£30,000 Community Fund: where did the money go?
Back in December we reported on an opportunity for local groups to apply for grants from Southwark's Community Fund. Find out how it's being spent.
During March councillors met to decide how to allocate the £15,000 available to each Community Council.
Here are just a few of the projects in SE1 which were approved for funding:
Borough and Bankside Community Council
Cathedrals and Chaucer wards
Bankside Residents' Forum
Research and production of third jargon free leaflet for residents entitled
"Rough Guide to Participation" (£1,000)
Bengali Women's Group
Movement and Exercise Classes (£600)
Charterhouse-in-Southwark
Bangladeshi Health Project Exercise and Seaside Visit (£600)
In Toto Theatre Company
Combined music/dance/puppetry play for under 4s and their parents and carers (£1,000)
Queensborough Community Centre and TRA
Improve Kitchen (£1000)
Rockingham Fruit/Vegetable Scheme
Launch club at Rockingham Centre (£600)
Rockingham Somali Support Group
Elephant & Castle Somali News £600
Southwark Mysteries
Red Cross Bards (£500)
Southwark Playhouse
Talent-Unearthed: A community day celebrating local talent (£995)
Southwark Springers Trampoline Club
£900
St. George the Martyr Church Crypt Redevelopment Group
Local community survey/questionnaire (£900)
Bermondsey Community Council
Riverside, Grange and South Bermondsey wards
Bermondsey Village Hall Parents and Toddlers Group
£500)
Downside Fisher Youth Club
To provide a medium for activity in photography and fashion for young girls and women from Arnolds, St Olave's, Whites Grounds and Neckinger estates. (£900)
Engine Room, Old Kent Road
To run a community learning programme for 8-13 year-olds for four days over the Easter holidays (£950)
Guy Fox History Project
To research, write and illustrate four colouring sheets about Southwark local history to be distributed to local children in libraries, to improve children's understanding of their community. (£1000)