Nine local community projects have
been given almost £50,000 cash boost.
It comes from a funding pot established by
North Yorkshire County Council to help Local Strategic Partnerships
– including Richmondshire’s - deliver their community strategies by
supporting community groups, especially those in the voluntary and
community sectors.
Each of the projects awarded grants feed into
the Richmondshire Partnership’s priorities –
- Making Richmondshire a Healthy and Safe Place
- Developing Richmondshire as an e-District
- Highlighting Richmondshire as a Place to do Business
- Enhancing Richmondshire through accessible and sustainable
communities
Three local schools were awarded over £13,000
- Brompton on Swale CE Primary School (£9,900) to turn a disused
barn into sports changing rooms and an ICT suite; Bainbridge CE
Primary School (£2,250) to run an after-school mountain biking club
and Barton Primary School (£963) to see if fruit and vegetables can
be grown on site to provide kitchen staff with enough fresh produce
for daily lunches.
The Hambleton and Richmondshire Community
Addiction Service receives £8,840 to provide designated alcohol
treatment and counselling support for one day a week in
Richmondshire. Richmondshire Council for Voluntary Services
gets £3,000 to help increase the number of volunteer drivers and
the Prosperous Communities Task Group was given £3,900 to help
promote Richmondshire as a place to do business.
North Yorkshire Credit Union was awarded
£8,814; £10,000 goes to the Richmondshire Walking for Health
Initiative to extend the scheme into the Dales; and BlueBoxt
Productions Young People’s Live Performance Group gets £1,000.
“It’s fantastic to see money being awarded
which will directly benefit our residents and communities,” said
Councillor Melva Steckles, Chair of the Richmondshire Local
Strategic Partnership and Area Committee member.
“It also guarantees the hard work and
dedication of the community and voluntary groups to carry on. We
had a vast range of projects applying for funding and we wanted to
ensure that we supported as many of them as we could.”
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