Community Grants
Each Cheshire West & Chester Councillor has a budget allocation of £5,000 per year to provide grant assistance for local community groups and projects. Since CWaC's creation in April 2009 each of your three Councillors has had £10,000 to award over the two years. In total this means some £30,000 in grant awards have been made in our community.
All of the awards have now been made.
On 23 February 2011 we held a Community Grants evening at Fluin Lane Community Centre in Frodsham where 15 community groups in Frodsham & Helsby made brief presentations to each other - and the groups decided which three of them should receive £1,000 in grant monies. After the meeting your three councillors made additional awards.
If you have a community project that would benefit from a small grant do please let us know. Whilst there are no additional monies to be provided in this financial year there are likley to be fresh community grants monies available in May that will be under the control of what will be then your newly elected CWaC Councillors - whoever they are!
The projects that have received assistance so far in Frodsham & Helsby are:
Group | Project | Councillors | Total Amount |
| Frodsham & Helsby Rotary Club | Motor Show Publicity | AWD, MCI, LF | £1,500 |
| Helsby Community Sports Club | Development Officer Salary | AWD, MCI, LF | £12,000 |
| Cheshire Aspergers Parents Support ChAPS | Laptop Computer | AWD, MCI, LF | £500 |
| Castle Park Bowling Club | Support for bowling for the disabled | AWD | £350 |
| Frodsham Leisure Centre | Public Access Defibrilator | AWD, MCI, LF | £1,180 |
| Helsby Library | Digital Camera - photographic project | AWD, MCI, LF | £300 |
| Frodsham Community Centre | Replacement equipment | AWD, MCI, LF | £1,250 |
| Frodsham Youth Association | Refurbishment post asbestos removal | AWD, MCI, LF | £3,000 |
| Winter gritting - Lakes Estate | 70 x 15kg sand and salt bags dropped with residents | AWD | £300 |
| Manor House Primary School, Langdale Way | Hand propelled gritter and spreading salt | AWD | £650 |
| 4th Frodsham Scout (Overton) Group | In door bowling equipment to faciliate their work with older people - including bowls and mat winding equipment reducing manual handling. | Community Award | £1,000 |
| 3rd Frodsham Sea Scouts | Upgrading toilets - including the provision of a toilet for the diabled | Community Award | £1,000 |
| Castle Park Arts Centre | Contribution towards roof and clock tower repairs | Community Award | £1,000 |
| Frodsham Craft Group | Assistance in their work and the purchase of crafting equipment | AWD, MCI | £270 |
| Helsby Hillside Primary School | Purchase of new equipment to support their band and choir | LF | £1,000 |
| Frodsham Cricket Club | Contribution towards Bowling Machine | AWD, MCI | £1,000 |
Frodsham Methodist Church - Messy Mice Group | Contribution towards craft materials to assist establishing a 'Messy Mice' under 5s group | AWD, MCI | £732 |
Rotary Club of Frodsham & Helsby | Support for Festival in the Park | AWD, MCI | £430 |
Frodsham & District Choral Society | Contribution towards the acquisition of additional staging | AWD, MCI | £350 |
Helsby Rugby Union Football Club | Funding towards the purchase of additional ground care equipment | LF | £1,000 |
| Homewatch | Funding towards expanding existing provision | LF | £198 |