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!