- Area:
- West Midlands
- Programme:
- Awards for All England
- Release date:
- 2 10 2012
A National Lottery grant of £4,880 is to fund a community art project that will create a 60ft wide piece of land art near Walterstone, Herefordshire.
Monnow Valley Arts receives the funding from the Big Lottery Fund’s popular small grants scheme, Awards for All. It is just one of 86 projects in the West Midlands which is sharing in more than £746,000 today.
Monnow Valley Arts will run its project over three days from the 11th – 13th October. Local artist Kate Raggett will outline the drawing while members of the community will contribute their own ideas and natural materials such as wool, willow, conkers, apples and pine cones to complete it. Once the artwork is completed after the three days, everyone will be invited back to view the piece and it will be photographed from the sky. An image of the drawing will be sent to all those who joined in.
Annabelle Elletson, Development Officer, said: “This project is about bringing different people from across the community together to take part in an activity that, without this funding, they would not normally be able to take part in. We want as many people as possible to come along and share their ideas and contribute to the project. When we first talked about the possibility of running a project like this back at the start of the summer, people were really excited about. So now we’re really looking forward to making it happen.”
Among the other projects receiving funds today is the Bumble Hole Conservation Group in Dudley which receives £9,500 to deliver workshops and activities in the local nature reserve for families to learn about conservation and the natural environment. People will be able to explore the wildlife in the reserve and take part in wild cooking and other demonstrations.
Meanwhile, Stone Community First Responders in Staffordshire will use a grant of £10,000 to purchase a new emergency response vehicle to replace their current unreliable and expensive one; and Great Health Care for the Community Ltd in Witton, Birmingham, receives £9,940 to run a series of healthy eating workshops for families and provide information and support to help them lead healthier lives.
Also in Birmingham, the Environmental Warriors receives £8,980 to continue with community cleanups with volunteers and a scrap metal pickup service for the community; and Mere Green Combined Primary School gets £9,983 to purchase and install outdoor gym equipment.
Others receiving grants today include: Wheelchair Recycling We Can Do in Quinton, Birmingham, which receives £9,985 to run social and creative activities, healthy living and exercise sessions for people with disabilities; South Wye Development Trust in Hereford which will use £10,000 to provide weekly read aloud group sessions for older people including those in care homes of community hospitals, and Langley Fold Social Club in Telford and Wrekin, which receives £6,150 to extend their range of social activities for older people and their families.
Awards for All 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.
Since June, projects in the West Midlands have been able to apply to Awards for All for funding for on-going activities. The repeat funding pilot allows groups with an annual income of less than £30,000 to apply to the small grants scheme for activities that have already been delivered by the group in the past. The pilot closes at the end of November.
John Taylor, Big Lottery Fund’s Head of the West Midlands region, said: “We are really keen to hear from community groups in the West Midlands region who might need a small grant for their community project. Awards for All funds a wide range of activities and groups may not realise just how short and straightforward the application process is.
“We also recognise that we are working in a particularly challenging financial climate, especially for smaller groups who may not have the financial infrastructure and support that larger organisations have. So the repeat funding pilot is a great opportunity for projects who have successfully delivered certain activities, to apply for funding which will enable them to run those activities again.”
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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 40% 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 £28 billion has now been raised and more than 383,000 grants awarded across arts, sport, heritage, charities, health, education and the environment.
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