Norfolk Community Foundation

Grants Awarded In 2006

Crossroads Wednesday Club Support Group	The Wednesday Club Support Group offers social recreation, leisure and peer support to carers of individuals with Alzheimer's Disease. This grant of £1,262 will fund the venue hire costs for one year, crockery and leisure equipment for the carers of the support group to use.
OPEN Youth Trust	This grant of £1,096 will fund two computers for use in the classroom of the OPEN Road project, which will teach practical and academic skills to College entry level standard, on car and motorbike mechanics for up to 72 young people each year.
Sprowston Day Centre	This grant of £1,000 will support funding the group's transport costs of an ambulance and driver, which will facilitate up to 33 disabled older people using the lunch club each week.
West Norfolk Befriending	WNB provides a service for socially and rurally isolated older people by matching clients with a trained volunteer Befriender who will visit them on a regular basis and take them out where possible. This grant of £1,000 will fund elements of its core costs for 2007/2008.
Norfolk Eating Disorders Association	Awarded £1,000 in support of the core costs of the West Norfolk outreach and support group, to enable it to continue to operate and develop the scope of its support.
Citizens Advice Bureau Watton & Dereham	Awarded £1,000 in support of the annual office running costs for 2007.
Disability Issues & Social Support Group (D.I.S.S. Group)	A grant of £500 will provide the support group for disabled people and their carers from Diss and its surrounding rural villages, with a laptop computer and associated accessories. This will enable the group to develop its website and to teach its members how to use a computer.
Litcham Youth Project	Awarded a grant of £180 towards the Youth Club’s venue hire costs, for 10 -19 year olds in Litcham and its surrounding rural villages.
The Omnibus Project	Awarded £3,000 to refurbish and upgrade elements of the Community Playbus and enable sessions for the first few months of 2007.
YESU	Awarded a grant of £2,000 for the drop in centre in Sheringham to replace deteriorating furnishings and provide new kitchen equipment for use by the group counselling people with mental health issues.
Elizabeth Fitzroy Support	Elizabeth Fitzroy Support is a day centre for people with severe learning and physical disabilities. This grant of £1,904 will provide books and furniture for a room set aside to use as a library for members of the day centre.
Citizens Advice Bureau Holt	Awarded £2,346 in support of the organisation's core costs.
Supporting Women Activities Network (SWAN)	SWAN provides health improving activities and professional and peer support for women of all ages with mental health issues. This grant of £2,000 will enable the group to provide activities to address its members’ needs throughout 2007.
Out & About	Awarded £1,250 to recruit and train volunteers to provide peer support to young disabled people in West Norfolk, enabling them to take part in local leisure activities.
Filby Youth Club	Awarded £800 for leisure equipment and venue hire costs for one year, to enable the newly formed Filby Youth Club to provide a service to the youth of Filby and its surrounding villages.
Norfolk ACRO	Norfolk Acro supports former offenders to find accomodation, acquire life skills, tuition, training and employment to improve the quality of their life and to prevent re-occurence of criminal activity. Awarded £675 for 50 foundation stage Food Safety courses for the client group, as well as accredited certification.
KickStart Norfolk	KickStart offers a low cost motor scooter hire scheme for people wanting to access employment, training and education opportunities but live in areas where the public transport provision is poor or non existent. Awarded £631 to fund the printing and distribution of leaflets in areas of Norfolk where take up of the KickStart service is currently low.
Norfolk Deaf Association	Awarded £570 for specialist equipment for a Deaf Awareness training course. NDA will train unemployed deaf people to deliver the awareness course for free to charities in Norfolk.
OPEN Youth Trust	Awarded £548 for a computer for use in the classroom of the OPEN Road project, which will teach practical and academic skills to entry level standard on car and motorbike mechanics for up to 72 young people each year.
Barnies	Barnies provides temporary supported accomodation for 18 homeless young people at a time in the King's Lynn area. Awarded £300 for a new fridge freezer for one of the supported accomodation houses.
Heartsease & Valley Drive Youth Action Group	Awarded £300 to replenish arts and crafts stock and to buy new games and leisure equipment to enable the group to continue.
Norfolk Music Works	Awarded £250 to initiate a group singing project facilitated by professional singers for older, socially isolated people at Benjamin Court residential day care centre in Cromer.
Bracecamp Parish Hall	Awarded £200 towards the cost of installing a hearing loop in the hall, for the benefit of the hard of hearing.
Cruse Bereavement Care	Awarded £2,000 to fund elements of annual core costs, in particular the cost of the supervision of three counsellors trained in counselling children through bereavement.
Fakenham Wensum Scout Group	Awarded £540 for six months venue hire costs to set up Beaver, Cub and Scout packs in Little Snoring.
St Edmunds Society	Awarded £615 to provide a shed from which to operate a project that will develop carpentry and cycle repair skills for homeless young men in Norwich.
BUILD	Awarded £600 for IT equipment for the youth group. BUILD provides activities and support for people of all ages with learning difficulties, to help them reach their full potential.
Linking Together West Norfolk	Awarded £600 to funds elements of their annual core costs. Linking Together provides a helpline, advice and practical support for people directly affected by somebody else’s substance abuse.
The Matthew Project	Awarded £1,360 to fund the annual insurance on the Double Decker Bus outreach project, which targets deprived urban areas of Norfolk to educate and inform young people on the dangers of drugs and alcohol abuse.
Norman Wanderers Football Club	Awarded £325 for kit and equipment for a football club in a deprived urban area of Norwich, run entirely by volunteers.
Mancroft Advice Project	Awarded £960 to fund drama and dance workshops for 20 MAP users, in conjunction with 'The Garage' in Norwich, to address issues of confidence and self worth.
Asperger East Anglia	Awarded £2,000 for a new server and anti-virus software, as the current system is inadequate to cope with it’s growing services.
Interface Learning Association	Awarded £1,858 to set up a project that will develop carpentry skills in young people aged 13-15 and not in school, to design and make a set of drum stands in collaboration with a group of wheelchair users. This will enable the wheelchair users to take part in a Youth Music Theatre project, and enable Interface to conduct drum workshops for disabled people in the future.
The Magdalene Group Norfolk	Awarded £1,750 towards their already successful weekly peer mentoring group for women exiting prostitution, teaching them required life skills and directing them to appropriate aid agencies.
MPower	Awarded £1,665 to funds elements of their annual core costs. MPower supports survivors of male rape, sexual assault, abuse or domestic violence, and their friends and family members. MPower also provides a confidential national helpline.
Mundesley Community Care	Awarded £1,247 to provide new kitchen equipment and crockery for the lunch club for older people.
Musical Keys	Awarded £1,952 to fully fund a musical therapy group in Diss for one year, for children with special needs, their siblings and parents / carers.
Norfolk and Norwich Families' House	Awarded £1,800 to fund a leisure trip for their client group in the summer, and for a programme of ongoing local outings for children and absent parents requiring supervised contact.
Norwich Community Workshop	Awarded £2,000 towards the organisation’s annual core costs. Norwich Community Workshop provides therapeutic arts and crafts workshops and ICT training for socially excluded people.
Single Parents in Norfolk - Gt Yarmouth	Awarded £1,612 to fund the group's overheads for two years and pay for key operatives to complete Health & Safety, First Aid and Child Protection Training Courses.
South Creake Play Area Fundraising Committee	Awarded £1,000 to complete the funding required to enable the development of the local play area.
Thetford Music Project	Awarded £639 to buy sheet music for the Wind Band, to increase their repertoire and to enable them to acquire commissions to strengthen their financial position.
Fakenham Childrens’ Daycare Centre	This grant of £200 contributed to replenishing stock of toys and equipment following an arson attack at the centre.