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Yapton Parish Council
Grant to Voluntary Organisations
9th July 2018
Agenda Item 9
Applications for Grant-aid 2018/2019
Total Budget Available: £890
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Name of Organisation
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Purpose
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Benefits/Services provided to
Yapton residents
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Reasons for seeking funding
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Previous
grants
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Comments
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approved
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1.
Arun & Chichester
Citizens Advice Bureau
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Advice and information, offering a free. confidential. impartial service to all citizens, including Yapton and surrounding area.
One of the challenges in 2018 is the full service “roll-out” of Universal Credit, due to start on the 1sy July 2018 in the Arun and Chichester area. Universal Credit works well for many people, but problems with the system mean some families are left struggling.
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Outreach to Yapton as well as clients by telephone or face-to- face from the Yapton area. The number of those who have benefitted from our home visiting service in 2015/16 is 520. and of those 50 are from the Yapton area.
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Requested funding towards the core funding costs of the Bognor Regis Advice Centre. We operate a home visiting outreach for vulnerable and elderly people and those who have mobility constraints.
We are expecting around 12 – 15% additional clients in 2018 as a result of Universal Credit enquiries, and are putting in place additional training and resources to meet this demand. We will not get any additional core funding to support this demand.
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£75 in 2006, 2008, 2012. 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, £100 in 2017.
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2018 - £50
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2.
Bognor Regis,
Chichester and
District branch of the Samaritans
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Our Purpose is:
1. To enable people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those who may be at risk of suicide, to receive confidential emotional support at any time of the day or night from appropriately trained Samaritans, in order to improve their emotional health and to reduce the incidence of suicide.
2. To promote a better
understanding in society of suicide, suicidal behavior and the value of expressing feelings which may otherwise lead to suicide or impaired emotional health.
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The confidential nature of the service means we do not know where people are when they contact us. Last year we dealt around 20,000 contacts. People contact us for many reasons, including relationship and family problems; loss of family, friends or job; health and financial worries and job-related stress.
We believe that these issues affect all parts of the area that we cover. In addition to phone, email and face-to-face contacts at our Bognor Regis centre, over the last few years we have expanded our outreach work. Volunteers regularly visit St Richard’s Hospital, the various homeless shelters around the district, and going into local schools and colleges to give talks about mental health issues. Wee are currently working very closely with the local railway operators in the hope of implementing strategies to reduce suicides at stations.
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To do all these things, to keep our branch open for as many hours as possible and to fully train new volunteers means that our running costs average over £17.00 per year.
Our major expenditure is on volunteer selection and training and volunteers travel expenses. A donation from your Council would help ensure that people in crisis have confidential support, day or night, every day of the year, by enabling us to recruit and train more volunteers. We need more volunteers if we are to expand our work in mental health issues which are of great concern
Our volunteers are all trained to provide a listening ear, in confidence and without judging, to anyone who is going through a difficult time, including those who may be suicidal. Anyone. young or old, can contact us by phone or visit the Branch to talk through anything that may be troubling them. Some people find it easier to write their feelings down rather than talk about them, and our email and text services are the preferred medium for many young people.
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2017 - £120
2016 - £120
2015 - £100
2013 - £75
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2018 - £120
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Name of Organisation
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Purpose
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Benefits/Services provided to
Yapton residents
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Reasons for seeking funding
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Previous
grants
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Comments
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approved
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3.
West Sussex Mediation Service
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Providing a range of free and confidential mediation services across West Sussex using trained and accredited local volunteer mediators. We specialize in neighbor disputes and conflicts within families. We also offer Conflict Coaching to one party when formal mediation is not possible/declined by one side.
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We continue to assist families in escalating Yapton who are suffering disputes requiring mediation. These conflicts would have a wider influence on the community. Our work prevents disputes from escalating and we have evidence that we can improve the health and wellbeing of those suffering conflict. We reduce the burden on statutory and other support agencies. Anyone can use our free service. We have had several clients in Yapton in the last year.
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A Grant of £100 would help us maintain a free service to residents of Yapton and to reach out to those who are not aware of our charity. It would also help support our local volunteers in maintaining their skills through top up training.
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2017 – no bid
2016 - £50
2015 - £100
2014 - £0
2013 - £0
2012 - £75
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2018 - £50
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4.
4 Sight Vision Support
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Further information requested
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5.
Regis School of Music
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Regis School of Music is a registered charity in the heart of Bognor Regis. The Regis School of Music is a live music venue delivering exceptionally high standard live music events throughout the year. The building is a community hub and a jewel in the crown of Bognor Regis, giving many local community groups a truly beautiful space in which to conduct its activities. The RSM have fundraised extensively and managed to renovate all the windows and fire doors earlier this year.
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No information given in answer to this question.
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Now, with our other fundraising efforts exhausted, we are seeking additional sources of funding to renovate the kitchen and toilet areas to make them safer, cleaner and more user friendly.
We have recently launched a fundraising project on the SpaceHive platform for the refurbishment of the toilets and kitchen facilities. The Communities Initiative Fund, supported by Frances Oppler recently awarded us £5,000 towards our target, but we are still £2,178 short of our target. Due to the nature of the crowd-funding-type platform means that if we fall even marginally short of our fundraising target, the entire project fails.
On the advice of Frances Opler, we are now approaching the Parish Councils to ask for their support of our project. Any contribution, no matter how big or small brings us closer to realising these important renovations.
Please do take a look at our SpaceHive project for more information - please do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions.
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2018 – no award made
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Name of Organisation
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Purpose
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Benefits/Services provided to
Yapton residents
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Reasons for seeking funding
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Previous
grants
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Comments
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approved
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6.
Yapton & Ford Parochial Church Council
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Religious Worship
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Regular Church of England services.
Weddings, funerals and baptisms available to all residents in the parochial parish of Yapton with Ford.
A well maintained churchyard with facilities for relatives tending graves and the ashes patch.
There are 98 members on our electoral roll.
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Funding is requested to help with the expenses of maintaining the churchyard at St Mary’s, Yapton. While all the work is currently carried out by volunteers there are incidental expenses for the purchase of petrol for mowers and other materials as well as occasional major equipment purchases.
As the churchyard is now closed to new burials other than ashes interment, if we did not maintain it the responsibility would fall on the local council [in this case, I believe, Arun D.C.]
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Yes, annual grants for many years with the latest being for £95 in 2017.
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2018 - £100
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Yapton and District
Cottage Gardeners'
Society
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£100 in 2010
2011, 2012,
2013 and 2014.
£150 in 2015, 2016 and in 2017.
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2018 - £150
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Name of Organisation
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Purpose
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Benefits/Services provided to
Yapton residents
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Reasons for seeking funding
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Previous
grants
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Comments
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8.
Bognor Regis Town Girls Youth Football Club
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Girls Youth Football Club
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There are very limited girls football teams in our community. We have players / parents / grandparents from all around Bognor Regis and the surrounding area.
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To provide footballs for the girls to train with. 30 required @ £10 each is £300. Currently 60 girls are signed up.
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New Application
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2018 – no award made
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9.
Yapton Evergreens Over 50’s Club
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Socialising for the over 50’s
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Talks, Outings, Opportunities for Socialising, i.e. Bingo, Card games, Other Games. 24 Members at present
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Transport Costs for Outings, to places such as Aldingbourne Trust, Stansted House by minibus
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Liability Insurance in 2016 - £xx
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2018 - £100
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