An Award Provided New Choral Singing And Drama Opportunities For People With Learning Disabilities To Work With Project Workers.

An award helps Children with learning difficulties enjoy using new equipment, in different and challenging activities to develop the sensory and social skills.

New equipment and outings will enable the group to provide an extended social activity programme especially for the older members aged 80+

Award will enable this playschool to improve facilities for the children with the provision of new play equipment.

Bedfordshire and Luton Millennium Conference addressing the issue of 'Developing a Local Compact - What's in it for us?' this will identify the benfits of a compact for use by the voluntary and statutory sectors in Bedfordshire.

Charity has been working here to improve facilities for hall users. Award would contribute to providing furniture and toilet refurbishment.

This charity works with groups of women and children living in Bedford and award will provide for craft equipment, crhche facilities and play equipment.

This group provides meeting facilities which are much used by elderly people, a befrienders scheme for people with learning disabilities and other community groups. Award will improve their facilities.

The updated kitchen will benefit the many groups and organisations which use the Clapham Methodist Hall for their meetings.

Award to provide much needed improvements to the heating and ventilation of this well used hall.

Award will provide additional hardsurfacing to the Hall's carpark for the benefit of people with mobility issues.

A major project where award would contribute to refurbishments to enhance the facilities at the Chapter House Hall - a community building meeting the needs of many local voluntary groups.

Awards For All Grant Gives Strong Boost To Local Club Providing Young People With Indoor Winter Coaching And Making Best Use Of New Equipment.

Save the Last Dance

Stagsden Village Hall - Coming of Age Project

The grant will be used to provide 25 before school, 25 after school and 8 holiday places, including wraparound provision for children aged 3-7 years old in Bedford. 10 local schools will be served by the project.

Award will enable this charity to fund a map board which illustrates the walks available in the immediate area. Project is supported by leaflets linked to the sign.

Fencing club to use award for specialist equipment and additional promotion with the aim of introducing beginners to the sport.

The Countryside is our Classroom-Bedford

To increase the ability of Asian cancer patients to understand and make informed choices in the treatment options available to them by adapting and re-filming an English video and translating it into four major Asian languages.The video will be distribut

This is a new parent and toddler group, offering morning activities for the pre-school children in the area. The one year grant will pay for play equipment, rent and running expenses and the costs of activities.

A community project involving twenty organisations in the village and past and present residents of all ages to produce a publication of a historical record of Riseley.

New equipment for group to use when promoting astronomy to beginners at schools and other organisations.

An Awards for All grant provided new equipment and much improved facilities for junior/youth and adult cricketers which in turn attracted more players and raised both the profile of the club and the standard of cricket played.

This organisation used an award to extend their range of weight training and exercise equipment to meet increased demand for exercise classes from people living in the area and using the community centre.

An award was used by this competitive Canoe Club to strengthen the club by adding to the number of their coaches through providing training courses for volunteer coaches who in turn would be able to train more members and thus increasing the scale a

Short mat bowls facilities improved at Elstow - club uses an award and their own resources to provide new facilities and enable more people to bowl.

Bedford Museum Collection Management System

The project is to provide transport for club members to allow them to be involved in the community, attend monthly meetings and go on outings. The three year grant will pay for transport costs.

This project will provide, landscape and equip a play area and resurface the car park for this Family Centre which offers support to vulnerable and needy families. The one year grant will fund refurbishment and landscaping costs, and the purchase and inst

The grant will be used to provide 16 after-school places for children aged 5-11 years old in Great Barford, Bedford. Schools served will be Great Barford Lower School and Alban Middle School.

The grant will be used to create 24 after-school places and 24 holiday places, for 4 weeks during the summer, for children aged 5-11 years old in Kempston, Bedfordshire. Schools served will be Springfield Lower, Daubeney Middle and other local schools.

The grant will be used to create 16 after-school places for children aged 3-11 years old. School served will be Christopher Reeves VA Lower school.

PC software to increase the children's skill and creativity along with display and progress recording equipment

This charity is looking to upgrade the ambience, safety and security of its premises for all its users. to replace and fit four windows, a new front door with doorbell and a new fire exit door

On 26 June an exhibition of heritage projects undertaken by Wootton Upper school pupils, using their award to cover venue hire and photographics

A community recording its present and its heritage via a Y2K book.

A day of Millennium Celebrations for each village ensures they enjoy a wide range of activities spanning all ages and generations include live entertainment, photographic and historic exhibitions, games and other celebratory activities.

Award will enable this charity extend its activities by setting up a 5-a-side team and in October staging the first-ever 5-a-side competition in Bedford.

Award will enable expansion of club's regional coaching education programme encompassing: coaching courses volunteer training beginner taster days for all ages and links with LAs and schools.

North Bedfordshire Adult Education Service is the lead applicant for a consortium bid which also involves two middle schools, one secondary school and a local library. All are located in the Kempston area of North Bedfordshire.

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North Bedfordshire Adult Education Service will lead a partnership with two middle schools, one secondary school and a local library all located in the Kempston area of North Bedfordshire.

To create a summer school that will provide a wide range of sports and arts activities in 2 schools in the area. The project will help develop the range of skills and aptitudes in children.

Group Putting On 2 Special Millennium Orchestral Concerts In July Involving Young Musicians From The Bedford Area And From Bedford'S Twins Towns In Italy, Poland And Germany. It Is Intended That The Millennium Youth Concert Will Become An Annual Event. Co

Outdoor play equipment - to provide a safe play area for the village children.

This charity will provide children with summer courses to learn new skills

New double-glazed windows to help provide a safe, energy efficient facility for all its users.

A community pageant reflecting local history and a village archive project.

A community together, creating an historical archive/exhibition of photographs/ephemera about their own people, accompanied by posters for every one - 'Stagsden Past & Present'

An innovative outreach project to encourage and enable participation by the young the elderly and people from ethnic minorities

Special equipment and training will ensure the needs of those with varying disabilities and needs are encouraged and enabled to take part. in this sport

The project is to provide a village hall and playing field for a small isolated community. This one year grant will fund the construction of a multi-functional and fully accessible village hall.

This is a project to develop a group hire mini-bus scheme to increase the use of vehicles currently owned by voluntary organisations through pooling and brokerage. This three year grant will contribute towards the costs of salaries, running expenses and

This MENCAP group will move to larger premises in order to add to their existing gardening project by providing a furniture restoration scheme, and an education programme to expand members' IT and life skills. This three year grant will contribute towards

Changing Landscapes: Changing Lives, Marston Vale

The grant will be used to set up a holiday playscheme providing 32 new places for children in the Marston Vale area. Schools served will be 2 middle schools, 13 lower schools and 1 upper school in the Marston area.

Through this award local voluntary groups will gain access to the Internet via a computer based at Beds CVS.

A village schoolchildrens project will insert a Time Capsule in the front boundary wall of the Village Hall rebuilt through this award for safety reasons.

A special Millennium May Day - a wide range of fun events and activities for all ages.

The award will help fund a Y2K video and Doomsday book recording the life and work of village residents throughout the year and on 24 and 25 June a midsummer medieval fair

This award will provide handstanding for a basketball court in the grounds of this Village Hall. The goal and socket provided by the EBBA

A project to establish a new and only sports resource in this rural village providing children with opportunities to progress to competition level. Goal and netball posts rounders bats and basic equipment.