Lottery grants awarded to Oadby and Wigston, East Midlands

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Date Recipient Amount Distributing Body
13 Apr 2017 Oadby Boys Club

Project 75

£5,300 Heritage Lottery Fund
21 Nov 2016 Wigston Guides Community Room

The project will update and maintain a community building to ensure its sustainability and provide heating so it can be used all year round.

£9,900 Big Lottery Fund
26 Oct 2016 Little Hill Primary School

The school will install a trim trail to engage children in extracurricular play and improve their fitness and wellbeing.

£9,114 Big Lottery Fund
8 Sep 2016 Age UK Oadby & Wigston

The group will use the funding to improve the female toilets and make them accessible, bringing the rurally located building in line with health and safety requirements.

£7,259 Big Lottery Fund
23 Jun 2016 All Saints C of E Primary School

The school will use the funding to install a climbing and adventure trail. This will improve the environment at the school, providing opportunities for creative play.

£9,990 Big Lottery Fund
16 May 2016 Tattva Arts

The group will use the funding to run positive activities to improve the health and wellbeing of young people and improve community cohesion.

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
13 May 2016 Langmoor Primary School

The school will use the funding to build an adventure playground to address key development areas in younger children.

£9,950 Big Lottery Fund
11 Apr 2016 Woodland Grange Primary School

The school will use the funding to purchase and install play equipment and soft surfacing. This will improve the children's health and wellbeing.

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
26 Jan 2016 Brocks Hill Primary School

The school will use the funding to create an outdoor play area at a school that is lacking extra-curricular activity provision. This will encourage children to engage in positive social activities and reduce isolation.

£9,995 Big Lottery Fund
3 Dec 2015 Anand Bhatt

Discover Asia

£5,000 Arts Council England
18 Nov 2015 Communities Inc. CIC

The group will use the funding to deliver workshops that will improve services that support the BME community. This will develop volunteering opportunities and build capacity for the voluntary support sector.

£9,878 Big Lottery Fund
12 Nov 2015 Communities Inc. CIC

Following two small pilots Communities Inc will develop their work to provide support for victims of hate crime and help with reporting it to the authorities in partnership with Victim Support. Around 200 people will be trained to help victims and witnesses of hate crime. It will also establish 30 new hate crime reporting centres in community venures where the volunteers will be based. Support will also be provided through workshops involving local organisations and develop local reporting networks.

£382,898 Big Lottery Fund
10 Nov 2015 Age UK Oadby & Wigston

The group will use the funding to purchase a new roof for the centre which is important in reducing isolation amongst local older people.

£2,340 Big Lottery Fund
26 Aug 2015 Oadby and Wigston Borough Council

Natural Discovery Volunteer Development Programme

£43,900 Heritage Lottery Fund
29 Jul 2015 The Leicestershire Fly Fishing Association

A project to deliver fly fishing sessions for local beneficiaries. This will young people getting involved in positive outdoor activities and engaging with nature rather than being socially isolated at home.

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
24 Jun 2015 Aakash Odedra Limited

Develop, Establish, Grow

£93,950 Arts Council England
23 Jun 2015 The Meadow Community Primary School

The group will use the funding to create an outdoor play pod made from and containing scrap materials, deliver staff training in operating the equipment and to start an after school club to encourage increased participation in play activities. This will improve the facilities and services available at the school through the provision of environmentally focused play equipment that will help to reduce waste at landfill sites.

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
16 Jun 2015 Rajarshi Chowdhury

Freshly Brewed

£15,000 Arts Council England
27 Feb 2015 Wigston liberal club

This is a project by community organisation in Leicester. The group will use the funding to deliver a variety of activities to both the younger and older generation including day trips and fitness classes. This will increase community participation in physical activities which have been designed to confront identified health and well being issue of local people.

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
20 Feb 2015 Aakash Odedra Limited

Building Blocks

£15,000 Arts Council England
6 Feb 2015 Brookside Primary School

This is a project by a school in Leicester. The group will use the funding to install play equipment for its extracurricular activities for children at risk of obesity. This will enable beneficiaries to participate in healthy activities and improve their wellbeing.

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
14 Jan 2015 Anand Bhatt

Anand Bhatt Personal Development - 2

£15,000 Arts Council England
7 Jan 2015 Colours of Melody

Meadow of Music

£15,000 Arts Council England
26 Sep 2014 Langmoor Primary School

This school will use the funding to deliver a range of exercise-based after school sessions for school children, including fitness classes, yoga and dance, parent and child classes, and special additional classes for disaffected children and those with special educational needs. This will improve beneficiaries? health through increasing their levels of physical activity.

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
1 Sep 2014 The Elms

This community organisation will use the funding to purchase games and sports equipment to deliver classes and events, which will attract older and younger people. This will develop the capacity of the organisation to offer appealing activities for a wider range of beneficiaries.

£9,853 Big Lottery Fund
14 Jul 2014 Birkett House School

Primary Spaces

£27,400 Sport England
19 Jun 2014 Bushloe High School

This is a project by a school in Wigston, Leicestershire. The group will use the funding to provide after school fitness classes for pupils and other young people in the community as well as a week long summer camp. This will give the beneficiaries an inc

£9,998 Big Lottery Fund
19 Jun 2014 Bushloe High School

This is a project by a school in Wigston, Leicestershire. The group will use the funding to provide after school fitness classes for pupils and other young people in the community as well as a week long summer camp. This will give the beneficiaries an increased opportunity for exercise through enjoyable activities and teach them the importance of healthy living from an early age.

£9,998 Big Lottery Fund
11 Jun 2014 South Leicestershire College

FE Activation - Increased Workforce Capacity

£99,120 Sport England
29 May 2014 Rajarshi Chowdhury

Speaking Hands

£15,000 Arts Council England
29 Apr 2014 Oadby (Granville) Tennis and Social Club Limited

Clubhouse Environmental Sustainability

£45,698 Sport England
14 Feb 2014 Glenmere Community Primary School

This is a project by an academy in Leicester. The school will use the funding to deliver extracurricular classes in balance, speed, coordination and family skills for children and their parents. This will create a structured extra-curricular learning plat

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
14 Feb 2014 Glenmere Community Primary School

This is a project by an academy in Leicester. The school will use the funding to deliver extracurricular classes in balance, speed, coordination and family skills for children and their parents. This will create a structured extra-curricular learning platform focused on children to provide regular opportunities to play and learn in a safe environment outside the more rigid structure of the school day.

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
5 Feb 2014 University of Leicester

1x Quest Test Drive

£450 Sport England
20 Jan 2014 University of Leicester

NBS Full Report

£850 Sport England
5 Nov 2013 University Of Leicester Botanic Garden

Sculpture in the Garden Education & Outreach Prog

£9,797 Arts Council England
8 Oct 2013 Linda Harding

Women of Highfields Textile Project

£4,000 Arts Council England
3 Sep 2013 The Market Bosworth School

This is a project by an academy in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The group will use the funding to design and create a sensory garden for use by young people with mental health related illnesses and physical disabilities. This will provide the beneficiaries wit

£9,984 Big Lottery Fund
19 Aug 2013 Anand Bhatt

Personal Development - Producer

£15,000 Arts Council England
2 Aug 2013 Beaumont Leys - Community Learning

This is a project by a community group in Leicester, East midlands. The group will use the funding to work with unemployed young people and adults by providing one to one employment support and coaching. This will enable the participants to learn new empl

£9,986 Big Lottery Fund
30 Jul 2013 Little Hill Primary School

This is a project by a school in Wigston, Leicestershire. The group will use the funding to buy and install a soft play surface to part of their playground that is used for extracurricular activities by the school and by a number of community groups. This

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
7 Jun 2013 Leicester-Shire Schools Music Service

Every Song Matters: Choir Project

£42,234 Arts Council England
28 May 2013 Thythorn Field Community Primary School

This is a project by a school in Wigston, Leicestershire. The group will use the funding to purchase outdoor play equipment and run a multi activity summer camp. This will improve facilities for school children and the wider community and strengthen the r

£9,850 Big Lottery Fund
14 May 2013 Helping Hands Community Trust

The aim of this new project will see Helping Hands Community Trust (HHCT) become the lead of a eight organisation partnership to improve the free provision of independent, professional and specialist advice in Welfare Benefits, Debt, Housing and Employmen

£134,087 Big Lottery Fund
9 Apr 2013 Community Combat

This community organisation in Oadby, Leicestershire will use the funding to deliver boxing training sessions for local young people that are involved in anti social activites. The aim of this project is to reduce anti social behaviour by helping young pe

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
5 Mar 2013 Age Concern Oadby & Wigston

This charity in Oadby and Wigston, Leicestershire will use the funding to provide new furniture for its day care centre which is used by older people living with disabilities and their carers.

£5,110 Big Lottery Fund
21 Jan 2013 Saint John Fisher Catholic Primary School

This school in Wigston, Leicestershire will use the funding to install play equipment for children.

£9,950 Big Lottery Fund
21 Jan 2013 Fairfield Primary School

This school in Leicestershire will use the funding to run extra-curricular activities by providing physical play and games sessions for the school and the wider community.

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
4 Dec 2012 Nathan Human

Fragments

£9,415 Arts Council England
20 Nov 2012 Action Homeless (Leicester) Limited

This is a project by a charity in Wigston, Leicestershire. The group will use the funding to deliver film making, photography and facilitation workshops for homeless people to communicate their stories. This will enable beneficiaries to develop their self

£5,300 Big Lottery Fund
18 Oct 2012 Wigston Framework Knitters Museum Ltd

The past comes to life

£5,500 Heritage Lottery Fund
11 Sep 2012 Oadby and Wigston Borough Council

This project from Oadby and Wigston Borough Council will develop a year-long pilot project aimed at supporting the residents of Boulter Crescent, which is home to a group of hard to reach, vulnerable and marginalised residents.

£116,056 Big Lottery Fund
21 Aug 2012 Communities Inc. CIC

This is a project by a community organisation in Leicester serving beneficiaries in Nottingham. The group will use the funding to facilitate discussions between local businesses and the community on common issues affecting them such as crime and employmen

£9,650 Big Lottery Fund
25 Jul 2012 Communities Inc.

The Story of Black Community Activism in the East Midlands

£37,300 Heritage Lottery Fund
23 Jul 2012 Brocks Hill Primary School

This is a project by a school in Oadby, Leicestershire. The school will use the funding to refurbish their playground and provide suitable activity trail equipment and climbing structure to provide an improved play facility for children at the school and

£7,500 Big Lottery Fund
23 Jul 2012 Irish Senior Citizen Group

This is a project by a community organisation in Leicester which will use the funding to provide various safety training for the management committee, recreational and social activities, health promotion and safety talks to older people living in their ow

£7,225 Big Lottery Fund
20 Jul 2012 Leicester Blue Sox Baseball Club

Schools and Youth Development Programme

£1,932 Sport England
31 May 2012 Leicester-Shire Schools Music Service

Every Song Matters

£50,000 Arts Council England
8 May 2012 Helping Hands Community Trust

This is a project by a charity in Wigston, Leicestershire. The group will use the funding to undertake training, recruit a utilities expert and purchase furniture for a counselling room. This will increase the capacity of the group by offering up to date

£9,143 Big Lottery Fund
19 Dec 2011 Abington High School

This is a project by a secondary school in Wigston, Leicestershire. The school will use the funding to run a fitness and weight management club for pupils and a movement and co-ordination club for SEN pupils. This will enable beneficiaries to participate

£4,800 Big Lottery Fund
18 Oct 2011 Action Homeless (Leicester) Limited

Action Homeless (Leicester) will provide training and work experience to homeless people living in hostel accommodation through Down Not Out. It will focus on producing a monthly community newsletter written and edited by the homeless volunteers with guid

£139,960 Big Lottery Fund
27 Sep 2011 Leicester & Leicestershire P.S.

Projection of digital images

£2,700 Arts Council England
21 Jul 2011 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust

Oadby and Wigston Nature, Environment and Wildlife Team (NEWTs)

£23,000 Heritage Lottery Fund
6 Jul 2011 Aylestone Lane Allotment Association

This is a project by a community group in Wigston, Leicestershire. The group will use funding to convert current toilet facilities at the group's allotment site into a unisex toilet area with suitable access for people with disabilities. This will ensure

£4,980 Big Lottery Fund
7 Jun 2011 Oadby & Wigston Hindu Community

This is a project by a community group in Oadby, Leicester. The group will use funding to run a series of health advice, legal guidance and cultural awareness workshops for BME people in the area who are currently unaware of how to access such advice. Thi

£9,975 Big Lottery Fund
5 Apr 2011 Oadby & Wigston Community Action

This is a project by a charity in Wigston, Leicestershire. The group will use funding to run IT workshops for anyone in the community who wants them. Beneficiaries will increase their computer literacy and IT skills and improve their employment prospects.

£9,750 Big Lottery Fund
30 Mar 2011 Action Homeless (Leicester) Limited

This charity in Leicester will use funding to create two nature gardens, one in the garden of a hostel for homeless men and one in an allotment run by a local secondary school, both of which will be monitored by webcams. This will improve two urban envir

£7,650 Big Lottery Fund
2 Nov 2010 Age Concern Oadby & Wigston

This is a project by a branch of Age Concern in Wigston, Leicester. The group will use the funding to carry out refurbishments to its cafe and dining room to enable the group to deliver additional activities for members who have varying degrees of mobili

£4,497 Big Lottery Fund
24 Aug 2010 Punjabi Culture Society

This is a project by a group based in Leicester. The group will use the funding to deliver basic exercise, computer training and day trips to older people to increase involvement and improve mental and physical well being.

£2,250 Big Lottery Fund
11 Aug 2010 Heroes Return Award to an individual

A Second World War veteran from Blaby, East Midlands has been awarded a grant towards travel costs for a commemorative visit to Normandy, France in July 2010. Funding has been provided for one Second World War veteran and one carer.

£875 Big Lottery Fund
11 May 2010 Helping Hands Community Trust

This Leicester charity will use an award to improve their facilities and training provision, to improve the service they provide to local people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The project will enable the group to provide the local community with guidance

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
17 Feb 2010 South Leicestershire College

This Leicestershire group will use funding to provide sports-based activities for young people aged 14-16. The project will be targeted at young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who may have fallen out of the education system. Activities will be host

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
6 Nov 2009 Heroes Return Award to an individual

A Second World War veteran from Leicestershire has been awarded a grant towards travel costs for a commemorative visit to Germany in December of this year. Funding has been provided for one Second World War veteran and one carer.

£875 Big Lottery Fund
4 Nov 2009 National Institute of Adult Continuing Education

Crossing the Bridge-a Little Further

£5,000 UK Film Council
15 Oct 2009 Spartan Survivors

One widow of a Second World War veteran from Wigston has been awarded a grant towards travel costs for a commemorative visit to Italy in January of next year. Funding has been provided for one widow of a Second World War veteran and one carer.

£1,425 Big Lottery Fund
8 Sep 2009 Leicester Pride

This group will use an award to organise a parade in the city centre, promoting the culture and diversity of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community and raising awareness of the isolation and discrimation they face.

£10,000 Big Lottery Fund
4 Aug 2009 Cheryl Wimperis

Working Title: Memory Series

£4,023 Arts Council England
24 Jul 2009 Heroes Return Award to an individual

One Second World War veteran from Leicestershire has been awarded a grant towards travel costs for a commemorative visit to France in June of this year. Funding has been provided for one Second World War veteran and one carer.

£875 Big Lottery Fund
18 Jun 2009 Spartan Survivors

Three Second World War veterans from Leicestershire have been awarded a grant towards travel costs for a commemorative visit to Italy in January of next year. Funding has been provided for three Second World War veterans and three carers.

£2,850 Big Lottery Fund
31 May 2009 Heroes Return Award to an individual

A second world war veteran from Leicestershire has been awarded a grant towards travel costs for a commemorative visit to France in June of this year. Funding has been provided for one veteran and one carer.

£875 Big Lottery Fund
11 May 2009 Manor High School Oadby

This secondary school will use funding to develop its cricket facilities by installing permanent outside nets. The project will enable children to take part in the sport after school, at weekends and during the summer, and will also provide a facility th

£10,000 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
8 Dec 2008 South Wigston Womens Institute

This branch of the Women's Institute will use funding to send members of the organisation on learning courses in subjects including art, cookery, crafts, drama, health and fitness and history. Participants will then be able to pass on their new skills to

£2,743 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
14 Jul 2008 Vishwas Group

A project by this group in Leicester to run weekly exercise sessions for elderly and vulnerable Asian adults. The grant will pay for venue hire, sessional workers, exercise equipment, transport, printing and volunteer expenses.

£9,527 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
14 Jul 2008 Age Concern Oadby & Wigston

A project by this community group based in Wigston to refurbish the kitchen area within the centre. The grant will include funding for kitchen furniture and equipment, walls, flooring and electrics.

£9,077 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
7 Apr 2008 South Leicestershire College

A project by this Further Education college to put on air a community radio station for Enterprise Week 2008 with content from residents of the Saffron area of Leicester. The grant will include funding for Ofcom fees, transmission hire, speakers, travel

£2,606 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
13 Feb 2008 South Wigston High School

South Wigston High School - Bringing Our History to Life

£23,900 Heritage Lottery Fund
29 Jan 2008 Peter Appleton

Ten Years On

£1,598 Arts Council England
19 Dec 2007 Stuart Simpson

Smile: formaggio con queso - a tour of Ireland

£4,998 Arts Council England
21 Nov 2007 Oadby Boys Club

This youth club in Oadby will convert an existing room into a computer suite. The club caters for boys, aged eight and upwards, who will be able to use the available computers and peripheral equipment for recreational activities as well as providing them

£5,704 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
19 Nov 2007 Launde Primary School

This primary school will provide permanent playground equipment which will be used to promote physical activity for pupils during playtime and lunchtimes, including foorball, basketball and tennis equipment.

£9,848 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
19 Sep 2007 All Saints C of E Primary School

This school will launch three extra-curricula clubs for existing pupils and other children within the local community, including performing arts and culture classes and a sporting programme.

£3,960 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
19 Sep 2007 The Beauchamp College

The project will provide family learning activities for families with children in early years education, for disabled children and a family friendly environment for fathers. The project seeks to involve the whole family in the learning experience. Activit

£385,257 Big Lottery Fund
22 Aug 2007 Hansen Court Social Club

This project will improve facilities and activities offered by a social club in Wigston, Leicestershire. The project will replace chairs in the communal lounge area, as the current ones do not meet health and safety regulations. The grant will pay for ne

£1,907 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
22 Aug 2007 Birkett House School

A project to set up a multi skill club which will be accessible for young people with disabilities using specialist coaches and support staff. The grant will contribute towards venue costs, head and assistant coach, training and equipment.

£9,700 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
24 Jul 2007 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited

The project will develop the Lucas' Marsh Local Nature Reserve by hiring a consultant to survey the reserve to see how they can divert overflow water from the ponds and surrounding arable land into the marsh. Access and signage will be improved and other

£9,935 Big Lottery Fund
3 Jul 2007 Oadby and Wigston Borough Council

The portfolio consists of three projects to provide play opportunities in areas of greatest need, increase access through local provision, increase community empowerment through the involvement of families and the voluntary sector and develop sustainable

£200,000 Big Lottery Fund
20 Jun 2007 Brocks Hill Primary School

This is an award for a project by Brocks Hill Primary School to run activity programmes for children all ages including asian dance, sports and fitness club. The grant will contribute towards the running of 3 after school clubs.

£2,840 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
14 May 2007 The Royal Marines Association - Leicester Branch

The award is for a project to enable world war two veteran and their wives to attend the annual reunion of the Royal Marines Association at Lympestone, Devon. The grant will contribute towards hotel accommodation, coach hire, taxi fares, evening concert a

£4,995 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
27 Feb 2007 Oadby Community Stakeholders

This group which promotes community cohesion, will use the award to run workshops to aid local community groups in setting up their own websites. The group runs its own very successful website aimed at raising awareness of services and opportunities in th

£6,383 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme
19 Dec 2006 Leicestershire Clubs For Young People

This group is an umbrella organisation for young peoples clubs in Leicestershire. It will use a grant to develop sports participation from the young people in the region, by establishing a bank of equipment that can be loaned out to affiliated clubs for s

£9,950 Awards For All (England) Joint Scheme