Projects Archive

April

CAPS Carers and Parent Support

CAPS was successfully awarded a £5,000 grant from Grassroots Grants Kirklees to assist in funding a play scheme during the school summer holidays suitable for all with specific activities tailored to meet the special needs of the children to benefit.. This project provides a 5day scheme of activities for 60 severely disabled children and their siblings (total 140) thereby providing support to their families and encouraging the development of CAPS as a support group. This project is well thought through and will bring a considerable amount of pleasure to disadvantaged children, siblings and their families.

Dalton Ward Communities Support Group

The Community group received a grant of £2,460 from Grassroots Grants Kirklees to enable them to run Dalton Gala 2010 a fun day of events such as games, face painting, hair braiding, gospel choir etc and will attract people from across the diverse community. The funding will also support essential first aid training which will provide local volunteers with new skills and certificate. The day aims to bring pleasure to a lot of people and bring community cohesion through the joint enterprise of arranging the events and participating in them.

Exit 25 Theatre Group

Exit 25 have been awarded £768 from Grassroots Grants Calderdale to fund a new project that will provide children with an opportunity to work with a professional screen writer to produce a first draft film script for a short film.

The basis of the creative writing will come from the children's ideas and relevant issues within the community over a four week workshop which will form the basis of a short 5 to 10 minute film to be produced by the group and entered for film festivals. The final product will be shared with people in the local community through a public film screening; and throughout the wider community through a website of the learning process and through the regional and national film festivals.

Mixenden Crusaders Jazz Band

Mixenden Crusaders received a £795 Grassroots Grant to purchase several new instruments and assist with transport costs to competitions. The group is the only marching display jazz band in West Yorkshire and have a lot of travelling to do to take part in competitions up and down the country.

North Halifax Football Club

North Halifax Football Club was awarded a £5,000 Grassroots Calderdale Grant to fund the Annual Soccer Tournament; a family fun day which incorporates over 1000 children to play active grassroots football over the course of 2 days at Mason Green. The days will include numerous activities from inflatables, stalls and other fun activities for the family. The grant will fund advertisement of the event and activities such as equipment hire and running costs such as kitchen equipment hire and supplies, staffing costs (referee's) etc to enable us to hold this event

Relight-Ed

Relight-Ed were awarded £5,000 from Grassroots Grants this April plus a further £2,500 from other CFFC funds, Kathleen Mary Denham and Werner Townley Fund to support their project to turn the life story of a Holocaust survivor into a script that will then be filmed as a drama, working with a group of young people, who will direct, produce and create the film under the direction of the survivor herself.

The film will then be used as a tool to educate young people throughout Calderdale about the horrors of the war and the Holocaust. It is intended to use this film as a catalyst for an anti-bulling, anti-racial conference to be held in summer 2010, to be inclusive of all young people in Calderdale, promoting inter-generational cohesion and racial/cultural/religious integration.

Scissett Youth Band

The Youth band was awarded £1,600 from Grassroots Grants Kirklees this April. The grant will fund the 25 children/young people in the band to spend a weekend at an activity centre for concentrated band practice to set them up for the performance programme ahead. The weekend is timed when new members are joining and older members leaving so that the event provides much needed cohesion. This is a young peoples band run by dedicated parents and does not have the resources of larger bands.

Skelmanthorpe Band

The Skelmanthorpe Band was successfully awarded a £5,000 Grassroots Grant to support its project designed to encouraging more people to take part in the local community Brass Band. The project is to establish a training band, primarily for young people but also adults so that trainees can learn an instrument and subsequently join the 'A' or 'B' Bands for community concerts, competitions.
The training will be provided by qualified music teachers currently in the 'A' Band and training and use of instrument will be free to trainees unlike the costs of learning an instrument through school. It will therefore appeal to a wider group of students.
This is a clear and straightforward application for one-off assistance.

Warley Rangers Junior Football

This April Warley Rangers Junior Football club were awarded a Grassroots Calderdale Grant of £818. The grant will be used to facilitate an event to celebrate the World Cup year and promote awareness around disabilities. The event will include a screening of the 1966 original World Cup Final and promote Hearing Dogs and Arthritis Care. The event will be used to raise funds for the two organisations and the club itself, via a raffle and auction. Hearing Dogs will attend the event to give demonstrations of the dogs' work and to give a presentation around how their work improves the lives of those with hearing difficulties.