Childs Hill & Claremont Primary School Federation*
This primary school federation based in Cricklewood, which serves a very diverse community, has been awarded funding for a project for both of its primary schools.
Claremont School Community Garden Kitchen aims to get local families involved in growing herbs and vegetables – from the planting and nurturing of them, through to seeing them grow, and then discovering how they can use them in cooking dishes for families to eat. This will help with promoting a healthy lifestyle whilst getting families cooking together and having fun.
https://app.actionfunder.org/project/9171
The funding for Childs Hill School’s Greener Travel Plan will support the project to purchase bikes, cycling helmets and high visibility jackets for children to use to take part in cycling proficiency courses which will give students the confidence and skills to safely cycle to school in an effort to reduce the traffic in the locality and promote cleaner air.
https://app.actionfunder.org/project/9191
Cricklewood Millennium Green
Cricklewood Millennium Green is a community garden and space maintained by volunteers. The group will use their funding to create an area for young people to grow flowers and vegetables to encourage improved health and wellbeing through growing.
https://app.actionfunder.org/project/2896
Friends of Mapledown
Mapledown School is a brilliant local school for pupils with disabilities and special educational needs. Cuts to education have impacted the school’s capacity to invest in equipment to enhance students’ learning. They will use their grant to buy additional iPads to support the students’ education and improve their outcomes.
https://app.actionfunder.org/project/398
Keep Rolling Project
Keep Rolling Project mixes skateboarding lessons with art and photography workshops to improve children’s self-esteem, coping mechanisms, confidence and fitness. They will use their funding to run a series of two-day workshops targeted towards minorities who need a safe space to get fit and active, such as people from the LGBTQIA+ community and from disadvantaged backgrounds.
https://app.actionfunder.org/project/9195
Our Yard at Clitterhouse Farm: Nature Activities
Our Yard is a community-led social enterprise, volunteer-run garden and café based at Clitterhouse Farm. Our Yard have won funding to run 38 hours of forest, nature and gardening workshops over the next few months, prioritising children from disadvantaged backgrounds or families who will get the most out of the scheme.
https://app.actionfunder.org/project/7430
Screen Share UK
Screen Share supports digital inclusion for refugees and asylum seekers, primarily by giving them reconditioned laptops which allow them to study, learn, apply for jobs, join the digital workplace and find their feet in the UK. The organisation will use their grant to buy the parts to refurbish 18 new laptops.
https://app.actionfunder.org/project/9095
West Hendon Youth Club / F.U.S.E.
West Hendon Youth Club supports children and young people living in social housing or from low-income families by giving them the opportunity to engage in a variety of sports and activities and providing safe spaces where they socialise. They will use their grant to provide young people in Hendon with 38 weeks of term time multi-sports activities, developing their social skills and self-esteem, encouraging pro-social behaviour, and giving beneficiaries the chance to feel part of a collective.
https://app.actionfunder.org/project/8747
Yaran Club
Yaran Club is a lifeline for women of all ages, particularly asylum seekers and refugees, who are suffering from depression, isolation, domestic violence or any other mental health problems. Yaran will use their funding to pay for a venue space, English and computing teachers, mindfulness, yoga and meditation sessions and therapeutic activities like pottery.
https://app.actionfunder.org/project/9142
Note
*If an organisation has been successful in securing funding for more than one project, the organisation as a whole will be entered into the People’s Projects vote, with reference to the delivery of both projects. This is to ensure fairness among all groups.
Two projects that are recipients of funding for 2023, Childs Hill Primary School and Claremont Primary School, are part of the same organisation – the Childs Hill and Claremont Federation. Therefore the Federation as a whole has been entered into the ‘People’s Projects’ vote.
Therefore, whilst there are 9 recipients of funding from the Brent Cross Town Community Fund 2023, a total of eight organisations or initiatives are part of the People’s Projects vote.
