They also run monthly support groups in North Lancs and Barrow. They approached us at the 3R Foundation as they needed more A5 document folders printing, which they use to give out with the useful information and leaflets.
They have an active children's sailing programme and offer lessons to children, including schools and youth groups at both Arnside and Killington, where they are a RYA Training Centre. Earlier in summer 2024 they also offered lessons to children with parents on a low income in partnership with Kent Estuary Youth Project. They aim to keep their fees low so that costs are not a barrier to taking part. To be able to keep the children safe they need to be properly dressed and equipped, especially when conditions are wet, windy or cold, so the club wanted to be able to provide spray tops/cagoules and gloves, as well as the essential buoyancy aids and helmets in a range of appropriate sizes. We were delighted we could help with this.
They applied for a grant from us at the 3R Foundation for 2 x Slishman traction splints for treatment of life threatening femoral fractures. Their current traction splints were not ideal for the underground environment as they project out from a persons foot and were likely to get knocked in the cramped underground conditions. Slishman produce a short traction splint with no projection from the foot that will minimise ongoing pain to a casualty during extraction. They had purchased one and trialled it, but they needed to purchase 2 more to make up their medical kits. Something we were more than happy to help with.
The current group of players ranges from 17-27 and and they like to provide a happy place for people to enjoy football and create new friendships. They are now in their 4th season as a club and since they started have won 3 trophies and hope for more in the coming seasons. They have a good reputation in the community for being a respectful club with a positive attitude. They portray this through their social media pages, keeping local people engaged and interested in the team and helping to get much needed sponsorships. They needed new match balls for the season and the 3R Foundation was very happy to help!
They promote the children's learning and development and also their wider health and development in the process. They approached us for a grant from the 3R Foundation as they needed to replace the existing railings around their Pre-school garden, which were old and had deteriorated, so that the children can continue to enjoy their outdoor play safely. Please follow us and share this post so we can reach as many other small charities, clubs and community groups as we can.
They do this by providing a referral based food bank, along with a support centre, where people can come for hospitality and conversation, sign posting to other services and organisation to provide them the help they need. They approached us at the 3R Foundation for a grant as they were receiving an increasing number of requests for tents and sleeping bags from homeless people they support. They had been sourcing these just 'as and when' but there was a time delay in accessing them. The grant enabled them to purchase 9x tents and 9x sleeping bags to be kept in stock to allow them to distribute them as and when needed.
Whether it’s through support with benefits and housing, employment advice, access to computers or simply a hot shower, they are there to support everyone that comes through their doors. They state that they never judge and always treat everyone equally. They run a full timetable of activities and services for all ages on the Marsh and surrounding areas. This includes drop-in sessions, meditation, food club, choir as examples. They applied to the 3R Foundation for funding to purchase uniforms for their Volunteers, to help to create a sense of unity and professionalism, and make them easily identifiable for safety and coordination during events and activities. They also needed Hi-Vis vests for their Young People to ensure their safety when participating in programs such as outdoor activities, excursions, and community service projects. The HiVis makes them more visible to motorists and other community members.
Carnforth has a small Integrated Care Community; their Nurse (Case Manager) predominantly works with older patients in the local area to ensure that people are safe at home, have access to services and local resources to help make life easier as they age and to keep people out of hospital. Carnforth ICC were seeking funding to enable them to prepare and distribute Christmas hampers to some of the individuals that they have worked with during the year, to let them know that they are thinking of them at this time of year and encourage them to eat nutritious, healthy and filling meals; especially as the nights get darker and the weather cools. Often patients can be isolated and elderly and the small gift of a hamper can help brighten their Christmas whilst also ensuring that they have some of the necessities to keep them well and warm. They try to ensure that they include items that have longevity, ensure the basics are available, offer a treat, are warming and nutrient dense. They do their best to stretch the funds as far as possible so that numerous patients can benefit.
They applied for a 3R Foundation grant as for the first time they were introducing a girls team. By providing football for girls in the area, they wanted to be able to give them the same opportunities to play as boys. As a new team the girls didnt have any kit to play in, so the grant was used to purchase a full set of very smart bright pink shirts for the girls to play matches in the local girls league.
They currently operate 6 x junior teams, an all stars programme for 4 to 8 year olds of which they have 30 x participants, 3 x senior teams and 2 x ladies teams. They welcome people of all ages and abilities, and operate an inclusive policy that gives them a real community feel. Their playing area at Lune Road is extensive and as such requires specialist equipment to keep it as pristine as possible to provide the players with the best facilities they can. They approached us at the 3R Foundation for a grant as their old sit on outfield mower had recently given up the ghost after many years good service and they had found a suitable used one for sale locally that they felt could replace it. They had already raised half of the funds they needed and we were delighted to provide the other half.
Their big project this year was to bring their kitchen and larder together in one building so that they could run their 'pay as you can' cafe alongside the food share scheme. After some extensive renovations they moved into their new premises at the Eddington, just off Highgate (on the site of the old United Reformed Church) in Kendal late this year. Waste into wellbeing runs a vibrant and social, pay-as-you-can community café, where surplus food collected from local businesses is prepared and served by a team of volunteers. Each Saturday from 12:00 to 13:30 they serve a range of delicious cakes and treats, scrumptious meals, soups, light bites and hot and cold drinks. Their Food Larder is part of Hubbub’s national Community Fridge Network. Volunteers collect, sort and store food so it can be offered to local residents. The larder is open to anyone on Thursdays and Saturdays from 12:00 to 13:30 and a £2 contribution per bag is suggested.
The sessions are child focussed and develop connection, interaction, speech and language, comprehension, communication and strengthen bonds. Plus they are fun! as it’s all about learning and growing through exploratory play, art, music and dance. They provide one to one music intervention with non verbal children, and regular social and life skills session for disabled young people and wanted to provide puppets for their sessions as they help with speech and language and emotional regulation. They also wanted resources for their sensory play sessions such as coloured sand, foam. art and craft materials, sensory toys, plus musical instruments for music based sessions and a trolley to move it all about.
In order to cater for people with different levels of physicality and time constraints, many of the original plots have been divided into half, and sometimes even quarter plots and this has allowed us to meet the needs of a wide variety of people within our community. They have a steep site that has been terraced to provide level growing surfaces. Thye told us that when the allotment site was first set up, a group of volunteers installed a system to provide water around the site. Each tap has a water butt that can be filled and used as a dipping station. This system is still in existence today and relies on mains pressure. In practice what happens is that it is very difficult for allotmenteers who have plots at the top of the site to gain access to water as any taps being used further down the hill automatically get priority due to mains pressure and gravity. This was leading to frustration and was an issue they wanted to address. A member of the committee suggested an ingenious scheme which would involve the installation of a cistern with ballcock by each of the three taps that cause the most difficulty. Once installed, the taps would be left permanently switched on ensuring that they are able to fill the water butts at times when the allotment site is very quiet, such as during the night. When the water butt is full the ballcock would stop the flow of water in much the same way that a toilet cistern is switched off once full. They approached the 3R Foundation for a grant to purchase all the components and the system is now up and running successfully.
Their aims are to promote social activities and build players self confidence as well as healthy living, eating well and keeping fit. There are currently 30 men signed, aged from 16 to 57 who play every Saturday and train together every Thursday evening. As Scorton Saints is a new team they found that finance's don't go as far as they first thought they would, especially when they have to pay for a pitch and officials, as well as kits, nets, corner flags and footballs etc. As their Welfare Officer Richard told us, it has been a big learning curve but they are committed to making the new club work. They applied for a grant from the 3R Foundation to purchase a box of 30 footballs that they reckon would be enough to last all season, so August to May with 12-15 home games and around 40 training sessions.
These help develop social skills, communication, team work and promote health and well-being through staying physically active. The group was established in 2021, and is run by St Lukes and St Chad’s churches. They teach about the Christian faith and explore morals and values with young people, but there is no faith requirement to attend. Currently they have between 10 and 15 young people attending each week. It is run on a 'pay what you can' basis so that there are no financial barriers to attending. The donations fund refreshments and art and craft items, but they approached us for a grant for a range of small items of sports equipment that would allow them to offer a wider range of sports activities and games than they were currently able to offer. The suggestions came from the young people themselves and included the things they would like to be able to make use of such as a portable basketball hoop, collapsible indoor football goals and an indoor badminton set amongst others.
They also work with members of the public from their community hub, where they recently started a youth group for 11-18s that has proved to be really successful. The young people staying at the four flats managed by the project were having to dry their washing in their rooms which was threatening to cause damp issues. So they applied for a grant for a Beko dryer which would be located in a communal area. They also needed to replace one of the beds in a flat, and the new youth group had asked if they could have some activities and crafting supplies and materials such as t-shirts for printing on, a badge maker, paints, keepsake boxes etc.
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