When the Rain Stops Falling

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John and Astrid Furnival Touring Exhibition

This group?s IT platform will be improved with the funding, enhancing the way it delivers and administrates its counselling services.

A community shop and caf? will be refurbished with this funding, improving facilities for the local community to use and enjoy.

Defibrillators and training for members of the public to use them will be funded. This will improve life chances in an emergency situation and improve knowledge of potentially life-saving practice, while the emergency services are in transit.

Stroud Connects

New playground equipment and markings will be funded to create a safe environment for children to play.

This group will use the funding to purchase new laptops, office equipment and kitchen equipment for their social enterprise hub. This will improve the facilities to increase organisational effectiveness.

International Festival of Glass 2017

This group will use the funding to host a weekend break for families in the local area, including outdoor social activities. The trip will bring people together to enjoy nature and the outdoors, encouraging community integration and offering respite from modern life for families.

An outdoor play area will be funded for local children, providing them with an opportunity for imaginative play.

This is a project by a charity based in Stroud benefiting people nationwide. They will use the funding to host a residential weekend, where individuals and families affected by Gaucher Disease will learn about the latest medical research, services and support available. This will provide the opportunity for families to engage, share experiences and learn from healthcare professionals away from a clinical environment which will improve health and wellbeing and reduce social isolation.

This is a project by a community organisation in Stroud, Gloucestershire, benefiting people across England. They will use the funding to stage an event for adults who have experienced the effects of Meningitis. This will help people to receive support and advice regarding the issues which impact on their health and wellbeing.

Meningitis Now works across England to support young people whose lives have been affected by meningitis. This funding will support the expansion of its Believe and Achieve project which helps these young people to live more healthy, active and independent lives by giving them the confidence to achieve their personal goals. The expanded project will provide coaching and training workshops; the creation of a safe online community; and counselling to address social isolation, depression and low self-esteem.

This group will use the funding to make repairs to a deteriorating stone water tower at their sea cadet unit. This will make safety improvements to the site and enable its continued use for activities and training for young people.

This school will use the funding to install play equipment, which will be available to the wider community. This will provide children with access to healthy play activities in a rurally isolated area.

This group will use the funding to refurbish a village hall and install a new boiler, improving local facilities and enabling community groups to continue using the building.

This school will use the funding to provide outdoor gym equipment for young adults who are living with learning issues. This will encourage people to engage in exercise and lead healthier lifestyles.

A rowing facility will be funded for the school?s recreation centre, to be used before and after school by local children and adults. This will improve health and fitness and help combat obesity.

Miniature Museum connects with NL: Electric Circus and The Archive of The Inbetween

This funding will be used to replace the aerial runway at a children?s play area, providing a safe environment for play opportunities.

This group will use the funding to deliver a community festival, which will support the needs of people who live in an area that is experiencing the effects of isolation and social disadvantage.

The funding will be used by this school to address poor mental health in a cohort of young girls and provide them with a variety of life skills and positive experiences. This will include attending a greening day and inviting guest speakers, helping the pupils to explore different career opportunities.

This group will use the funding to replace the rotting wooden floor at the village hall, providing a safer environment for community usage.

Orchards in the Landscape

Stroud Lido Feasibility Study

Catalyse Arts Every Day

This funding will be used to plan for an increase in usage following a development of new houses in the area. This will allow the organisation to promote the centre to new users, therefore increasing use of the facilities.

This school will use the funding to install an outdoor classroom with educational resources. It will be used for extracurricular activities and will be accessible for wider community groups to enjoy. Activities will be able to take place in the winter months, developing participants? skills.

Nature based activities will be provided to hard to reach groups with this funding. This will allow participants to study nature and improve social skills.

The funding will be used by this group to up skill young people into becoming active within their community through volunteering. These young people will acquire skills and understanding of issues in their community and support people to influence decisions to develop a more sustainable environment.

Two community access defibrillators will be purchased with this funding. This will improve the chances of local people surviving cardiac arrest, in what is a rurally isolated community.

This project will create a new community cinema resource that will support the needs of people who live in a rurally isolated area. This will bring the community together.

This project will provide a disabled access ramp to a community building. This will replace the current one that is in a state of disrepair and unfit for purpose.

All things bright and beautiful

This project will provide an outdoor play area for children and the wider rural community. This will build capacity for local play facilities and improve community engagement.

This project will use the funding to hold an exhibition which will showcase employment opportunities in the manufacturing and engineering industry for the local community and young people. This will generate interest in the community and provide opportunities in this field.

Replace rotten windows and works to main entrance stairway leading to worship area

This project will upgrade the group's IT equipment and provide a safe door entry system to the facility. This will build capacity for the group to enhance children?s learning and encourage more parents to send their children to the playgroup.

This project will provide a variety of trips for young people including trips to a castle, a skiing snow park, a basketball match, an outward bound day and a residential trip. This will reduce isolation of home educated children by providing opportunities for social interaction and confidence building.

This project will repair and replace the flooring at Kingshill House Arts Centre. This will improve the building's flooring to comply with health and safety concerns.

International Festival of Glass 2017

Animation in Stroud

This project will use the funding to update a roof garden at the Hub Bistro which is used by people trying to overcome the issues around drug and alcohol addiction. This will provide a calm and therapeutic place to meet and share experiences, while also improving safety.

The group will use the funding to install a cardiac defibrillator inside a disused phone booth. This will improve the chances of local people surviving cardiac arrest in what is a rurally isolated community.

12 Month Arts Projects

Timber Girls

This is the expansion of a project supporting women involved in street sex work in Gloucester and Swindon. Late night drop-in sessions will now run three times a week, tailored to people?s needs and looking at issues like health, housing, drugs and safety. There will be more outreach work, where women will be invited to support sessions and get access to a sexual health clinic and workshops on emotional health. The group will also continue its daytime drop-in sessions and basic needs provision.

Wotton-under-Edge Parkrun

The group will use the funding to deliver a weekend activity camp for low income families. This will bring families and the larger community together.

The group will use the funding to purchase camping equipment. This will enable young people experiencing the effects of emotional and mental health issues to take part in outdoor activities which benefit their life skills and confidence.

Scottish poets

Bandit Music Projects

Funding will be used to provide vulnerable men with DIY sessions guided by a tutor. They will carry out basic maintenance on the organisation?s community hub and build play structures for children in the community garden. This will be an opportunity for participants to spend time in a social community, learn new and improve life skills.

Funding will be used to provide vulnerable men with DIY sessions guided by a tutor. They will carry out basic maintenance on the organisation?s community hub and build play structures for children in the community garden. This will be an opportunity for participants to spend time in a social community, learn new and improve life skills.

The group will use the funding to purchase IT equipment and software for unemployed people and local residents. This will enable the group to deliver basic IT skills training to the beneficiaries improving their chances for the future.

Explore and Draw

The group will use the funding to create an outreach service. This will enable the organisation to expand their services to include disadvantaged and isolated people.

The group will use the funding to purchase a modular stage and storage unit for its community hall. This will improve this local facility and ensure its future use by enabling it to meet the needs of the community organisations that use it.

The group will use the funding to build a new car park area for this rurally isolated community. This will enable people ease of access to the main building and provide an essential facility for the community.

Red Dog Christmas Productions 2016

ALN ( Artist Led Network)

Stroud Women's Refuge

The group will use the funding to purchase ICT and gardening equipment for this rural community. This will help build capacity for the group to offer better learning opportunities to their beneficiaries.

The group will use the funding to train time bank participants to help establish community champions. This will help time banks respond to increased demand from their communities and improve sustainability.

The group will use the funding to install adult use outdoor exercise equipment at their playing fields which only has children?s play facilities. This will provide new equipment for the area to be enjoyed by the whole family, while increasing their fitness.

A project to provide support for people in hardship, in particular rurally-isolated older people. Working with partners the scheme will provide isolated older people with volunteer befrienders, and advice, access and transport to services. It will also provide access to housing support, including emergency accommodation for women and families fleeing domestic abuse, community outreach, foodbank services, job clubs, and specialist support for families with parenting difficulties.

Exploring Gender Identity in Opera (AIDF)

Listers beginnings and endings

The group will use the funding to refurbish the ladies toilets in Stonehouse Community Centre. This will improve the environment in the centre, addressing health and safety issues posed by the current facilities.

The group will use the funding to replace the lighting system in Kingshill House. This will improve the environment in the building, addressing health and safety issues posed by the current lighting system.

Impress Printmaking Festival

Changing for the Future

Strike a Light- 12 month project

The group will use the funding to deliver a community wide consultation and engagement process. This will enable the organisation to engage with hard to reach groups and be inclusive about how they can address the needs within their community.

The group will use the funding to install a heat pump that will enable the community swimming pool to stay open longer and to provide life guard training to enable the community to run the pool. This will improve a community facility.

The group will use the funding to install a heat pump that will enable the community swimming pool to stay open longer and to provide life guard training to enable the community to run the pool. This will improve a community facility.

Peter Scott Living Legacy

The group will use the funding to carry out a feasibility study into the most efficient way of redesigning and restructuring their community hall, which is currently not fit for purpose. This will enable the improvement of this community facility and ensuring it meets current health, safety and building regulations.

Slimbridge 2020

The group will use the funding to create an outdoor beach area within the school grounds for children and the wider community. This will enable the beneficiaries to access an improved environment leading to better community facilities.

The group will use the funding to replace the storage heaters in France Lynch Church Rooms. This will improve the environment in the building, making it more energy efficient and suitable for community use.

The group will use the funding to provide extra curricular physical activity sessions to SEN children to develop movement and social skills. This will improve physical health and overall well being.

New Clubhouse for Frocester Cricket Club

The group will use the funding to improve community workspace and meeting room and create an extra outdoor space. This will provide a fully accessible workspace for local organisations and community.

The group will use the funding to encourage children aged 8-12 to partake in physical activities to address obesity. This will improve beneficiaries? health and wellbeing.

The group will use the funding to provide accessible outdoor play area for the local community. This will enable beneficiaries to use a safe outdoor facility.

Jubilee Rooms Sports Annex

The group will use the funding to run extra-curricular exercise sessions and coach education for students and young people from the wider community, not engaging in enough physical exercise and at risk of obesity, at partnership schools and a college. This will increase their fitness levels and self-confidence.

Increasing participation numbers in women's beginner rowing

Extraordinary Ambition

The group will use the funding to deliver extracurricular physical activity and healthy eating classes. This will help develop beneficiaries? social interaction skills, reduce isolation, improve fitness and increase awareness about the benefits of healthy eating.

"Changing rooms, showers & welfare"

Line Gallery

Celebrating and remembering the lives of people with learning disabilities in South Gloucestershire

The Third Stroud Theatre Festival

The group will use the funding to deliver a programme of extracurricular fitness activities for children who are at risk of the effects of physical inactivity. This will encourage the pupils to adopt healthier lifestyles and develop levels of physical fitness.

A project to install a new eco classroom facility at its visitor centre. The project will enhance its educational activities by providing a new resource raising awareness of renewable sources of energy with hands-on learning and activities for schools, holiday clubs and individuals.

The group will use the funding to expand their use of their women's centre facilities through installing a waterproof membrane, replastering and decorating in the family room and basement area, which is badly affected by damp. This will improve the facilities so they are safe, healthy and inviting for vulnerable and socially excluded beneficiaries to access appropriate support.