Details of our grants awarded in 2008 and 2009 to date can be found below.
Grassroots Grants- £330,000 awarded to date
Friends of Middleton park- community development worker; Gipton Together- sports sessions for young people; KICK- karate sessions; Leeds Tigers Basketball Club- 3 mini basketball link development centres; Muslim Sisters- running of weekly fitness sessions; Right Choices- community outreach service; Spider-Y- sports wheelchairs; The Hunslet Churches Together Initiative- part time youth worker; Afrolatino- digital music making workshops;
Daytones Barbershop Harmony Chorus-Risers; DiabetesUK- general contribution; Host Community Cultural Partnership- English courses; Leeds Branch of Arthritis Care- general contribution; Leeds Refugee Forum- running of Community Centre; Leeds Vietnamese Elderly Group- running costs of luncheon club; Phoenix St Marys Scouts- trailer and mess tent; Rooots- Hate Crime awareness sessions; Supporting the Local Community at St Aidan's- ESOL classes; Sydney Bridge Project- carpentry website; The Growing Zone- working and leisure garden; Farsley Youth Development Project- ongoing costs of a converted double decker bus; Horsforth Sports and Fun Day- 10th Horsforth Fun Day; Irish History Month- events; Justice for Travellers- group running costs; Kippax Brass Band- musical instruments; Leeds Asperger Adults- music workshops; Leeds Sikh Cricket Club- developing a local club; Leeds Tigers Basketball Club- transport costs. Also to develop 3 mini development centres; Lofthouse 2000 Brass Band- set up a free instrument loan scheme; North Leeds Bowling Club- disabled toilet facility and disabled access; Purobi Bengali Cultural Society- events and workshops; Somali Community Service and Development Centre- equipment; Spider-Y- outreach programmes; Yorkshire Rams American Football Club- equipment and coaching; Young At Heart Luncheon Club- training and room hire;
Theatre under Fire (TUF) Productions- arts workshops and performances; West Riding Woodcarvers' Association- military themed wood carved panel; Wortley Football Club- ‘Soccer Tots’ training sessions.
Sport Relief
BARCA Leeds –sporting activities; Burley Lodge Centre – golf for girls; Hunslet Churches Together – football coaching; Travellers Family Learning – sports activities; Yorkshire VIP’s – football coaching for visually impaired players.
Keepmoat Leeds
Future Arts –creative media project; Leeds Tigers – basketball club; North East Leeds Football Club – football coaching.
International Personal Finance Funds
Cardinal Youth Centre – equipment; Leedseleven FM Community Radio station – equipment; Credit Action – training courses; One Family – health awareness project; Russian Speakers Family – healthy eating project; Dance Action Zone Leeds (DAZL) –dance coaching;
Bartuf Fund
Armley Helping Hands – equipment and activities for older people; Armley Lodge Community Association – youth project; St Jude’s – furniture restoration project
Hesco Bastion Fund
Bridge Street Church – youth centre; Caring for Life – education block; FDM – community transport; Friends of Middleton Park – community activities; Leeds Mencap – activities for young children; People in Action – general activities; Sheffield Children’s Hospital – general activities; Sick Children’s Trust – home from home centre; Soccerworks – football coaching; St Cyprians – holiday scheme; St Philip’s Osmondthorpe – roof appeal; Sue Ryder Care Wheatfields – general contribution; Unicef – general contribution; Martin House Children’s Hospice – general contribution; St Gemma’s hospice – general contribution
Funding Network
Homeworkers Worldwide – campaigning issues; No to Knives – peer-led scheme in schools; Simon Community – soup kitchen for homeless people; STOP – Start Treating Others Positively, training scheme for perpetrators of domestic violence
Henry Smith Charity
Bangladeshi Community Association – advice worker; Belle Isle Family Centre – cook and youth trainer; Burley Lodge Centre – advice service; Christians Against Poverty – debt advice workers; Christ Church Armley – youth project; Campaign for the Removal of Pimping; DVS Keighley – domestic violence support; Emerge – youth project; Getaway Girls – youth project for young girls; Hamara Healthy Living Centre – health workers; Holbeck Elderly Aid – Neighbourhood Worker; Homestart Kirklees – family support project; Hyde Park Source – environment and training scheme; Jigsaw Visitors Centre – based at HM Armley Prison; LASSN – Leeds Asylum Seekers Network; Leeds Housing Concern – youth worker in women’s refuge; Huddersfield Mencap – Oddjob project; Mirfield Community Trust – sports workers; PAFRAS – support project for refugees and asylum seekers; QED – employment support scheme; Sangat Centre – community services; Thornbury Centre – community centre; Wesley Housing – refuge for women and children.
