Successful Grants
Trust Thamesmead's Community Development Team continually helps community groups apply for funding to help their projects.
Here is a list of just some of the Community Development's successful funding applications made in the 2007/08 financial year.
| Abbey Wood & Thamesmead U3A |
For the second year running, Trust Thamesmead helped Abbey Wood & Thamesmead U3A secure £5,000 from Awards for All, which they have spent on outings and some new office equipment including a laminator and an overhead projector.
U3A is a ‘university’ in the sense it provides opportunities for people to learn together in a self-help education co-operative.
There are more than 30 local U3As in Greater London alone, including the Abbey Wood & Thamesmead branch, with a membership which exceeds 11,000 people. All local U3As draw upon the knowledge, experience and skills of their members to organise interest groups in accordance with the wishes of the membership.
Between them, the U3As offer over 300 subjects in fields such as art, foreign languages, music, history, genealogy, life sciences, literature, poetry, gardening, philosophy, crafts, archaeology, astronomy and computing. Many U3As also organise their own programmes of social activities such as visits to theatres, concerts and exhibitions and holidays at home and abroad.
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| Fathers Arms |
Trust Thamesmead's Community Development team helped Fathers Arms gain a £10,000 grant from Awards for All in 2007/08, which they have spent on new furniture and outings for the users and their families.
In the 2006/07 financial year, we helped them gain £3,500.
Fathers Arms supports ex-offenders to gain training, employment and to overcome issues with drink and drugs and offer help so they are able to settle back into the community and are less likely to re-offend.
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| Arthritis Care |
With help from Trust Thamesmead, Arthritis Care gained £3,000 from Awards for All, which they put towards outings and publicity for themselves.
Arthritis Care meet at The Atrium every fortnight Tuesday. Click on the link above.
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| Chinese Dance Group |
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Trust Thamesmead helped Thamesmead's Chinese Dance Group apply for an Awards for All grant. They succesfully received £7,000, which they put towards outings, ballroom dancing classes and a Chinese New Year event.
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| Pop in Parlour |
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Trust Thamesmead continuously supports Age Concern's Pop in Parlour, in more ways than one, including applying for an Awards for All grant, in which they were successful in receiving £5,000 for outings, publicity and an open day to provide information to older people.
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| Business Academy Bexley |
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Trust Thamesmead helped the Business Academy Bexley (BAB) apply for a grant from Bexley Council, in which they received £2,000 for an even to celebrate International Women's Day.
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| Business Academy Bexley Holiday Club |
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With help from Trust Thamesmead, the Business Academy Bexley (BAB) applied for a grant to hold a holiday club throughout August 2007. The application was successful and Bexley Council gave £10,000 for the project to go ahead.
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| Silver Surfers |
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Thamesmead's Silver Surfers received a grant for £5,000 from Awards for All, with the help of the Trust. The money helped them to pay for venue hire for their weekly I.T. classes, tutor costs, social outings and guest speakers.
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| Team Steps |
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Trust Thamesmead helped Team Steps, which helps young people, successfully gain two grants in the 2007/08 financial year.
The first was from the Local Area Network, which granted £6,900 for young people to work on a film project who access the Choice to Change project.
The second was a grant from Y.O.F., who granted £4,500 to continue the Canim project working with young Cypriot/Greek women.
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