Goole Fields 1 Wind Farm Community Fund
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Awards Summary April 2016 - March 2017 Organisation Item Total Project Cost (£) Grant Award (£) Goole Fields 1 Wind Farm Community Fund Business in Goole Goole Beach Day 2016 10,536 1,600 Castaway Castaway Access 5,962 3,866 AWARDS SUMMARY April 2016 - September 2017 Creykes Pre School IT Equipment 1,484 1,354 Goole and District Community Transport Group Extending Opportunities Phase 2 13,545 9,900 Moorlands Community Charity IT Equipment 20,544 10,974 Old Goole Gala Association Annual Gala 2016 5,983 2,600 Old Goole Senior Citizens Club Increase Club Membership 3,367 2,367 Ousefleet Flower Show and Gala Annual Event 2016 1,361 1,009 Pollington Balne Pre School New Purpose Built Room 10,550 5,000 Snaith and Cowick Drama Group Lighting Desk and Lights Upgrade 4,317 2,417 Images courtesy of project volunteers Snaith Explorers Expedition Equipment 2,035 1,501 Swinefleet Village Hall Keeping the Hall Warm Phase 2 2,783 1,870 Introduction The Conservation Volunteers Pond Dipping for All 6,231 2,811 Goole Fields I Wind Farm is operated by innogy Renewables UK Ltd The Goole Fields 1 Fund The Green Team Provision and Growth of Gardening Services 13,800 10,000 (innogy), one of Europe’s leading energy companies. As part of the The Fund operated within a governance framework Vale of Snaith Action Group Heritage Walks – phase 2 6,795 1,800 developments planning permission, granted in 2010, a commitment was that was established when planning permission Yorkshire Waterways Museum Green Space 18,045 3,000 made by the company to create a community fund. was granted. The Constitution set out the Fund’s The Sobriety Project Total 62,069 The Goole Fields 1 Wind Farm Community Fund - established after the objectives, who could apply for funding and how Awards Summary April 2017 - September 2017 wind farm started exporting electricity in 2014 - received its first substantial decisions were made about the disbursement of the (Please note these are recent awards so in some instances will be ‘work-in-progress’ at time of going to press). donation (in 2015) of £64,000 per annum (index linked to inflation). fund. The Fund was administered by East Riding of Yorkshire Council. Organisation Item Total Project Cost (£) Grant Award (£) With the commissioning of the second, Goole 2, Wind Farm in late 2016, a new combined Goole Fields Wind Farm Community Fund will be Castaway Goole Accessible Music Theatre 12,375 9,827 established in late 2017 which will manage future donations arising from The Fund supported educational, environmental, Cowick Primary School PTA Outdoor Regeneration Project 3,130 1,950 both Goole Fields 1 and Goole Fields 2 wind farms. energy efficiency and amenity initiatives or similar East Riding Voluntary Action Services Volunteen Green Scheme 5,497 5,497 charitable purposes for the benefit of the public Therefore, the existing Goole Fields 1 Fund will cease operation in Goole Youth Action Old Goole Summer Fun 5,046 3,792 living within the Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and September 2017 and this report records the concluding work of the Goole Marshland Local History Group Publication 400 400 Marshland and Goole South Wards of the East 1 Fund covering the second full year of the Fund’s operation (April 2016 Marshlands Primary School Outdoor fitness equipment 11,000 5,000 Riding of Yorkshire (known as the ‘Area of Benefit’). to March 2017) and also includes the projects awarded funding from April Old Goole Gala Association Annual Gala 4,940 3,000 2017 to September 2017. This timetable is summarised in table below. Ousefleet Flower Show and Gala Annual Gala 2,687 1,755 Snaith and Cowick Together Heritage Day 1,828 1,000 Snaith and District Choral Society Concert 950 400 Wind Farm Community Fund Dates Comment Swinefleet Primary School Cinema Club 4,724 4,724 Vale of Snaith Action Group Resident’s project 1,320 225 Goole Fields 1 April 2015 - March 2016 First Annual Awards report published September 2016 Trinity Methodist Church, Goole Media equipment 1,306 1,216 Twin Rivers Parish Council – Ousefleet Goole Fields 1 Professional fees – planning future works on Hall 1,600 1,000 April 2016 - September 2017 This second, and concluding, Awards Report Village Hall published. Goole 1 Fund closes September 2017. The Sobriety Project Total 39,786 Goole Fields (combined) October 2017 - December 2017 New Fund established. For Further Information Contact Goole Fields Wind Farms Community Fund, (01482) 391655 Goole Fields (combined) January 2018 New Fund opens. c/o Rural Policy and Partnerships, [email protected] East Riding of Yorkshire Council, As stated, this report focuses on the concluding work of the Goole 1 Fund. Further detail on the establishment of the new Goole Fund is Burnby Hall, The Balk, Pocklington YO42 2QF www.eastriding.gov.uk/goole-fields-fund available separately. Business in Goole Old Goole Senior Citizens Club 14 The Green Team The Fund Panel 1 7 Decisions about how the annual donation was spent Goole Beach Day Increase Club Membership through activity Ongoing Provision and Growth of Gardening Service were made by the Goole Fields 1 Wind Farm Community Grant Award £1,600 Grant Award £2,367 Grant Award £10,000 Fund Panel. The Panel was made up of nominated This award has improved facilities for club members by the purchase of thirty representatives who live, work or volunteer within the Business in Goole is a voluntary group of local business owners who work together to improve The Green Team facilitate a volunteer supported gardening service to eight new chairs to replace worn out chairs that were both uncomfortable Area of Benefit and included an innogy member of the offer of Goole Town Council to residents, visitors and investors. elderly and disabled residents living within a ten mile radius of Goole. and, in some cases, potentially unsafe. Part of this award was also used to staff (in an observers role). An Officer from East Riding The aim of this project is to expand the group’s gardening services from This includes community activities one of which is the Goole Beach day organised in the town subsidize transport costs on several club trips in summer 2016. Council attended all meetings as the Fund’s administrator. 295 to 450 customers and from 27 to 40 volunteers. centre each year. This grant contributed towards the equipment used for the 2016 Beach Day. This project enabled the employment of a driver to transport the The Fund Panel held two grant decision making Ousefleet Flower Show and Gala meetings in 2016 and two in 2017 (the last being in May 8 volunteers to an increased number of locations. 2017). During this time the Panel considered a total of Castaway Annual Gala 48 applications for funding and made 32 awards. 2 Castaway Access Grant Award £1,009 In accordance with the Fund’s Constitution, the Panel The aim of this grant to improve the facilities for this popular annual show and held a Special meeting in May 2017 to consider the Grant Award £3,866 this was achieved by the purchase of a marquee and associated equipment. major changes that will accompany the establishment Castaway is an organisation that seeks to improve the health and well being of disabled of the new Goole Fund. Panel members decided young people and adults with learning and physical disabilities. This is achieved through unanimously, and generously, to stand down (effective Pollington Balne Preschool performance and leisure activities. The organisation has recently taken the lease of 9 September 2017) allowing for a new Panel to be premises in Estcourt Street, Goole. New Purpose Built Room recruited for the new combined Goole Fund. The aim of this project was to improve these premises for better community use by Grant Award £5,000 Fund Administration improved wheelchair access via a dropped kerb, the provision of new tables and chairs The aim of this project was to provide and some volunteer training. improved facilities for the preschool children The Panel was supported by the East Riding of by the purchase of equipment that could be Yorkshire Councils’ Rural Policy and Partnership used in a new classroom. 15 Vale of Snaith Action Group Team who provide the day to day administration of the fund. 10% of the annual donation was charged to Creykes Preschool Heritage Walks Phase 2 3 cover this cost. Snaith and Cowick Drama Group Grant Award £1,800 IT Equipment/learning 10 NB: When the Goole 1 Fund closes unspent monies journeys Lighting desk and lighting upgrade The Vale of Snaith Action Group is a local walkers group set up (with reference to Walkers are Welcome guidelines) to promote the local area. sitting within this Fund will be transferred (in full) by the Grant Award £1,354 Grant Award £2,417 administrator to the new Goole Fund. This project refreshed 15 walk cards and walks signage previously installed This drama group produce two productions per year in various locations The aim of this project, via improved IT, by a funded project (2012). is to improve productivity of staff and in the local community. This grant enabled the group to purchase a new Decisions during the 2016/17 year This was achieved by volunteers re-surveying the walks, new artwork freeing up time to be with children, plus lighting desk and upgrade the lighting and in consequence the group can During April 2016 to March 2017 the Goole Field 1 (walk cards) and new signage. using the equipment to provide learning perform in an increased number of locations. Community Wind Farm Fund received 30 applications of which 18 were successful.