October 2007
Local groups and charities will receive almost £1/4m. in funding from Hillingdon Community Trust as a result of the most recent round of grant awards. Hayes Cricket Club is to receive £25,000 for an extension of its club building and to refurbish its changing rooms, Hayes FM £17,500 to support a new project manager’s post and Cornerstone Centre in Yiewsley £36,900 over 2 years to enable it to employ a development worker to help advance the Centre’s work in the local community.
The Trust also announced that it was providing £127,500 over 2 years to Groundwork Thames Valley to continue a capacity building programme started by the Trust to provide business development support to voluntary and community groups in the Hillingdon Community Trust area in Hayes, West Drayton, Yiewsley and the Heathrow villages. The renewed funding was welcomed by Groundwork Thames Valley’s Executive Director Mick May. He commented, ‘The first two years of the project have made a big impact on voluntary and community groups in the southern wards of Hillingdon, bringing in increased funding and enabling those groups to benefit from training and improved governance and to create a vision for themselves. Funding from the Trust for the next two years will enable Groundwork to continue its work with those groups and to start working with new ones that are committed to developing and becoming a real force to improve the lives of the local community and we are very grateful to the Trust for funding this vital work.’
Hayes and Harlington Old People’s Welfare Committee received £3,000 for new tables and chairs for their dining centre which has recently moved to Harlington Baptist Church, and the Metropolitan Police will also benefit from a grant of £6,340 from the Trust for new police bikes to enable officers to effectively patrol the wards in the south of the Borough. Christine Little, the Trust’s Director, said, ‘The grants approved in this round of funding will benefit a wide range of people in the local community, from school children who will benefit from the grant of £2,400 to the Arts Centre at Brunel University to run a series of concerts and from a grant to Green Corridor of £4,500 to run an environmental education programme through to older people.
The Trust’s board also approved grants to Hayes End Methodist Church to enable it to improve facilities for people with disabilities in its church hall, and William Byrd Pool Trust for professional fees to enable it to gain planning permission to improve the pool’s facilities. So far this financial year the Trust has agreed funding of around £480,000. |
