Projects Archive
Friends of Thornhill Lees Community Centre
Friends of Thornhill Lees Community Centre were given £2100 from Kirklees Grassroots Grants Programme in July to provide enhanced activity and cover costs for health and safety at the annual free gala they organise.
The Centre will also organise monthly evening/weekend concerts or activities in the Community Centre and the funding will cover the use of the building.
Batley Cricket Club
Batley Cricket Club received £1,000 in July from the Kirklees Grassroots Grants programme. The award will support forming a new Junior Team, which will mean young people up to 13 years of age will be able to join a team in the area for the first time. Approximately 30 young people will be coached in cricket skills that will enable them to join the team and play together in the Heavy Woollen League.
Beechwood Avenue Tenants and Residents
Beechwood Avenue Tenants and Residents received £600 in July from the Calderdale Grassroots Grants programme. The award will support the successful tool library, which has run for many years. Items now need replacing, as many items are worn through long usage, and 'greener' tools will be sought.
Forward Thinking
Forward Thinking received £2,462 in July, from the Kirklees Grassroots Grants programme. The activity the grant was required for, is to deliver workshop sessions in basketball,Cricket, football activity and multi-sports as well as deliver a programme of arts and cultural activity such as carnival costume making. Over 30 children and young people will benefit, and gain confidence and new skills.
Hebden Bridge Community Association
Hebden Bridge Community Association received £5,000 from the Calderdale Grassroots Grants programme. The grant is part of a fundraising campaign to see the neglected Hebden Bridge Town Hall building brought back to the centre of community life. The group will develop a long-term strategy to maximise the opportunities for community use of the building. The first part of this plan will see the reopening of the rear hall, to provide Hebden Bridge with the Waterfront Hall, a public hall/function room and meeting space. This will be the town's first public hall since the closure of the Civic about fifteen years ago.
Ravensthorpe Residents Action Group
Ravensthorpe Residents Action Group received £1,470 in July from the Kirklees Grassroots Grants programme. The grant will be used for support with audited accounts, for Committee Members to go on training courses, to organise a 'Yorkshire Day' event to bring together all sections of the Community, family activities, children's activities and give opportunities for people to voice their concerns about community issues.
Soothill Football Club
Soothill Football Club received £1,000 in July from the Kirklees Grassroots Grants programme to help safeguard the club's immediate future. The grant will support pitch fees, referee costs, laundry costs and a new kit.
Warley Cricket Club
Warley Cricket Club received £5,000 in July from the Calderdale Grassroots Grants programme. Due to the increase of junior members to the club and a planned comprehensive schools coaching programme, the grant will allow the group to develop an area of spare land into a two lane non-turf training facility.
The facility will be the focal point, for not only the club, but the whole community.
It will mean that the club are able to cope with both the current large numbers of boys and girls who regularly attend training nights, and also the increased numbers due to the club's new community activity.
June
Newsome Ward Community Forum
Newsome Ward Community Forum were awarded £1874 in June by the Grassroots Grants Programme to put on a community event at Stile Common Infants School in support of a celebration of the history of Stile Common Schools.
The school opened in 1876, and is due to close this year. Children will move to a purpose built new primary school, and the old school building will be put in the land bank.
