To allow them to maintain the site with a group of volunteers, they needed to replace their old power tools with tools that were light weight and usable by all individuals from an age of 18 to 60+. The site is owned by the charities of Lancaster and Garstang Division Girl Guiding and Morecambe Division Guiding. They rely on donations and fundraising for the upkeep of the site. The site is mainly used by members of Guiding within the two Divisions, with girls ranging from the Rainbows (aged 4) to trefoil members (aged 90).
Their senior side competes in the Division 3 of the Westmorland Cricket League and the junior side competes in the U11 'South' Westmorland League division.
Including the City of Lancaster and also the bordering towns of Morecambe, Heysham, and Carnforth. They were originally set up to fill the gap in provisions for homeless people in the area, starting out as a drop in, quickly evolving into a day service for the homeless, and they now provide a comprehensive “Hub” with support staff and integrated partner services. They provide food, hygiene products, clothing, and showers every day; when clients have these essential needs met, a Senior Caseworker is then responsible for devising in-depth support packages for clients’ long-term improvement. The grant provided by the 3R Foundation was used to cover the purchase of crucial equipment for the kitchen in their new centre. With the growing number of people seeking support, it had become apparent that there was a need for essential kitchen items. Due to the high volumes of food they now need to prepare each day they required saucepans, stockpots, kitchen knives, cutlery, baking trays, and a food thermometer.
Their senior team is currently in Division 3 of the British Wheelchair Basketball National League, competing against teams from all across the North of England. They also have a development team for younger and newer players who compete in the UKWB league which runs at Penrith. They pride themselves in being an inclusive club and have players and participants of all ages, genders and abilities. Wheelchair Basketball is a high intensity and competitive sport, but is also a lot of fun. The club offers a safe place for children and adults with or without a disability, to learn the skills of the game, keep fit, meet new people, increase their confidence and have fun. They approached us as they needed to purchase some new basketballs as they had lost many over the years and no longer had enough of all the different sized basketballs for use by all the various participants at their training sessions. They also wanted a lockable basketball cage, so they can keep all the basketballs stored safe and secure within the venue and prevent any more being lost or stolen. We were more than happy to help!
Learn the game of bowls and to develop their skills. Maintain and improve their fitness by playing a physical sport. Compete within a team environment in the local Morecambe and Lancaster leagues and Socialise and develop new and lasting friendships. They needed the new sprayer to be able to properly maintain their bowling green.
This includes running a youth club every Friday evening for children aged 8 and over. Over 40 young people attend each week, arriving in time for an evening meal and then taking part in team games, craft, gardening and computers. The club has the use of a large playing field and wanted some play equipment that the youngsters can use if they want an alternative to joining the larger groups playing football or dodgeball. For instance they have a lot of young people with neurodiverse conditions, which in some cases makes it hard for them to join in the larger games so they would rather being doing something in much smaller groups. We were happy to help!
The playgroup caters two to four year olds. The Pre-school sessions cater for children in the year before they progress to primary school. Both Playgroup and Pre-school run in term time. Role play is a fantastic way way for children to socialise and talk and covers all areas of the Early years foundation stage so they discussed this with the children and asked them what new role play equipment they would like; the top two were a new construction area and a hairdressers followed close behind by a supermarket. These would have dividing boards to separate the individual areas and all the resources to go with them. We were delighted to be able to help!
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