Burbo Bank Extension Community Fund Grants Awarded
The following projects have been supported through the Fund. Grant amounts are shown as the total amount awarded at the time the grant offer was made. All awards made are subject to contract.
Round 16
Alt Valley Community Trust, Children’s Adventure Park (Walton Park Sports Centre) – £15,000
Dementia Together Wirral, Supporting People Living with Dementia and their Carers – £4,183
Home-Start Southport & Formby, Supporting Families in Crisis – £5,000
Ince Blundell Community Village Hall, Ceiling Height Reduction – £16,297
Love Lane Allotment Society, Portacabin Education Hub, Liscard – £5,000
North Wales Women’s Centre, Information and Support Service – £11,723
Rhuddlan Town Community Association, Improvement & Sustainability (To Assist in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) – £20,000
Rhuddlan Town Council, Path around Admiral’s Field – £20,000
The Gateway Collective, North Park Community Garden and Kitchen – £15,000
Round 15
Churches Together in Great Crosby Charitable Trust, Crossroads Cafe – Replacement of Outdated Inefficient Heating System – 5,000
Emmaus Merseyside, Emmaus Beautiful Garden – 14,400
Independence Initiative Ltd, The Indy Workshop (Bootle) – 5,000
Music In Mind CIO, Sefton Coastal Voice – 4,950
River And Sea Sense Ltd, River And Sea Sense Safety Schools – 19,980
Sefton Carers Centre, Carer Liaison Support Worker – 16,603
St Luke’s Methodist Church, Refurbishment of Community Room and Kitchen – 15,000
The Fillies GFC, Netherton Sports Health and Personal Development Programme – 12,250
The National Trust, Wicks Lake Project – 16,425
Vauxhall Community Law and Information Centre, Cost of Living Crisis Support for Coastal Communities – 15,000
Ykids Ltd, Supporting Families Facing Crisis Due to Cost of Living Crisis – 19,860
Round 14
Choose Life The Prisoners Initiative, Ex Offender/Homeless Employability Course – £4,960
Crea8ing Community CIC, Delivery of Psychosocial Education Programmes and Support – £20,000
Crosby Explorer Scouts, Outdoor Equipment – £3,942
Dee Estuary Voluntary Wardens, Hoylake and West Kirby Wader Education and Protection Project – £1,350
Energy Projects Plus, Affordable Warmth Wirral – £19,862
Friends of Christchurch School, Christchurch Community Centre : New Community Centre Provision – £19,000
Linacre Bridge Community Hub, Community Resilience – £18,000
Sported Foundation, Rhyl, Kinmel Bay, Towyn: Denbighshire – Connected Communities – £5,000
St Kentigern Hospice, Co-ordinator of Volunteers – £20,000
The L20 Hub, South Park, Bootle – Youth & Community Services – £17,368
Wirral Community Organic Growers, North Birkenhead, Merseyside – St James Community Greenspace – £5,000
Round 13
Jon Egging Trust, Blue Skies Inspire Packages Teamwork, Leadership, Employability (Rhyl and Prestatyn) – £4,996
KidsOut, North Wales and English Coast Toy Boxes – £960
Mencap Liverpool & Sefton, Volunteering & Befriending Development – £14,000
Mersey Counselling and Therapy Centre, Supporting Young People in our Community (North Wirral) – £4,950
St Asaph Bowling Club, Floodlights – £2,000
St Josephs Hospice Association, Outside Meeting and Seating Provision – £4,918
Sussex Street Christian Centre, Re-roofing – £20,000
The Osborne Trust, Trust Goes Outdoors – £8,320
The Reach Mens Centre CIC, Support Group Staff – £4,160
Venus Charity, Not Slipping Through the Net – £16,000
West Rhyl Young People’s Project, Pixel Voice, Creative Youth Engagement Project – £19,819
Wirral Youth Zone, Liscard Outreach Project – £14,000
Round 12
Elevate Education Business Partnership, Bootle/Litherland : Raising Aspiration Programme – £9,402
Friends Of Crosby Beach, Beach Clean and Care Project (Crosby/Waterloo) – £4,873
Heart of Egremont, Refurbishment and Meal Provision – £14,210
Hightown Parish Council, Refurbishment of Alt Centre – £17,450
Hope House Children’s Hospices, Key Working (Denbighshire) – £3,587
Kindfulness Coffee Club, Bootle, Sefton : Enhance the Existing Baby Kind Service – £19,520
Parenting 2000, Young Women’s Empowerment and Personal Safety Programme (The Girls Imperium) – £16,680
Prestatyn Men’s Shed, Rain Water Harvesting and Projects – £2,400
Rhyl & District RFC Ltd, Pathway Accessible to All – £15,000
Royden Park Ranger Volunteer Group, Pond Restoration for Amphibian Conservation at Royden Park – £8,925
Sean’s Place, Wellbeing Programme – £4,448
Sefton Women’s and Children’s Aid, Part Time Domestic Abuse Assessment Team Officer Salary Contribution – £10,000
Round 11
Abundance Centres Refurbish, Sefton Buildings for STEM Education Teaser Project (Especially Engineering) – £4,980
Christchurch Morton, Parish Community Centre Heating – £15,000
In Your Shoes Community Hub, Sustainability Project – £17,138
Litherland Youth and Community Centre, Community COVID Support Programme – £18,400
Merseyside Youth Association Ltd, SPACE – Infinity : Building Stronger Communities by Supporting Vulnerable Young People – £18,960
North Wales Wildlife Trust, Boosting Big Pool Wood – For People and Wildlife Alike – £11,434
Park Roots Community Interest Company, Edward Kemp Garden – Putting Water in the Right Place – £4,873
Prestatyn Town Council Denbighshire, CCTV Partnership : Phase 2 Priority Cameras – £12,000
Rhuddlan Town Council, Coed y Brain Community Facility – £4,700
Seaforth Information Network Group, Our Space Homework Club – £2,994
Wirral Ark Dinghy, Refurbishment and Furniture Workshop – £19,960
Wirral Holistic Care Services, Survivorship Project for People with Cancer – £2,236
Round 10
Bee Wirral CIC, Livingstone Street Community Centre, Birkenhead, Bee’s Secret Garden – £9,551
Brunswick Youth and Community Centre, Bootle, The Brunswick Community Kitchen – £11,200
Domestic Abuse Safety Unit North Wales, Rhyl, Family Domestic Abuse Support Worker – £19,700
Friends of Waterloo Seafront Gardens, Wheeled Wagon – £2,500
Marine Lake Users Forum, Hand Sculpted Timber Bench for Rhyl Marine Lake – £2,500
Pinto Community Art CIC, Strand by Me’, Bootle – Community Art Group Workshops – £2,010
Positive Futures North Liverpool Limited, “Positive People” – £19,971
Stick ‘n’ Step, Wallasey, Supporting Children with Cerebral Palsy – £20,000
The Gateway Collective, Bootle, Making North Park Community Garden Disability Friendly – £11,475
Vauxhall Neighbourhood Council, Community Engagement and Development – £9,500
Round 9
All Afloat, Sailability Rhyl Marine Lake – £15,376
B 4 Biodiversity CIC, Plan Bee a 2020 Vision – Community Beekeeping in Sefton – £5,000
British Wireless for the Blind Fund, Sefton, Lifeline to the World – £3,293
Crea8ing Careers, Wirral Family Education, Community Wellbeing and Resilience Development – £10,252
Creative Spaces Company (Liverpool) CIC, The Story Box – £5,000
NSPCC, Protect and Respect: North Wales – £10,000
Pirates at Art, The Black Pearl New Brighton – BBECF Film Competition 2019 – £500
Sharks Community Trust, The Wirral Mental Health Education for Young People – £12,000
The Inclusion Network CIC, Bootle, The Next Level – Refurbishment Phase – £15,000
The Mix Crosby, Crosby Village Afterschool Youth Café – £4,855
The Reach Mens Centre CIC, Linacre Neighbourhood Centre-Mens Drop-in – £4,874
Wirral Debt Advice – £4,350
Ykids Ltd, Kingsley and Co, Children’s Literary Enterprise Bootle – £15,000
Round 8
4th Crosby and District St. William of York Scouts, Litherland, A Million Hands Project – £3,475
Carrbridge Centre Ltd, Wirral, Webb1fusion Youth Projects – £15,787
Hoylake Parade Community Centre, The Quiet Space – £10,000
North Denbighshire Domestic Abuse Service, One Stop Shop – £5,000
Parenting 2000, Crosby, Therapeutic Services – £11,859
People First Merseyside Company Limited, Bootle, Don’t Live Lonely Lives – £13,863
Prestatyn Area Business And Community Forum, Promenade Whale Tails – £12,500
Prestatyn Men’s Shed CIC, Equipment for Activities and Securing Shed – £1,500
Stand North Wales CIC, Parents and Child Learning Together Programme – £7,028
The Benefit Advice Shop, Rhyl, Home and Hospital Visiting Service – £4,784
Waterloo Quilters, Leave No One Behind – £4,814
Well On Wirral (CIC), Foodbanks Wirral Cooking skills – £5,000
West Rhyl Young People’s Project, Youth Engagement Activity and Wellbeing Project – £20,539
Round 7
Clybiau Plant Cymru Kids’ Clubs, Playing Renewable Workshops and Activity Development, North Wales – £4,984
Conquer Life CIC, Bootle VIBE Delta Youth Project – £12,000
In Your Shoes, Community Hub, Litherland – £7,140
Linacre Bridge Community Hub, Community Cohesion, Bootle – £17,775
Marsh Community Association, Digital Phoenix, Rhyl – £4,816
The Open Door Centre Wirral – Creative, Artistic Mental Health Provisions and Events – £7,000
The Orrell Trust, Over 55’s Projects, Bootle – £13,765
The Rhyl Little Theatre, Building Capacity to Help Sustain the Theatre – £20,000
Venus Working Creatively With Young Women, Our Place – Sefton Care Leavers Project – £11,214
Women’s Enterprising Breakthrough, Birkenhead Youth Manager Post – £21,500
Round 6
Energy Projects Plus, Supporting People Out of Fuel Poverty, Seacombe – £24,415
Home-Start Southport & Formby, Family Support – £5,000
River And Sea Sense Ltd, Waterwise Lifesaving Workshops – £12,500
St. Leonard’s Youth & Community Centre, Resilience Worker – £18,615
The Docklands Trail, Collingwood – £18,338
The Osborne Trust, Together Times – £13,432
Veterans In Sefton, Volunteers Project – £14,500
Wirral Environmental Network, Improving Life Chances Project – £4,700
Round 5
4 The Community CIC, Active in Rhyl – £10,400
Choose Life The Prisoners Initiative, Criminal Exploitation and Addiction Project Sefton – £4,220
Friends of Hilbre Island, Interpretation Plan – £5,000
Headway (Conwy & Denbighshire), Help People with Disabilities to Get Fit – £2,500
Kindfulness Coffee Club, The Kindfull Kitchen – £15,000
New Brighton Baptists Church, Christians Against Poverty Life Skills – £3,000
North Wales Little Tern Group, Volunteer and Visitor Reception Hut – £1,140
North Wales Women’s Centre, Renaissance Project – £4,500
Royden Park Ranger Volunteer Group, Irby Quarry Meadows Restoration – £3,165
Salvation Army Bootle, Hope Centre – £4,922
Sefton Women’s and Children’s Aid, SWACA (Adults) Group Support Project – £19,000
The UTS Foundation, Community Sport and Health Hub, Hoylake – £12,000
Wallasey Village United Reformed Church, Village Rooms Phase 2 – £13,500
Wirral Churches’ Ark Project, Wirral Dinghies – £10,000
Wirral Society of The Blind and Partially Sighted, See Our Way to a Warm and Bright Future – £4,153
Round 4
Book of You CIC, Dementia Project in North Wales – £6,400
Christchurch Moreton, Parish Community Centre Refurbishment – £11,250
Cohiba Productions, Working with Women Leaving Care in Sefton, Merseyside – £5,000
Emmanuel Baptist Church, Community Cafe in Netherton- £25,000
Friends of Hoylake and Meols in Bloom, Defibrillator for Queens Park – £1,875
Rhuddlan Town Council, Fresh Air Gym – £3,500
RISE (Reach, Inspire, Support, Educate), The Great Outdoors – £8,232
Sharks Community Trust, Inclusive Rugby in Moreton, Wirral – £10,070
Stick ‘n’ Step, Supporting Local Children with Cerebral Palsy in Wallasey – £10,000
Swan Women’s Centre, Therapeutic Allotment Project – £13,814
The Growing Environment, Lansdowne Place, Birkenhead – A Feast for the Soul – £12,168
Wirral Connect, Supporting Families Bereaved by Suicide – £4,500
Round 3
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust, Dragons and Communities, Reconnecting Wildlife and People – £3,800
Bidston Lighthouse C.I.C. Renew Derelict Gate from Bidston Hill to Bidston Lighthouse – £2,000
Claire House, Hospice to Home Outreach Play – £12,545
Crosby and District Scout Council, Crosby Scouting Enabling Scouting for All – £3,000
Denbighshire Home Start, Coastal Volunteer Project – £4,834
Feeding Britain, Birkenhead School Holiday Food and Fun – £13,636
Friends Of Derby Park, Community Events and Activities – £3,100
Friends of Prestatyn Railway Station, Raised Beds on Disused Platform – £2,750
Greasby Community Association, Friends of Coronation Park Playground – £8,650
Pirates at Art, The Black Pearl New Brighton – £500
Sandbox Digital Ltd, Technology Meets Nature in Bootle – £4,950
The Fillies GFC, South Sefton Community Sports and Health Development Worker – £16,000
Vale of Clwyd Angling Club, Riverside Maintenance and Improvements for River Elwy St Asaph – £1,795
West Wirral Boys Club, Full Heating System Renewal – £8,940
Round 2
Allandale Community Youthworks, Seacombe, Allandale Sports and Amateur Boxing Refurbishment – £8,000
Alt Valley Community Trust, Adventure Play for Kids & Families at Walton – £7,846
Bootle Tool Shed, Community Workshop – £5,000
Dee Estuary Voluntary Wardens, Hoylake & West Kirby Education and Protection Project – £4,770
FareShare in Merseyside, Wirral & North Wales, Surplus Food Redistribution – £12,500
Flintshire Disability Forum, Social Group and Befriending Service – £5,000
Netherton Park Community Association, Every Penny Counts Financial Inclusion Project – £12,688
North Denbighshire Domestic Abuse Service, STAR Project – £4,000
Prestatyn Offa’s Dyke Society, Hillside Shelter Prestatyn – £5,000
River And Sea Sense Ltd, Waterwise Lifesaving Workshops – North Wales – £4,848
Sefton Council, ‘Communities Growing Together’ in Sefton’s Parks and Greenspaces – £12,000
St Asaph Allotment Assoc., Gardening Facilities for Wheelchair Bound Persons – £5,000
St Nicholas Church PCC, Church Hall Community Use – £5,000
The Open Door Centre, Beating the Blues CCBT – Innovative Therapeutic Support – £4,966
The Rhyl Little Theatre, Fly-Tower Roof Repair – £4,947
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, New Brighton’s Mermaid Trail – £10,935
Round 1
12th Crosby (St. Luke’s) Scout Group, Tent Replacement – £900
Acronova Gymnastic Club Birkenhead North Biomass Heating Boiler – £6,000
Emmaus Merseyside, Seaforth Community Open Space and Participation Garden – £12,000
Home-Start Wirral, Support and Training for Charity Shop Volunteers – £4,838
Hoylake Parade Community Centre, External Disabled Platform Lift – £5,000
Melrose Club, Melrose Hall Heating Project – £5,200
Music in Hospitals, Musical Memories North Wales, Sefton and The Wirral – £4,350
Park Roots CIC, Edward Kemp Community Garden – £8,607
Prestatyn Men’s Shed, Men’s Shed – £5,000
Rice Lane Community Association, City Farm – Farmyard Revitalisation – £10,000
SAFE Regeneration Ltd, Destination Bootle – Green Scheme – £15,000
Sefton Talking Newspapers, Advertising Campaign 2015/2016 – £1,000
The Aspiration Trust, Community Centre Development – £15,605
The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside, Our Precious Resources – £20,000
