Learning through the past - 100 years of stories from Wakefield People with Learning Disabilities

Wakefield College - Tackling Inactivity

The group will deliver a citizenship programme; particularly for but not exclusive to, deaf black minority ethnic young people. This will reduce isolation and promote inclusion.

RandD Creating engaging work for family audiences

Kidz Aware Limited

The group will refurbish and update the kitchen in the village hall. This will enable the group to cater for existing and new groups and will provide an improved facility for community based activities.

The project aims to improve the lives of family members living in an abusive environment. This will be done through supporting individuals to move towards a safer life, free from fear and abuse. The unique approach will work with the whole family where they will learn how to deal with the emotional impact of abusive relationships, break the cycle of destructive and harmful behaviour, whilst tackling the root cause of the issue. There will be a variety of support services available.

Wakefield Lit Fest Presents: Talking Loud and Saying Summat

The group will deliver football sessions for Polish children with a focus on integration and conflict resolution to engage children and promote community cohesion.

The group will provide a learning programme and work placements for people with learning disabilities, as well as developing best practise and resources to create the right environment for people with learning disabilities to work as leaders in organisations.

Word on the Street

Wakefield and District Carers Association

The group will provide a programme of support activities for unpaid carers in the local area. Activities will include counselling services, complementary therapy sessions and a programme called Looking After Me, which will enable participants to focus on their own needs and aspirations. This will improve the mental and physical health and wellbeing of carers.

Cultural Destinations

Hebden Bridge Burlesque Festival

Blink

The group is looking to continue its Monk Bretton Detached Project, which delivers youth engagement work in Monk Bretton and Lundwood, areas with high deprivation levels and many young people on the verge of involvement with crime and anti-social behavior. Street-based youth workers will help dis-engaged young people by building relationships during evenings and weekends in local outdoor spaces. Support and activities will also be offered to develop life skills and improve access to accredited training.

The project will continue some of its existing activity with the addition of a new strand of funding focussed on the development of mental good health, an important need in the community. The group will deliver a preventative programme of support, guidance, awareness-raising and social activities. Sessions and events will also be offered to support people of all ages and backgrounds with learning difficulties, helping them to develop the motivation and confidence to be more productive and live better.

Creative reminiscence in Libraries

This project is the creation of a writing group for women with mental health issues, as well as drop in sessions, with the aim of changing perceptions of mental health problems in Wakefield and promoting positive mental health.

The school will install outdoor play equipment and surfacing. This will provide a safe and stimulating place to play out of school hours, with the aim of reducing childhood obesity across the community.

This project is trips and activities for autistic children and their families during the school holidays. This will provide social opportunities, with the aim of reducing stress and isolation and promoting wellbeing.

Recovery Songs

The group will purchase a range of camping equipment, to include tents and lighting, for the use of scouts, beavers, brownies and guides. This will enable participation in positive, structured activities.

The school will deliver morning and lunchtime dance and fitness sessions for pupils. This will encourage participation in physical activities before and beyond the school day, with the aim of reducing childhood obesity.

This project will develop an outdoor space into a mud kitchen and play area for children visiting loved ones in prison. This will enable residents to access play activities with their children which will give them some resemblance of normality and help improve relationships.

This project is a programme of out of school exercise and lifestyle workshops for pupils and their families. This will encourage participation in physical activities with the aim of reducing obesity and health inequalities.

The school will develop the playground and will provide supervised outdoor activities to engage children in a fun and physical environment.

Then and Now, There and Here: The Imprint of the First World War in Wakefield

The school will install an outdoor shelter. This will provide opportunities for disadvantaged children to spend more time outdoors, with the aim of increasing confidence and self-esteem and reducing childhood obesity.

Arts In Place ? Legacy New Practice and Partnerships

Warrior Research and Development

The school will deliver after school physical activities. This will encourage participation in exercise, with the aim of reducing the rising issue of obesity.

This project is the provision of a monthly support group for male victims of domestic violence. This will raise awareness and provide a support network to those affected by domestic abuse.

This project is the delivery of activities, including swimming and multi sports, for people aged over 25 with Autism. This will provide opportunities to socialise, improve confidence and independence and reduce isolation.

Beyond Bounds

This project will recruit volunteers and develop volunteering opportunities for young people in the community. This will strengthen the local volunteer pool.

Rowing for England

Generations

The organisation will purchase laptops and associated software for their community learning environment. This will provide access to IT equipment and enable people to seek online advice and information.

Change Makers Fund

St Lukes Sharlston Bell Restoration Project

This project will increase awareness and understanding of autism, ADHD and Asperger?s Syndrome and their associated effects via a series of educational talks and training sessions. This will provide access to relevant services and coping strategies to improve the overall quality of life of people with these conditions.

Drainage of 'Shand' Pitch

The organisation will use the funding to deliver a series of activities at a local care facility. This will build stronger communities through the provision of social activities for all members of the community, reducing social isolation and improving intergenerational relations.

This project will provide youth training opportunities for disadvantaged young people from black and minority ethnic communities living in and around Wakefield to challenge perceptions, break down barriers, increase confidence and create opportunities. The project will train youth leaders who will then support the delivery of community activities for young people aged eight and over.

Unity Words Year 2

Centre For Creativity

Art Comes Naturally

The organisation will use the funding to run a series of music based therapeutic workshops for adults with mental health issues and their families. This will aid recovery, improve confidence, self- esteem and reduce social isolation.

A celebration of the Club's heritage and its contribution to the local community

The organisation will use the funding to deliver a programme of track cycling to children with autism and to train staff to become coaches. This will provide physical activities for children with autism to improve their health and to improve their social interaction.

The organisation will use the funding to deliver a programme of track cycling to children with autism and to train staff to become coaches. This will provide physical activities for children with autism to improve their health and to improve their social interaction.

Club Redevelopment - Changing Room Upgrade

This new project will offer support for vulnerable young people in Ryhill, Havercroft and surrounding areas through the provision of activities, training and mentoring. The emphasis of the project is to raise self-confidence, improve employment prospects and community improvement. Working with young people who are disaffected and disengaged, the group will provide regular activities including youth club sessions and encourage development of social skills and teamwork.

The organisation will use the funding to provide a respite room for families attending the facility that have a member who has been diagnosed with dementia. This will provide a therapeutic area for people to socialise and take time out to relax in a serene environment, with the view of improving mental health and wellbeing.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park - Capital stage two

Wakefield Lit Fest 2016

Wood Street Heritage - Heart of Wakefield

The organisation will use the funding to deliver multi-skilled activity sessions for local children and young people, culminating in two celebration events. This will provide volunteering opportunities and accredited training as well as advice on healthy living and eating for beneficiaries to encourage them to become more active and make healthy lifestyle choices.

Long Division 2016

Maintenance of Bowling Green & Site

The organisation will use the funding to purchase a new oven. This will allow them to offer social events for local residents who are vulnerable, lonely and isolated.

WW1 Film Project with iPad

The group will use the funding to provide physical activity sessions and healthy lifestyle advice for primary school children who are at risk of obesity. This will improve their physical health and wellbeing.

The group will use the funding to provide a range of activities and complimentary therapies for carers. This will improve their overall general health.

The school will use the funding to install fitness equipment and an all-weather surface. This will provide a safe and secure environment for children from the school and local community to play and get active.

The group will use the funding to offer training to new community volunteers to support vulnerable BME women. This will help beneficiaries settle into the UK and ensure everybody gets the help they need.

Old Sharlston Cricket Club Community Building

This Is My Story...Now Tell Me Yours...

Drainage of 'Shand' Pitch

The school will use the funding to deliver weekly holiday boot camps, healthy lifestyle workshops, a conference day, family mentoring sessions and trips. This will improve the physical health of pupils and their families.

The group will use the funding to deliver leadership and fitness sessions, for children in local schools after school hours. This will encourage pupils to participate in physical activities, with the aim of reducing obesity and raising educational attainment.

The Price of Love, Retelling Wakefield Mysteries

Arts in Place II

A New Beam at 30 - Organisational Development

The organisation will use funding to deliver activities, such as a drop in service and memory boxes, for older people experiencing dementia. This will provide stimulating therapy for beneficiaries, where participants can discuss times gone by, with the aim of reducing isolation.

Travel With Us

Upgrade main floodlights and install new on training area

The organisation will use the funding to carry out a consultation to explore why BME community groups are not accessing support services for families and carers of people affected by substance abuse. This will help remove stigma and barriers for local BME communities to access mainstream support services, enable them to develop coping mechanisms, improve their wellbeing and aid recovery.

Coalfield Conversations: Increasing Visitor Engagement through Facilitated Surface Interpretation

The group will use the funding to work with women within the criminal justice system, female ex-offenders and their families to create and a film which explores the issues of re-offending, relationships and breaking the cycle of children going to prison. This will support the relationships between women in the criminal justice system and their families, with the view of reducing reoffending and successfully resettling ex-offenders.

The organisation will use the funding provide English language classes and a community ambassador to assist new arrivals into the UK with integration, signposting services and guidance. This will provide those arriving from abroad with much needed services and basic educational skill in a bid to increase the rate of integration and reduce isolation.

The school will use the funding to run a series of extra curricular fitness and physical activity sessions aimed at girls in the school. This will enable the organisation to target young people currently not engaged in activity and provide new opportunities to improve physical health and emotional wellbeing.

99% Halal (Full length play)

This project will deliver support and engagement activities to young people in the Doncaster suburb of Hexthorpe, aimed at 13-24 year old young people to help develop life skills, access to training and reduce anti-social behaviour. Accredited learning will include courses on employability, active citizenship, community working, food, nutrition and entrepreneurship. Activity programmes will include cycling, boxercise, cultural dance, artwork, music and healthy food preparation/cooking.

Old Sharlston Cricket Club Community Building

The organisation will use funding to deliver a series of activities for young people in the community, such as advice concerning substance misuse, food hygiene and first aid. This will provide beneficiaries with diversionary activities and enable them to work to a recognised qualification, with the aim of reducing crime and anti social behaviour.

The organisation will use the funding to make improvements to their kitchen facilities and offer healthy cooking classes for local children and young people. This will educate participants about the importance of healthy eating to improve their health and wellbeing.

The organisation will use the funding to deliver extra-curricular physical activity sessions at 6 local primary and secondary schools. They will provide young people and parents with accredited learning and coaching opportunities to help deliver the sessions, as well as providing positive activities that reduce levels of antisocial behaviour and encourage participants to be more physically active.

The organisation will use funding to deliver a series of sporting activities, for children with disabilities. This will provide beneficiaries with structured things to do during the school holidays, with the aim of reducing obesity and promoting wellbeing.

Visible Words from Invisible People

The school will use the funding to deliver a six month programme of regular after-school, family-focused activities for children and their parents. By providing the opportunity for families from a diverse cultural community to play and enjoy stimulating leisure time together, they will increase social interaction and community cohesion.

Foam Island - development and Huddersfield Activity

The organisation will use the funding to work with local older people, young people and families of all abilities in the area to collect stories, images and recordings about the area they live in and create a community exhibition celebrating the Dearne Valley. This will enable the group to encourage intergenerational working and learning throughout the area as well as instil community pride and cohesion, and reduce isolation.

The organisation will use the funding to deliver a series of holiday activity schemes in Autumn 2015 and Spring 2016 to children aged 8 to 13 years old in the Darnall area of Sheffield. This will improve community cohesion by engaging the diverse community groups living in the area in shared activities thereby reducing tension and increasing mutual understanding and respect.

Telling the stories: Wakefield Cathedral's stained glass windows reinterpreted for the 21st century

This new project will be delivered to help improve communtiies on the Portobello estate in Wakefield. The project will build on a range of community work previously delivered by a small community group, Portobello Community Forum (PCF). This project will improve the lives of local residents whilst giving them a sense of pride in the area, helping them to engage in activities focusing on skills and training, life skills, health, safety, anti-social behaviour, basic needs and increasing community engagement.

The organisation will use the funding to replace the tables and chairs throughout the community centre, which is used for a variety of activities for older people and children. This will ensure that the furniture is safe and suitable for community use.

Wakefield Grammar School and the Great War