North Devon Grants

Lynton Tennis Club

Amount: £560

Barnstaple Disabled Fellowship Club

to provide transport for all our members to continue to attend the club

Amount: £250

Kings Nympton & District Pre-school

to purchase new play equipment and for ongoing running costs

Amount: £904

Barnstaple Sea Cadets

help towards ongoing costs of the project

Amount: £400

Swimbridge Jubilee Hall

To purchase fire proof stage curtains.

Amount: £376

Lynton and Lynmouth Arts and Music Association (LLAMA)

To help fund music festival in Lynton and Lynmouth, particularly the security and safety costs.

Amount: £3,000

Madge Tuplin

to ellivate winter related hardship

Amount: £125

Appledore Maritime Players

to purchase new sound equipment which would include an amplifier, speakers, clip on microphones and a wireless instrument system.

Amount: £374

Childrens Summer Club

Amount: £250

Scribes

to purchase two new laptops for the group

Amount: £500

Bratton Fleming Parent Teacher Association

to start a programme addressing what has been labelled 'rural racism' within local schools and the wider community

Amount: £500

Freedom Social Projects

Amount: £5,480

Chulmleigh Recreational Association

To run a series of Saturday activity sessions for the young people of the area

Amount: £756

Freedom Social Projects

to purchase a Wii console, accessories and games and monitor for the group

Amount: £200

Barnstaple Disabled Fellowship Club

to contribute towards the costs of transport for the members of the club

Amount: £500

Ilfracombe Pilot Gig Club

to outfit a new pilot gig with the relevant safety equipment

Amount: £458

Little Angels Parent & Toddler Group

A group where parents can bring their children to play in a safe environment and meet other parents and hopefully form friendships for life for the parents and children

Amount: £500

Hikmat BME Footcare Project

Hikmat BME Centre provides a social contact facility for BME older people

Amount: £3,000

Share Music South West

a two day workshop for adults with various disabilities to create and perform original music and music theatre

Amount: £1,035

Knowstone Village Hall

to replace worn out seating in main hall with new seating making it more comfortable, especially the elderly who are the majority of the users.

Amount: £1,667

Bratton Fleming Playgroup

to equip new pre-school building with furniture, offering improved facilities, a secure and safe environment, full day care, breakfast clubs, lunch clubs and after school clubs

Amount: £2,500

Kings Nympton & District Pre-school

to help with staff costs, our biggest expenditure, to purchase educational toys & equipment in line with OFSTED recommendations and for printing/advertising to raise the profile of our Pre-School to facilitate its continuation

Amount: £4,000

Frankmarsh & Gorwell Community Office Management Team

to help set up and run a community office

Amount: £1,000

1st Fremington Air Scout Troop

Air Scout group (6 to 15 years) in desperate need of updating camping equipment and help towards running camps and scouting activities

Amount: £2,000

Goodleigh Village Hall Committee

the improvement of kitchen facilities at Goodleigh village hall to secure the survival, development and growth of the hall and its user groups

Amount: £5,000

East Anstey Pre-School

to develop the outdoor learning environment of the pre-school

Amount: £2,750

Bowering Court Residents Association

team building exercise

Amount: £500

Sea Ilfracombe

to host a sustainable maritime festival

Amount: £460

Witheridge St John's Fair

Annual village fair

Amount: £430

Croyde Surf Club

surfing Youth Development Project aiming to increase participation and engaging the wider community

Amount: £1,250

Tawstock Pre-School

improving facilities/equipment for the children's learning environment

Amount: £1,666

Childrens Summer Club

Social and educational activities during all school holidays and special events through the year for young people aged 8 to 16

Amount: £2,000

Bishops Nympton Preschool

help towards running costs

Amount: £2,000

Flying Fish Artists

the creation of artwork for an acute psychiatric unit to enhance the environment and impact positively on the health and wellbeing of those using the service

Amount: £4,887

Chulmleigh Badminton Club

to offer an opportunity for young people in rural areas to play badminton

Amount: £840

South Molton Football Club

to start phase 2 of our toilet block/changing room project - this will provide disabled access and provide a safe changing facility

Amount: £5,000

Swimbridge Jubilee Hall

to purchase a condensed energy efficient gas boiler

Amount: £2,770

North Devon Footcare Project

offering a much needed service for good quality basic foot care and advice to elderly and disabled people, at a reasonable cost

Amount: £3,000

Bratton Fleming Parent Teacher Association

purchase of safety lawn matting to go beneath donated outdoor play equipment to enable its use by school children and other young people in the village

Amount: £5,000

Barn-a-b's Pre School

pre-school moving and enhancing their building

Amount: £900

Freedom Social Projects

to provide supervision to offenders undertaking a work placement at the Freedom Centre

Amount: £5,000

Chulmleigh Cricket Club

installation of an artificial strip and cricket nets

Amount: £2,000

Share Music South West

a two-day workshop for people with various disabilities to create and perform original music and music theatre

Amount: £1,500

Lee Memorial Hall

the Grassroots Grant will provide essential kitchen equipment and a folding partition for the stage as crucial aspects of a major rebuilding and refurbishment of the Hall

Amount: £2,500

Bishops Nympton Preschool

help towards running costs

Amount: £1,500

North Molton Youth Club

ongoing running of vital village youth club

Amount: £500

Barnstaple Disabled Fellowship Club

to continue transporting our members from their homes and back

Amount: £750

Brayford Boomerangs Pre-School

partial staffing salaries for two members of staff for the pre-school

Amount: £500

Swimbridge Jubilee Hall

purchase of 12 folding tables and 2 trolleys to stack and manoeuvre them

Amount: £300

Scallywags Pre School

extend opening hours to offer a fifth session on a Thursday morning

Amount: £633

Devon Surf Life Saving

to improve on Stillwater training and to organised club activities

Amount: £3,680

Devon Disabled Holidays

provision of a week's full board holiday for adults with physical limitations

Amount: £500

Woolacombe Surf Life Saving Club

Surf Ski training day at Cardiff Bay and Ski Paddling equipment

Amount: £4,000

Bishop Tawton Pre-school

existing project with extension of hours/new equipment

Amount: £2,500

Gateways Group CIC

to fund a project supporting and engaging young people in South Molton

Amount: £3,000

Gateways Group CIC

“Historiographie” web-based and live installation arts project with a creative training agenda delivered in partnership with South West youth and creative services providers

Amount: £1,000

Channel Arts Association

an Oral History Project recording the working lives of staff at the Ilfracombe Ship to Shore Radio Station

Amount: £474

Combe Martin Bowling Club

to contribute towards the cost of replacing the club house roof

Amount: £1,000

North Devon Footcare Project

to provide a nail cutting service to those who are unable to manage their own foot care

Amount: £500

1st Chivenor Scouts

to purchase camping equipment for the Scout group

Amount: £1,000

Chulmleigh Recreational Association

a summer holiday activity programme for August 2009 and 2010

Amount: £3,000

Gateways Group CIC

to contribute towards the costs of holding two drama projects in May/June and October

Amount: £1,000

Witheridge Parish Hall

to purchase a new range cooker, hot cupboard and prep table for the hall kitchen

Amount: £600

Christchurch Barnstaple Short Mat Bowling Club

to raise funds in order to purchase Electrowind electric short mat/carpet handling machine

Amount: £1,500

South Molton Circuit Choir

to purchase new sheet music for the choir

Amount: £500

Croyde Surf Club

to purchase new equipment for the club, and contribute to the costs of running new contests and training sessions

Amount: £200

Kings Nympton & District Pre-school

to contribute towards the cost of holding 6 Forest School sessions

Amount: £500

West Buckland Festival

to contribute towards the costs of the artists and leaders expenses

Amount: £300

Lyn Community Development Trust

to cover the cost of excavating and relaying the footpaths in the Middleham Gardens in Lynton

Amount: £500

Childrens Summer Club

to contribute towards the running costs of the over the coming year

Amount: £3,000

Step by Step Community Group

to cover the costs of room rental for the group over the next 2 years

Amount: £5,000

Chittlehamholt Village Hall

to re-furbish the village hall kitchen

Amount: £2,000

Ilfracombe in Bloom

to contribute towards the running costs of the group

Amount: £500

Swimbridge Jubilee Hall

for external redecorating and making good programme

Amount: £1,000

RSVP Devon

recruiting volunteer organisers, promoting RSVP Devon's work and setting up volunteer delivered community based projects in Devon

Amount: £500

Brayford Boomerangs Pre-School

for partial staffing salaries for two members of staff for the pre-school

Amount: £1,000

Lyn Community Development Trust

to cover the cost of excavating and relaying the footpaths in the Middleham Gardens in Lynton

Amount: £500

Bratton Fleming Playgroup

to purchase a new laptop, digital camera and docking station for the group

Amount: £500

Cycle Coaching South West

to fund the activities of the group in North Devon

Amount: £4,575

North Devon Water Mobility Association

to provide a professional instructor for the weekly exercise sessions

Amount: £2,250

Green Force (SW) CIC

to contribute towards the running costs of the group over 3 years

Amount: £4,500

Bishop's Nympton Parish Hall

to cover the legal costs of setting up a Trading Subsidiary

Amount: £2,500

Devon Hockey Umpiring Association (Youth)

to contribute towards the funding of training courses

Amount: £500

Bishop's Nympton Parish Hall

to contribute towards the cost of a new condensing boiler for the parish hall

Amount: £800

Kings Nympton Parish Hall Committee

to refurbish the Parish Hall kitchen

Amount: £2,500

West Buckland Women's Group

to contribute to the rental of the village hall and the hiring of tutors

Amount: £1,500

Chulmleigh Cricket Club

to weatherproof and repair the exterior of the new pavilion

Amount: £500

Samaritans (North Devon & North Cornwall)

to fund the refurbishment and redecorating of the centre's reception, interview room, kitchen; to install CCTV in the entrance hall and to kit out a caravan for outreach work

Amount: £5,000

Trans-Send Limited

provision of free advice and information service to local residents in an area of deprivation to reduce their energy costs and carbon emissions

Amount: £5,000

Age Concern Ilfracombe & District

to provide a helping hand service for all elderly people in North Devon

Amount: £5,000

Combe Martin Senior Citizens

to provide a service to the residents of Combe Martin and the surrounding areas by offering a programme that meets their needs, this includes a range of activities and befriending service which is inclusive to all

Amount: £4,965

Witheridge Parish Hall

to purchase 28 new tables and 2 large wheeled storage trolleys for use by persons or groups using the Parish Hall

Amount: £3,320

St. John Ambulance Ilfracombe

to repair a problem with our roof at the St. John Ambulance Headquarters in Ilfracombe

Amount: £900

1st Ilfracombe Scout Group

for bringing our very old hall up to health and safety standards and fire regs

Amount: £5,000

Chittle Cherubs Pre-School

offering a lunch club

Amount: £1,976

Taw Explorer Scouts

a recruitment project, to develop publicity materials and hold events to attract adult volunteers into scouting

Amount: £5,000

Ilfracombe Youth Canoe Club

for winter pool sessions for members

Amount: £3,000

North Devon Mental Health Users Forum

to support a programme of physical activities for people with mental health problems

Amount: £3,500

North Devon Child Contact Centre

to pay volunteers expenses to support a project for children from broken families to meet their estranged parents

Amount: £500

Freedom Social Projects

for commercial grade gym equipment for centre exercise room in community centre for socially excluded individuals

Amount: £4,500

Goodleigh Grasshoppers Pre-school

to help to fund the promotion of the group in order to attract more children to the preschool

Amount: £200

Community Action (Barnstaple)

to support staff salaries for youth inclusion work in North Devon

Amount: £5,000

Community Action (Barnstaple)

to run outdoor pursuits, sports, and arts development courses for young people aged 10-16

Amount: £7,000

Community Action (Barnstaple)

to run outdoor pursuits, sports, and arts development courses for young people aged 10-16

Amount: £2,433

3rd Ilfracombe Brownies

to purchase camping equipment for the Brownie group to go on short camping holidays

Amount: £1,620

Town Centre Ministries

to take on a worker to oversee teaching new skills to homeless, long term unemployed, and vulnerable people

Amount: £5,000

Launds Playingfield Committee

to establish a second access point for the playing field to meet with Health & Safety requirements

Amount: £3,169

North Devon Mental Health Users Forum

for an Art and Craft Therapy Group for people who are suffering from mental ill health as a means to help people to develop new skills and increase their confidence and self-esteem

Amount: £6,886

North Devon Voluntary Services

for a project intended to develop personal skills by providing supported volunteering/training opportunities based around the 'Cow Green' community eco-garden

Amount: £5,335

Croyde Youth Club

to improve the youth club by finishing the skate park and adding a new ramp

Amount: £6,619

2nd Bideford Scout Group

to purchase furniture for the Scout Hut to enable the group to provide a range of activities for scouts

Amount: £2,670

Sib-Link

to re-invigorate a club providing support to the siblings of young people with special needs

Amount: £1,921

North Devon Special Needs Club

to provide an additional weekly session for a club offering social/ leisure activities for children with special needs and their friends and families

Amount: £2,830

Tenchi Ryu Aikido

to run activities for children and young people which would build self esteem and confidence and teach some basic self defence strategies in a team building environment

Amount: £5,628

Chittle Cherubs Pre-School

to purchase educational materials and equipment for the group's transition from playgroup to pre-school

Amount: £844

Freedom Social Projects

to train homeless/vulnerable and disadvantaged people to become volunteers in the Freedom Trusts drop in centre café

Amount: £9,250

Freedom Social Projects

to purchase 2 pool tables and gym equipment for the use of vulnerable and disadvantaged people with problems in their life due to homelessness, substance misuse etc

Amount: £1,267

Wren

for a musical activity group at the Forches Estate in North Devon for unemployed lone parents, people living in deprivation, carers, people with mental health needs and vulnerable/homeless people

Amount: £7,553

North Devon Child Contact Centre

to fund the provision of a venue for a child contact centre for children of divorced/estranged parents

Amount: £763

Lee Memorial Hall

to establish a children’s play park in the village meadow

Amount: £6,921

North Devon Pathfinder Trust

for a Pathfinder "One Stop Shop" for support, face to face help, advice and training in Ilfracombe

Amount: £9,844

Pathfield Activity Club

for an after school club for children and young people with special needs

Amount: £6,900

Forches Community Association

to provide a summer programme of sports activities and a Saturday Sports Club for children and young people

Amount: £6,996

The Workshop

to run two workshops a month for young children and their carers from a Ilfracombe

Amount: £2,549

North Devon Pathfinder Trust

for a weekly Pathfinder "One Stop Shop" for support, face to face help, advice and training based at the Forches estate in Barnstaple

Amount: £9,864

Chittlehamholt Youth Club

for the purchase of a range of new equipment for a youth club offering activities to rurally isolated children and young people

Amount: £1,995

Noah's Ark Community Workshop

to run and purchase equipment for weekly family workshops

Amount: £3,400

Saunton Sands Surf Life Saving Club

to purchase equipment,run a programme of weekend/summer tasters and to train some of the young members as coaches

Amount: £7,000

Headway Devon

to provide a dedicated Employment Service for adults who live in North Devon (Ilfracombe, Barnstaple, Bideford, and Rural Torridge) and have acquired brain injuries

Amount: £8,812

Kings Nympton & District Pre-school

to run a 6 week forest school for preschool children

Amount: £714

Scribes

for a training and support programme for people with mental health issues

Amount: £8,064

Mini Monsters

to establish a parent and toddler group following a successful pilot project.

Amount: £4,090

Home Grown Kids

to run a series of workshops and educations trips for home educated children and young people

Amount: £3,629

Stacked Wonky Dance Company

to run an alternative dance programme for boys and young men

Amount: £4,350

Taw Explorer Scouts

to train, support and purchase equipment to enable Explorer Scouts to deliver workshops to younger Scouts, Beavers and Cubs

Amount: £6,540

Age Concern Ilfracombe & District

towards the costs of an advice, information and advocacy service

Amount: £200

Childrens Summer Club

to run workshops leading up to the groups entry in the Barnstaple Carnival

Amount: £556

Taw Valley Ventures

to fund the Women’s day as part of a taster week of community activities.

Amount: £200

Ilfracombe Youth Canoe Club

for equipment, rent, insurance and training

Amount: £2,934

Woolacombe Surf Life Saving Club

for a kayaking project

Amount: £5,400

Braunton Volunteer Bureau

for transporting the elderly and less able to medical appointments and aiding them to live independently in their own home

Amount: £500

Ilfracombe Toy Library

to extend the mobile toy library service to cover more rural areas in North Devon

Amount: £4,401

Verve

for a variety of workshops and sexual health training

Amount: £6,040

Tivey Amateur Boxing Club

to cover the costs associated with the young people competing and training

Amount: £2,926

Appledore CASH

for a feasibility study for the regeneration of an historic dry dock

Amount: £500

Chittle Cherubs Pre-School

to purchase new and replace old and unsafe equipment for the preschool children

Amount: £711

Barnstaple Young Generation

for microphones and technical equipment to be shared by theatre groups in Barnstaple and Tiverton

Amount: £7,000

Re-cyc Junk Band

for a recycled instruments music project for children and young people

Amount: £6,655

ME North Devon

towards core costs of supporting ME Sufferers

Amount: £500

North Devon Deaf Childrens Society

for soccer coaching and training to aid the integration of hearing and deaf children and young people

Amount: £1,500

Noah's Ark Community Workshop

for weekly craft workshops and to extend holiday sessions

Amount: £3,131

Headway North Devon

to take 12 disabled adults and their carers to the Calvert Trust for an outdoor pursuits holiday

Amount: £1,000

Gateways Therapy Centre - Reflections Club

to purchase equipment to start up a pony club for children with ADHD, autism and asperges

Amount: £6,980

Rural Devon Shakespeare Company Ltd

for drama and video workshops for young people who are rurally isolated

Amount: £5,200

Brayford Boomerangs Pre-School

for ride-on toys for the preschool

Amount: £1,133

Lynton&LynmouthAFC

for start up costs for a youth football team

Amount: £1,270

50th North Devon Scout Group

towards essential repairs to floor, guttering and drainage of the Headquarters building

Amount: £3,550

Loxhore Village Hall

for kitchen equipment to facilitate monthly lunches for the community

Amount: £300

1st Tawstock Scout Group

for camping equipment for the use of the Scouts, Cubs and Beavers

Amount: £3,600

Little Oaks (Burrington) Pre School

for specialist equipment and volunteer training

Amount: £2,952

Rackenford Village Hall Trust

to purchase and install fencing around a play area to provide a safe play environment for children and young people

Amount: £3,500

Kings Nympton & District Pre-school

to update the outside play equipment and paint line markings on the play area

Amount: £2,228

Combe Martin Community Pre-school

to cover the cost of refurbishing the community pre-schools toilet facilities

Amount: £2,480

Ilfracombe Toy Library

to cover the costs involved in extending the toy library service to more areas

Amount: £2,415

Chittle Cherubs Pre-School

for new equipment for the benefit of children living in rural communities

Amount: £650

Barnstaple & Pilton Cricket Club

to cover the costs of training more volunteer coaches to extend and provide an inclusive sport facility

Amount: £950

Molton Area 2000

to install a "chill out" covered seating area in a skate park

Amount: £7,000

Barnstaple Town Majorettes

to set up a Senior Section for majorettes aged 13 to 18, including equipment, premises costs and trainers fees

Amount: £2,906

Marwood Pre School

for new equipment and a storage shed

Amount: £2,276

Woolacombe Surf Life Saving Club

to fund training and the purchase of equipment for a 12 week programme of activities about life saving and beach safety

Amount: £6,686

Northern Devon Duke Of Edinburgh's Award Open Award Centre

towards the cost of employing an Award Group Leader and associated costs for a two year period for isolated young people in rural Northern Devon

Amount: £12,000

Instow Parish Hall

to increase the size of the outside play area

Amount: £1,860

Braunton Volunteer Bureau

to subsidise hospital transport costs for clients in rural locations

Amount: £400

North Devon Deaf Childrens Society

to purchase equipment and software for a computer & IT suite for Deaf Children

Amount: £4,961

Headway North Devon

towards the cost of providing social opportunities for people who have suffered a head injury

Amount: £200

Homestart North Devon

to cover the cost of volunteer expenses for 12 months of home visiting families experiencing problems

Amount: £5,150

Cuddles

to subsidise children's fees to attend the girls & women’s Summer Camp with their mothers/carer

Amount: £6,645

Rural Devon Shakespeare Company Ltd

to cover the costs involved in running a series of 6 developmental theatre workshops for children and young people from rural communities

Amount: £2,738

Lyn Lawn Tennis Club

towards the running costs tennis coaching for children and young people from isolated and economically deprived rural areas

Amount: £2,150

BBAYC (Barnstaple Boarders Assoc Youth Club)

for equipment and associated costs for a photography and video club

Amount: £6,223

Hannington Hall Martinhoe

towards improvements to the Community Hall for community groups

Amount: £500

Waci Sun Fun Club

to meet the running costs of a programme of summer holiday activities for children and young people

Amount: £4,254

Ilfracombe Toy Library

to cover salary costs allowing service to be extended to rural pre-schools and baby/toddler clinics

Amount: £1,634

East Worlington Pre-School

to cover the cost of replacing the old flooring, and for external redecoration of the premises

Amount: £650

Witheridge Mother & Toddler Group

to purchase equipment and cover the cost of hiring premises for a year

Amount: £1,907

Childrens Summer Club

for the set up costs of a football club for under 16's

Amount: £1,177

Pathfield Activity Club

to improve the premises, buy activity equipment and help pay for staffing for a club for children with ADHD or Autistic spectrum disorders

Amount: £6,776

West Buckland Youth Club

to purchase equipment to set up and run a club for 10-16 year olds from rural communities

Amount: £2,254

Forches Community Association

holiday playscheme to run music sessions

Amount: £5,673

Little Oaks (Burrington) Pre School

funding needed to pay for professional input and equipment

Amount: £892

Combe Martin Senior Citizens

to fund a Christmas Lunch for senior citizens

Amount: £100

Beaford Arts

a fund a dance project for disabled and able bodied young people

Amount: £6,987

Barnstaple Poverty Action Group

to fund a rural crisis accommodation service for young people

Amount: £11,083

Saunton Sands Surf Life Saving Club

for the purchase of equipment for children and young people to learn sea safety

Amount: £3,008

Pip Centre

to run three groups of parent/carer toddlers for 36 weeks (12 weeks each, plus evaluation)

Amount: £4,328

North Devon Deaf Childrens Society

To offer a summer morning activity programme for deaf children and their siblings over a four week period.

Amount: £1,277

North Devon Deaf Childrens Society

to run sign language courses for the siblings of deaf children

Amount: £300

Little Learners Pre School

towards the cost of an annual educational trip for the children

Amount: £260

North Devon Mental Health Users Forum

to set up a support group for children aged 11-19

Amount: £3,500

Ilfracombe Toy Library

for new equipment for the toy library due to expansion into more rural areas

Amount: £1,500

Sunflower Playgroup

to secure two part time playworkers jobs for one year

Amount: £4,725

Water Lane Close And Cottages Social Club

to carry out a feasibility study into the construction of a new community room for residents

Amount: £500

St John Ambulance (Barnstaple)

a contribution to the cost of an ambulance

Amount: £500

Barnstaple Young Generation

to enable the youth group to expand and operate throughout the year

Amount: £5,000

The Tuesday Kool Klub

to provide transport to enable young people to attend the youth club serving a rural community

Amount: £2,204

Young Devon

to help refurbish part of the building and provide an ICT resource area, enabling young people to build ICT skills and achieve AQA accreditation, alongside AQA unit accreditation in motor mechanics

Amount: £7,000

Plough And Share Credit Union

Towards travel expenses for a trainer to carry out outreach work in rural surrounds.

Amount: £500

Age Concern (Barnstaple & District)

towards the cost of electric blanket safety checks for elderly people who are particularly at risk when using faulty blankets

Amount: £500

Saunton Sands Surf Life Saving Club

to purchase 4 "rescue tubes" for training, competition and life saving purposes

Amount: £280

Pip Centre

towards staffing costs for 3 parent/carers toddler groups for a year

Amount: £3,000