TEN community groups serving a wide variety of ages and needs have benefited from West Crawley County Local Committee’s latest round of cash grants.
The Committee agreed grants totalling £7345. The cash comes its Community Initiative Fund, which is money it receives from West Sussex County Council to help the activities of local community groups.
The organisations receiving grants included:
Crawley Friends Housing Association – £1000 to buy equipment and materials for Camfield Gardening Club, which encourages vulnerable adults to work together.
Creasy Drive Venture Playground – £560 towards its Cook Club, which teaches children how to cook healthy meals.
Crawley Youth Movement – £550 towards events that encourage young people to come together and unite against crime and disorder, particularly gun and knife crime.
St Andrews Friendship Club – £485 to cover the cost of rent for an alternative venue where this club for older people can meet in a friendly environment while the church is being redeveloped.
Alan Quirk, Committee Chairman, said: “The aim of our Community Initiative Funding is to benefit the local community by ‘pump priming’ new initiatives or supporting one-off applications for specific projects.
“On this occasion we were able to bridge the generation gap. Young people cooking up healthy meals, vulnerable people getting dug into gardening and older residents able to enjoy a chat and a cuppa – they’ve all benefited from our current round of funding.”
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FYI – expect a 30% cut in neighborhood federal government grants over the next 4 years. Money is thinning out folks; get now although the getting’ is available.
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Seriously.