Results of the November 2006 panel meeting

Fen Edge Youth Council, Rampton, Waterbeach, Willingham, Cottenham, Landbeach

Funding of £6,389.00 has been granted to develop a Youth Council for the Fen Edge area, which is a rural area offering limited opportunities for young people. The Youth Council aims to give young people a voice, and a platform on which to initiate activities within the local community. It will be made up of young people who represent the various groups, clubs and villages in the area. Once the Council has been established, the young people will have the opportunity to devise and develop activities for the Fen Edge Family Festival in June 2007.

Cambs East Guides

Funding of £846.00 will enable the group to run a series of get-together weekends and activities to allow the girls from Cambs East Guides and the Scouts they are partnered with to form a cohesive group before the 21st World Scout Jamboree. The group need to build on their camping and team-working skills be able to rely completely on each other when needed. The group will be hosting 20 Scouts and Guides from Montserrat who will be unfamiliar with everything, and will need help to get the most from the Jamboree – international friendship, working together in peace, self-discovery, confidence building and making a difference.


Earth Ely

The group have received funding of £7,000 to develop their activities and enable young people who have crossed a legal threshold because of their behaviour (probably due to learning difficulties) and are labelled as ‘young offenders’. The group will work with East Cambridgeshire Anti-Social Behaviour Group to enable the young people to learn all aspects of basic gardening, health and safety requirements, use of horticultural machinery and tools, basic carpentry and building for garden features. As well developing their literacy and numeracy skills.


Parc Project Warboys

A group of young people have been given funding of £1,833.10 to enable them to work together and organise a talent show as well as a 5 a side football tournament. The aim of the project is to bring together members of the community in Warboys. The group would like this to be for everybody and not just for young people. The initial focus will be on the talent show planned for February they will then move on to organise the football tournament with a view to holding it in June 2007.

Results of the October 2006 Panel Meeting

March Town JFC

The group have received £719.93 to enable two new teams to join the club this year. The new teams consist of boys aged 10 – 13 years old from the community that have been playing together and have formed a team supported by a volunteer manager. It is a progressive step for them to then join a club to enable them to compete in league and club matches. Each team has a group of volunteers that manage, coach and regularly help their relevant team and the club as a whole. Funding will enable the new teams to receive support, training, match balls and a football kit for the matches.


Coldham Crew Youth Group, Wisbech

Funding of £5,007.77 has been granted to start up a new youth club for the young people of the community, which is run by young people. In order to make the application a group of young people formed a committee and canvassed other young people from the village to find out what they wanted. This has given the young people something positive to focus on and also provide them with somewhere to go.


Needingworth Players Parc Project

The group have funding of £6,536.99 to enable the young people to put on a successful play. They will learn how to write a script, make costumes and scenery, lighting and make-up and how to act by professionals who will come to the village and put on workshops and taster sessions. These will be run in the village hall during weekends.


Vikings Korfball Club , Ely

The group have received funding of £6,987.07 to set up a korfball club for children and young people. Funding will enable newcomers to the sport and those who have already played korfball at school, the opportunity to receive instruction and to play korfball competitively. The club will be open to children and young people from Ely and the surrounding villages. Parents will be able to join in with their children, helping to build positive relationships and encourage working and playing together in a team environment.


Coton Pre-School , Cambridge

The pre-school have received funding of £2,557.93 to enable them to offer two lunch club sessions from September on a permanent basis. The group are also able to provide an essential outside storage space and a means of shading the children during extended outside play in the summer months as well as providing more play resources. This will help to increase the long-term sustainability of the pre-school, in this small, rural village location.


Revel, Hemingford Grey, Hemingford Abbots, St. Ives

The group have received funding of £2,088.98 to run a drop-in style youth activity for two hours, two evenings a week at the Parish Centre. There will be a chill-out room with comfortable seating, music and projected images as well as a games area with pool, table football and air hockey. A tuck shop will also be available and space to do homework if the young people require. Youth workers will be present to befriend the young people and for the young people to talk to about any issues concerning them.

FREE workshops. Helping you apply to the Local Network Fund

We have over £100,000 left to allocate to groups by March 2006.

Grants of £250-£7,000 are available, to local and voluntary or community groups working with children and young people aged 0-19, (up to 25 for young people with learning difficulties) throughout Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

To enable your group to access these grants, the Local Network Fund Development Officer, Fleur Kerrecoe would like to invite you to attend an application workshop, which has been designed to enable the development of ideas and applications into successful, viable projects. The workshops will cover all aspects of the application process including all the supporting documentation that is required.

Workshops available are:

Cambridgeshire ACRE, 32 Main Street, Littleport, Cambs. CB6 1PJ

Tuesday 9th January 10.30am - 12 noon
Thursday 11th January 7pm - 8.30pm
Monday 15th January 10.30am - 12 noon

VSF, 81 Park Road, Peterborough, PE1 2TN

Monday 8th January 10.30am - 12 noon
Wednesday 10th January 7pm - 8.30pm
Tuesday 16th January 1.30pm - 3pm

Young Lives, 11 Bridge Street, St Ives, Cambs. PE27 5EH

Monday 8th January 10am - 11.30am
Friday 12th January 1.30pm - 3 pm
Tuesday 16th January 7 pm - 8.30 pm

To book a place on a workshop, please contact Fleur on 01353 865024 or email fleur.kerrecoe@cambsacre.org.uk. by Friday 22nd December 2006