Wednesday 17 July 2013

OSCOTT WARD COMMITTEE APPROVES REDUCED COMMUNITY CHEST FUNDING APPLICATIONS

At today's Oscott Ward Committee the Oscott Ward Councillor Barbara Dring, Tristan Chatfield and myself agreed to grant Age UK £5.000 out of the much reduced £50.000 Community Chest Fund to help pay for their gardening and Handy Man schemes which will help a number of Oscotts elderly residents.
Other high lights were
CSPAN will receive £10.000 to fund various local youth activities.
The Mary Vale Youth Group will receive £2.000
The Tree Hurst youth Centre will receive £2.400
BASE KS who look after young peoples interests will receive £1.000
The Allstars Play group will receive £700
The Elim Church received £3.000 to help keep their urgently needed food bank stocked.
Hawthorn Traders Association £1.200  to help organise a Christmas event for the community.

The Jehicho Environmental group who do local clean up projects will receive £18.000
There are a number of other small Oscott Community organisations who will also receive a small grant from the Oscott Community Chest.
 Some of the funding we received last year has been by agreement been rolled over to be spent as part of this years budget to help some projects continue to operate without a break.
It is a great shame there has had to be reductions of this nature as for the Oscott Ward we know the funds will be spent wisely and we hope this will be the case in other area's.

See also post 24th July



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