A playgroup, a dance charity and friends of a nature reserve are among worthwhile Teesside causes celebrating a share of nearly half-a-million-pound lottery cash today.
The money comes from the Big Lottery Fund’s Awards for All small grants programme which is making 53 awards across the north-east totalling £469,415.
Playgroup Network North East in Middlesbrough receives £9,900 to improve their outdoor play and learning facilities.
Improvements will include a timber log den and water cascade, mini beast habitat, shade sail, story chair, mushroom seating and willow wigwams.
Friends of Stainton and Thornton Green Spaces Middlesbrough get £9,994 to resurface the lower footpaths of the old Whinstone Quarry/nature reserve that they manage with an all weather surface.
In Stockton, Tomorrow’s Leaders (North East) CIC, a project by a community interest company organisation, will use £9,965 funding to deliver song writing and music production workshops for disadvantaged young people.
Yarm Fellowship Committee, a registered charity, gets £10,000 to renovate the toilet facilities at Yarm Fellowship Hall and reinstate the facilities for disabled people.
Guru Nanak Gurdwara and Sikh Community Centre, Stockton, wins £9,946 to replace their dining room furniture which is old and in a state of disrepair.
The Dance Art Foundation, with beneficiaries in Stockton and Middlesbrough, will use its grant of £9,987 to run a series of dance and creative movement sessions. This will enable the organisation to improve the physical, psychological and mental well-being of children with life limiting illnesses and that of their families.
Church Action on Poverty in Stockton gets £9,000 funding to train volunteers marginalised by poverty to use video and photography equipment to tell their story, engage with media and contribute to public debate.
This will also provide peer learning events and public exhibitions of the work produced, and help dispel negative stereotyping of those on low incomes or suffering poverty.
And Free Your Voice in Redcar and Saltburn gets £10,000 to build upon an earlier pilot and provide singing workshops, culminating in a community performance, for children with learning difficulties.
Tim Davies Pugh, Big Lottery Fund Deputy Director, England, said: “It’s great to be able to fund so many small projects that will make a big difference to people’s lives.
“We are currently hosting regular webinars to advise applicants on how to submit good quality applications and look forward to hearing from groups across the North East.”
• To join an Awards for All webinar visit: http://bit.ly/1EMHC0s
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