Write Time Write Place (Libraries Fund)

The funding will be used to run weekly arts and crafts sessions for older people in the local community. The project aims to engage people in positive activities in order to encourage new friendships and combat social isolation.

Count Me In

Securing the future of St Paul's Church as a heritage and community asset

This project will use funding to arrange a supported excursion to London for disabled adults.

The funding will be used project by a primary school to create a community garden. The project aims to provide an opportunity for children and adults of all ages and abilities to come together to grow flowers, fruit and vegetables, and learn new skills in order to live healthier lifestyles.

The funding will be used by a school to purchase a music booth and sound equipment to run activities for young people in the local community with special educational needs. The project aims to improve confidence, communication and social skills, as well as allow children from other special schools to integrate.

The funding will be used to run youth drama sessions for homeless and disadvantaged young people in the local community. The project aims to improve access to extracurricular activities and develop confidence, teamwork and communication skills.

Barrow CC Onwards and Upwards

We can do it!

The funding will be used to hold tutor-led sessions of cardiovascular exercise for South Asian people in the local community. The project aims to improve fitness levels and reduce obesity in the local community.

St Luke's Catholic Primary School

Royal Chester Novice Rowing

This group will expand their services to engage more young people across the Wirral, Halton and St Helens. Their work will address issues including child poverty, young people not in education, employment and training, low self-esteem and poor mental health. Activities will include computer science and coding sessions, a leadership and confidence boosting programme as well as sport opportunities.

The funding will be used by a charity to install radiators, replace the lighting system and curtains and carpets in their memorial hall which have both been found to be unsafe. The project aims to ensure that the hall can continued to be used by the local community and will remove the current health and safety risks.

Mirror of Love

This is a project in Northwich supporting people in Derby. The project will run a cook, eat and play programme for disadvantaged children. This will support families and children to take part in healthy physical activity.

The funding will be used by a primary school to create a sensory room for the benefit of children with special educational needs. The project aims to encourage learning through multi-sensory stimulation and improve the safety of pupils and teachers by reducing the risk of negative behaviour and violent outbursts.

WCA 2017/18

The funding will be used by a voluntary organisation to purchase furniture, heaters, flooring and provide materials and labour to improve the pathways and internal flooring in their community building. The projects aims to provide people with an improved environment within the cricket club for cricket and community activities.

The Tempest Regional Tour

CSP Funding 2014-17

Dancing Stories (Re-Application)

The funding will be used by a charity to upgrade electrics, plumbing, flooring and kitchen facilities in a community facility. This will ensure that the building is fit for purpose and that the local community can continue to access the building safely.

The funding will be used to run twice weekly football and dance sessions for young people during the school holidays across three large social housing estates in Winsford, culminating in a fun day festival. This will involve fun drills, games and competitions, and signposting to local clubs, with the aim of reducing levels of anti-social behaviour within the local community.

The funding will be used to run a community fun day bringing together the local community and the emergency services. The project aims to showcase initiatives to inspire people to volunteer to help reduce crime and anti-social behaviour which will help keep the community safe and improve wellbeing.

Greater Sylhet Development and Welfare Council in UK (Chester and North Wales) will use the grant to provide training and advice services for 40 Bangladeshi members of their organisation. This grant for ?5,000 will part-fund venue hire, laptops, website development, office furniture, sessional worker fees and training, insurance, volunteer expenses, and project management fees.

The funding will be used to create raised planting, a fruit orchard, BBQ and picnic areas, wildlife meadows and an accessible footpath. The project aims to bring people in the community together but creating an allotment-style environment where people can develop skills and improve the wellbeing of the community.

Castell Alun High School in Flintshire will use the grant to run sports sessions, before school, during lunch time and after school to improve the health and wellbeing of their students. This grant for ?5,000 will fund heart rate monitors, 15 tablet computers with cases, three TVs, licence and two projectors.

Refurbishment of Northwich Cenotaph

Courses

The funding will be used by a charity to install metal fencing around a children's play area. The project aims to improve this community asset by ensuring the safety of the children.

The funding will be used by a primary school to install an outdoor activity trail for the benefit of pupils and the wider community. The project aims to provide people with the opportunity to access stimulating outdoor play, helping them to become more active, improve their fitness and develop wider social skills.

The funding will be used to purchase catering equipment and upgrade storage facilities at a community centre in Cheshire. The project aims to strengthen the community by helping the organisation to expand its catering support and services to groups and events using the centre and attract new activities for isolated older people.

The funding will be used to deliver an employment training and support scheme involving practical experience of recycling raw materials and chemical processing, primarily aimed at older unemployed people. This will enable participants to develop new skills and improve their chances of finding employment, whilst helping to reduce the amount of waste that goes into landfill.

The funding will be used to run creative sessions for young people with disabilities, including music, drama and creative writing and expression. As well as encouraging young people to express themselves, the project will allow carers to share their experiences, providing advice and support on their own health in a creative and safe environment.

The funding will be used by a charity in Chester to replace their central heating system as it is no longer fit for purpose. This will mean the local community can continue to use the facility.

CSP Funding 2014-17

The funding will be used to deliver IT and internet awareness training to older people living in a sheltered accommodation complex. The project aims to reduce participants? fear of using online services and improve access to social media to help them stay connected to family and friends.

The Lion and the Unicorn

Looking After Freedom

This project is run by a primary school in Chester. The funding will be used to purchase computer bio feedback programmes which will help adults and children who are at risk or are experiencing mental health problems. The project aims to reduce stress levels and anxiety, improve self-esteem and wellbeing and improve pupil behaviour and attainment.

Cheshire Souling

Exploring Local Heritage

The project will use the funding to deliver a range of therapeutic arts activities to people with mental health issues and marginalised families with multiple complex needs who live in a rural residential community on the outskirts of Chester. This will enable beneficiaries to develop confidence, self- esteem and improve their mental health.

The project will use the funding to deliver a range of therapeutic arts activities to people with mental health issues and marginalised families with multiple complex needs who live in a rural residential community on the outskirts of Chester. This will enable beneficiaries to develop confidence, self- esteem and improve their mental health.

This project will use the funding to install a Community Public Access Defibrillator for the benefit of the local rural community. This will provide residents with access to life saving equipment and increase chances of survival in an emergency situation.

The project will use the funding to create an activity area on existing grounds at the school. This will increase provision of accessible extra curricular activities for children to improve skills and development, increase physical activity and reduce social exclusion.

Float Waterways Visual Arts Commissions

Emerge Community Arts will deliver personalised Interactive Music sessions to children and young people as well as their siblings and families, focusing on those who have Autism or severe learning, physical, behavioural, emotional and health difficulties. This grant for ?5,000 will fund tutor costs, venue hire, volunteer expenses, and refreshments.

Refugee Theatre Performance Project

This project will use the funding to deliver healthy cooking, healthy dog-walks and healthy exercises for people with mental health issues in Cheshire West. This will enable beneficiaries to improve their health and wellbeing based on activities chosen by beneficiaries.

This project will use the funding to set up a community caf? which will be a focal point for the community to come together to access nutritious food, gain work experience and opportunities to volunteer. The caf? will also provide a space for meetings and training. This will provide a community facility to bring the community together to access social activities and to help to reduce isolation.

The organisation will design, edit and print booklets for vulnerable people in the local area who are subject to domestic abuse. These will cover the full range of common problems these people are experiencing, and help aid their recovery process.

The organisation will use the funding to provide a fitness, nutrition and wellbeing programme for vulnerable young people and adults. The programmes will be tailored to their ability and specific health needs. They will include help to stop smoking, drinking and anti-social behaviour. Those who attend the workshops will learn new skills in a safe, structured environment whilst improving their health, wellbeing and confidence and broadening their social networks.

Swim Pilot Phase 3

Swim Pilot Phase 3

The school will install an imaginative and creative play area in the school grounds. This will increase social skills, as well as supporting parents to develop better bonds and engagement with their children.

This project will replace a condemned children's play tower situated in the Parish Council's field. This will ensure local children have access to facilities to increase physical activity and reduce high levels of obesity.

The organisation will use funding to develop a project that will help vulnerable people living in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. Working with partners, the project will provide holistic and bespoke support, courses and activities to improve health and wellbeing in the local community.

The group will use funding to purchase equipment and deliver IT training workshops for older people in the local community. This will ensure older people can access modern technology and feel more digitally included in society.

The organisation will use the funding to deliver a six-week pilot of activities including practical outdoor work, arts, cookery and stress management for males with mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. This will break down stigmas, improve self-esteem and provide coping-strategies.

Funding will be used to develop its project providing targeted support for families affected by childhood cancer. The project will recruit and train two new members of staff to increase capacity, as well as increasing the use of volunteers. People will have access to support using play therapy and counselling. They will also have the opportunity to share experiences with other families in similar situations through activities such as coffee mornings and craft sessions.

The school will use the funding to upgrade its outdoor playground equipment. This will enable the children to improve their physical development, confidence and self-esteem, as well as contributing to their personal, social and emotional development.

A Cheshire Country Doctor: Medicine on the homefront

The organisation will use the funding to engage with vulnerable young women who have low self-esteem, self-worth and have body image issues. This will enable the organisation to engage with these vulnerable people to participate in sessions such as dance and physical activities, and bring them together to combat their issues to help build their confidence, inspire learning, and improve their wellbeing.

This project will recruit and train volunteers who will provide bereavement support to children, and train a current member of staff in clinical supervision. This will enable the organisation to reduce waiting times, meet the demands of referrals and support more children.

The organisation will use the funding to provide and install a community public access defibrillator in the local area. This will ensure they have equipment if someone has a cardiac arrest.

Catalyst: Evolve

The organisation will use the funding to refurbish the social club which acts as a hub and is attended by socially isolated older people who have physical disabilities, dementia, with some suffering from incontinence. This will enable the organisation to provide comfortable washable seating, and dining tables that will accommodate wheel chair users, and help maintain the dignity, safety and comfort of the beneficiaries.

The organisation will use the funding to refit the catering kitchen. This will enable the organisation to expand its range of catering services to create a viable sustainable social enterprise, and enable more people with disabilities to volunteer and work in an appropriately adapted environment.

The organisation will use the funding to install outdoor play equipment in the school grounds to be used by after-school clubs, holiday play schemes, and focussed family support groups. This will improve the relationships between children and parents/carers, emotional resilience of participants, and the attainment of children participating in the support groups.

Chester Mystery Plays RandD 2016

The organisation will use the funding to run workshops and a festival to bring together LGBT choirs from around the UK and Eire for a choral celebration. This will provide an opportunity for people from the LGBT community to take part in a community festival which give them the opportunity to feel connected, raise awareness and build a network of peer support.

The organisation will use the funding to build a sensory garden and activity area on existing grounds at the school. This will increase provision of accessible extracurricular activities for parents and children to improve skills and development.

Pride in the Past

The organisation will use the funding to purchase white goods and equipment to modernise the kitchen of the village hall. This will enable the organisation to increase membership of the Institute to meet the demands of all the local groups, who already make use of the organisation?s other upgraded outdoor and indoor facilities will encourage increased patronage of the village hall.

The organisation will use the funding to run a mentoring project focused on provision of support for people leaving prison, struggling with addiction or with a criminal record. This will increase support to enable people to address issues such as mental health, poor educational attainment, isolation, antisocial behaviour, illiteracy and crime.

Netball Local Development Project

The Cheshire Sandstone Ridge: Towards a Sustainable Future

The organisation will use the funding to run an eight week rolling programme of workshops for young women aged 14-18 years old with and without disabilities covering issues including, consent and choice, drugs and alcohol, social media, appropriate relationships, sexual health and positive body image. This will ensure that participants have the knowledge to make informed decisions regarding their health, safety or lifestyles.

Cheshire West & Chester: Over United Reformed Church, Winsford

Cheshire West & Chester: Over United Reformed Church, Winsford

The Mobile Net/Increased Participation Project

The organisation will use the funding to deliver tutorial school homework sessions on core subjects such as English, mathematics and science which will be held after school, aimed at the children from the local BME communities, who have difficulties with speaking reading and writing in English.

The group has identified that the children in the area begin school with significantly poorer social and communication skills and ability to interact constructively with their peers. In addition, they are prevented from regularly engaging in out-of- school time physical activities and team sports as the playing field is unusable in wet weather. This will be addressed by installing imaginative play equipment and multi-use goals on the hard surface school grounds.

The organisation will use funding to install a new roof on their newly acquired building. This will enable the group to provide a series of events and activities for blind and partially sighted members of the community, in a safe and dry environment, with the aim of reducing isolation.

CSP Funding 2014-17

The organisation will use the funding to improve their outdoor play provision for local children and children with special educational needs and their families to access outside of the school day. This will reduce isolation through improved accessibility and encourage integration by addressing exclusion.

Artistic Development Project

They will provide 24:7 support for the farming community. Peer support events will be delivered for farmers who have mental health issues and for farmers who are gay who can feel very isolated in a very traditional working environment. The support will be provided through a series of lunches giving a space where farmers can meet and share their stresses with others who understand in a confidential and safe environment. The project aims to reduce the high rates of suicide linked to this occupation

The organisation will use the funding to install fixed play equipment in the school grounds. This will provide safe and secure play facilities for the community and will encourage pupils to increase their physical activity levels, combating sedentary lifestyles and improving health and wellbeing.

The organisation will use the funding to update their community facilities and create access and car parking facilities to the building for people with disabilities. This will ensure that the facilities are fit for purpose for use by local community groups.

Wca 2016/17

The school will use the funding to create an outdoor area; installing a range of play equipment and running a series of outdoor after school clubs.

Women on remand or serving short term sentences within Styal Prison will be supported to help them address mental health issues, increase personal resilience, reduce re-offending, and exposure to sexual violence and substance misuse. A hub within the prison grounds will mean women serving longer and shorter term sentences can access psychotherapy and counselling. Support will continue after release during their 12 month licence period to reduce the risk of them being exploited or subject to sexual violence.

The school will use the funding to install sheltered outdoor facilities for pupils and their parents to work and play together to boost basic skills. This will enable the pupils and their parents to engage in enjoyable skills together so that the parents may engage in their children?s extra-curricular education.

The group will use the funding to provide literacy, numeracy and IT workshops for adults with English as a second language in Chester. This will give beneficiaries the necessary skills to increase their confidence to support younger family members, and to improve their own opportunities for future employment or further education.

The Wish: Research and Development

The Allotment Association will use the funding to redesign an unused area of the allotment site to improve access for people with disability and install a composting toilet. This will enable older people, people with disabilities and families with young children to access and use the site more effectively.