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Donation received from
Long Ashton Golf Club
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What have we done for you
lately?
Keep
reading to find out what Nailsea Community Trust has
done for our communities!
In 2024, so far
Organisations
receiving grants include:
Nailsea Musicals: trip for youth
contingent to attend workshops in Birmingham
Bedford
Performers: support with the hire costs of Scotch Horn
Nailsea and District Community Transport: supporting the
service to continue
Scout groups in Backwell and
Nailsea: towards purchase of mini bus and other projects
Somerset International Festival of the Arts: funds
towards music workshops for school children
Wellspring counselling: subsidising the cost of sessions
Nailsea Festival of Music: medals and certificate costs
Nailsea in Bloom: for the flowerbed entering Nailsea
from Tickenham
Nailsea
Choral Society: funds towards the costs of their 100th
anniversary concerts
Nailsea and District
Horticultural Society Flower Shows: sponsoring the
children’s categories
Southfield Church dishwasher:
enabling them to serve meals to the needy
Backwell
Bowling Club: open day and taster sessions
Grants given to individuals include funds towards:
School trips and camps, a washing
machine, a drier, students participating in a music
tour, food vouchers, television licences, a cooker,
furniture, transportation costs, garden clearance,
carpeting, a hospital bed, world championship athletic
competition, and many more
In 2023
Organisations
receiving grants included:
Nailsea
Musical Theatre:
grant for students to
attend workshop/festival in Birmingham
Tickenham
School: piano and stool for student use
Wellspring
Counselling: subsidised counselling sessions for local
residents
Nailsea Festival of Music: for
the repair and hire of pianos
Nailsea Flower Show:
sponsoring the children’s classes of competition
Nailsea Skatefest: supporting
the purchase of competition prizes
Tickenham Field Association:
revamp of the village
playground
Golden Valley School: purchase of iPads
for the use of students
Hannah More School:
improvements to the playground
Nailsea in Bloom: sponsorship
of the flowerbed near the Police Station
Somerset Festival of the Arts:
supporting this event to take place
Trendlewood Festival:
supporting this event to take place
Defibrillator: located on the
wall of the Break Shop, High Street, Nailsea
Churches Together in Nailsea:
the printing costs of a leaflet of support provisions
Grants given to individuals include:
Purchase of a laptop to continue
studies, school camps, school uniforms, therapy
sessions, beds and other items of furniture, cooker,
fridge/freezer, college fees, therapy sessions, heating
oil, and carpets, competition fees, and many more
In 2022
Organisations
receiving grants included:
Nailsea
School 6th Form: toward costs of a Dementia
training course for Health and Social Care students
Wellspring counselling: subsidised counselling sessions
for local residents
Nailsea & District
Horticultural Society: sponsorship of the children’s
classes of competition
Nailsea Festival of Music:
funds supporting this community event
1st Nailsea Scouts:
funds towards the cost of a minibus
Stockway North
Nature Reserve: repair of path, necessary for safety
Nailsea in Bloom: sponsorship
of the flowerbed near the Police Station
Wessex Learning: music stands
Tickenham PCC: funds towards
the repair of stonework at St. Quiricus and St. Julietta
Church
Grants given to Individuals
included:
Funds for students to attend
summer camps and preschool sessions, to aid the purchase
of medically necessary items to improve quality of life,
and a contribution towards a respite break for a needy
family. Also school uniform, course equipment, white
goods, music lessons, and laboratory and equipment fees
for research
In 2021
Organisations
receiving grants included:
Nailsea Baptist Church: towards
repair of the Baptist Centre’s roof
Friends Together:
rental costs of meeting place
Nailsea Festival of
Music: cost of certificates for participants
Wellspring Counselling: subsidised counselling sessions
for local residents
Mizzymead Toddler Group: rental
costs of meeting place
Nailsea in Bloom: Nailsea
Community Trust sponsorship of the flowerbed near the
Police Station
Nailsea Theatre Club: funds towards
the upgrading of their electricity and ventilation
improvements
Nailsea Musicals: a grant towards the
cost of costumes for their production
Grants given to individuals included:
Costs of transportation,
furniture, summer camps, food vouchers, school uniform,
white goods, funds towards an all-terrain wheelchair,
and music lessons
News update from the 129th meeting held on 21st
October 2021
Nailsea Community Trust’s website has been updated, to
make it more accessible and user-friendly. Articles have
been in the local press to raise awareness of how the
Trust can help in times of need, and it is hoped that
people who need a grant will apply.
Grants to individuals
Grants were approved to provide water therapy equipment,
a family’s need for urgent grocery supplies, and music
lessons for two young people with developing talent.
Grants to organisations
Grants approved include contributions to Nailsea
Musicals, to enable them to hire a theatre for their
Seussical Jr. production.
A mother and toddler group asked for help with the cost
of hiring premises to meet, when allowed to reopen after
the last lockdown. The approved grant has been much
appreciated.
In addition, the Trust continues its quarterly payments
to Wellspring Counselling, which subsidises the cost of
sessions to residents who cannot meet the full expense,
and to Nailsea in Bloom as sponsor of the flowerbed near
the police station.
News update from the 128th meeting held on 15th
July 2021
Grants to individuals
Grants were approved to provide
bedroom furniture, transportation to sports sessions,
and towards the cost of leisure activities which support
emotional needs.
Grants to organisations
Grants approved include Nailsea
Community Support, Nailsea Baptist Church and FrIenDs
Together, enabling them to provide services which
benefit residents of our local communities.
News update from the AGM held on 15th July
2021
During the 2020/2021 year, 12 grants have been made to
individuals, totalling £3265. The running total for
individual grants from 1989 to the end of March 2021 is
£128,360. (This figure does not include the thousands of
pounds of grants to organisations and community
projects.) The Trust is grateful for Nailsea Town
Council’s annual £4000, which is used specifically
towards Nailsea residents’ grants. The Trust’s own funds
are used when the £4000 is exceeded, and in grants to
residents living outside Nailsea.
The
mosaic designed by local school children in workshops
funded by the Trust has now been installed in Nailsea
Town Centre, and The DEN at Nailsea School has its
canvas extension in use, which we fondly call John
Smithson’s Happy Hut.
The Trust proudly sponsors the Nailsea In Bloom flowerbed by the Police/Fire Station on
Pound Lane.
The Parish Councils of Backwell,
Chelvey, Wraxall and Tickenham have been contacted, to
remind them that Nailsea Community Trust welcomes grant
applications from residents living in their communities,
not only Nailsea.
News update from the 127th Meeting held on 15th
April 2021
Grants to individuals
A grant to purchase basic household
furniture for a family in need has been made.
Grants to organisations
Grants approved include the
following: Nailsea Little Theatre, Nailsea School Music
Department, Wellspring Counselling and Trendlewood
Community Festival.
News Update from the 126th Meeting held on 21st
January 2021
Grants to individuals
Grants have provided a washing machine, a
fridge-freezer, laptops for on-line learning, and
transportation costs to enable visits to a hospitalised
parent.
Grants to organisations
The Trust has pledged grants towards refurbishment and
repairs to two local churches. Various groups serving
the community use the church’s meeting spaces, which are
considered a valuable community asset.
News Update from the 125th Meeting held on 15 October
2020
Grants to individuals
£1,159 has been granted towards a double buggy for a
growing family, various household goods, and books and
tuition fees for a university degree.
Grants to organisations
Nailsea Junior Football league received a grant towards
the cost of hiring their winter-months training site, as
their usual fund-raising activities fell victim to
Covid-19 restrictions.
Nailsea Support Group and Wellspring Counselling
received grants which have helped them provide their
services.
Covid-19 restrictions have certainly changed the way the
Trust operates. Knowing the difficulties created by the
pandemic and the resulting restrictions, we are
determined to not allow it to interfere with helping
people who may need a grant from the Trust even more.
Having cancelled the April 2020 meeting, we Directors
learned how hold virtual meetings via Zoom, and
organised door-step interviews with applicants so that
we could continue the Trust’s service.
We realise it is more important than ever that people
know the Trust can help them, so joining a few community
Facebook pages to spread the word has hopefully raised
awareness and we have submitted items to the local free
press.
We ensure that the Children’s Centre, Nailsea Community
Support Group, local churches, health groups and schools
know about the Trust, so that residents in need can be
signposted to us.
We are proud to have approved grants that helped
students learn remotely, and supported families cope
with household emergencies, family additions and new
circumstances.
Many events since the beginning of last year have been
cancelled, which means that groups depending on these
events to raise funds for operating costs are
struggling. We are privileged to have approved grants
that have helped them continue with their valuable
contributions to community life.
Wellspring Counselling is able to continue offering its
subsidised sessions due to quarterly grants from the
Trust.
In the past few months, grants to Nailsea Junior
Football Club have been used to purchase a line marker
and secure practice time on an all-weather pitch.
The D.E.N. at Nailsea School has purchased a tent with a
grant from the Trust, in memory of founder Director John
Smithson who supported The D.E.N.’s well-being
initiative from its start. Although the Covid-19
restrictions have resulted in postponement of a
dedication ceremony, John’s widow was given a copy of
the embroidered canvas dedication, and when conditions
and circumstances allow, a ceremony will be organised.
Christ Church C. of E. and Ravenswood School are both in
the process of major building projects, which will, when
completed, provide facilities to the wider community. We
have pledged substantial sums towards these projects.
These are only a few examples of successful applications
from organisations.
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