09 February 2007

Get your hands on our money!

The LNF Team at Cambridgeshire ACRE are encouraging groups to get their application forms in for this, the final year of funding!

The Local Network Fund is due to cease in March 2008 and therefore to stop your group missing out you need to apply now! The new allocation of funding has been announced and any projects working with children and young people can apply. Grants of between £250 and £7,000 are available for a variety of projects including starting up youth groups, toddler groups, helping pre-schools and playgroups develop sensory gardens and trim trails, running drama and music workshops, art workshops where murals have been created as well as basic life skills courses.

Fleur Kerrecoe, LNF Development Officer said ‘I would encourage all groups who are working with or are looking to work with children and young people get in touch as soon as they can – support is on hand to help with all steps of the application process’.

To be eligible your group must be a local voluntary or community group working with children and young people aged from 0 to 19 years and have a turnover of less than £100,000. Grants can cover start- up costs, develop existing projects or enable a group to do something totally different!

Recently funded projects

Revel - £2,088.98
With the help of a grant the group is running a drop-in style youth activity in the Hemingfords giving young people access to Youth workers giving them an opportunity to talk about any issues concerning them.

Coldham Crew Youth Group - £5,007.77
The grant will help with the start up a new youth club in the village of Coldham, where a group of young people have got together, formed a committee and put in plans to get this project off the ground giving young people a place to go and meet each other.

Dastak Womens Group of Peterborough - £6,980.00
Funding is helping a group of isolated young Asian women to take part in a range of educational outings and social gatherings to enable the young women to see what is available to them after school and help to build their aspirations as well as helping them to build friendships and develop social skills.

March Town JFC - £719.93
The Local Network Fund grant is enabling the club to meet the training needs as well as supplying the essential resources for two new teams enabling them to compete in league and club matches maximising football opportunities for young people.

Needingworth Players PARC Project - £6,536.99
The group received funding to allow them to put on a successful play including learning from professionals all about the different aspects of staging a play including script writing, costumes and scenery production, lighting and make-up and of course acting.
Fen Edge Youth Council - £6,389.00
A grant is supporting the creation of a Youth Council for the Fen Edge area, including the villages of Cottenham, Landbeach, Rampton, Waterbeach and Willingham giving young people of this rural area a voice and a chance to contribute and make decisions about the kind of activities and provision they would like in the local area.

EARTH - £7,000.00
The group is using the grant to help them to develop their activities and work with young people who have crossed a legal threshold because of their behaviour teaching them basic horticultural skills and assisting them with literacy and numeracy.

Eye Junior Youth Club - £980.16
Funding is providing children and young people who make up the group with a variety of activities of their choice including basketball, volleyball, badminton and short tennis.

SummerZone - £4,714.00
The LNF grant is helping the group to run a year long programme of activities and workshops throughout the school holidays for young people including dance and music workshops, arts and crafts sessions.

Friday Drop-In/Saturday Drop-In - £6,604.74
The group is using the funding to a drop-in session on Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons giving young people in March somewhere safe to meet up with their friends in a friendly and social environment and can actively take part in decision making and fun activities.