Release date: Tuesday 31st July 2007
Ten local community groups have benefited from Hillingdon Community Trust’s most recent funding round. The largest award goes to Hillingdon and Ealing Citizens’ Advice Bureau which received a grant of £58,793 to improve access to CAB services for vulnerable families, the elderly, disabled, housebound and carers in the southern six wards of the Borough. The Challenger Project with Hillingdon Education and Business Partnership receives £40,400 over two years to provide a challenging outdoor programme aimed at improving life skills, self confidence and employability to young people in the secondary schools in the Trust’s area, and Hillingdon Women’s Centre receives £15,725 towards a training programme for volunteers from south Hillingdon strengthening community support for women.
Smaller grants go to a wide range of local community groups, ranging from £7,500 to Crown Centre for the Deaf in Yiewsley which will now be able to buy a new carpet and other equipment to replace carpet destroyed when the Centre’s roof leaked. Hillingdon Table Tennis Club will be buying new table tennis equipment for its programme of activities to take table tennis to the community with its grant of £5,535. Bell Farm Christian Centre received two grants. One for £4,909 to enable it to buy new catering kitchen equipment to be used to cook lunches for its older persons’ lunch club and for other activities. The second grant of £7,500 enables the Centre to run a range of parenting courses. Hillingdon Association for Voluntary Services, Hillingdon Business Forum, Yiewsley Court Social Club and Yiewsley and West Drayton Arts Centre also successfully applied for funding for projects from the Trust.
Christine Little, Director of Hillingdon Community Trust, commented, ‘The Trust has distributed over £150,000 in this round of funding to groups that we believe can make a real difference to the lives of people in the Trust’s area of the southern six wards of the Borough. Our next closing date for applications for funding is 3rd September and groups that would like to apply can download application forms from our website www.hillingdoncommunitytrust.org.uk
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