​Radcliffe groups win Pitch money for local projects

A wide range of projects to improve community life in Radcliffe have won money following a public vote.

No fewer than 14 organisations presented their case for funding at Saturday’s Pitch event, which was held at Radcliffe United Reformed Church.

The successful organisations, and their projects, are as follows:

• Women of Worth: Lifeskills course. To establish a club to help women back into work and training, focusing on skills and education, and help with CVs and interview techniques.

• The Woodies Men in Sheds: The Woodies Summer Scheme. An affordable summer scheme for school children during the holidays, promoting interest in wildlife through making bird boxes and table, bat boxes, plant pots and painting planters.

• Churches Together Radcliffe: Food and Friendship. To provide asylum seekers and refugees with monthly social events where friends can meet and be made and pick up food, clothes and household goods.

• Radcliffe Girls and Boys Club: Sports equipment. To buy and replace leisure equipment in the games room, including a pool table, for the young people to use.

• Radcliffe Cricket Club: Community Integration Friday Cricket. Free Friday night fun cricket sessions for local children and families, run by qualified coaches. All ages/abilities welcome. Culminating in a celebration game and awards ceremony on 31 August.

• Ainsworth Community Association: Community fruit, veg and flower bed. Buying a mower to cut the grass in Delph Park, and building raised garden beds there using recycled plastic and planting fruit trees and veg.

• Liv’s Trust CIO: Liv’s Legacy. To provide a music/cinema room in Radcliffe Girls and Boys Club, musical instruments and equipment, along with sound proofing, flooring and redecoration.

• Trinity Baptist Church: Open door drop-in. Setting up a café open to all in the community to encourage friendship and support to families and children.

• Women of Worth: New Directions DV Course. To run two domestic abuse courses in Radcliffe, targeted at women over 50, providing advice and guidance on domestic abuse and its impact on families.

• Special Olympics Bury: Football development programme. Funding 15 training sessions at Radcliffe Leisure Centre, catering to all abilities.

• FCL of Cams Lane Primary: Collaborative gardening project. Involving 61 pupils plus staff and parent volunteers to transform the playground, with planters, play shed, bugs hotel and Minions made of recycled car tyres.

• Friends of Dumers Lane Community Centre: Dumers Lane Community Centre Hub. To re-establish the after-school club with parent/volunteer support and appropriate facilities, promoting homework, social and computer skills in a team environment.

• Bury Basics Bury and Bolton. Providing essential baby items to vulnerable women and their babies; from Moses baskets to toiletries, bedding to clothing.

• Bury2gether: SEND Support Bury. A parent/carer forum to support families whose children have special educational needs and disabilities, plus outreach work, training, workshops and leisure opportunities.

Two more Pitch events are coming up – why not go along and cast your vote?

Saturday 23 June (10.30am) – The Derby School, Radcliffe Road, Bury.

Saturday 30 June (11am) - All Saints Church, Hebburn Drive, Bury.

ENDS

Press release issued: 20 June 2018.