This page provides details of the divisional payments that I made in 2024-25.
Worcester Community Action: £750
To support and enable WCA to enhance their volunteer recruitment.
Worcestershire Literary Festival & Fringe: £500
Help to continue the work the festival and fringe does in the community.
Old Elizabethan’s Cricket Club: £789.14
Install cycle parking, using “Sheffield Cycle Stands”, to cater for the many children and others cycling to the cricket club.
Mobilise: £750
Support for a new outdoor theatre piece with a company of LGBTQIA+ and non-binary emerging artists for children/families.
Perdiswell Young People’s Leisure Club: £500
Support for their summer activity programme, especially the “One Youth Community Activity Day” on 26th July at Perdiswell Young People’s Leisure Club.
All Sorts Performing Arts: £500
Support them in extending their timetable to deliver classes to more venues in Worcester, including Bishop Perowne College.
Severn Arts: £300
Support the participatory projects in Light Night Worcester 2025, which will celebrate and showcase new and existing light-based artwork with inspiring commissions and high-quality installations throughout the City.
Worcester City Youth Football Club: £500
Support to provide and replace training equipment such as balls, bibs, cones, corner flags and goal posts to give these young people great opportunities and, hopefully, great pathways as they grow into adults.
Dancefest: £500
Support for a project to create a section for Worcester Carnival with children and young people taking part in Dancefest’s weekly (term-time only) classes at five Community Hubs: Warndon, Dines Green, Ronkswood, Tolladine and Horizon.
Worcester Community Garden: £300
To buy a gas-powered hot water urn.
Worcester Paint Festival: £1000
Support to paint a mural on the canal bridge in the Arboretum, by Landsdowne Park.
Lansdowne Park bench: £218
Contribution towards the cost of two new benches in Lansdowne Park.
CCTV: £847.50
To supply and install a CCTV camera at Westbury Street Pocket Park, with an associated sign, to deter anti-social behaviour.
West Mercia Rape & Sexual Abuse Support Centre: £1000
The funding will be used to provide practical, emotional and therapeutic support to residents within the Worcester – St Stephen Division who have experienced any form of rape, sexual violence, abuse or harassment at any time during their lives.
Bulbs by Suffolk Drive: £500
To supply bee-friendly bulbs for volunteers to plant in the green area on the corner of Suffolk Drive and Drovers Way. This area is mainly grass and would benefit from some flowers to benefit pollinators and residents.
Lansdowne Allotments: £1000
To contribute to the natural networks project at Lansdowne Crescent allotments and create a communal space that all tenants and visitors of tenants can enjoy and work on together to maintain.
St. Barnabas Primary School: £88.36
The money will contribute to a sign from ‘signs2schools’ for the front fence on Merrimans Hill Road to encourage safe parking and try and prevent parking on the zig zag lines outside the school. This should deter dangerous parking outside the school, making it safer for children.