Go for It Grants - Approved April 2015 - March 2016

Go For It Grants Approved April 2015 – March 2016

No specific neighbourhood

Reference number: GFI-15-0010 Organisation: Ekta Project Project name: Dementia Awareness Project Project details: . To present performances of a play 'Dementia's Journey', developed by the project in English & Hindi with local playwright Jim Kenworth. . Trained volunteers deliver the project to raise awareness and promote discussion among carers, people in early stages of dementia, and service providers. . To take place at 7 different venues in Newham. Grant: £1,000

Reference number: GFI-15-0017 Organisation: East London Textile Arts Project name: Better Health Better Living Project details: . To run craft classes for adults with learning disabilities on theme of healthy eating & lifestyles. . Classes to run 2 hours per week for 10 weeks at Trinity Centre East Ave E12 (Manor Park) - 20 People With Learning Difficulties (PWLD) + carers and East Ham Nature Reserve (East Ham) - 15 PWLD + carers Grant: £1,000

Beckton & Royal Docks

Reference number: GFI-15-0001 Organisation: Newham Super Choir Project name: Singin' 'bout Our Generation Project details:

of 12London Borough of Newham | Newham Dockside |1000 Dockside Road |London | E16 2QU . To rehearse over a period of 10 sessions at Beckton Community Centre, and then perform a programme of songs jointly with a young people’s choir at a Newham venue. Grant: £2,000

Reference number: GFI-15-0068 Organisation: N/A Project name: Community Café Project details: . To run a community café at Royal Docks Learning & Activity Centre, promoting home cooked style food, tackling isolation and sharing cooking skills and food from different cultures. Will also open kiosk in Royal Victoria Gardens in school holidays. Grant: £1,952

Canning Town & Custom House

Reference number: GFI-15-0002 Organisation: Rosetta Arts Centre Project name: Rosetta Arts Hub Project details: . To provide 10 monthly free visual art workshops at Newham libraries for local residents, commencing at Canning Town. . Classes will be on a drop in basis, open and accessible to a range of ages and abilities. . To be facilitated by practicing local artists and centred on the theme of ‘Local Stories’ - visualising the memories that Newham’s diverse community have about their local area past and present Grant: £960

Reference number: GFI-15-0013 Organisation: N/A Project name: Painting & Drawing Classes Project details: . To provide weekly after-school drawing & painting classes for children aged 6 - 15 years at The Hub, 123 Star Lane E16 4PZ from September 2015. Grant: £900

of 12London Borough of Newham | Newham Dockside |1000 Dockside Road |London | E16 2QU Reference number: GFI-15-0032 Organisation: South West Ham Horticultural Society Project name: Introduction to gardening Project details: . To provide one hour training sessions on Leyes Road Allotments site at varying times, on average once a week for 15 – 25 people per session, to assist newcomers and encourage them to continue with their plots. Grant: £650

Reference number: GFI-15-0037 Organisation: FAITH Drama Productions Project name: The Den Project details: . To develop and perform drama production 'The Den' with 40 young people aged 13 - 25 years from August to October 2015. . Initial workshops/training will take place at FDP base at 389-395 Barking Road E13. . Site-specific piece will be created and performed at Core Landscapes outdoor space opposite Canning Town Station. Grant: £1,000

Reference number: GFI-15-0048 Organisation: Flying Angel Art Club Project name: Flying Angel Art Club Project details: . To enable art group for adults with learning difficulties and mental health issues to mount an art exhibition to help the group continue and encourage new members to join. . Activity takes place at Flying Angel House, Victoria Dock Road E16 3BY. Grant: £838

Reference number: GFI-15-0054 Organisation: Canning Town Library Coffee Morning Lot Project name: Socialising Project details:

of 12London Borough of Newham | Newham Dockside |1000 Dockside Road |London | E16 2QU . New social group for CH&CT residents meeting at Canning Town Library. Programme to include affordable regular activities and outings for all. Grant: £2,000

Reference number: GFI-15-0059 Organisation: Zecora Ura Project name: Capoeira Brazilian Dance/Martial Arts Project details: . To deliver 10 week programme of Capoeira at Hamilton Road Centre E15 3AE starting January 2016. . The workshops will focus on inter-generational participation and sessions will run for 2 hours weekly Grant: £1,870

Reference number: GFI-15-0085 Organisation: Hub Crafts Project name: Patchwork & Quilting Project Project details: . To provide weekly 2 hour sessions in patchwork & quilting at The Hub 123 Star Lane E16 4PZ for 15–20 participants. . 16 session programme initially. To create a wall-hanging as a group activity for a celebration of the Queen's 90th birthday, and also to make individual items for their own homes. Grant: £798

Reference number: GFI-15-0091 Organisation: N/A Project name: Healthy Sundays at Cody Dock Project details: . To hold a one-day launch event with free taster sessions on 01/05/16, followed by 8 x 2 hour weekly Sunday morning classes 10.00 to 12.00 in yoga and related activities. Aim to make these classes self-sustaining after initial period. Grant: £1,989

East Ham

of 12London Borough of Newham | Newham Dockside |1000 Dockside Road |London | E16 2QU Reference number: GFI-15-0022 Organisation: Central Park (East Ham) Bowling Club Project name: Central Park (East Ham) Bowling Club Project details: . To provide free annual membership to Newham residents aged 60+ (final year of 5 year Mayor's promise). Grant: £300

Reference number: GFI-15-0028 Organisation: Circle of Mums Community Project name: Sewing, Embroidery, Knitting & Crochet Project details: . To provide fortnightly needlework activities for women at East Ham Library on Saturday mornings for 24 weeks, to encourage socialising. Grant: £1,000

Reference number: GFI-15-0074 Organisation: N/A Project name: The Street Self Defence/Get Active Project Project details: . To run inclusive weekly self-defence sessions at Lathom/Altmore Schools, catering especially for women and disabled people. Grant: £1,964

Reference number: GFI-15-0075 Organisation: 282 East Ham Air Cadets Squadron Project name: Archery Classes Project details: . To run Archery Classes at 282 Squadron HQ Vicarage Lane E6 6AB from February 2016 for 12 – 25 year olds. Grant: £1,200

Reference number: GFI-15-0081 Organisation: N/A Project name: Community Engagement Courses at East Ham Market Hall Project details:

of 12London Borough of Newham | Newham Dockside |1000 Dockside Road |London | E16 2QU . To provide a community learning space in vacant unit in East Ham Market Hall in which Newham residents, market stall holders and others can provide classes. . These will be free to local residents and users of Market Hall and will include art, computer-training, crochet, jewellery-making & textile classes. . 6 month programme initially - Mon to Thurs 10.00 - 12.00 x 4 days per week for 10 people per session. All ages & skill levels. Low charge to cover materials. Tutors unpaid volunteers Grant: £2,000

Forest Gate

Reference number: GFI-15-0011 Organisation: Forest Gate Community Garden Project name: Phase 1 & 2 Project details: . To set up Community Garden on derelict site in Earlham Grove E7 - to be built and maintained by volunteers. . For relaxation and community events. . To provide a wildlife garden and 8 taster sessions as educational resource for schools. . 5 year lease to be provided by LBN with planning permission for change of use. . Phase 1 setting up; phase 2 involving residents. Grant: £1,987

Reference number: GFI-15-0055 Organisation: Off The Street Project name: Club Cricket Academy Project details: . To provide cricket sessions on Saturday mornings at Forest Gate School for 7 – 19 year olds. Grant: £2,000

Reference number: GFI-15-0077 Organisation: The Wonderlanders Project name: Wonderlanders Stay & Play

of 12London Borough of Newham | Newham Dockside |1000 Dockside Road |London | E16 2QU Project details: . To provide monthly free stay & play sessions for parents/carers & toddlers at Woodgrange Baptist Church, 345 Romford Road Forest Gate E7 8AA from June 2016. . To provide free baby wearing and feeding advice, and cut price reflexology & massage treatments while children play under supervision. Grant: £1,400

Green Street

Reference number: GFI-15-0004 Organisation: Ursuline Links Project name: London Day Camps Project details: . To provide a week of activities for 25 children referred by Primary Headteachers in Newham, to be run by volunteers including local sixth form students. Grant: £1,000

Reference number: GFI-15-0051 Organisation: Harold Road Centre Project name: Relate, Recreate, Renovate Project details: . Weekly sessions for women to teach creative skills including: textile bag-making, upholstery, sewing, recycling old clothes by redesigning. Also basic skills for business. Grant: £1,000

Reference number: GFI-15-0067 Organisation: Newham Parent Forum Project name: Holiday Club Project details: . To run a 6 session holiday club for children with special needs and disabilities during half-term at Cleves Primary School, Arragon Road E6 1QP. . The club will run from 10am - 2pm Tues/Wed/Thurs 27 - 29 October 2015.

of 12London Borough of Newham | Newham Dockside |1000 Dockside Road |London | E16 2QU . Activities to include sensory room, softplay area, sports, arts & crafts, Messy Play, Bouncy Castle, Face Painting Grant: £500

Manor Park

Reference number: GFI-15-0043 Organisation: Trinity Community Centre Project name: Creative Arts and Crafts Project details: . To run a new year-long creative arts and crafts programme, covering many aspects of art development and talent for adults with learning and physical disabilities. . Weekly sessions at Trinity Community Centre. . A minimum of 40 adults with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities and 13 carers will benefit from the project. . Average attendance expected to be 6 - 10 people from Good Life Club and wider community. Grant: £1,665

Reference number: GFI-15-0058 Organisation: Plashet Park Bowls Club Project name: Plashet Park Bowls Club Project details: . To provide free annual membership to Newham residents aged 60+ (final year of 5 year Mayor's promise). Also request for mats to protect Bowling Green and new fridge. Grant: £992

Reference number: GFI-15-0092 Organisation: Trinity Centre Project name: The Good Life Club Project details: . To provide 16 weekly music workshops at Trinity Centre East avenue E12, for adults with learning difficulties, leading to concert performance for local community. Grant: £2,000

of 12London Borough of Newham | Newham Dockside |1000 Dockside Road |London | E16 2QU Plaistow

Reference number: GFI-15-0041 Organisation: First Avenue Urban Wilderness Community Garden Project name: Sensory and Edible Garden Area Project details: . To complete and maintain sensory and edible garden area involving local residents and schools. Grant: £1,186

Reference number: GFI-15-0052 Organisation: Act Up! Newham Project name: Act Up! Education Project Project details: . To provide weekly drama sessions for disabled and non-disabled people at Given Wilson Institute St Mary’s Road E13 9AE. Grant: £1,000

Reference number: GFI-15-0072 Organisation: Lister Community School Project name: World Aids Week Project details: . To choreograph and perform a piece during World AIDS Day & Week in school assembly and possibly other secondary schools. It will involve Year 10 students throughout December. Grant: £250

Reference number: GFI-15-0079 Organisation: Solid Harmony Project name: To The Future Project details: . 5 local Young Artists to help create a new piece of music, to be rehearsed and performed by a massed choir of Newham schoolchildren with Solid Harmony and other local choirs. . To include 4 day workshops during half-term May 2016 at NewVIc, rehearsals in schools led by the 5 local young artists from September 2016, towards massed choral performances Summer 2017.

of 12London Borough of Newham | Newham Dockside |1000 Dockside Road |London | E16 2QU Grant: £2,000

Stratford and West Ham

Reference number: GFI-15-0006 Organisation: Friends of Play Sow and Grow Project name: Stitch and Mend Project details: . To provide weekly sewing activity sessions for people of all ages, to develop skills for recreation as well as potential employment, at Play Sow & Grow Community Hub Gay Road E15.. Grant: £1,320

Reference number: GFI-15-0014 Organisation: Carpenters & Docklands Fitness Group Project name: Fitness Classes Project details: . To provide weekly lunchtime fitness classes at Carpenters & Docklands Centre E15 for women aged 16+ in response to demand on the Carpenters Estate. . Classes will run for 32 weeks initially, one hour per session (1 - 2pm) Grant: £1,920

Reference number: GFI-15-0024 Organisation: Chandos Community Table Tennis Project name: Chandos Community Table Tennis Project details: . To provide Table-Tennis activities at Chandos East Independent School for young people and adults. Grant: £750

Reference number: GFI-15-0033 Organisation: 167 - 183 Chobham Road E15 Project name: Gardens Project details:

of 12London Borough of Newham | Newham Dockside |1000 Dockside Road |London | E16 2QU . To improve and maintain the communal garden space outside this block of flats on corner of Chobham Road and Leyton Road E15. Grant: £200

Reference number: GFI-15-0034 Organisation: Blue Sky Actors Project name: Community Pantomime Project details: . To rehearse and produce a Christmas Pantomime at Stratford Circus involving adults with learning disabilities from September to December 2015. Grant: £1,000

Reference number: GFI-15-0036 Organisation: West Ham Bowling Club Project name: West Ham Bowling Club Project details: . To provide free annual membership to Newham residents aged 60+ (final year of 5 year Mayor's promise). Grant: £345

Reference number: GFI-15-0039 Organisation: E20 Eagles Netball Team Project name: E20 Eagles Netball Team Project details: . To develop a new netball club to provide regular opportunities to play at Chobham Academy E20. Grant: £1,933

Reference number: GFI-15-0050 Organisation: Elevated Aspirations Project name: Sing4Peace: Choir Project Project details: . To provide 10 sessions of song-writing and singing for 11 – 25 year olds leading to a choir performance. Part of Sing4Peace movement. To be held at Stratford Library. Grant: £979

of 12London Borough of Newham | Newham Dockside |1000 Dockside Road |London | E16 2QU Reference number: GFI-15-0073 Organisation: The New Black Film Collective Project name: 888 Film Club Project details: . To train 20 Newham Deaf Forum volunteers to run a film club, open to all residents, with monthly screenings on Thursdays from 6 - 11pm at Stratford Picturehouse. . Initially from January to March 2016 with expected attendance of 100 people. . Activity will also include weekly workshops and seminars at NUSHO Hubspace in all aspects of running and sustaining the film club. . Designed to facilitate full participation from deaf/hearing impaired people. Grant: £2,000

Reference number: GFI-15-0090 Organisation: Newham All Star Sports Academy Project name: E20 Sessions Project details: . To involve and retain 200 young people, aged 11-16 years, in basketball & athletics activities at Chobham School 40 Cheering Lane, London E20 1BD. Project to start April 2016 and run 2 sessions per week for 40 weeks. Grant: £2,000

of 12London Borough of Newham | Newham Dockside |1000 Dockside Road |London | E16 2QU