- Area:
- South West England
- Release date:
- 26 4 2013
Prosperous Parks toolkit
Many parks today face an uncertain future. Prosperous Parks hopes to help secure a sustainable future for more open spaces across the country by providing ideas and information about sustainable commercial income for parks.
The Prosperous Parks Toolkit is the Heritage Lottery Fund and BIG toolkit designed to help secure a sustainable future for more public open spaces across the country. It is designed as an evolving resource, where people share best practice and innovative ideas.
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Awards for All
This month, 79 projects in the south west have shared more than £645,000 through our Awards for All scheme.
Projects receiving funding include:
The Womens Rape And Sexual Abuse Centre (Cornwall) will expand their support sessions from Bodmin, East Cornwall, to Newquay, mid Cornwall. The Pattern Changing programme addresses some of the long-term damage families experience due to domestic abuse.
The Southmead Project in Bristol, which will use its £7,900 grant to deliver self-help peer group sessions for people affected by childhood abuse and trauma, enabling participants to come together and discuss their issues and develop coping mechanisms.
EaRTH Trails Community Interest Company in Exmouth, Devon, will spend their £9,084 grant on running a pilot mountain bike trail building, bicycle repair and recycling learning programme for young people who are NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training).
Visit our website to get the full list of awards this month.
Sustrans Bath Two Tunnels
On 6 April Catherine Stevens, Policy and Learning Manager from the Big Lottery Fund attended the official opening of the Sustrans Two Tunnels Greenway, which has transformed a four mile stretch of disused railway line into a new walking and cycling path between Bath and Midford.
The new walking and cycling path runs through Linear Park to the disused Devonshire tunnel (at Bloomfield), onto Combe Down tunnel, and then over the renovated Tucking Mill viaduct. At over one mile long, the Combe Down tunnel will be the longest cycling tunnel in Britain, and will feature an interactive light and sound installation.
In 2007 Sustrans won £50 million from BIG and by the end of March 2013, celebrated the completion of over 80 walking and cycling networks, like the one at Bath, in communities all over the UK.
Read this press clipping for coverage of the opening
Homelessness Transition Fund
Charities with innovative ideas about tackling homelessness can apply before the 21st May for the final £4m of the £20m Homelessness Transition Fund, launched in 2011.
£3.5m will be made available in large grants with preference to charities working in partnerships and those working in areas worst affected by homelessness. The rest of £0.5m will be awarded in smaller grants to help secure the future of homelessness services under pressure.
The Homelessness Transition Fund, which is provided by the Department of Communities and Local Government and administered by Homeless Link has already provided about 120 organisations in England with £16m under the 'No Second Night Out' banner.