Trim Palace

BAFA (Reading) Heritage Project - 50th Independence Anniversary Celebrations

The Fountain - Outdoor Interactive Installation

A City of Foxes Diversity Project

This project will deliver four projects in schools and youth clubs, delivering sessions providing key health messages around nutrition, physical activity and hygiene, including physical activities, training in food safety, legacy training for community leaders and general health information. These activities will include health change management tracking before, after and 6 months after the project, and will improve the health and knowledge of 60 young people and their families.

The school will create an outdoor all-weather play area for pupils. This will give them a safe and stimulating area, allowing them to get involved in active play.

Vocal Network

This project will use the funding to level the land and extend the boundaries and fencing to their community centre. This will improve access for people with mobility issues, increase space for more child friendly activities and establish a vegetable patch to create outdoor learning activities and youth activities.

Elevate fund

Carnival of the World

Paul Nash Project

This charity will use the funding to install a new kitchen in the community centre. This will provide a serviceable and fit for purpose kitchen to meet the needs of groups and beneficiaries who use the community centre as a hub, including the preparation of meals for the homeless, healthy eating groups and community events and activities.

Pod

Dance Reading

KRISHNA: The mythological hero

This parish council will use the funding to refurbish the play areas within the community. This will provide safe and accessible play equipment as well as a suitable area for older children within the local community to improve general health and wellbeing and improve community spirit.

This project will support unemployed people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to improve their work skills. Following referral through hostels and advice services, people be assessed to identify their goals and develop an action plan looking at things like literacy and numeracy, job searches, training and building confidence. There will be opportunities identified by service users, such as dog walking and fishing, to help people build local networks and secure volunteering opportunities.

This project will support unemployed people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to improve their work skills. Following referral through hostels and advice services, people be assessed to identify their goals and develop an action plan looking at things like literacy and numeracy, job searches, training and building confidence. There will be opportunities identified by service users, such as dog walking and fishing, to help people build local networks and secure volunteering opportunities.

This charity will use the funding to publish a book of stories from interpreters showing their journey as interpreters. This will provide an anthology which will help those in charge of interpreter services and others who employ interpreters to better understand their role and how they can be best supported.

This charity will use the funding to provide sessional staff resources for a local community centre to support people in the local community to learn basic IT, work and life skills. This will provide the resources to improve the skills of young people who are NEET, support children with school and homework and provide adults who are not in employment with IT skills to improve their chances in life.

The Hall of Optical Obstacles

Festival of the Dark

The group will expand its current work providing specialist services to parents and carers of disabled children and young people. Families of looked after or adoptive families, who the group has identified as needing extra support, will be offered workshops and courses focused on understanding trauma and improving attachment. These will include talks from experienced practitioners and support with issues like children?s emotional development, sleeping habits and how to navigate the education system.

Rehearsals and performance of theatrical play based on local history

Reading Library & Theatre Programme (LIBRARY FUND)

This grant will be used to develop plans for a project that will support those furthest from the labour market across the Thames Valley Berkshire area to overcome their barriers to work and find employment. This will include ex-offenders, lone parents, ethnic groups, people with disabilities and mental health issues, the over 50s, the long-term unemployed and those living in rural locations. The development funding will fund partnership development, communications tools and research.

This grant will be used to develop plans for a project that will support those furthest from the labour market across the Thames Valley Berkshire area to overcome their barriers to work and find employment. This will include ex-offenders, lone parents, ethnic groups, people with disabilities and mental health issues, the over 50s, the long-term unemployed and those living in rural locations. The development funding will fund partnership development, communications tools and research.

Ben-Hur

2017 Studio Season

This charity will use the funding to expand its service through volunteer recruitment at local events. This will enable the organisation to recruit more volunteers to cover crisis help lines at times that are under staffed, such as at night.

Readipop Festival artistic programme

Ready To Pop! - Talent Development Programme

Be Brave Tour

This school will use the funding to install a semi-enclosed gazebo and play equipment. This will provide protective shelter for children and parents as well as providing a play environment to develop and improve physical, social and communication skills.

This charity will use the funding to expand their provision for young people from the LGBT community by developing a youth group, training and social space. This will provide a social support network for young people from the LGBT community where they can develop their skills in marketing, video, music, theatre, coding and business and create LGBT ambassadors through accredited training.

The Wolfenden Report: LGBT+ Heritage Documentary and Education Resources

The group will use the funding to carry out research in ten areas nationwide, to establish the attitudes of 5-9 year old cyclists to cycling behaviour and safety. This will enable the group to adapt their current provision to meet the needs of this target group, creating stronger communities and increasing the capacity of the group to operate effectively in the future.

This project will use the funding to provide training for people with learning disabilities and volunteer support workers in order that they gain work experience running caf? bar facilities. This will build capacity for the organisation which will provide caf? sessions where people with learning disabilities and volunteers can access training, work experience and participate in community activities.

The Great British Bump Off

Nuts & Bolters

The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Reading

The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Reading

The Rising Sun Arts Centre

The Step Up Carnival Arts Project.

The Spinning Wheel - UK Tour

These are the People in Your Neighbourhood

Ambition for Excellence

This charity will use the funding to run photography, IT, creative and arts and crafts activities for people from the BME community who are isolated through lack of communication and language skills. The arts and crafts and media photography sessions will help to improve communication skills and enable them to send photographs and communicate with family and friends, and integrate into the wider community.

This project will run circuit training classes for young adults and teenagers that are currently not studying or are unemployed. It will also run fitness classes specifically for women and girls that live on the estate. It will provide access to classes and facilities to improve the health and wellbeing of the wider community in an area of deprivation.