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Councillors have Locality Budgets which enable them to give financial support to groups and organisations for projects in their particular Ward. Find out who to contact in your Ward.
The following awards, totalling £32,160, were made in the financial year 2020-2021:
Friends of Moyse’s Hall Museum - Terry Deary book - £2,000
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds - to create a series of five contemporary stories told through audio - guided walks around the streets and public spaces of Bury St Edmunds and its surrounding villages plus a downloadable map showing the starting locations of all five walks - £2,500
My WiSH Charity - to purchase 25 Omron walking step counters and 20 x BP monitors - £1,000
Bury Society - Christmas Stars 2020 - £1,350
Southgate Community Partnership - Southgate Community Centre Christmas Lights - £350
Moreton Hall Community Action Group - Covid Lockdown Community Projects - Rock snake statue, Oak tree and school garden - £2,500
Bury St Edmunds Croquet Club - financial support for improving facilities at Bury St Edmunds Croquet Club - soil, fertiliser and grass seed, exterior paint for the Club House and new mallets for new people to try the game - £350
Bury St Edmunds Cricket Club - purchase a pitch cover and practice cage - £1,500
Bury St Edmunds Women’s Aid Centre Limited - Teenage and Young Persons Support Project - £2,060
Suffolk Baby Bank - towards the purchase of a van - £2,300
Theatre Royal - Beyond Walls programme, which provides opportunities for people from the region to work alongside professional artists creating new work inspired by their stories - £3,500
The C3 Church community group - Two (2) Community Market sessions at St Benedict’s School providing groceries for families in need - £886
The Friends of St Edmundsbury School - Shed for storage of fundraising resources to be installed on the school site - £217.97
The Bury Society - Restoration of the St Edmund’s legend Wooden Book in the Abbey Gardens - £400
Little Acorns Childcare & Bury Baby Bank - Freedom Programme Facilitator Training course - £600
BSE Rickshaw - purchase a Van Raam ‘Chat’ Rickshaw - £5,500
Mildenhall Road Estate Residents Association - defibrillator and cabinet plus installation, including electrical connection - £2,116.61
Just Traid - Community Garden Project - garden furniture - £500
Greener Growth CIC - seed funding for the Greener Growth Volunteer Coordinator - £1,000
Greener Growth CIC - Southgate Community Centre Wildlife & Environmental Project - bat, bird, and owl boxes in the trees around Southgate Community Centre. The erection of insect hotels and the planting of wildflower seed to aid pollinators - £655
Still Good Food - £400 on bespoke healthy, low cost, simple recipe cards, based on ingredients that are regularly available in the shop and £475 on ‘Still Good Food’ printed, reusable jute shopping bags for customers - £875