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Torridge Grants

Below is a list of all the grants awarded in the Torridge area since 2002. You can use the search facility below to narrow the seach down.

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145 Grants, worth a total of £447,371 have been found.

  • 25 Jan 2012

    Wings South West

    recruiting, education, youth work, and setting up enterprises for the NEETS

    Amount: £4,920

  • 11 Mar 2011

    Parkham Allardice Hall

    to install energy effecient hand dryers

    Amount: £500

  • 11 Feb 2011

    Devon Wheels 2 Work

    to provide protective equipment for use by the beneficiaries

    Amount: £759

  • 11 Feb 2011

    Seize the Moment

    to contribute toward the renovation of the dis-used toilet blocks

    Amount: £756

  • 08 Feb 2011

    Harbour (Bideford)

    To maintain and expand the art and craft and computer sessions offered to clients.

    Amount: £200

  • 17 Jan 2011

    Holsworthy Family Workshop Resource Centre

    To run art and craft workshops within the community and other local villages

    Amount: £250

  • 27 Sep 2010

    Switch Youth Action Team

    To have fun building a graffiti wall for Bideford.

    Amount: £1,000

  • 27 Sep 2010

    Friends of Torrington Junior School

    to raise funds to enhance outdoor learning environment for the children of Torrington

    Amount: £2,000

  • 27 Sep 2010

    Little Bears Pre-School, Shebbear

    to build a covered outdoor classroom/shelter with seating, a blackboard, musical chimes and a letter board, providing a stimulating area for the children, where they can play, talk, and listen to stories

    Amount: £2,000

  • 21 Jul 2010

    Winkleigh Youth Club

    to provide a safe, supervised environment for the young people of the area to meet and socialise at our youth club

    Amount: £1,000

  • 19 Jul 2010

    Torrington Silver Band

    provide free musical tuition and facilities for all and continue to support the local community

    Amount: £1,200

  • 19 Jul 2010

    The Club

    health promotion project at Hartland Youth Club

    Amount: £5,000

  • 19 Jul 2010

    Parkham Allardice Hall

    providing new toilet and washroom facilities at our local village hall

    Amount: £4,850

  • 24 May 2010

    Pyworthy Under 5's

    update of our arts and crafts facilities and replenishment of stock

    Amount: £1,300

  • 30 Apr 2010

    The Winkleigh Community Centre

    setting up an opportunity for exhibitions of art-related work by local people for the benefit of local people with possibilities of increased interaction in art and cultural activities

    Amount: £900

  • 01 Apr 2010

    Appledore Book Festival

    to provide a speaker to tour the county and then attend the Appledore Book Festival

    Amount: £500

  • 01 Apr 2010

    1st Holsworthy Scout Group

    to purchase new tents and related equipment

    Amount: £1,500

  • 24 Mar 2010

    Buckland Brewer under fives Pre-School

    use of a small courtyard to develop a vegetable garden for an Early Years setting

    Amount: £850

  • 01 Feb 2010

    Appledore Hall Trust

    provision to supply equipment for disabled toilets and shower facilities and with the existing building

    Amount: £5,000

  • 01 Feb 2010

    Harbour (Bideford)

    to run a day centre in Bideford to promote social inclusion for the public benefit

    Amount: £3,000

  • 14 Dec 2009

    Torridgeside Majorettes

    to continue to improve, through discipline and dance, and to attend more challenging competitions

    Amount: £1,000

  • 26 Oct 2009

    Winkleigh Youth Club

    refurbishment and relining of damaged MUGA hard court area

    Amount: £2,500

  • 26 Oct 2009

    1st Dolton Scout Group

    recruitment and training of leaders to lead children on a number of planned outdoor activities not currently possible due to lack of storage and equipment

    Amount: £2,000

  • 19 Oct 2009

    Ashwater Playgroup

    we are a small charity run playgroup who get 3-5 year olds ready for school

    Amount: £500

  • 09 Oct 2009

    The Mission Youth Café

    supporting young people in various aspects of their transition into adulthood

    Amount: £4,727

  • 05 Oct 2009

    The Winkleigh Community Centre

    awareness raising of the enhanced inclusive programme of events in newly transferred Community building in the centre of the remote village of Winkleigh

    Amount: £777

  • 21 Sep 2009

    The Store Homelessness Project

    provision of free furniture, food, clothing, bedding etc to homeless and needy families and individuals

    Amount: £2,500

  • 21 Sep 2009

    Bucks Cross Village Hall

    chairs with arms and small tables to enabled physically disabled people to access events at the hall

    Amount: £786

  • 21 Sep 2009

    Great Torrington Golden Jubilee Committee

    the Maychair Project designed to replace currently untidy and unsafe chairs for public events with new, comfortable and easily transportable ones

    Amount: £1,500

  • 21 Sep 2009

    Ashwater Parish Hall & Institute

    portable stage purchase

    Amount: £3,000

  • 01 Sep 2009

    St Giles on the Heath Coronation Hall

    to buy a cooker

    Amount: £500

  • 29 Jun 2009

    Halwill Parish Hall

    to purchase and install a new heating system, water heater and new chairs in the hall

    Amount: £1,500

  • 29 Jun 2009

    Welcombe Children's Group

    to contribute towards the summer family workshops in dance and music, to bring this rural isolated community together

    Amount: £2,000

  • 05 May 2009

    Winkleigh Jubilee Hall

    to contribute towards the replacing the guttering and skirting, redecorating of the kitchen and committee rooms, and creation of a new accessible path and handrail

    Amount: £1,000

  • 09 Mar 2009

    Appledore Maritime Players

    to contribute towards the cost of purchasing a mobile curtain and stage unit

    Amount: £1,000

  • 09 Mar 2009

    Little Torrington Victory Hall

    to cover the cost of constructing and publishing a Parish Plan

    Amount: £750

  • 09 Mar 2009

    Bideford Area Club for Disabled Learners

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

    Amount: £2,500

  • 09 Mar 2009

    Bideford, Littleham & Westward Ho! Cricket Club

    to contribute towards the cost of a higher fence for the grounds

    Amount: £2,000

  • 09 Mar 2009

    St Giles on the Heath Coronation Hall

    to provide indoor play equipment for the under fives in a safe village centre environment and organise stay and play sessions for parents and carers

    Amount: £2,634

  • 09 Mar 2009

    Bideford Area Club for Disabled Learners

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

    Amount: £500

  • 26 Jan 2009

    Bideford & District Sea Cadet Corps

    to contribute towards the cost of purchasing new trailers and sails for the group

    Amount: £4,000

  • 26 Jan 2009

    Buckland Brewer under fives Pre-School

    to purchase ICT equipment and resources that will enhance and extend learning and development in a rural pre-school

    Amount: £1,468

  • 16 Jan 2009

    Phoenix Allstars Majorettes

    to purchase equipment for the tiny tots section of the troupe

    Amount: £500

  • 16 Jan 2009

    Petrockstowe Cricket Club

    to contribute towards the purchase a cylinder mower and a reconditioned 'ride-on' roller

    Amount: £500

  • 08 Dec 2008

    Parkham Spinners Majorettes

    to purchase Military uniforms for the troupe

    Amount: £1,500

  • 27 Oct 2008

    Roborough (Winkleigh) Village Hall Committee

    to build a storeroom for equipment and to free up the smaller function room to enable more people to join in

    Amount: £5,000

  • 27 Oct 2008

    Halwill After Schools Sports Club

    to provide a sports club for local children including funding for coaching fees and new goals

    Amount: £2,258

  • 27 Oct 2008

    2nd Bideford Scout Group

    for recruitment and training of leaders to lead children (Scouts) age 10-18 on outdoor activities and to conduct a series of extended environmental assessment expeditions (3 years) within an area of outstanding natural beauty in Devon

    Amount: £5,000

  • 27 Oct 2008

    Bucks Cross Village Hall

    to replace windows to ensure that the community events at the Hall continue for the foreseeable future

    Amount: £3,500

  • 27 Oct 2008

    Bubbly Project CIC

    to see ability in disability; creating opportunities for education, health, work and leisure

    Amount: £5,000

  • 30 Sep 2008

    Bideford Ladies Club

    for a club for retired ladies for socialising and keeping up with the times

    Amount: £750

  • 19 Sep 2008

    Bideford Buzz Newsletter Group

    for printing costs

    Amount: £5,000

  • 19 Sep 2008

    Book Relief UK

    for a UK Awareness and Volunteer Recruitment Programme to be run at the time of the Appledore Book Festival Sep 27 – Oct 5 2008

    Amount: £792

  • 19 Sep 2008

    Broadwoodkelly Village Hall

    for the purchase of a step unit which can be securely linked to a stage platform in our village hall

    Amount: £480

  • 18 Jul 2008

    Halwill Parent and Toddler Group

    Play equipment for role play and enhancing children's imagination

    Amount: £400

  • 25 Apr 2008

    Fremington and District Community Development Group

    to replace and make safe fencing around Beechfield Playpark and improve access for local community

    Amount: £500

  • 25 Apr 2008

    Bideford Ladies Club

    to support social activities for a group of elderly ladies

    Amount: £150

  • 01 Feb 2008

    Appledore Arts

    to run two community arts workshops to involve the community in the Appledore visual Arts Festival

    Amount: £425

  • 14 Dec 2007

    Wings South West

    for a 12 week motivational project based around mechanics for young people not in education, employment or training

    Amount: £4,453

  • 02 Nov 2007

    Bideford Citizen's Advice Bureau

    to provide training for unemployed people to acquire the basic office skills

    Amount: £3,800

  • 02 Nov 2007

    Winkleigh Youth Club

    to create an art wall and signage

    Amount: £250

  • 04 Oct 2007

    Seize the Moment

    to provide activities for 24 young unemployed people aged 13 to 19 living in the Bideford, Barnstaple, Ilfracombe and rural Torridge area

    Amount: £2,321

  • 04 Oct 2007

    Seize the Moment

    to provide activities for 24 young unemployed people aged 13 to 19 living in the Bideford, Barnstaple, Ilfracombe and rural Torridge area

    Amount: £7,000

  • 04 Oct 2007

    Devon Wheels 2 Work

    to create employment opportunities for young people through having a loaned scooter to get around, mentoring and support, access to employers, and a job search

    Amount: £7,000

  • 04 Oct 2007

    Devon Wheels 2 Work

    to create employment opportunities for young people through having a loan scooter to access, mentoring and support, access to employers,and a job search

    Amount: £2,754

  • 31 Aug 2007

    Barum Hang-out

    to run a weekly youth club with various games and entertainment

    Amount: £930

  • 31 Aug 2007

    Torrington Rugby Football Club Juniors

    to purchase equipment for the fast expanding junior club

    Amount: £1,500

  • 27 Jul 2007

    Torridge Pilot Gig Club

    for a gig (rowing boat) for training

    Amount: £7,000

  • 27 Jul 2007

    Winkleigh Youth Club

    to replace the play area and purchase equipment required to meet health and safety needs

    Amount: £7,000

  • 27 Jul 2007

    The Club

    for music, art, and circus skills workshops for children and young people to encourage community cohesion

    Amount: £5,020

  • 27 Jul 2007

    Bideford East Youth Committee

    for a programme of structured issue-based workshops/activities and peer mentoring scheme for young people aged 11 -19

    Amount: £7,000

  • 28 Jun 2007

    Pyworthy Under 5's

    for age appropriate learning and activity equipment

    Amount: £3,671

  • 28 Jun 2007

    Yarner Trust

    to provide an opportunity for children and young people to plan, organise and deliver a recycled clothes show as part of an environmental arts project

    Amount: £4,995

  • 25 May 2007

    Northam Youth Club

    to re-establish a youth club in Northam

    Amount: £7,000

  • 25 May 2007

    Bideford Buzz Newsletter Group

    to enable young people to design and provide copy for their own two pages in a local newsletter

    Amount: £1,126

  • 27 Apr 2007

    Bideford Buzz Newsletter Group

    to cover the costs of a group of adults with disabilities/learning difficulties to be involved in producing their own page in the community newsletter

    Amount: £500

  • 27 Apr 2007

    Torrington Family Project

    for a series of activities to enable children and young people to have a voice within their organisation

    Amount: £4,000

  • 27 Apr 2007

    Wings South West

    to fund the employment of a café manager to implement a ‘healthy options’ project for young people

    Amount: £7,000

  • 30 Mar 2007

    Chilsworthy Methodist Church

    to purchase equipment for the youth club

    Amount: £2,000

  • 30 Mar 2007

    Yarner Trust

    to run an eco renovation project, training volunteers to work and deliver the course/skills

    Amount: £4,540

  • 26 Jan 2007

    Appledore Arts

    to run a series of Visual Arts workshops for children and young people leading to a presentation at the Appledore Arts Festival

    Amount: £7,000

  • 26 Jan 2007

    Parkham Spinners Majorettes

    to purchase new uniforms for competition routines

    Amount: £3,415

  • 26 Jan 2007

    Welcombe Children's Group

    to set up and run a ‘pilot’ parents and peers group for children under 12

    Amount: £7,000

  • 15 Dec 2006

    Hartland Model Flying Club

    to encourage younger people and women to participate

    Amount: £2,952

  • 24 Nov 2006

    S-L-S Allstars

    for start up costs for a new majorette troupe

    Amount: £3,500

  • 24 Nov 2006

    J's Fun Club

    for new games and toys

    Amount: £472

  • 29 Sep 2006

    Torridgeside Majorettes

    for costumes and equipment to enable the team to keep with competing troupes, promoting an equal and inclusive sport

    Amount: £3,500

  • 29 Sep 2006

    Westward Ho! Youth Theatre Group

    to develop new routines and drama pieces for Christmas performances

    Amount: £690

  • 28 Jul 2006

    Parkham Under 5's

    for equipment and staff training for the pre-school

    Amount: £2,508

  • 26 May 2006

    Families In Grief

    to run workshops for children and young people who have experienced bereavement

    Amount: £5,748

  • 26 May 2006

    Clawton Parent & Toddler Group

    to re-establish a parent/carer and toddler group in Clawton

    Amount: £7,000

  • 28 Apr 2006

    Bideford Methodist Circuit Youth & Community Project

    for a DJ project for excluded/near excluded young people

    Amount: £2,000

  • 30 Mar 2006

    Parkham Playground

    for a youth shelter for rurally isolated young people

    Amount: £7,000

  • 28 Feb 2006

    Bradworthy Pre School

    to renovate existing toilet facilities for the use of the preschool

    Amount: £972

  • 28 Feb 2006

    Torridge Special Friends

    for a summer play scheme photo diary project for special needs children and their siblings

    Amount: £5,118

  • 28 Feb 2006

    Wings South West

    for a series of taster sessions and workshops for young people who are not in education, employment or training

    Amount: £6,250

  • 28 Feb 2006

    St Giles on the Heath Play Area Community Action Group

    to purchase play equipment for an adventure trail

    Amount: £6,343

  • 27 Jan 2006

    Bideford Town Majorettes

    to purchase equipment to start the new group of Majorettes

    Amount: £3,500

  • 25 Nov 2005

    Tarka Toddlers Group

    to purchase equipment and toys to start up a toddler group

    Amount: £2,544

  • 28 Oct 2005

    Hartland Players

    to improve stage lighting facilities and offer lighting technician training to participants

    Amount: £5,000

  • 28 Oct 2005

    Roborough (Winkleigh) Village Hall Committee

    to replace old and broken crockery for community use at the Village Hall

    Amount: £250

  • 30 Sep 2005

    Buckland Brewer under fives Pre-School

    toward the cost of heating the premises for pre-school children

    Amount: £300

  • 30 Sep 2005

    Youth Action Project (Torrington)

    for a youth arts and social activities project for young people who have limited access to arts and social activities

    Amount: £7,000

  • 29 Jul 2005

    Bideford Ladies Football Club

    to cover the cost of training some of the women to become coaches and to replace broken equipment

    Amount: £967

  • 29 Jul 2005

    Torridge Pre-School

    to purchase a computer and specific software aimed at developing pre-school children's basic IT skills

    Amount: £1,000

  • 27 May 2005

    Holsworthy Family Workshop Resource Centre

    to provide a programme of structured family workshops to explore a range of early leaning goals

    Amount: £5,098

  • 28 Apr 2005

    Appledore Short/Mat Bowling Club

    to run and develop the club to attract new members

    Amount: £850

  • 18 Feb 2005

    Hartland Print Workshop at St John's Music & Arts Centre

    to run Saturday morning print making workshops for young people from a rurally isolated community

    Amount: £4,197

  • 17 Dec 2004

    Homestart Torridge

    for training volunteers to home visit and offer support to families who are experiencing problems in their lives

    Amount: £5,980

  • 17 Dec 2004

    Westward Ho! Youth Theatre Group

    to set up, equip and run a Saturday youth club involving drama, music and dance activities

    Amount: £3,700

  • 17 Dec 2004

    Clawton & District Youth Group

    for two themed educational visits for children who live in rurally isolated communities

    Amount: £958

  • 17 Dec 2004

    Winkleigh Together

    for a range of shared resources and training for volunteers for a rural commonality

    Amount: £4,915

  • 26 Nov 2004

    Wheels To Work

    for six sets of safety equipment to enable more rurally isolated young people to use the bike provision

    Amount: £450

  • 26 Nov 2004

    Appledore Arts

    for a programme of arts activities for young people from rurally isolated communities

    Amount: £7,000

  • 18 Oct 2004

    Barton Meadow Recreation Area

    for the provision of a multi activity unit and swing for a rurally isolated community

    Amount: £7,000

  • 28 Sep 2004

    North Devon Display Gymnastics Club

    to purchase portable gym equipment for outreach activities

    Amount: £7,000

  • 29 Jul 2004

    Torridge Special Friends

    for a series of outings for children with physically or mentally special needs and their volunteers carers

    Amount: £1,911

  • 25 Jun 2004

    Hartland Pre School

    to purchase IT equipment and software for the preschool

    Amount: £1,300

  • 28 May 2004

    Bideford & District Sea Cadet Corps

    to repair and purchase new boats to support a BTEC diploma course in Public Service for disadvantaged young people

    Amount: £6,342

  • 28 May 2004

    Bradford Pre School Nursery

    to purchase a computer, and resources for the preschool

    Amount: £3,092

  • 28 May 2004

    Wheels To Work

    to provide six new motorcycles, associated safety equipment and training for rurally isolated young people for a two year period

    Amount: £12,000

  • 29 Apr 2004

    J's Fun Club

    to meet the running costs of an after school club providing activities and care for rurally isolated children and young people

    Amount: £500

  • 01 Apr 2004

    J's Fun Club

    to purchase audio/visual equipment in order to enhance the social area and enable/encourage additional activities for children

    Amount: £381

  • 26 Mar 2004

    Torrington & District Play Council

    to run a 'funzone' playscheme for 5-11 year olds

    Amount: £5,438

  • 26 Mar 2004

    Northam Youth Club

    for a range of structured activities during school holidays

    Amount: £6,390

  • 26 Mar 2004

    Devon Family Project

    to provide a Saturday Morning Computer Funshop for children and their parents/carers, in partnership with the Westward Ho! Information Shop Committee

    Amount: £4,463

  • 26 Mar 2004

    Seize the Moment

    for an arts programme in the Northam area

    Amount: £4,095

  • 20 Nov 2003

    Wings South West

    to convert a classroom into a music studio for the use of young people

    Amount: £7,000

  • 30 Oct 2003

    Abbotsham & Alwington Pre School

    for the purchase of multi cultural and ethnically diverse pre school equipment

    Amount: £750

  • 31 Jul 2003

    Building Bridges

    toward the cost of running a Holiday Club for children to socialise in a safe environment

    Amount: £3,000

  • 31 Jul 2003

    North Devon Display Gymnastics Club

    for a coached education programme and the improvement of the Tumble Track

    Amount: £5,000

  • 15 May 2003

    St Giles On The Heath Playgroup

    to buy a computer to provide children from rural communities access to developing ICT skills

    Amount: £1,000

  • 01 Apr 2003

    Sunflowers Pre School

    towards the wages of a sessional play worker

    Amount: £7,000

  • 14 Mar 2003

    Building Bridges

    to help set up an After School Club at Winkleigh Primary School

    Amount: £500

  • 31 Jan 2003

    Torrington Family Project

    to develop the toy library and extend the services to rural areas

    Amount: £6,950

  • 31 Jan 2003

    XL Prince' Trust

    to create a five a side football pitch on a social housing estate

    Amount: £7,000

  • 31 Jan 2003

    Torridge Special Friends

    to meet the cost of 5 trips to the Calvert Trust for children and young people with special needs who need one to one care

    Amount: £4,000

  • 28 Nov 2002

    Hartland Print Workshop at St John's Music & Arts Centre

    to run printmaking workshops in Hartland for children and young people who would not otherwise be able to access weekend activities

    Amount: £3,455

  • 28 Nov 2002

    Torrington & District Play Council

    towards the cost of a 5 day Freestyle Summer School for vulnerable and at risk young people

    Amount: £6,250

  • 28 Nov 2002

    Clearway (Torridge Addiction Action Group)

    towards volunteers expenses in more rural areas, enabling them to access training and provide transport to support addicts and recovering addicts access the programme

    Amount: £500

  • 26 Sep 2002

    Winkleigh Society Newsletter

    towards the cost of a newsletter to keep the local residents up-to-date with news and events, helping to minimise social exclusion and rural isolation

    Amount: £190

  • 26 Sep 2002

    Little Bears Pre-School, Shebbear

    to help fund the employment of a playgroup supervisor to expand and improve the playgroup

    Amount: £5,200

  • 02 Jul 2002

    Great Torrington & District Community Development Trust

    funding for the Community Development Trust to provide training courses and equipment for the girls ice skating team.

    Amount: £4,245

  • 27 Jun 2002

    1st Bradworthy Scout Group

    towards the cost of updating camping equipment for a Scout group

    Amount: £500

  • 30 May 2002

    Monkleigh Village Shop

    towards start up costs for a community owned and led Village Shop

    Amount: £500

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