Community Grants
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ESF Community Grants Programme 2008/2010 |
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The European Social Fund (ESF) made this programme available to Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector organisations to support disadvantaged or excluded unemployed and inactive people to progress towards employment particularly from the following groups:
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People with disabilities and health conditions (including mental ill health)
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Lone Parents
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People aged 50 and over
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People from ethnic minorities
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Females
The Funding has been allocated through applications made under six rounds with the last round closing on 26th February 2010.
A report on the Community Grants Programme in Chesire and Warrington is available - follow this link.
For further details of the projects listed below contact
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Round 1 |
Closing date 31/07/08 |
Area Served |
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DIAL House Chester |
Learning to Cater for All Needs - £6000 |
Cheshire West and Chester |
Employing a p/t staff member to focus on catering related learning for beneficiaries with learning difficulties/disabilities. Some learning in basic life skills |
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Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre |
Moving Forward - £10,000 |
Cheshire Wide |
3 learning courses for lone parents, women, and individuals with learning disabilities to improve self-esteem and introduce strategies for change: confidence building, assertiveness, appreciating diversity, community & crime, volunteering and personal safety. |
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Walton Lea Project |
Real Skills for Real Work - £8,000 |
Warrington |
Partnership working with William Beamont School – pilot project: structured learning programme leading to ASDAN qualifications for beneficiaries with learning difficulties, disabilities and for staff learning and development and accreditation process including IT equipment to enable IT skills development. |
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(West Cheshire) Ltd. |
Advanced Start - Community Learning and Life Skills - £6,000 |
Cheshire West and Chester |
Pilot project to engage beneficiaries with severe and enduring mental health problems in community based learning: Accredited learning opportunities at OCN Level 1: Introduction to the workplace involving confidence building, assertiveness, team working and communication skills. |
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New Readers (Warrington) |
All Write - £6,000 |
Warrington |
Beginner reader project – development of literacy and creative writing skills, leading to increased confidence, improved employment opportunities . |
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Round 2 |
Closing date 31/10/08 |
Area Served |
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Voluntary Action Vale Royal |
Winning Women - £11,980 |
Cheshire West and Chester |
Working in partnership with the local Women’s Aid organisation and facilitating a course incorporating first contact engagement activity for women suffering domestic violence – includes assessing & assisting with Basic Skills needs, achievement of OCN Level 1 qualification. |
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Neuromuscular Centre |
New Options - £11,476 |
Cheshire, Halton, Warrington |
Information Advice and Guidance service for people with disabilities, skills assessment and brokerage of appropriate skills development & employment/volunteering experience opportunities. Lack of current provision has been identified particularly for people with NM disease. |
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Trinity Methodist Church |
Stitch in Time - £2,470 |
Ellesmere Port |
Engaging individuals over 50 (some with disabilities) in an arts & craft community project – community tapestry. Developing tapestry skills researching local history and gaining skills such as teamwork & cooperation. |
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Cre8 Worth |
A World Worth Living in - £5,000 |
Macclesfield |
First engagement activities developing social, personal and employability skills for young women and young adults not currently engage with statutory agencies, including lone parents and those suffering with mental health problems. |
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Halton Credit Union Forum |
Community Learners Programme
- £6,000 |
Halton |
Working with existing and new volunteers to develop skills – work based learning as volunteers run the credit union. Supporting people to progress to other opportunities eg ECDL provided by partners and in-house. |
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Round 3 |
Closing date 27/02/09 |
Area Served |
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MacIntyre Charity (Warrington) |
MacIntyre Catering - £4,870 |
Warrington |
Working with adults with learning disabilities to expand the services currently offered; includes learning and development opportunities in a real work situation. |
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Halton YMCA |
Halton Young People's Healthy Living Project - £12,000 |
Halton |
Working with young people living in YMCA to develop life skills and undertake entry level qualifications looking at developing skills around healthy eating. |
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Halton Women's Aid |
Step Up, Enjoy and Achieve - £11,852 |
Halton |
Rolling programme of functional skills training for females including learning to communicate effectively, improve reading and writing opportunities, explore internet and computer literacy and assist with basic maths. |
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Crewe YMCA |
Girls Only Project - £11,246 |
Cheshire East |
Rolling programme of functional skills training for females including learning to communicate effectively, improve reading and writing opportunities, explore internet and computer literacy and assist with basic maths. |
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South Cheshire CLASP |
Parenting Power Project - £10,750 |
Cheshire East |
Employ a part time project worker to coordinate activity and engage new beneficiaries in CLASP programmes including parenting course, family learning etc. |
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Wesley Centre, Chester |
Wesley Volunteer Development Programme - £4,000 |
Cheshire West and Chester |
Programme to support volunteers with additional needs, funding for additional staff hours to develop personal development plans and further develop skills. |
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Round 4 |
Closing date 30/06/09 |
Area Served |
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BREN Project |
Bren Project - £5,500 |
Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Crewe and Nantwich |
Unique small local project – expansion of existing provision to improve current service. To provide tailored 1:1 supported employment placements for individuals with learning difficulties – those excluded from mainstream provision and not accessing vocational support elsewhere and college students requiring a high level of support during the transition stage from education to employment. |
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Chester Women's Hostel Association |
Making Ways into Work -£12,000 |
Cheshire West and Chester |
Only provision for homeless women in area. To develop in-house learning & development opportunities for homeless women creating a culture of learning and self development within the hostel setting adding value to the organisations current resettlement support packages. Identified needs for development include: basic skills, computer literacy, job search, CV writing and interview techniques for paid work and volunteering placements, equality & diversity training, basic first aid and Health and Safety. |
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National Federation for the Blind (Chester) |
CyberEyes - £10,475 |
Cheshire West and Chester |
Innovative project looking at carers as well as those with a disability. The project aims to provide individuals with sight loss opportunities to access computers & the internet in community based settings. Adaptive software will be purchased for current PCs and the IT trainer will train volunteers to use the software which will enable timetabled CyberEyes sessions where volunteers will buddy people with sight loss. |
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Warrington Community Care |
The Village Cafe - Phase 2 intake -£7,500 |
Warrington |
The project is a new mental health employment & training project which opens late July 2009. The Café provides opportunities for volunteer involvement from adults with mental health support needs. It will provide real work environment opportunities with sensitive limits and support needs. |
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Youth Federation |
Youth Work Steps Programme - £11,432 |
Macclesfield |
A project with an intergenerational focus - engaging older people to gain skills in working with young people, particularly mentoring and role modelling. It will provide skills for adults looking to return to the work environment or pursue a new career working with young people and children. |
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Round 5 |
Closing date |
Area Served |
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DIAL House (Chester) |
Work Based Learning |
Chester |
To deliver work based learning opportunities to the volunteers at Dial House, building on previous community Grants project success |
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Disability Information Bureau |
Volunteering into employment |
Macclesfield |
To employ a volunteer support coordinator to encourage an increase in volunteers and provide training and support to those volunteers including skills for life, IT health and safety etc |
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Homestart East Cheshire |
Basic steps parenting |
East Cheshire |
to deliver monthly learning events for parents who volunteer with the project, to recruit new volunteers and refer volunteers to further learning programmes |
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Winsford Community Action Project |
On Track |
Winsford |
Working with ex-offenders to deliver a range of sessions including home survival, work survival embedding literacy and numeracy |
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The Relationships Centre |
Working for You! |
Warrington |
To run Working for You courses building on success of previous courses to build esteem and skills with participants to encourage them to move onto further learning and work |
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Crewe Women’s Aid |
Successful Tenancy Scheme |
Cheshire East |
To support women to achieve successful tenancies through acquiring a range of skills. The funding will support additional staff hours to deliver sessions around sessions such as DIY, budgeting etc |
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Round 6 |
Closing date 26/02/10 |
Area Served |
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South Cheshire Clasp |
Parenting Power Project |
Crewe |
To extend the existing project to work with lone parents to engage them in improving life skills (cooking, budgeting, first aid) through learning activity, volunteering and assisting others in the project. |
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Crewe Women's Aid |
Successful Tenancy Scheme |
Cheshire East |
To provide support to women to develop successful tenancy skills - budgeting, garden maintenance, home painting and decoration, home maintenance - continuation of previous project |
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BTCV |
Growing Together |
Cheshire West |
To deliver a programme of training and volunteering in gardening and food growing and developing food preparation, food hygiene skills and healthy eating awareness |
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Walton Lea Project |
Building Simple Life Skills |
Warrington |
To work with adults with learning disabilities develop and improve basic life skills to enable greater opportunities for employment - Continuation of previous project |
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Enterprise and Education Alliance |
Alder Lane Centre - |
Warrington |
To create a community kitchen garden in the Alder Lane Activities Centre, Orford Park, Warrington working with young people (16+), unemployed residents and others. To grow easy to grow kitchen and salad vegetables |
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Chester Aid to the Homeless |
Understanding People |
Chester |
To work with clients of CATH who are homeless and have mental health issues to enable them to engage more freely and productively in activity based learning and vocational opportunities that will lead them on to accommodation and employment. |
