Who and what we fund

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Grants are awarded to registered charities providing a wide range of activities and facilities. Essentially grants are awarded because the application meets with one of our charitable objectives and either contributes to the preservation of open space or contributes to the provision of facilities for recreation and amusement. Examples of the types of activities we have funded in the past are:

Arts
Arts activities, particularly those which are designed to encourage participation by all are frequently supported, including facilities music, drama, art, craft, dance, theatre among others.

Community Facilities & Activities
Grants have been awarded to fund improvements to community facilities enabling more people to participate in local activities and to support community projects providing opportunities to undertake recreational activities.

Activties for the Elderly
Many projects, including many operating within the Neighbourhood Network, providing services for older people are regularly supported. Activities have included the running of specific interest groups, provision of newsletters and support towards in-house entertainment or day trips out. Grants are sometimes made towards the costs of residential holidays for older people helping to subsidise trips, or to help towards volunteer costs.

Family Holidays
Grants have been made to enable families with young children in desperate need through social or economic deprivation or through poor health or mental health issues to take a holiday together.

Environment
In keeping with our objective to support the preservation of open space within the city, grants have been given towards landscaping and maintenance of open space within the city.

Youth Provision
Activities for young people are diverse and include many holiday and after school play-schemes, specialist activities for marginalized groups of young people, equipment and facilities for uniformed groups and support for talented young sportsmen and women. Residential trips for young people are also regularly supported, enabling young people to travel away from their own day to day environment and experience different cultures, different landscapes or to undertake activities not usually available to them.

Homelessness/Substance Abuse
Grants have been regularly made to provide continuation of services for homeless people and to provide recreational activities for those moving back into permanent accommodation and those seeking rehabilitation from substance abuse.

Mental Health
Grants have been made to support organisations working with people with mental health issues to improve their quality of life and help give them equality of access to recreational activities.