The latest round of South Kesteven Prosperity Fund allocations for community groups across South Kesteven has been published.
This is the third round of funding, totalling more than £166,000 shared among 28 applicants.
South Kesteven District Council was awarded more than £1 million to allocate to community projects before March 2025. This includes town and parish councils, parish meetings, charter trustees, and community groups within the district through the South Kesteven Prosperity Fund.
Deputy Leader of the Council, Cllr Ashley Baxter, said: “I am really pleased to see so many innovative uses of the Shared Prosperity Fund.
“The current tranche of grant funding has reached a diverse range of groups spread across many of our villages and towns across the District.”
Full details and an application form are online at www.southkesteven.gov.uk/SPFgrants
Applications are assessed on how the project responds to a local need, the benefit to the community, and whether the project can be completed within the required timeframe.
These projects will contribute towards green space and outdoor improvements, culture and arts initiatives and heritage initiatives. They must respond to a local need and show benefit for the community.
Projects this time will bring new play areas for children, a free fusion diverse classical music concert, solar power for a village hall, a cinema club, a children’s writing contest and help with the restoration of a historic church clock. The recipients are:
Rippingale Jubilee Playing Field Fund – £20,000
To replace an old, unfit and unused temporary sports changing facility to enable organised sports teams to make better use of the facility. Bodies as the Football Association require changing rooms for teams, with associated toilet amenities.
Carlby Village Hall Committee – £15,000
Solar power and battery storage.
Tallington Parish Council – £14,475
To repair and restore the 430 metres of footpaths through the Millennium Green to provide a wheelchair/pram friendly non-slip surface all year round.
Tallington Village Hall and Playing Field Association – £13,160
Replacement of rotting wooden play equipment with steel apparatus, plus additional play equipment to benefit the children of the village and surrounding area, also to provide play for a wider age group, in particular nursery aged children.
Fulbeck Village Hall & Playing Field Committee – £13,000
A new cafe/bar area with seating in the Village Hall to allow people to meet up for chat and refreshments in a new environment with a “good ambience”.
Alive Church, Grantham – £12,675
To encourage and provide male-oriented English conversational lessons, plus suitable craft projects using wood and tools in a wider project to reduce loneliness and isolation in the Afghan community now resident in Grantham. Also to fund fun days for children in the Afghan community and to meet the cost of roof renovation at the premises.
Brudenell Playing Fields Management Committee (aka Baston Village Hall) – £9,676
To replace a see-saw in the children’s play area as well as an existing single junior swing with a combined parent and toddler swing.
St Andrews Church, Billingborough – £9,260
Restoration of the church clock.
Frank Newbon Community Projects CIC, Stamford – £7,000
To fund improvements and additional equipment for the Outdoor Gym on Stamford Recreation ground – a free-to-enter gym for all to enjoy.
Barrowby Sports Pavilion Committee (Parish council sub-committee) – £6,000
New flooring for the sports pavilion in Barrowby.
Londonthorpe and Harrowby Without Parish Council – £6,000
To replace the current “Wooden Trim Trail” equipment with a new metal equipment.
Burton le Coggles Parish Meeting – £5,000
To landscape and fence the green space outside the village hall to provide a safe area for children to play whilst supervised.
Ron Dawson Memorial Trust, Corby Glen – £5,160
To fit replacement loft insulation to reduce heating costs.
Claypole Village Hall – £4,702
Equipment and set-up costs for a Community Cinema Club. This would meet demand for a facility within walking distance of all Claypole residents. This would create a relaxed social environment, cater for all ages and tastes and lead to some friendship and ideas for other social activities.
Uffington Parish Council – £3,420
A new village notice board with a coronation plaque.
Irnham Parish Council – £3,000
Provision of a bespoke village sign to mark the Coronation of King Charles III.
Stamford Diversity Group CIC – £2,791
To help stage a free fusion diverse classical music concert to the most deprived area of Stamford, where local harpist Eleanor Turner will perform together with blues guitarist Wayne Bennett and Ukrainian Iryna Muha on vocals, hurdy gurdy and acoustic guitar. The event would be free with all local Ukrainian refugees invited, along with the newly-created local Ukrainian choir.
The church of the Ascension, Grantham – £2,584
To purchase and install a replacement heater for the community hall.
Benedict Blythe Foundation, Stamford – £2,500
To help meet the costs of the Benedict’s Story Prize, a creative writing competition for primary aged children in the wider Stamford area running through the Summer holidays in memory of Benedict Blythe, who lived in Stamford and died in 2021 aged five. A schedule of free or already funded activities is already in place.
Denton Village Hall Community Group – £2,362
To enable the renewal and replacement of the present unsafe, inefficient hand washing and water boiling facilities.
Friends of Stamford Station – £2,000
To install traditional directional signs and a welcome board in keeping with the heritage of the town, so visitors arriving at the Stamford station are aware of how and where to access the town centre.
St James’ Church PCC, Castle Bytham – £1,900
For the repair and cleaning of the village war memorial.
Carlby Village Hall – £1,205
Replacement of the lighting system to reduce power consumption by 280 watts/hr for each of the 10 units, and to replace inefficient heaters.
Colsterworth Nature Trail – £1,200
To pay for a tree survey by a professional arborist to identify and prioritise trees which need felling.
The Thorold Arms Community Benefit Society Ltd, Hougham & Marston – £700
To hire electricity monitoring equipment to help correlate solar power generation against usage to justify potential battery purchase and installation.
Barholm and Stowe Parish Meeting – £590
To buy a new defibrillator box so that the medical equipment can be brought back into use.
Colsterworth Festival of Performing Arts – £500
To help fund the 25th Anniversary Concert at Walton Academy on Sunday, 26th March 2023, celebrating current and past performers and showcase local talent.
Hougham and Marston Village Hall – £250
Provision of “No Dogs” notices for the playing field.
The fund is to finance projects which deliver improvements to community buildings, green spaces, and provide funds for culture, arts, and heritage initiatives within the District.
Community groups must be located within South Kesteven. However, national charities can apply – providing the project they are proposing is delivered entirely within the district and is of direct benefit to the community in which it is carried out.
There is no limit on the number of applications which an organisation may submit. However, each project must be submitted as a separate application and will be considered independently. Applications to the fund will not be prejudiced by previously unsuccessful applications from the same organisation.
There are no fixed deadlines for applications. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the annual allocation of funding is committed.
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