Reactive grants - case studies

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:

2011

The Trust's reactive grants and the LSP funding is now available through a new online grant application system www.findmeagrant.org. Here you can make one simple application and attract funding from grant makers and public donations which the Trust will match fund if appropriate (Trust Top-Up). The Trust will also administer Gift Aid for charitable applications where applicable.

Vibrant Villages - the scheme where the Trust and West Berkshire Council jointly give grants for capital projects in rural communities is also now administered through www.findmeagrant.org. The separate committee which looks at these applications is drawn from the Trust and West Berkshire Council.

For any help with your application please call Melissa Elliott on 01635 817445.

Applicants will be informed if they are successful and details will be posted on our website and in the local media. We like to tell your stories about how the Trust funding has benefitted your local community. Please contact the Trust’s Communications and Events manager Julian May, 01635 817407; julian@greenham-common-trust.co.uk for further information about getting your organisation on the Trust’s website.

Click here to view the reactive grants for 2011.

2010

• £18,000 for Ufton Court Educational Trust
  to create Ufton Adventure: an environmental and outdoor centre for young people based in extensive woodlands adjacent to Ufton Court in West Berkshire.
  View the case study here
• £30,000 for St George's Church, Wash Common
  to make a church building acceptable for community usage, with insulation & heating using renewable energy systems.
  View the case study here
• £10,000 for St Mary's Church, Speen
  for the construction of a kitchen within the Church hall.
  View the case study here

2009

• £26,000 for BACYP (Berkshire Association of Clubs for Young People)
  for a Volunteer Youth Leaders support service in rural West Berkshire and to provide an up to date comprehensive 'What's on' web site with news and information for young people.
  View the case study here
• £10,000 for Berkshire County Blind Society
  to enhance the quality of life of 145 visually impaired people living in and around Newbury.
  View the case study here
• £10,000 for Children First West Berkshire
  for role model tenant and training of the care leavers. The training will be specific for each individual.
• £5,000 for The West Berkshire Minority Ethnic Forum
  for the development of an Equalities Council, the Interfaith Forum, Women's Development Programmes and identification/support for further minority ethnic communities within the area.
  View the case study here
• £14,000 for West Berkshire Citizens Advice Bureau
  to continue to provide the Outreach Service in rural parts of West Berkshire for the most vulnerable in our society.
  View the case study here
• £23,000 for Bradfield C of E Primary School
  to build a self contained hall, kitchen facilities, toilets, secure entrance and reception, teaching rooms, library and classroom.
  View the case study here
• £10,000 for Compton Village Hall
  for the removal of the existing concrete/asbestos roof and its annexes and to replace the roof and defective hall lighting.
• £10,000 for Ecchinswell Village Hall
  to upgrade the existing facilities.
• £10,000 for the Wessex Children's Hospice (Naomi House)
  View the case study here
• £15,000 for Volunteer Centre West Berkshire
  to employ a volunteer recruitment officer in order in increase participation in regular volunteering and to create volunteering campaigns over two years.

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.
• £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.
• £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.
• £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.
• £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.
• £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.
• £23,000 for West Berkshire Chamber of Commerce
  for continued funding for a Police Community Support Officer to support the West Berkshire business community.
• £10,000 for West Berkshire Citizens Advice Bureau
  to continue to provide an outreach service in rural parts of West Berkshire.
• £33,000 for West Berkshire Youth Offending Team
  for a YOT Officer specifically targeted at the most prolific and persistent young offenders.
• £10,000 for 14-21 Time to Talk - more
• £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.
• £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.
• £12,000 for The British Red Cross
  for a 4X4 Landrover ambulance with vital equipment to assist and treat those needing medical attention.
  View the case study here

2007

• £25,000 for The North Hampshire Medical Fund
  to purchase an Optical Coherence Tomography machine.
• £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).
• £24,500 for The Community Council for Berkshire
  to fund a development worker (joint funded by the Trust and West Berkshire Partnership).
• £24,000 for West Berkshire CAB and All U Need 2 Know - more
• £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).
• £30,000 for The Corn Exchange, Newbury
  to establish a full-time micro-plex/film screening room within the Corn Exchange.
• £24,000 for Kingslclere Village Club
  towards a major redevelopment of the club to provide a new furniture store.
• £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.
• The Vibrant Village Grant Scheme - more

2006

• £150,000 for Adventure Dolphin, Pangbourne - more
• £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.
• £24,000 for the Bishop's Green Youth Project
  to help support the project’s full-time youth worker and project co-ordinator.
• £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
• £570,000 for the Watermill Theatre - more
• £37,000 for the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance
  for essential running costs to keep the ambulance operational.
• £20,000 for Home Start West Berkshire
  to fund a home visiting scheme.
• £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
• £30,000 for Life Education Centres, Thames Valley - more
• £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.
• £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.
• £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
• £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.
• £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.
• £75,000 for local schools - more
• £23,000 for the Watermill Theatre's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - more
• £15,000 for East Garston village
  to build a children's play area and public recreational facilities on the village's millennium field.
• £90,000 for the Berkshire Community Foundation - more
• £17,000 for West Berkshire Mencap
  to purchase a minibus.
• £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.