Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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COALFIELDS REGENERATION TRUST GRANT AWARDS CELEBRATION
Representatives from 26 community and voluntary groups that have benefited from a total of £99,432 Bridging the Gap funding over the past year were invited to a Grant Awards Celebration evening at Eastry Village Hall on Wednesday 21 March 2012.
The Community and Leisure Team at Dover District Council organised this celebration for the voluntary and community groups that have received funding from the Bridging the Gap Small Grants Programme. This is a Coalfields Regeneration Trust funding initiative administered in partnership with DDC working with the local community.
Funding has been given for a wide variety of different projects for people in the former coalfields community over the year, ranging from cultural and educational initiatives, to sports, health and environment, refurbishment and other projects to help benefit community life.
Peter McNestry, Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Coalfields Regeneration Trust attended the evening. The Coalfields Regeneration Trust has announced another year of funding, which will be known as the Coalfields Community Grants Level 1. There is funding of £95,000 to be given out to coalfields communities in the area over the year.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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gary will be pleased, he is quite heavily involved with this.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes it all sounds good and Gary will no doubt tell us more when he comes on. It is certainly good to see this kind of funding going into this particular aspect of local life as they have all given so much in the past.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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So what happens to this funding if some of the Kent coalfields are re-opened?
Phil West
If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
Brian Dixon
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pay it all back with coal of course.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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The reopening of Bettshanger could be possible but the other 2 deep pits very expensive ,just goes to show the short-sighted decision to fill-in the energy assets of the UK was
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Agree...........short-sighted,spitefull,wasteful and unnecessary...............
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Our Tilmanstone Village Hall Committee (which I am a member of), has been very pleased to receive the grants from Coalfields Regeneration Project Trust, viz:
"Coalfields Grant: We were all delighted that our application late in 2011 for a further grant from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust, managed by Dover District Council, was successful. The Chairman and Committee would like to thank them for all their support and hard work. This grant for £3,176. 12. enabled new heaters to be installed in the hall and kitchen, and for a complete new matching set of tables to be purchased to replace the old ones, with a trolley to store and transport them in. The extra facilities and more warmth in the hall will benefit a wide range of users and clubs in the community as well as private hirers. At present the hall is used for Parish Council, children's parties, receptions (weddings/funerals etc), flower arrangement, elections, Parochial Church Council, and practise, WI meetings and events, village market, village hall Fund-raising events; table tennis, exhibitions and celebrations. At the Village Hall AGM the Chairman Brian Page, and committee, expressed grateful thanks to the Trust and DDC for their help and support."
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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CRT has been a lifeline to many local community projects in the past and the news of its continuity is welcomed. I did not attend this year's presentation night so I am not sure why it has changed its name but I will endeavour to find out, as I will be applying for funding for a bit of landscaping at the Miners Memorial Statue.
Keith.
I have made comment about Betteshanger on "Kent Coal" thread, as this one is about funding.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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I heard you had a productive meeting on Friday afternoon Gary.
Watty
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Paul.
Yes but no comment at this time.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
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Indeed Gary, background work needs to be nurtured.
Watty
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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