High Sheriff Grants

Grants Given 2023/2024

Grant Application Name Project Description Amount Given
Bloodhound Education Ltd (Education centre at GSTP GLOS) To provide activities addressing the need to divert young people at risk by encouraging them to try something new and raise confidence, in a fun way. £1,800.00
Cinderford Area Neighbourhood Development Initiative (CANDI) Towards regular youth space sessions, to encourage more young people to use CANDI's safe spaces. £2,400.00
Creative Sustainability CIC Partnering with GARAS supporting young people to improve their mental health, wellbeing and confidence, providing peer mentoring, youth-led bike workshop and rides into nature. £2,500.00
Creative Youth Network Providing the young people of Hanham with a vibrant, welcoming youth centre where they feel comfortable and happy: a home away from home. £2,000.00
Door Youth Project Towards a pilot a bespoke mentoring and advocacy project for boys and young men at risk of involvement in the judicial system. £2,500.00
fly2help Working with underperforming and at-risk pupils from local schools and groups, providing inspiration, motivation and valuable life skills, enhancing employability opportunities and wider life outcomes. £2,229.00
Four Towns Play Association Towards 80 free 4 hour play sessions for children and 20 family sessions during the summer holidays in priority neighbourhoods/areas of high deprivation £2,500.00
Friendship Cafe To be used as a contribution to pay for and retain our experienced Youth Work staff at the Friendship Café £2,500.00
Glos Bangladeshi Youth Organisation c/o Gloucestershire Bangladeshi Association To provide football activity for young people in the Barton and Tredworth area, with a particular focus on people from the Bangladeshi community £2,500.00
Gloucestershire Cricket Foundation Creating a bespoke free community project to provide weekly cricket sessions for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) predominantly from Afghanistan aged between 14 -18. £2,500.00
Gloucestershire Magistrates Association Towards organisation of the Gloucestershire Primary Schools Mock Trials competition. This grant will support travel for primary school pupils to the relevant venues and provide prizes. £2,300.00
Learning Partnership West CIC A basketball project in Kingswood targeted at young people at greatest risk of Child Criminal Exploitation, Serious Youth Crime gangs, drugs and anti-social behaviour. £2,000.00
Listening Post Christian Counselling Service Ltd Funding the £15 shortfall per session for people age 18-25 or with complex trauma needs, seeking help via counselling. Long term depth work is available. £2,500.00
Mitcheldean Youth Cafe We are looking funding for equipment to provide a safe fun environment, hot meals/snacks, activities, tables. £2,476.00
Read With Me We seek funding for a VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR to train and manage 50 volunteers for a defined senior school literacy project. £2,500.00
Ruardean Youth Club Running Cost / subs Cookery Project. nutritional needs Environmental issue, land and sea Personal Hygiene , the importance of looking after yourself Staff Training £2,500.00
The Inspire Arts Trust We are looking for a grant to help us launch our new Fitness Session for 11 to 16 year olds. £418.68
The Rock Space 51 - our Monday evening open access youth group for year 8 and above. Mix of games, sports and qualified youth worker support. £2,500.00
    Total Awarded: £40,623.68

 

Grants Given 2022/2023

Grant Application Name

Project Description

Grant Awarded

4th Cheltenham Boys Brigade
Activities for boys 8 to 16 years to give them new experiences and deter antisocial behaviour
£2,000.00

7th Cheltenham Boys Brigade
Outside activities for a summer programme for 42 children, such as kayaking, Funky Warehouse, tubing, caving and climbing, Escape rooms, bouncy castle, mini bus hire.
£1,500.00

Cheltenham Festivals
A contribution towards the 2023 costs of delivering Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils literacy groups in Gloucestershire.
£2,500.00

Cheltenham Saracens Football Club
To support a programme to encourage young teenagers into coaching football.
£2,200.00

Cheltenham Housing for Young people
Staffing and running the two housing properties with intense round the clock support changing the life chances of vulnerable young people.
£2,500.00

Forest Fighting Fit
To start an informal youth coaching programme to young people. Giving them coaching skills as well as administrative skills.
£1,950.00

Forest Pulse
To provide a safe space for disabled young people to meet on a weekly basis, promoting keep safe awareness and positive community interaction
£2,500.00

Forest Voluntary Action Forum
To integrate young people into their communities we would like to deliver life skills workshops for to help them be prepared for independent living.
£2,500.00

Four Towns Play Association
Towards 100 free 4 hour play sessions during the summer holidays in areas of high deprivation or classed as priority neighbourhoods to 5-11 year olds
£2,500.00

Getting Court
Towards the Getting Court Project, covering September 2023 to July 2024.
£8,000.00

Gloucester Magistrates Association
Primary school children participate in a Mock Trial competition under the guidance of magistrates, enhancing their knowledge of the justice system, while promoting debating ability.
£2,500.00

Goals Beyond Grass
To fund a PAN disability team in Gloucester, for young people with learning disabilities or from disadvantaged backgrounds to prevent them from crime.
£2,490.00

Listening Post Christian Counselling Service
To support young people and those suffering from complex needs, indicating trauma histories with counselling.
£2,500.00

My UK
Towards positive diversionary sport and well-being activities over the summer holidays for ages 5-15 years.
£1,700.00

Newent Community Trust
To open the Youth Club on a Wednesday evening for two hours and provide a free hot meal.
£2,500.00

Strike a Light
Towards high-quality youth theatre sessions to reduce isolation and keep children/ young people positive, creative, connected and less at risk of involvement in crime and anti-social behaviour.
£2,500.00

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Together in Matson
Towards the Choose Your Path project supporting young people to alter their own life paths from negative to positive.
£2,500.00

Wickselm House Learning Centre
To invest the money into buying an interactive white board for one of our learning groups which consists of children ages 6-11 years.
£2,398.80

Wye Valley River Festival
To develop and deliver monthly LGBTQ+ youth groups in 2023: in both Coleford and Cinderford.
£2,000.00

Your Next Move
Towards a series of community Hip Hop activities and events supporting coordination, workshop leaders & assistant time, workshop resources, space hire, marketing and volunteer expenses.
£2,500.00

 

 

Total Awarded: £51,738

 

Grants Given 2021/2022

Grant Application Name

 Project Description Grant Awarded

Cinderford Area Neighbourhood Development Initiative
Towards 'Drop In' Youth Cafe in Cinderford & Drybrook and Dance Project to enable CANDI to re-open these facilities.
£2,500.00

Nelson Trust
Towards the Stay Well project is a wellbeing summer holiday programme aiming to keep young people focused on healthy activities.
£2,500.00

Cashes Green Community Centre
For a program of community engagement ahead of the redesign of the community centre.
£2,074.00

The Door Youth Project
To provide young people with opportunity to take on specific leadership responsibility and be role models within their peer group, in our youth centres.
£2,500.00

Gloucestershire Crimestoppers Trust
Towards a youth professionals and trusted adults awareness workshop supporting awareness, signs and confidence building through Fearless.org
£2,500.00

Venture: White City
To develop a programme of off-site activities and opportunities for young people aged to 11 - 18.
£2,400.00

Gloucester Animal Welfare Association & Cheltenham Animal Shelter Viney
Towards the HALT (Humans and Animals Learning Together) Project , a two-week course for at-risk youths where students learn new skills and knowledge through working with animals.
£2,500.00

Hill Christian Adventure Centre
Towards a kitchen refurbishment at a youth activity centre
£2,500.00

Brendan's Bridge
Supporting the BAME young people of Tredworth with a community approach incorporating sporting activities.
£750.00

Teens in Crisis
To launch TIC+'s 1 at A Time (1@aT) Counselling service - a new, innovative model of counselling.
£2,500.00

Your Next Move
Funding towards the costs of running a programme of dance and hip hop for young people in Gloucester, including a Coordinator’s time, workshop leaders and assistants, creation/printing of workshop resources, space hire, marketing and volunteer expenses.
£2,500.00

4th Cheltenham Boys Brigade
Paying insurance and fees for the year and funding for activities that will raise self esteem.
£2,500.00

Changing Tunes
Music rehabilitation programme at Vinney Green Secure Children's Home, Gloucestershire. Building young people's human and social capital through trauma-informed, child-centred music-making sessions. Provision continues post-release
£2,500.00

JJ Community CIC
Financial support for running costs ensuring we can continue improving our communities physical and mental heath
£2,500.00

Noah's Ark Children's Venture
Provide a safe countryside residential indoors and outside for those young people who need it most. Promoting healthy living, outdoor learning and wellbeing.
£2,500.00

Gloucester and Forest Alternative Provision School
For an outdoor permanent table tennis table for use during breaktimes & holidays by young people at risk of being drawn into criminal activities out of school.
£760.00

Kendleshire Kids Foundation
To support 30 young people who have experienced trauma/ACE's in their childhood through sports.
£2,500.00

Longlevens Rugby Club
Working in partnership with dedicated mental health experts TIC+ to improving mental health amongst young people.
£1,500.00

Creative Sustainability CIC
A peer mentor training programme for our youth projects, including Access Bike and 3rd Space, to ensure full participation of disadvantaged and disabled young people
£2,000.00

Wickselm House Learning Centre CIC
Towards essential classroom and outdoor learning equipment, to support children who are not able to access mainstream schooling.
£600.00

7th Gloucester Boys Brigade and Girls Association
Christmas activities for boys at the Boys Brigade
£2,000.00

Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
To foster understanding and challenge discrimination between young refugees and local young people from deprived backgrounds within Gloucestershire.
£2,140.00
Nailsworth Youth Club
To support a small group of young people that would meet weekly and plan small events such as litter picking, senior citizen lunch etc
£1,500.00

Centred Horseplay
Enabling vulnerable young people with potentially no funding, easier access to equine therapy courses
£2,000.00
Priors Park Neighbourhood Project
Creative workshops supporting disadvantaged local school pupils’ mental health and increasing their self esteem and confidence caused by school disruptions from the recent COVID pandemic.
£2,396.00
Cotswold Boatmobility
To support more disadvantaged young people, including disabled and excluded young people, to access activities on the water and meaningful, safe and full participation.
£2,500.00
The Rock
Towards Transition Night Tuesday, for school years 5 - 7. To support primary pupils in transition to secondary school with a range of activities.
£2,500.00
Read With Me
A project targeting those Year 6 pupils who cannot yet read well which will provide support as they end primary school and begin secondary education.
£2,310.00
Tewkesbury Rugby FC
To improve floodlighting to the grounds for the continuation & development of coach led play/exercise/training during winter months for our cohort of 200 children.
£2,500.00
Football's Finest Six
Running a community football tournament predominantly engaging young adults in the Foster Care system facing multiple ACEs and at risk from crime.
£2,500.00
    Total Awarded: £51,224

Grants Given 2020/2021

 

Grant Application Name Project Description  Amount Given
1625 Independent People Furnishing a new high support project in Yate for Care Leavers and young homeless people, creating a home with emotional support, where they feel safe. £2,500.00
4th Cheltenham Boys Brigade Towards some engagement activities for boys aged 10 to 19 these are hardest to engage in activities especially remotely. £500.00
Centred Horseplay Building of toilet facilities adjacent to the arena so that participants, most importantly those suffering from anxiety can go to the toilet without staff supervision. £2,500.00
Cirencester Town Council Towards hosting an annual scooter event and continuing to deliver the cafe/hub throughout the school holidays during 2020. £1,700.00
Creative Sustainability CIC Towards the costs of an inclusive space for young people to develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and expectations, access peer support, explore volunteering, earning a living and active citizenship £1,000.00
FGR Community a wholly owned subsidiary of The Green Britain Foundation To fund the development and delivery of online soccer camps in the school summer holidays for children age 4-14 years old. £1,500.00
Forest of Dean Scouts For development of practical skills and to help with the issues of not mixing with friends during lockdown £2,200.00
Forest of Dean Sea Cadets To cover ongoing unavoidable overhead costs over the next 6 months when we hope to be back to 'normal' fundraising activities. Our monthly overheads total around £700. £1,500.00
Forest Voluntary Action Forum Towards Outreach Youth Work across various areas across the Forest of Dean to engage with young people and help them to integrate into their communities. £2,500.00
Gloucestershire Animal Welfare Association & Cheltenham Animal Shelter Towards the HALT (Humans and Animals Leaning Together) Project, a two-week or three-day course for at-risk youths. Students learn new skills through working with animals. £2,500.00
Gloucestershire Counselling Service To subsidise the Child & Family Counselling Service ensuring equitable access, including increasing number of complex sexually abused/domestic violence, low income clients. £2,500.00
Goals Beyond Grass To contribute towards an accessible sports programme which engages children and young people with disabilities in sports activities during the school holidays. £2,000.00
Newent Initiative Trust For targeted youth club sessions with a youth worker. £1,950.00
Noah's Ark Children's Venture To provide a safe countryside residential indoors and outside for those young people who need it most. To reawaken and promote healthy living and personal development. £2,500.00
Paganhill Community Group Towards activities to better integrate young people into the community in Paganhill and provide opportunities for development. £2,500.00
Southern Brooks Community Partnerships To deliver fortnightly non-contact boxing sessions to improve health, fitness, behaviour and learning new skills, targeting young people at risk of ASB £2,052.55
The Music Works Towards Making It 2, building on learning from the award-winning Making It programme using music to divert 16 YP from the criminal justice system £2,500.00
The Rock Towards the Activate holiday program providing young people from the local area with a range of activities over a three week period. £2,500.00
The Rock Towards Activate 2021, 3 weeks of various activities during the school summer holiday including a 4 day Leadership Residential. £1,000.00
    Total Awarded: £37,902.55

Grants Given 2019/2020

Grant Application Name Project Description Grant Awarded
1625 Independent People To help fund our Engagement and Learning Programme at Southwold House, Yate. Providing young homeless people and care leavers with positive, practical and therapeutic activities. £2,500.00
Bristol Aero Collection Trust (Aerospace Bristol) To engage local students with learning and behavioural difficulties in an Aerospace Bristol arts workshop, to encourage community inclusion and engagement with arts and heritage. £1,000.00
Changing Tunes A music-rehabilitation and skills development programme for young offenders (age 10-17) at Vinney Green Secure Unit (South Gloucestershire). Laying foundations for an ongoing programme. £2,500.00
Cinderford Area Neighbourhood Development Initiative (CANDI) Funding towards continuation of our 'Drop In' Youth Cafes in Cinderford and Drybrook and Dance Projects in Cinderford and Drybrook. £2,000.00
Creative Sustainability CIC Access bike is a youth-led, inclusive drop in cycle workshop with a co-produced peer mentor support programme for disadvantaged and disabled young people £2,552.00
Dean Scribblers The continued growth of writing activities to help raise achievement and aspiration in schools in the Forest of Dean £2,000.00
Four Towns Play Association Towards funding our Summer Play scheme. This scheme offers 192 free 2 hour play sessions to children aged 5-11 across 6 areas in South Gloucestershire. £2,500.00
Gloucestershire Federation of WIs Third year payment from the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire Fund towards education activities for women at Eastwood Prison. £1,470.00
Gloucestershire Magistrates Association Mock Trials Competition for year 5 and 6 primary school children, open to all in Gloucestershire. We require funding for venue,catering and transport of children. £1,500.00
Gloucestershire Police To guarantee the financial stability of the mini bike project for the next 2 years on the basis of securing match funding for the project. £1,500.00
Greenwoods Therapeutic Horticulture CIC To help towards the cost of the development of the farm site, to enable wheelchair friendly accessible hardstanding and buildings, including toilets and changing room. £2,500.00
Juice Community Project To provide Fit and Fed sessions during the school summer holidays for children between the ages of 7 and 15 years old. £2,500.00
South Gloucestershire Council (Getting Court Project) To provide a programme of visits for schools to learn about the judiciary system. £2,000.00
Strike a Light The grant will be spent on weekly drama workshops for young people aged 7-18 in Matson, Gloucester. £2,500.00
T.I.C+ (also known as Teens In Crisis) This grant will provide 47 counselling sessions for vulnerable Gloucestershire young people, improving their health and wellbeing through talking therapy. £2,500.00
    Total Awarded: £31,522