Community Grant

New Club Shirts

The Foundation awarded a grant of £700 to the Howard Garden Bowls Club towards the cost of new Club Shirts.

The 43 Club members helped to raise half the cost towards their new team colours.

Object 2 (ii) Providing or assisting in the provision of facilities for the recreation or other leisure activity of the local community in the interests of social welfare with the object of improving their conditions of life.

Grange Community Gardens

Groundwork Hertfordshire led a campaign towards creating a new community park in a key location within the Grange Estate.  The £365,000 scheme was backed by North Herts District Council, North Hertfordshire Homes, Big Lottery Fund and Letchworth Garden City Council.

The project included thorough consultation with all sections of the community to establish the need for a pleasant, safe, green space for the whole community, children’s play facilities and a ‘teen’ area.

Community Hall and Theatre Extension

The Settlement was successful in obtaining a grant from the Waste Recycling Environment Ltd (WREN) for £45,000 towards the cost of extending the community hall and theatre. 

The Settlement Players, who organise three productions a year, were keen for the extension to take place, as the original building has, in the past, prevented them from staging larger productions, involving more people. 

Laura was awarded £400 towards a month long voluntary placement to Mombasa, Kenya in July 2007, organised by Travellers Worldwide. Laura’s placement involved volunteering at the Calvary Zion’s Children Home in the outskirts of mainland Mombasa.

Daily tasks included hand-washing clothes, preparing food for lunches and dinners, mopping floors and spending time with the abandoned / orphaned children.

Electronic Scoreboard

The Club, based at Whitethorn Lane, runs five senior male teams and a successful ladies team in Hertfordshire. Of the 325 members, 238 are youth players (male and female) ranging in age from under 7’s to under 18’s.

The Club is constantly looking at ways to develop its facilities and felt that the existing scoreboard, sited next to the Clubhouse, needed replacing, updating and moved to the opposite end of the ground.

The 1905 Exhibition Cottages Group – consisting of 116 owners of these dwellings – has used its grant to manufacture attractive enamel plaques based on a design created by one of its members, Ray Worbey.

“Putting these plaques up on the exterior of our members homes is our major enterprise for 2006,” stated Group Chairman, Alastair Lochhead. “We’re indebted to both the Council and the Foundation for the permissions and consents needed to do this.”

The Letchworth Garden City Community Group, recipients of a £8,438 Community Grant, provides a wide range of community activities including an after-school club, counselling services and the youth charity behind the successful 2006 and 2007 Letchworth Garden City Festivals.

Pictured: Letchworth Garden City Community Group directors left to right John King, Foley Adigun, Ann Dixon, Mike Foster and Peter Underwood (not pictured).

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Home-Start North Hertfordshire helps local families through difficult times. Working with parents and children to overcome problems such as family breakdown, domestic violence and depression, Home-Start relies on a dedicated band of trained volunteers and ‘core’ funding from a variety of sources. A £6,000 Community Grant assisted its work with Letchworth Garden City families in crisis. Based in Hitchin, Home-Start carries out over 50% of its work in Letchworth Garden City.

Tel: 01462 441455.