This project will deliver a creative arts project for people who are living with mental health issues. This will reduce social isolation and use art as a vehicle to improve mental wellbeing.

This project tackles the social isolation that prevents families living in Watford, Three Rivers and Hertsmere from accessing support services. The targeted families will also be experiencing a combination of additional needs such as stress, anxiety, mental ill-health, financial difficulties and cultural barriers. Volunteers will be matched with families and undertake weekly home visits to work build confidence, accessing support services and achieve agreed goals.

Sharing is Caring: Enabling resilience in older people

Elton John's Glasses - participation project

Get Active in Central Ward

In the line of duty: Askaris of the British Empire

Imagine Watford 2017-2018

This is a project by a primary school in Watford. The organisation will use the funding to develop and install new play equipment and safety surfacing in the playground. This will provide opportunities for children to be more physically active and interact through play.

Action for Children

This project will undertake a stakeholder consultation project to develop a better understanding of the impact they have on service users and how to improve their services. This will build the capacity of the organisation so that it is able to provide a better homeless support service.

Generation: Afropolitan

Action for Children will hold a community and family fun day to celebrate the 4 year anniversary of the Monmouthshire Parent Network and its achievements within the community. This grant for ?1,720 will fund venue hire costs, food, DJ, bouncy castle, character/face painting and messy play.

Watford Museum: 'Making Connections' - Re-engaging with Watford's past

Improving Lives, Enhancing Communities: A History of Watford FC's community work

TCHC

Meriden Community Centre Improvements

The organisation will use the funding to improve and expand their telephone advice facilities and upgrade their website. This will enable them to provide more advice to people, as people will be able to access advice without having to leave the house or pay public transport costs.

Sustained Theatre Fund

This project will use funding to install a story telling house and outdoor play equipment, within the grounds of the school, for the use of pupils and the wider school community. This will encourage beneficiaries to participate in physical activities out of school hours, with the aim of reducing obesity.

Catalyst: Evolve

This project will support parents and children in deprived areas of Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire to develop confidence in their parenting skill, it also aims to reduce isolation. Families described as ?just coping? will be matched with a local volunteer parent who will use their own experience and skills to support the participant parents through challenging times.This project takes an early intervention approach, resulting in reduced risk of crisis and need for statutory intervention.

Catalyst: Evolve

WDSA (UK)

This charity will use the funding to deliver a programme of new wheelchair dance activities and training for people with or without disabilities. This will challenge issues surrounding isolation and encourage people to socialise, breakdown barriers and challenge negative perceptions.

A project in partnership with 16 organisations including Prince's Trust and the Ferry Project to give people the confidence, capabilities and resilience to gain and retain employment whilst participating in local civic activities. The development funding will be used for project planning including governance meetings, project development, marketing and stakeholder engagement.

The funding will be used to develop a project providing a wrap-around service response when working with participants who are long-term unemployed or economically inactive, helping them to move towards and into employment. The grant will be used for a project development lead to fund governance meetings, project development, co-design, marketing, stakeholder engagement, venue hire and expenses.

This project will promote self-employment and social entrepreneurship as a route out of unemployment or economic inactivity. It will support people who are unemployed or economically inactive to develop, launch and sustain effective organisations.

Imagine Watford Festival 2016

This nursery school will use the funding to create a stimulating outdoor play area in the nursery grounds by installing allotments, raised beds and a wilderness area. This will provide an area for children to play outdoors and help to support their development.

Step Ladder and a Goat: Outdoor Arts event

Luton Investment Programme

This grant will be used to develop plans for a project with 16 organisations to support individuals furthest from the labour marketing in Northamptonshire to provide them with skills training, work experience, confidence building and family and crisis support. The funding will be used to develop a project plan including meetings, marketing and stakeholder engagement.

This grant will be used to develop plans for project to support people who are unemployed or economically inactive to develop, launch and sustain effective organisations. Target participants will include people with few or no qualifications, young people, the long-term unemployed, people with mental and physical health problems, carers for children or a dependent adult, care leavers. The dvelopment funding will fund governance meetings, project development costs, and marketing.

This grant will be used to develop plans for a project in partnership with 16 organisations including Prince?s Trust and The Ferry Project to give people the confidence, capabilities and resilience to gain and retain employment whilst participating in local civic activities. The development funding will be used for project planning including governance meetings, project development, marketing and stakeholder engagement.

The group will use the funding to deliver workshops raising awareness around the issue of obesity for the benefit of the local community. This will highlight the risks of obesity, encouraging beneficiaries to live a more active and healthy lifestyle.

Refurbishment of the Herts Indoor Bowling Facility

Timing and Stop Clock Equipment

The organisation will use the funding to refurbish a disused school hall into a family support hub for local parents. This will enable the organisation to provide emotional and practical help to the vulnerable families in the community through support sessions as well as learning opportunities.

Watford's Printing Past Study Group Exhibition

A project to carry out refurbishment of a community space at the church, redevelop waste ground into a safe outdoor space, and create marketing materials. This will enable the group to expand upon a pilot project and deliver free family activities with a range of safe and accessible facilities for indoor and outdoor programmes, reducing isolation and improving community cohesion and engagement.

The organisation will use the funding to install a fitness course with equipment for climbing and developing upper body strength on the grounds of the school. This will enable the group to provide a facility encouraging active outdoor play to help support childrens physical development, improve fitness and reduce behavioural problems stemming from inactivity.

Little Cassiobury: option studies for community use. Training for Trustees and project team

Little Cassiobury: option studies for community use - training for Trustees and project team

The organisation will use the funding to redevelop its play area for younger pupils and install equipment and resources encouraging pupils to socialise and work together, as well as support their physical and emotional development. This will enable the group to encourage greater co-operation and cohesion between younger pupils, particularly those with additional needs, in order to help pupils feel safe, supported and confident.

Action for Children

The organisation will use the funding to install a fully enclosed and glazed canopy that will be used to accommodate mother and baby and toddler user groups. This will enable the group to expand its membership to include younger, pre-school age children following the closure of local services, as well as an outdoor resource for extracurricular and out of school time activities.

TBAW 2015/16

2015 Edition of The Oss and the Ox

Application for NPO funding 2015-2018

The Big Festival: Imagine Watford 2015

This group will deliver taster sessions in wheelchair dancing and encourage people to become instructors.

This group will deliver taster sessions in wheelchair dancing and encourage people to become instructors.

The Chorus of Cyberbullying

Watford through the ages

The Watford Outdoor Sports Hub

Jazz Recording - London

SYMPHONY autumn 2014

Watford Grammar School for Girls - WW1 Commemoration Project

The organisation will use the funding to install discreet information kiosks in its reception area and train reception staff to assist clients with seeking appropriate advice and support quickly and without needing a full appointment.

Capturing, recording and sharing Watford heritage with and for the local community

This voluntary organisation in Watford, Hertfordshire will use the funding to deliver a programme of physical activity and healthy living sessions for older people in the community. This will enable older people to become motivated, improve their fitness

Primary Spaces

Creative people and places

Watford Roll of Honour Online and Exhibition

This is a new project by Harrow Mencap (HM) that will provide a preventative service to support 120 young people (YP) aged 16-25 with Learning Disabilities (LD) to gain life skills that will promote health, confidence and independence that aids and sustai

Taking outdoor arts in Watford to the next stage

Get Active in Central Ward

This is a project by a primary school in Watford, Hertfordshire. The organisation will use the funding to install an all weather surface within their school grounds. This will provide additional playground space for pupils including disabled children and

This is a project by a primary school in Watford, Hertfordshire. The organisation will use the funding to install an all weather surface within their school grounds. This will provide additional playground space for pupils including disabled children and community groups to enjoy in new out of school hours activities to help encourage them to become more active..

Creative Expressions

The school in Watford will use the funding for an outdoor play facility for a children?s centre. This project will replace the unsafe current play facility and will encourage healthy outdoor play and community interaction..

Aspire powerchair football - get equipped

Watford Live Memories Project

The Oss & The Ox

The organisation will use funding to run dance, writing and drama workshops to address health issues for people with obesity. This will increase awareness and provide information to people with obesity, leading to improvements in their health.

This is a project by a charity in Watford. The organisation will use the funding to refurbish and upgrade the facilities of their scout hut and surrounding areas to improve access and to increase use of the hut by beneficiaries.

Planet Munch - Savour the Flavour - Puppet Show

nabokov at VAULT festival 2014

INCOGNITO, a new play by Nick Payne

BLINK 2013/2014

This is a project by a charity in Harrow also serving beneficiaries in Hillingdon and Brent. The group will use the funding to purchase blinds for their new building and install safety flooring in an outdoor play area. This will improve the group's facili

Building The Future

This is a project by a school in Watford. The organisation will use the funding to create a rope activity course within their grounds. This will enable pupils to take part in fun, healthy activities.

This is a project by an incorporated charity in Watford. The organisation will use the funding to update their IT equipment by replacing a number of the current computers and upgrading the remainder of the computers. This will enable the group to provide

Hertfordshire's for Signpost and Youth Enquiry Service will continue to develop its work building the confidence and resilience of young people to overcome the difficulties they face through counselling, coaching, peer mentoring and supported interaction

A young people's project for them to plan, participate and lead a range of projects and activities, enabling them to positively contribute to their community, improve their skills and have the confidence to speak out regarding issues that affect them. Thr

The aim of this new project is to create a seamless way of accessing rights and responsibilities advice for the people of Watford by involving four partners in the creation of a stronger local network. The project will ensure that clients are able to find

Slow Burn Research and Organisational Development

This is a project by an incorporated charity in Watford. The organisation will use funding to run basic literacy and numeracy skills workshops for adults with physical, sensory and mental disabilities, within the community. This will provide beneficiaries

Listed Tombs in St Mary's Conservation Area

The group will research the idea of a supportive employment programme for young people living in Perth and Kinross, who have been involved with the Criminal Justice System. The group will examine how the UK Government's Green Deal initiative can offer ski

nabokov & Dizraeli development week

LOTTERY LOTTERY

Boxing club development

College Sport Makers

Women's Multicultural Reminiscence Project

This is a project by a community organisation in Hertfordshire. The group will use funding to provide broadcasting and life skills opportunities for young NEET members of the community. This will enable participants to learn ICT and communication skills,

This is a project by a voluntary organisation in Watford. The organisation will use the funding to provide residents with social and physical activities, including walking, cultural trips, exercise and arts and crafts. This will reduce isolation and impro

This is a project by a voluntary organisation in Hertfordshire. The organisation will use the funding to create a local exchange scheme, allowing members of the community with a service or goods to offer to get in touch with other interested community mem

Catalyst Arts: capacity building and match funding