This group will use the funding to improve disabled access and other facilities at a community centre. This will provide a well-equipped and accessible community centre for local people.

This project will use the funding to run social evenings for people with mental health issues and disabilities. This will enable people to take part in activities which reduce their feelings of isolation and benefit their wellbeing.

The group will use the funding to creative learning activities for adults with learning or physical disabilities. This will improve levels of literacy for beneficiaries taking part in the project.

Catalyst: Evolve

The Art Writing Programme

The group will use the funding to install play equipment and an all weather surfacing area within the playground. This will enable the beneficiaries from a rurally isolated area to access a safe and improved environment.

It's no longer urgent, it's a crisis. One strong wind and it could fall down

The group will use the funding to transform an unused space into a flexible community facility that will enable community organisations such as youth groups to meet in the local area. This will improve a community space and provide a valuable resource in this rural area.

The group will use the funding to provide an outdoor class room, workshops and training in horticulture, healthy cooking and craft based activities in this economically deprived and isolated rural location. This will increase beneficiaries' skills and confidence while providing a safe accessible community facility.

This is a project by a community organisation in Taddiport, Devon. The group will use the funding for a new heating system for their community hall. This will remove dangerous asbestos and replace their obsolete system with a new efficient heating system, which will improve the facilities for the rural community groups which use this building.

In at the Deep End

Why we love our Park

Involving our community in our past

Widening Participation at The Plough

Extending Film Provision and audience development at The Plough Arts Centre

Reprazent

This is a project by a charity in Torridge, Devon. The group will use the funding to install automated entrance doors and safer flooring at their community building enabling increased usage of the building by the wider community.

UNLIMITED COMMISSION: Creating the Spectacle!

This is a project by a community organisation in Torridge, North Devon. The group will use the funding to provide courses for adults with mental health difficulties to enable the beneficiaries to develop new wellbeing skills leading to increased confidenc

This is a project by a community group in Great Torrington, Devon. The group will use the funding to run a six month media project for local young people which will include interviewing community groups and people in authority in the community and produci

This group will use funding to create a CD for people living with depression to learn new techniques to improve their health and wellbeing. The CD will include guidance on meditations, mindfulness and breathing exercises. The project will allow beneficiar

Youth Inc. Studios

This project will address the lack of activities and services for young people living in rural, isolated communities in North and West Devon. The project will will engage with local young people through arts-based workshops which will help them to develop

One Second World War veteran from Devon has been awarded a grant towards travel costs for a commemorative visit to France in July of this year. Funding has been provided for one Second World War veteran and one carer.

All Saints' Church

This Women's Institute in Langtree, Devon, will increase the confidence and learning of their members - particularly those with low incomes - through visits to Denman College and organising local classes.

Potwallopers and Ponies

This organisation will provide a series of free training sessions for volunteers and staff to improve their skills, enhance their opportunities and gain qualifications. The beneficiaries, some of who are under 16, have identified their own training needs

The Plough Arts Centre

This community group based in Torrington will use its award to increase membership of its majorette troupe and facilitate participation of adult members in competitions.

This project formed by a community group in Devon will provide fitness equipment for the whole community. The grant will fund for the installation of fitness training equipment on the community playing fields.

A project by this Devon based charity will create a comic book illustrating and explaining the procedures and reactions to a diagnosis of Cancer Leukaemia for children and teenagers. The grant will contribute towards artists/facilitators costs, venue hire

A project by this charity to restore the roof of its village hall.

Northern Devon Respect Festival 07

The Alternative Ancient Mariner

Taddiport Leper Project

Saints and Superheroes - at BAC

Great Torrington Community School and Sports College will support eleven feeder schools in an out-of-school hours multi-skills sports clubs.

Street Music

Organisational Development Bid

This registered charity is responsible for the maintenance and running of a public hall for the benefit of the inhabitants of the parish and the immediate neighbourhood. Their project is to provide a disabled ramp and to carry out essential upgrades to en

Northern Devon Respect Festival

A Filmed Torchlight Pageant And Workshops About The Former Lepers Of Taddiport Will Give Local People The Opportunity To Learn New Skills And Learn About The History Of The Area.

New, Upgraded Toilet Facilities Will Be Created Adjoined To The Main Building And With Disabled Access.

Part of the village hall will be converted to install a multi functional community room which will be used for various activities such as a luncheon club, arts & crafts & IT skills, particualrly for elderly people.

Purchase A Computer And Equipment For Archiving Records.

This project is a partnership between Wolf and Water Arts and Exeter Mind; to create a safe working space where isolated and excluded women will increase their self esteem and confidence through creativity and self expression. The project will set up week

Torrington Revels

Great Torrington Gateways Project

A climbing wall will provide children of this school and several others in the area, and also members of the community, the opportunity to gain new skills and build confidence.

The Group Will Use Their Award To Replace An Old And Unsafe Riser Stand Which Has Been Used By The Town Band And Other Music Groups In The Town For Many Years.

Using huff and puff, aerobics, outdoor and adventurous activities, martial arts and active lunchtimes, this project aims to achieve the following 4 objectives; 1) increase participation in physical activity 2) increase attainment in PE performance and spo

To Celebrate The 10th Anniversary Of The Charity, They Will Organise Ten Birthday Events Throughout 2005 Involving The Community And Service Users.

A Second World War Veteran from Devon has been awarded a grant towards travel costs for a commemorative visit to Holland in March of this year. Funding has also been provided for a carer to travel with the Veteran.

Torrington Tales

The Club Will Build New Changing Rooms Adjacent To Their Club Facilities.

30 Years Of Research With Be Published Recording The History, Characters And Minutiae Of Parish Life In Little Torrington.

A historical book will be compiled and published on the events and occasions which have influenced and affected life in the parish of Frithelstock over the past 100 years.

The Lepers of Taddiport

Torrington 1646 Outreach Education Project

The Rural Parish Council Will Develop New Childrens Play Facilities. A Contribution Of -ú5000 Towards The Supply And Fixing Of Play Equipment.

An After School Community Table Tennis Club Will Be Established With The Award, Open To School Children And All Members Of The Community, With Coaching And Skills Awards.

This project will create an enviromentally friendly community centre with a kitchen and organic garden. The produce from the garden will supply the centre for organic cookery classes. Many other beneficial community activities will take place.

Harbour Art Shop

Play Equipment Will Be Bought With The Award. Roundabout -ú2330, Safety Matting -ú1716, Vat -ú708

A community scrap store will be developed for areas in and around Torrington, including a programme of scrap workshops and information packs.

Aimed At 11 To 18 Year Olds, This Project Will Offer Opportunities For Young People To Access Arts Activities Not Othe

The Award Will Fund Staff Costs And New Toilets In Order To Expand And Provide A More Professional Service. 2 Part-Time Posts -ú3120, 4 Specialist Tutors -ú1200, New Toilets -ú680

Just People Like Us

This Bowling Club Will Set Up A New Junior Section And Enable Disabled Users To Participate. Indoor Mat -ú800, Bowls -ú324, Shoes -ú128

The Group Will Use The Award To Enhance The Public Thoroughfare. Artists' Fees -ú1,750, Materials -ú1,160, Safety Equipment -ú370, Hire Area -ú500, Hire Of Equipment -ú250

Bill Douglas Weekend

The Award Will Be Used To Develop 2 Social Activities, Skittles And Bowls, Through The Purchase Of Necessary Equipment.

This Cricket Club Will Use Their Award To Install An Artificial Cricket Wicket And Mobile Practice Cage.

The award will be used to fund the start-up costs of an office for the group.

Wolf & Water Arts Company

This group will use their award to provide workshops in preparation for motherhood/child development and behaviour management.

Increasing the self-esteem and motivation of pupils is among the aims of this project from which some 500 pupils should benefit each year. Activities will include making a sculpture park, setting up a steel band, a gardening group, a tennis club, and a sc

The award will provide start up costs for the workshop that will teach traditional arts and crafts skills.

This pre-school will use their award to update their play equipment.

THE BATHING POOL

This Group Plans And Co-Ordinates An Annual Arts Festival, And Will Use The Award To Stage This Year'S Event.

The award will help fund the group's programme of courses which aim to enable parents to become more involved in their children's education, by giving them a better understanding of their child's education.

This after school club will use the award to train volunteers and purchase materials to improve the facilities they offer. materials and equipment -ú1000, training courses -ú200, volunteer expenses -ú300, professional helper expenses -ú200, books and bean bag

Our grant for new doors, windows and heating system will encourage more people to use the hall for a wider range of activities this winter.

This group provides a meeting place for young people and will use the award to purchase computers for a 'cyber cafe'.

This is a rambling group based in the Torridge area. The award will be used to provide a ramble route around Great Torrington.

The award will be used to provide a safe play area for the children and young people in the village.

This Group Has Been Established To Organise And Run A Music And Arts Festival For The Millennium. The Award Will Contribute To The Festival, Which Will Include Workshops, School Visits, Drama, Visual Art, Celebratory Processions And Performances From Many

The award will be used for training courses coaching and extending the club's activities with new teams and playing opportunities.

A toy library will be set up with this award which will bring access to a wider range of creative play and reading activities to families on low incomes and those with mobility problems.

The group will use their award to provides stone path markers to preserve traditional path names.

The whole community will be participating in creating a Parish Millennium Book. Our award helps with printing and other costs.

The community will be involved in a production of a local pantomime, the award providing for staging and curtains for this and also the costs towards producing a Millennium booklet, again involving local people working together.

A one year grant for the capital costs of a newbuild village hall, including running expenses for the first year of operation.

The grant will be used to renew the tarmac from the road to the front door of the village hall and to lay non-slip flooring inside the hall.

The grant will be used to create a parking area and put up a community notice board. The grant will be used to create a parking area and put up a community notice board.

Series of events and activities involving all main organisations in the area will create a Maize Maze a Torrington Quilt and a stained glass window to celebrate the natural and built environment.

The organisation is aiming to encourage social, economic and environmental regeneration. Over three years the grant will enable the organisation to employ three new project workers, meet the costs of minor building works and help meet the costs of three e

Great Torrington Gazebo Restoration