Age Concern North Norfolk

A grant of £2,000 covers the core costs of the Keep in Touch Befrienders social networking group for older people.

Stalham with Happing Partnership

This grant of £2,000 will provide funding for young people’s drama sessions in a rural community as part of the Happing Festival 2008.

Field Dalling & Saxilingham Parish Council

This grant of £550 will enable the new local play area to be provided with a safe and accessible entrance.

Voyager Community Group

A grant of £2,000 provides funding to cover core costs for three months for the group, which seeks to reduce rural isolation, improve access to services and learning opportunities and increase social inclusion.

Blakeney Pre School

This grant of £1,237 will provide the Parent/Carer & Toddler group with a padded mat and various items of equipment to enable more physical indoor and outdoor play for the children.

Wells Nelson Club

This grant of £1,420 will provide transport three outings for this club for people over 65.

Gimingham Playing Field Get Active Equipment Fund

This grant of £1,945 will provide funding for specific items of equipment on the local play area improvement project.

About with Friends

This grant of £2,000 will provide funding for weekend horticultural activities for people with learning difficulties.

ZEST – Zany Extra Special Team

A grant of £1,976 provides core costs funding for a newly established support group to help people who suffer mental ill health in Great Yarmouth.

Great Yarmouth VIP User Group

This grant of £1,259 provides core costs funding to support the ongoing work and continuity of this group, which campaigns for the rights and accessibility to services of visually impaired people.

Norfolk Autistic Society

This grant of £1,937 provides funding to establish two parent & carer support groups for one year for families affected by autism.

King’s Lynn & West Norfolk Self Advocacy Project

This grant of £2,000 provides funding for equipment and tutor fees to advance the life skills and therapies of people with learning disabilities and learning difficulties.

Supersports Kidz Club

This grant of £2,000 will allow the wheelchair basketball team to meet fortnightly, instead of monthly, for a year.

Parents Panel

This grant of £2,000 enables Parents Panel to increase the number and scope of activities offered to member families.

East Anglia Survivors Enterprise

This grant of £1,200 will provide 15 members of the domestic violence support group with a 12 week course of self defence classes.

Gaywood Park Action Group

A grant of £2,000 will enable the Mum-A-Bility support and advice group to be re-established and operate for one year.

Supporting Women and Activities Network

This grant of £500 will provide core cost funding for this mental health support group.

Edgefield Village Hall Trust

This grant of £900 provides the remaining funding required to replace the village hall windows.

Felbrigg & Metton Village Hall Committee

A £2,000 grant will replace the heating and lighting systems in the hall, which will allow for increased use and community engagement.

Partners Against Crime Task Force (Norfolk PACT)

This grant of £450 covered the cost of sending a team of three from BeSecure.net to attend a national awards ceremony to collect a National Crimebeat Award.

Sprowston Day Centre

This grant of £500 will support funding the group's transport costs of an ambulance and driver, which will facilitate 11 disabled older people using the lunch club each week.

Age Concern Norwich

This grant of £2,000 supports the annual cost of delivering the Befriending Service, which provides befriending for older people living at home who are experiencing social, emotional or mental health problems.

Childhood First

This grant of £2,000 supports the cost of installing an outdoor activity area at Merrywood House to promote the physical and psychological wellbeing of the resident young people.

Supporting Women Activities Network

This grant of £500 will support the core costs of this mental health support group.

Sprowston Day Centre

This grant of £500 will partially fund transport costs of an ambulance and driver for older people to attend a weekly club.

St Edward’s Community Church

This grant of £750 will provide crockery and cutlery for use with planned community projects.

1st Watton Guides

This grant of £669 provides funding for musical equipment and a flag for the use of the Guide unit.

Swannington Parochial Council

This grant of £500 will provide funding towards improving the church community rooms to meet health and safety recommendations.

Childhood First

This grant of £500 supports the cost of installing an outdoor activity area at Merrywood House, a residential care home currently supporting three emotionally damaged young people.

Supporting Women and Activities Network

This grant of £500 will fund core costs for this mental health support group.

Norfolk Disabled Parents Alliance

A grant of £365 will facilitate group meetings to establish the content and direction of the development of an informative website for disabled parents.

Chet Valley Festival Group

This grant of £250 supported the cost of the 2007 historical community arts festival on Wartime Britain.

Stibbard Parish Council

A grant of £200 will provide the remaining funding required to produce a Parish Plan to identify local needs and seek ways to address them.

King's Lynn & Wisbech Voluntary Group (KiWis)

This grant 0f £2,900 will provide places at Camp Beaumont in West Runton, for an activity weekend for 20 members of the support group for individuals with diabetes from families on low income.

East Anglia Survivors Enterprise (EASE)      

This grant of £2,000 will provide this Norfolk wide support group with a data projector and screen to enable them to facilitate talks to schools, colleges and youth groups to raise awareness of domestic violence issues.

Holt Youth Project

This grant of £2,000 will provide funding to take members on a residential activity weekend to The Horstead Centre.

Sheringham Skate Club

This grant of £2,000 will support development and improvement costs to provide shelter and storage facilities for service users and to ensure it is a safe and sustainable facility for young people to use.

Time Out Support Group 

This grant of £2,000 will support the mental health support group’s operating costs.

The Garden Science Trust

Provides gardening and science courses for people with learning difficulties, to develop their skills and potential for further learning and / or employment.  This grant of £1,987 will provide the funding to launch a volunteer recruitment and training programme.

Interface Learning Association

This grant of £1,860 will establish a nationally accredited youth volunteering scheme to enable young people from all backgrounds to gain experience and skills working with a range of marginalised groups. 

People First of Norfolk

This grant of £1,606 will support the costs of operating the North Norfolk self advocacy group for adults with learning difficulties, based in Holt.

The Autistic Way - Smart Kids OK

A grant of £1,159 provides funding to produce more Family Information Packs for client families and publicity material to increase parents' awareness of the services provided for the families of autistic children.

Musical Keys

This grant of £1,152 will help provide training for musicians and volunteers to identify the needs of children with sensory loss and accommodating those needs within group activities.  This grant is match funded with another NCF fund to complete the project costs.

Bawdeswell Village Hall Committee Community Activities Group

This grant of £831 will provide equipment and training to set up indoor and outdoor activities for local children and young people during school holidays and after school, including operating a café to support future sustainability.

The Matthew Project

A grant of £782 provides funding to produce leaflets and posters to publicise the presence of a new service based in Cromer that will help young people deal with dependency and addiction issues.

Costessey Pre School Playgroup

Awarded £519 to provide new equipment for children to use in the pre school's new permanent premises at the local infant school, for the increasing number of children attending.

Friends in Bereavement

This grant of £500 will support the community bereavement support group's core costs.

Norfolk and Norwich Families' House

A grant of £500 was awarded to support the Family Support service user costs for 2007/2008.

Supporting Women and Activities Network  (SWAN)

This grant of £480 will support the cost of workshops and activities throughout 2008 for the mental health support group.

Bodham Croquet Club

This grant of £2,400 was awarded to support the costs of replacing the now dilapidated club house.

7th Armoured Division Desert Rats Thetford Forest Memorial Assoc

This grant of £2,000 provided equipment and facilities for the annual memorial event, to make it more accessible to those with increasingly restricted mobility that attend the event, and to promote the event throughout Norfolk.

Broadland Youth and Community Centre

Awarded £2,000 to support the costs of required emergency electrical rewiring.

Norwich Door to Door

Facilitates social inclusion for people with disabilities to enable independence and access - transport for when and where it is needed.  This grant of £2,000 will fund the insurance costs for one year on two of the vehicles it operates.

About with Friends

This grant of £1,950 will help to launch a new project which helps people with learning difficulties into work by allocating them appropriate work experience.

Mile Cross Phoenix Childrens Project

This grant of £1, 827 will support the cost of the Project’s summer holiday activities provision for children in the Mile Cross area.

Blofield Heath Bowls Club

Awarded a grant of £1,200 to provide a lawn mower to maintain the bowling green of this active Broadland Club. 

Citizens Advice Bureau Watton & Dereham

Awarded a grant of £1,000 to support the operating costs of this community advice organisation in Breckland.

Norfolk Eating Disorders Association

Awarded a grant of £1,000 to support the operating costs of the West Norfolk outreach and support group, based in King's Lynn.

West Norfolk Befriending

Provides a service for socially isolated older people and aims to reduce loneliness and isolation by matching service users with a trained volunteer Befriender.  A grant of £1,000 supports the organisation's core costs.

Partners Against Crime Task Force (Norfolk PACT)

This grant of £500 funds core costs of the group.

Victim Support

This grant of £500 contributed towards funding for the core costs of the group.

Litcham Youth Project

This grant of £711 will support the youth group’s venue hire costs.

Bungay & District Sports Association Ltd

A grant of £500 was match funded with a grant from the Suffolk community foundation to support the development of a Rugby pitch from which to operate sessions for local children and young people from across the two counties, to improve health and wellbeing and increase local youth provision.

Bowthorpe Church

Awarded £400 to provide some of the sports and leisure equipment required to establish a youth club at the Church.

Cromer Christian Fellowship

Awarded £300 to provide a shed in which to store equipment from the local Parent & Toddler group.

Garnier Village Hall

Awarded a grant of £300 to provide the local youth with a venue from which to operate free music workshops.

South Repps Support Scheme

Awarded £300 to support the costs of installing a toddler swing in the village Playground.

Sheringham Bereavement Support

A grant of £250 provided this volunteer counselling service with kitchen equipment to enable them to offer clients refreshment during sessions.

OPEN Youth Trust

This grant of £500 contributed to core costs for the OPEN Road project.

The Thetford High Schools Appeal

A grant of £1,000 contributed to the general funds for the Appeal.

East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (Quidenham)

A grant of £500 helped fund the general costs of the hospice.

Arkwrights Community Association

A grant of £500 funded equipment for the new Community Centre.

Holt & Communities First Response Unit

This grant of £500 went towards the vehicle fundraising appeal.

Elizabeth Finn Care

A grant of £500 contributes to support of the organisations client group in Norfolk.

Drayton Football Club

A grant of £350 funded new football shirts for the adult team.