Mid Copeland GDF Community Partnership awarded £1million from the Nuclear Waste Services’ Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) programme in year four.
This means the Community Partnership has now awarded £4million of Community Investment Funding in four years to a variety of local projects as discussions progress around what a facility could mean for the Mid Copeland area. Much of this funding over the past four years has now been spent and new facilities provided.
Grants awarded in year four:
Seascale Golf Club: £99,000 for construction of six covered driving bays and teaching room.
Beckermet Reading Rooms CIC: £120,499 for the venue’s third phase of its refurbishment, to include redesigning and landscaping the front of the building, including creating a usable outdoor space, a second access and installing a disabled access lift.
St Olaf’s Wasdale Head Parish Church Management Committee: £2,700 for tree surgery to improve the churchyard to enable work to begin on restoration of the church building.
PCC of St Cuthbert’s, Seascale: £4,189 towards start-up costs for a parent and toddler group in Seascale, to include toys, crafting supplies, refreshments and kitchen equipment.
Gosforth Parish Council: £986 for an extension to village shop fire recovery bus service.
Seascale Parish Council: £16,500 for free multi-sport activity camps for children in the Mid Copeland area, providing 30 days of activities for 20 children each day.
Florence Arts: £43,000 for creative wellbeing activities including weekly Make Space sessions and craft cafes. Includes activities to develop young people’s talent with schools, families and outreach sessions at Beckermet Reading Rooms and Shackles Off.
Beckermet Village Association: £7,000 to purchase musical equipment, sound equipment, music stands, room hire, branded fleeces/t-shirts for Two Rivers Rock Choir.
Growing Well: £97,000 to support mental health programme access for 24 Mid Copeland people – plus 30 free crop share boxes weekly for people in need in Mid Copeland.
Egremont Youth Partnership: £44,665 to support a two-year continuation of a youth programme in Beckermet, extending to two sessions per week.
Gosforth Agricultural Society: £7,436 to support hire of handicraft and small business marquees, signage, rosettes, community planters.
Copeland Citizens Advice: £99,937 for a rural advice outreach project in Mid Copeland.
Beckermet Reading Rooms: £1,230 for promotion materials, notice board and production of community newsletter.
SASRA: £16,187 to replace aged gym equipment with modern machines for Seascale Community Fitness Facility.
Little Lifers First Aid: £2,535 to Flat Stan Paediatric First Aid delivering four life-saving skills first aid workshops to four primary schools – Beckermet, Seascale, Gosforth and Thornhill.
Everywhere, Everything, Everyone CIC: £30,000 for a project to stage a Light and Sound Festival in Seascale in December, to be created, organised and performed by local people.
SASRA: £2,000 for Sustaining GP Referral – training costs for two individuals to deliver a programme of fitness/ rehabilitation through gym facilities for adults who need, for example, cardio rehabilitation, help with mobility issues.
Lowside Quarter Parish Council: £13,065 for seven life-saving community defibrillators for across the Nethertown, Braystones, Middletown and Coulderton areas.
Drigg Young Farmers: £8,500 for an exhibition trailer to promote the young farmers’ movement at local events/for use at competitions, providing a safe, sustainable shelter for outdoor use.
Braystones Beach Committee: £10,000 for a professional survey on measures to protect and maintain the access road at Braystones beach for residents, tourists and the wider public.
Changing Lives Learning Trust (Thornhill School): £48,948 to upgrade the early years playground, including nature and wellbeing zone; mud kitchens; reading corner and outdoor sensory equipment.
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust: £150,000 to fund a feasibility study to improve and extend the national cycle network in Mid Copeland.
Wasdale Community Hall: £10,000 for studies and surveys, including commissioning an architect to look at adapting/extending the building for community use.
Gosforth Parish Council: £27,681 to refurbish the Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA), which is in disrepair.
Seascale Parish Council: £116,519 for Coniston Play Area, phase one of a two-phase project to enhance the village playing field. Phase one is to regenerate the play area to make it accessible for all.
Drigg & Carleton Parish Council: £2,887 towards Drigg Licence to Grow project – a Parish Council-led community growing project (which involves 10 Mid Copeland residents who are volunteers with the project) using planters on a former Cumberland Council site. The funding supports purchase of bespoke bird netting and planters made at HMP Haverigg.
St Olafs Church Wasdale: £10,170 towards internal refurbishment of Wasdale Church, recognising significant heritage of church and attraction to tourists.
Always Another Way: £6,365 towards a walking football programme.
Beckermet Village Association: £960 towards community activities including Coffee, Cake and Chat.