Hillingdon Community Trust Summer Residents' Questionnaire
Hillingdon Community Trust
 

our funding programme

Grants Awarded 2007/8

Grant awards March 2008

Organisation and project

Amount awarded

London Borough of Hillingdon
3 sports wall panels with touch sensitive lights and electronic score board at Hayes Stadium Sports Centre

£5,995

Hillingdon & Ealing Citizens Advice Bureau 
To improve the public's access to reliable information and advice on all CAB enquiry areas

£6,180

Rosedale Park Bowls Club
To purchase a buggy to enable disabled people to take part in the sport of bowls.

£2,650

Hayes Bowls Club
To build a site safe chalet to provide changing facilities for lady members.

£5,050

Sahan Society Centre
Provide essential skills for Somali and Afghan women to enable them to acquire employment and further training and empower them and improve their standard of living

£16,398

Age Concern & Townfield Community Centre Steering Group
Capital contribution towards refurbishment and 2 storey extension at Townfield Community Centre to create a multi-purpose community building.

£100,000 subject to match funding

Life Education Centre
Subsidise visits to all primary schools in the Trust area and to subsidise workbooks for parent and child participation

 

£75,990 over 3 years

Homestart Hillingdon
To train community volunteers to support local families thereby increasing both volunteers' and parents' confidence and potential for education/training

 

£72,625 over 3 years

Grant awards January 2008

Organisation and project

Amount awarded

Harlington Locomotive Society
To enable the society’s own volunteer workforce to construct a public safety fence and a station platform extension incorporating  wheelchair access ramp

£2,197

Age Concern Hillingdon
To link groups of old and young together in a mutually beneficial and enjoyable way.

£7,466

DASH
To set up an independent living group for the disabled, providing assistance with social networking and leisure activities

£46,300 over 3 years

Hillingdon Law Centre
To provide free legal help to clients from Hayes with housing, welfare benefits, employment and immigration and assist level one providers

£45,000 over 3 years

St Mary the Virgin Church
Lighting of driveway leading to church hall.

£6,000

Hayes and Harlington District Scouts
To offer kayaking and canoeing sessions to young people.

£16,020

Hillingdon Training Ltd
To establish a motor education project at West Drayton Youth Centre to provide vocational training opportunities for young people and those at risk of exclusion.

£110,000 over 3 years

Grant awards November 2007

Organisation and project

Amount awarded

Moorcroft School
Provision of a new minibus for pupils with severe special needs to access the community programme.

£38,000

Harlington Hospice
To expand recreation facilities for people with life-limiting illnesses

£38,900 over 2 years

I Serv
To provide advice, sign-posting and support for refugee individuals to access employment.

£15,950

St Martin's Parochial Church Council
Update and improve amenities in the hall and kitchen for community user groups

£1,000

Sipson Community Association
Refurbishment of hall floor to allow and improve use by pre-school groups and others

£1,535

Middlesex Young People’s Clubs Swimming Section
To pay for young people to become qualified swimming teachers and life saving

£3,000

Sustrans
To complete a feasibility study of a network of traffic-free walking and cycling routes within the southern six wards of Hillingdon

£5,325

Sandgate Boys’ and Girls’ Football Club 
To provide tables and chairs for lounge area of club house

£3,000

West Drayton Boys’ Club
To erect a ball catcher for the front fence of the club's ground.

£5,685

Grant awards October 2007

Organisation and project

Amount awarded

Groundwork Thames Valley
To provide business development support to voluntary and community organisations in HCT area

£127,500 over 2 years

Cornerstone Centre                     
Employment of development worker to liaise over 2 years between Community and authorities to enhance and enrich lifestyles

£36,900 over 2 years

Hayes Cricket Club
Extension of club building and refurbishment of changing rooms

£25,000

Hayes FM    
To support new project manager’s post

£17,500

William Byrd Pool Trust Ltd
Professional fees linked to planning permission

£7,000

Metropolitan Police Hillingdon
Police bikes to enable officers to effectively patrol their wards

£6,340

Green Corridor
Environmental education programme to engage  young people with the environment and their community

£4,500

Hayes End Methodist Church
Development of facilities at premises

£3,020

Hayes and Harlington Old People’s Welfare Committee
Tables and chairs for dining centre

£3,000

The Arts Centre, Brunel University
Professional concerts for years 5/6

£2,400

Grant awards July 2007

Organisation and project

Amount awarded

Hillingdon and Ealing Citizens’ Advice Bureau Grant To improve access to CAB services for vulnerable families, the elderly, disabled, housebound and carers

£58,793

Hillingdon Women’s Centre
Sustainable training programme for volunteers from south Hillingdon strengthening community support for women

£15,725

Challenger Trust and Hillingdon Employment and Business Partnership
To provide a challenging outdoor programme aimed at improving life skills, self confidence and employability

£40,400 over 2 years

Crown Centre for the Deaf
New carpets, chairs and dishwasher

£7,500

HAVS
To enable conference/training on new funding opportunities for the voluntary/charity sector

£5,000

Hillingdon Table Tennis Club
To purchase table tennis equipment for programme of activities to take table tennis to the community

£5,535

Yiewsley Court Social Club
To continue keep fit classes essential for the well-being of elderly and disabled

£2,880

Bell Farm Christian Centre
To replace dilapidated industrial kitchen/catering equipment

£4,909

Bell Farm Christian Centre
To run courses to support parents

£7,500

Hillingdon Business Forum
To support the Business Forum Manager to deliver corporate social responsibility objectives throughout Hillingdon.

£3,000

Yiewsley and West Drayton Arts Council
To renovate ladies/disabled toilets, provide non-slip flooring, new worktops and refrigerator for kitchen.

£3.500

Grant awards May 2007

Organisation and project

Amount awarded

Harlington Football Club - feasibility exercise into establishing pitches and changing rooms at the former Harlington School playing fields in Harlington village.

£3,500

Horn of Africa Youth Association – to provide weekend activities led by youth mentors for young people of minority origin.

£7,360

Hillingdon Community Mediation - to deliver 2 x 6 day volunteer mediator training courses.

£2,784

Hillingdon Cycle Circuit Users Group -
Completion of fence to ground, replace existing fence, removal of old fence and posts.

£4,295

Hillingdon Asian Women’s Group - to provide basic communication skills (IT and English) for ethnic minority women in order for them to access higher education.

£4,400

Community Cancer Care - to deliver and develop facilities and workshops for cancer patients to improve their ability to cope.

£7,200

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