of learning difficulties and physical disabilities like cerebral palsy, and over the next year we expect to help around 40 people from across Teesside.”
A charity which uses rugby to tackle bullying across Tyne and Wear by encouraging teamwork, respect and inclusion has received £7,980. The Thunder Community Trust will use the funding to develop and deliver an intervention programme in schools. This will encourage participants to respect each other and their local communities by raising awareness of how their actions can affect others, reducing incidents of bullying and antisocial behaviour.
St John's Church of England Aided Primary School, Shildon, County Durham will also be using sport to motivate disengaged pupils. They will use their £10,000 grant to run an extra-curricular programme for pupils that will include study sessions at Durham County Cricket ground and a mix of classroom lessons and football coaching at a local football academy. This will promote positive attitudes to learning and improve academic achievement.
Gateshead Crossroads Caring for Carers has received £9,440 to provide 36 young carers with the opportunity to visit universities and meet with local carers centres. This funding will provide young carers who want to attend university with advice and the experience of living away from home to help them plan future studies around their caring responsibilities.
Sunderland group Education Business Connections Limited will use £9,750 to provide financial advice events in schools, with local employers helping to tackle financial problems relating to personal and family finance to educate young people about living within their means.
James Turner, Big Lottery Fund Head of Region for the North East, said: “It’s great to see these groups all making such positive starts to the year. All the projects receiving funding in our area contribute to their communities in a remarkable way and we are proud to be able to support them.”
BIG’s Awards for All programme offers grants of between £300 and £10,000 to social and environmental projects that will benefit local communities and make a difference to the lives of those most in need. Voluntary and community groups, schools, health organisations and parish and town councils can all apply.
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Notes to Editors
- The Big Lottery Fund (BIG), the largest distributor of National Lottery good cause funding, is responsible for giving out 46% of the money raised for good causes by the National Lottery.
- BIG is committed to bringing real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need and has been rolling out grants to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK. Since June 2004 BIG has awarded over £4.4bn.
- The Fund was formally established by Parliament on 1 December 2006.
- Since the National Lottery began in 1994, 28p from every pound spent by the public has gone to good causes. As a result, over £27 billion has now been raised and more than 330,000 grants awarded across arts, sport, heritage, charities, health, education and the environment.
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