major and exceptional funding

As well as its reactive grant awards and the Greenham Gift, the Trust is keen to identify any project where funding can make a significant contribution to the local community. Since 2007 the Trust has also been working with West Berkshire Partnership to consider applications and to joint fund major projects around West Berkshire. Here are some of the projects which have been made possible by funding from the Trust since its major funding began in 2001:

		2008		£15,000 for Beech Hill Memorial Hall (Committee) to facilitate the construction of a new village hall to replace the existing 1920's wooden hall
		2008		£14,000 for Berkshire Connexions to engage 16 to 18s by transporting them to relevant training and funding an extension to a successful local programme
		2008		£10,000 for Home-Start West Berkshire to help towards the core costs of running the scheme, including office rental, staff salaries, volunteer expenses and their training
		2008		£15,000 for Princess Royal Trust Carers Service to improve the physical and emotional health and well-being of over 300 carers in West Berkshire
		2008		£15,000 for Shaw-cum-Donnington Village Hall for alteration works to access and toilet facilities to ensure it complies with the Disability Discrimination Act
		2008		£10,000 for WBC Children & Young People/School Improvement to increase the proportion of pupils; with a particular focus upon boys, attaining level 2B+ in writing at the age of 7
		2008		£23,000 for West Berkshire Chamber of Commerce for continued funding for a Police Community Support Officer to support the West Berkshire business community
		2008		£10,000 for West Berkshire Citizens Advice Bureau to continue to provide an outreach service in rural parts of West Berkshire
		2008		£33,000 for West Berkshire Youth Offending Team for a YOT Officer specifically targeted at the most prolific and persistent young offenders
		2008		£10,000 for 14-21 Time to Talk - more
		2008		£15,000 for West Berkshire Safer Communities Partnership to increase the days worked by the Domestic Violence Reduction Co-ordinator from 2 to 4 days per week
		2008		£10,000 for NACRO for the development of positive activities targeting those at risk of offending and anti-social behaviour - Greenham, Turnpike and Hungeford areas
		2008		£12,000 for The British Red Cross for a 4X4 Landrover ambulance with vital equipment to assist and treat those needing medical attention
		2007		£25,000 for The North Hampshire Medical Fund to purchase an Optical Coherence Tomography machine
		2007		£27,000 for BACYP (Berkshire Association of Clubs for Young People) to further develop sports and leisure opportunities in West Berkshire (joint funded by the Trust and West Berkshire Partnership)
		2007		£24,500 for The Community Council for Berkshire to fund a development worker (joint funded by the Trust and West Berkshire Partnership)
		2007		£24,000 for West Berkshire CAB and All U Need 2 Know - more
		2007		£26,000 for BACYP (Berkshire Association of Clubs for Young People) to expand the sports and leisure team (SPLAT) and enable an unique team to service West Berkshire youth groups (joint funded by the Trust and West Berkshire Partnership)
		2007		£30,000 for The Corn Exchange, Newbury to establish a full-time micro-plex/film screening room within the Corn Exchange
		2007		£24,000 for Kingslclere Village Club towards a major redevelopment of the club to provide a new furniture store
		2007		£30,000 for West Berkshire Education Business Partnership to provide activities and learning opportunities for disengaged young people to develop personal and work-related skills
		2006-08		The Vibrant Village Grant Scheme - more
		2006		£150,000 for Adventure Dolphin, Pangbourne - more
		2006		£18,000 for Resource for Mental Health to re-equip a kitchen to provide a catering skill-training facility for those whose lives have been disrupted by mental health difficulties
		2006		£24,000 for the Bishop's Green Youth Project to help support the project’s full-time youth worker and project co-ordinator
		2006		£38,000 for West Berkshire First Response this partnership project between Rotary Club Newbury, Royal Berkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust and Volunteer Centre West Berkshire, was to locate Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), along with trained volunteers, in 18 locations around West Berkshire to enable a rapid response to victims of cardiac arrest
		2005		£550,000 for the Pelican Cancer Foundation - more
		2005		£520,000 for the Watermill Theatre - more
		2005		£37,000 for the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance for essential running costs to keep the ambulance operational
		2005		£20,000 for Home Start West Berkshire to fund a home visiting scheme
		2005		£10,000 for the Red Cross, Thames Valley Branch for a mobile community response unit that will provide a medical equipment service in outlying villages and rural areas in West Berkshire and Hampshire
		2004		£2 million for the Slater Centre - more
		2004		£30,000 for Life Education Centres, Thames Valley - more
		2004		£30,000 for Greenham Community Centre for refurbishing the existing Community Centre internally and externally. A redesign of the centre involving a new reception, new offices and the relocation of the cloakrooms to include new changing and shower facilities has been planned. Externally it will receive a make-over with new windows and improved hard landscaping
		2004		£10,000 for the Living Rainforest to enable its fossil fuel heating to be replaced with an ecologically sensitive, renewable energy system. The new system will use a sustainable "carbon-neutral" wood supply, grown locally
		2004		£10,000 for Whitchurch Silk Mill for essential restoration work on the nineteenth century waterwheel at the Grade II* listed museum. The waterwheel, which was built in 1890 and provides power for much of the mill's working machinery, required a major overhaul to preserve it as a unique part of the region's industrial heritage
		2003		£450,000 for a Digital X-ray machine - more
		2003		£20,000 for West Berkshire CAB for essential repairs to its Newbury property in Bartholomew Street and to replace the property's substandard fire alarm system
		2003		£20,000 for the Mary Hare Foundation to build a Performing Arts, Conference and Education (PACE) centre for deaf children and the local community at the Mary Hare School at Arlington Manor, Snelsmore Common
		2002-05		£75,000 for local schools - more
		2002		£23,000 for the Watermill Theatre's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - more
		2002		£15,000 for East Garston village to build a children's play area and public recreational facilities on the village's millennium field
		2001-06		£90,000 for the Berkshire Community Foundation - more
		2001		£17,000for West Berkshire Mencap to purchase a minibus
		2001		£20,000 for the Bishop's Green Youth Project to purchase a minibus

If you know of a large local project that requires significant funding, or are aware of a need that is not being addressed locally please contact Stuart Tagg on 01635 817444 or email stuart@greenham-common-trust.co.uk to discuss your idea.