This page provides details of the divisional payments that I made in 2025-26.
Transition Worcester: £200
A project that would improve the health and safety of all visitors and volunteers.
Worcestershire Literary Festival & Fringe: £500
Help to continue the work the festival and fringe do in the community.
ASPIE: £394.58
Funding for an extra copier/printer/scanner to help cope with all the extra admin, leaflets, and promotional material.
Vamos Theatre: £800
Sharing Joy is a show created for people living with Dementia, acquired brain injury and other life-limiting conditions. Taking Sharing Joy to Headway would not be possible without these funds, as care homes/charities and day care provision do not have budgets that allow for this kind of professional quality activity for the people in their care and are always extremely grateful to have the opportunity to be able to book us.
St George’s Church: £245
This money will be spent on a 6-hoop bike rack for St George’s Church. It will encourage people to come to church/events at the church on their bikes, as there is somewhere secure to store them.
St George’s CoE Primary School: £400
The school would like the funding to be able to fund a year of the ‘Walk to school challenge’. This would support the school’s net zero and active travel plans to increase active travel to and from school, promoting higher levels of physical activity amongst the children, as well as reducing emissions in the school locality.
PYPLC: £671
To purchase a cycle rack for 10 bikes and the purchase of 5 locks. The equipment will be installed at the front entrance of Perdiswell Young People’s Leisure Club, which will be covered by our CCTV system. Currently, there are no cycle racks and installing these will promote cycling to the club.
Fort Royal School: £500
Arts Week has become a much-anticipated event at the school, providing an invaluable opportunity for creativity, confidence-building, and self-expression. The event is tailored to meet the needs of all pupils, including those with sensory needs, special interests, or more complex needs, ensuring that every child can engage and participate fully.
Worcester Community Action: £750
At present, WCA have an office on the first floor at The Angel Centre. The present lift in the building, for use by anyone with a disability, requires two people to be present to ensure that it operates safely. WCA are finding this situation increasingly difficult when they have disabled volunteers (and staff). They have now been offered a ground-floor office, with full disabled facilities, yet still close to the city centre. This will make access much better for all individuals to discuss volunteering with WCA, thus ensuring that their services are really accessible to everyone in the community.
However, moving incurs costs, and WCA are asking for support to cover these costs. This includes hiring a moving company to move furniture and other equipment, reprinting of leaflets and posters (with more up-to-date design) and purchasing a new pull-up banner with correct contact details, plus redirection of mail for three months.
Remade Worcestershire: £1,000
We have begun the first stages of running a project to provide a resource box full of materials for use in arts and crafts activities for community groups and schools. We have an intern from Birmingham University working on some research with Worcester city schools and communities, who will provide some detailed information about the community’s needs and willingness to take part in this scheme.
She will work with our newly recruited outreach worker, who currently has 10 hours to work in Warndon, Warndon Villages and Elbury for a year. The Outreach worker will organise liaison with schools and groups and the compilation of boxes of resources, working closely with Remade’s volunteers. She will work alongside established groups to establish their needs for arts, crafts and textile resources, and hold additional one-off workshop sessions where the need is identified.
We are seeking additional funding to expand this potentially self-sustaining project to other areas of the city. This project would contribute to reducing the environmental impact of our communities through the recycling and repurposing of items otherwise destined for landfill. We collect and make available a wide range of crafting goods and resources, which are donated by the public and small and large businesses.
Worcester Snoezelen: £500
We are seeking funding to purchase a new monitor for our Rock School band. Our 8-piece live rock band supports members during bi-weekly Rock School sessions and performs at numerous community events throughout the year. These opportunities allow members to showcase their musical skills and help promote visibility for people with disabilities and additional needs within our local community.
At our recent performance at the Worcester Show on Pitchcroft, one of our monitors became faulty. Funding for a replacement would not only benefit our Rock School sessions and thriving music service but also support upcoming events, including the Worcester Music Festival in September, where we’re proud to be performing as the chosen charity.
WCC Highways: £3,500
The installation of a dropped kerb between the road (Gregory’s Bank) and the canal footpath and cycle route. Having a dropped kerb would make it easier for cyclists and pushchairs to enter and exit the canal footpath, improving access for all.
Men United: £539.42
We Are Men United CIC offers free men’s mental wellness support via peer groups led by trained facilitators across the County of Worcestershire. With an emphasis on mentoring and coaching, the sessions aim to equip men with strategies and techniques to manage thoughts, feelings and emotions that, unchecked, often lead to anxiety and depression over time.
The positive outcomes that are being seen through the sessions are positively influencing the frame of mind, self-esteem, a feeling of belonging, relationships, employment and housing. Supporting the current sessions in Worcester, specifically through this award and extending the provision for a few more weeks, is fundamentally important to our mission.