Oxfordshire Community Foundation

Amount Grant recipient Group purpose Project awarded SMALL AND VITAL Personal development and empowering Increase the capacity of Scouting on the 12th Didcot Scout Group young people through fun indoor and £1,400.00 Ladygrove estate as it grows by buying four new outdoor adventures patrol tents Outings, speakers and entertainment for Twice monthly meetings with quizzes, Adderbury Evergreens £500.00 older people refreshments, films etc. Activities around gardening and healthy Two luncheon clubs enabling members to meet Ardley & Fewcott Gardening Club £500.00 living, primarily for older people others, eat healthily, and share memories Regular meetings, outings and holidays for Hire of Bowling Club Hall and refreshments twice Bloxham Senior Citizens £432.00 older people a month Weekly social club for lone pensioners on Subsidised coach outings, such as steam Cheney Over 50's Club £500.00 low or fixed income railways, canals, museums, and speakers Running and travel costs - hire of wheelchair- Social group for elderly members of the Cutteslowe Seniors £500.00 compatible minibus in context of local bus Cutteslowe and Sunnymead communities service cuts; rent for centre Storage extension to the village hall to house Village hall used for meetings, lectures and equipment that is needed to maintain and Finstock Village Hall £1,000.00 classes, and for other forms of recreation improve usage by many of the regular clubs and societies Social, recreational activities and Subsidies for five excursions to cultural sights, information for older residents in the three Fritwell Forget Me Not Club £500.00 reducing the cost for members in financial isolated parishes of Fritwell, Ardley with hardship Fewcott and Souldern Hethe & District Darby & Joan Seniors club for over 65s in and around Club members entry to a 'secret' venue to be £550.00 Club Fringford near Bicester visited A friendly environment where residents of Irrigation system sourced from a local stream, Osney, St. Thomas & New Botley West Oxford are able to grow fruit and £500.00 which will allow the association to reduce its Allotment Association vegetables whilst maintaining links with environmental impact other members of the local community High quality, inclusive play opportunities for children and young people to improve Two free community play days in Didcot and Oxfordshire Play Association £1,000.00 their physical, mental and spiritual Abingdon - sessional costs for play workers wellbeing Services for disabled and disadvantaged 30 ukuleles and a cargo bicycle to transport The Parasol Project young people experiencing, or at risk of, £1,250.00 them, to run music sessions for young people social exclusion with autism and young carers Social group for visually impaired adults Private hire of a horse-drawn narrow boat to VIBNO (Visually Impaired But Not aged 18-50 to meet and have fun and £600.00 provide a private day trip, to ensure it meets the Old) provide a support a network needs of the group DELIVERING IMPACT Grass-roots, on-the-street engagement Inter-generational social action groups to plan with hard-to-reach young people, Abingdon Damascus Youth Project £4,736.00 and deliver 'Ageless Fun Fests' in South particularly those disadvantaged by social Abingdon, Drayton and Sutton Courtenay circumstances Help for disadvantaged and vulnerable Match-funding for their community transport Aspire £5,000.00 people to get back into work fundraising campaign Purchasing new camping equipment to give Giving young people aged 14-18 Banbury Cross Explorer Scout Unit £2,000.00 more young people the opportunity to do experiences and life skills through scouting outdoor activities Interventions for children, young people Expenses for the delivery of family days within Children Heard and Seen and their families who have a parent in £4,324.48 prisons - sessional staff costs, arts materials prison Free, confidential, independent and Retaining and expanding the pro-bono legal Citizens Advice Oxfordshire impartial advice about the problems people £5,000.00 advice service - running costs face Use of state-of-the-art technology, equipment and expertise to help people to Specialised training and support provided by Community Albums £4,000.00 find and develop often previously musicians to young homeless people in Banbury undiscovered talents and voices Breastfeeding support in the context of Didcot APUK (Attachment Non-profit local parent and baby group £1,500.00 children's centre closures: lactation consultant Parenting UK) Didcot Baby Monday (DBM) and venue hire TOAD Oxfordshire Ltd (Trips, Transport and entrance fees costs for various Outings and social activities for adults with Outings and Activities for Adults £2,000.00 day trips expand the monthly social evenings learning disabilities with learning Disabilities) from once to twice a month £37,792.48

Grants awarded June 2017 OCF round