The locality budget spend
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The locality budget spend for January 2025
Name | LB code | Organisation | Application description | Date agreed | Amount committed |
Elizabeth Alake-Akinyemi | LB135 | The Active Wellbeing Society Community Fridge and Community Supermarket |
Greenstead Community Carnival. This event will improve community Cohesion and sense of belonging. Organising Easter baking skill sessions for members of the community. |
27 January 2025 27 January 2025 |
£300 £450 |
Simon Appleton | LB134 | Humpty Dumpty pre school Squirrells pre school |
Acquiring 'Balance bikes' for the young children. Garden equipment |
10 January 2025 10 January 2025 |
£1,000 |
Tracy Arnold | LB117 | Colchester Foodbank | Help the food bank to carry on helping residents. | 13 January 2025 | £1,000 |
Lewis Barber | LB85 | Eight Ash Green Parish Council Aldham Parish Council West Bergholt Parish Council Eight Ash Green Parish Council |
Heavy duty portable strimmer for keeping footpaths clear on Fordham Heath (36 acres) Purchase of speed indicator device Youth drop in Cafe Notice board on Aspen Walk |
30 January 2025 31 January 2025 31 January 2025 31 January 2025 |
£150 £233 £300 £100 |
Kevin Bentley | LB14 | Layer Breton Parish Meeting PCC Layer Marney Copford with Easthorpe Parish Council Birch Parish Council Layer de la Haye Parish Council |
Replacement bench (previous bench has now rotted away having been sighted in this location for 20 years) made of recycled materials to sit adjacent the village sign in Layer Breton. Installation of Wi-Fi to (access point within) the new Layer Marney Community Hub at St Mary the Virgin, Layer Marney. Purchase and installation of defibrillator at Copford Village Hall. Provision of an 'any network' mobile telephone booster for the Birch Memorial Hall where a multitude of community events take place. Provision of defibrillator and electrical installation at the Layer de la Haye community sports courts. |
21 January 2025 21 January 2025 21 January 2025 21 January 2025 21 January 2025 |
£326.50 £650 £333 £140 £550.50 |
Mark Cory | LB24 | Wivenhoe Transition Wivenhoe TC |
Funding for a new E-cargo Hub for Wivenhoe Part-fund the Wivenhoe Safer Streets project, alongside other Colchester City Council colleague’s locality funding and £5,000 of Essex County Council locality funding. |
13 January 2025 13 January 2025 |
£1,500 £500 |
Pam Cox | LB111 | Stepping Stones Colchester Nightshelter Col Archaeological Trust |
Purchasing or upgrading sensory play equipment for this local nursery specialising in provision for children with diverse needs. Supporting residents and staff to enhance their communal areas including the garden area, books/games area. Enhancing visitor facilities, including via an appraisal of the existing facilities. |
29 January 2025 29 January 2025 29 January 2025 |
£500 £289.50 £500 |
Kemal Çufoğlu | LB136 | RAFIKI Community CIC Centre for Action on Rape and Abuse St Helena School Essex County Council |
Preparing newborn gift bundles, organising workshops and pieces of training for women, men and vulnerable individuals - and health and wellbeing sessions Support Centre for Action on Rape and Abuse’s work. Student-led prom committee making their upcoming prom accessible and available for students who are from low-income families Colchester Townhouse Youth Centre |
20 January 2025 20 January 2025 30 January 2025 30 January 2025 |
£265 £265 £150 £850 |
Robert Davidson | LB72 | Fingringhoe RC Winstred Hundred parish council Mersea Stroodcam |
Towards a replacement village sign. Towards a speed reduction sign in Peldon. Funding Stroodcam which gives tide times and live stream of the Strood causeway connecting Mersea to the mainland. |
30 January 2025 30 January 2025 30 January 2025 |
£700 £1,000 £300 |
Andrew Ellis | LB27 | Layer Breton Parish Meeting PCC Layer Marney Copford with Easthorpe Parish Council Birch Parish Council Layer de la Haye Parish Council |
Replacement bench (previous bench has now rotted away having been sited in this location for 20 years) made of recycled materials to sit adjacent the Village sign in Layer Breton. Installation of Wi-Fi___33 to (access point within) the new Layer Marney Community Hub at St Mary the Virgin, Layer Marney. Purchase and installation of defibrillator at Copford Village Hall Provision of an 'any network' mobile telephone booster for the Birch Memorial Hall where a multitude of community events take place. Provision of defibrillator and electrical installation at the Layer de la Haye Community sports courts. |
21 January 2025 21 January 2025 21 January 2025 21 January 2025 21 January 2025 |
£327 £650 £334 £140 £549 |
Mark Goacher | LB05 | Colchester Pride Mercury Theatre Beacon House |
To help Colchester Pride to run events and support the LGBT+ community throughout the year. Bursary pot that allows them to offer free places on activities. Mainly for the weekly youth theatre group for 5–17-year-olds. Charity which helps the homeless with various services including housing advice, showering facilities and healthcare. |
06 January 2025 08 January 2025 17 January 2025 |
£200 £300 £340 |
Jeremy Hagon | LB112 | Stanway Village Hall Management Committee | Hand dryers for hall. | 22 January 2024 | £827.80 |
Sean Kelly | LB137 | Wivenhoe Town Council | Vehicle activated speeds signs. | 15 January 2025 | £2,000 |
Jocelyn Law | LB120 | St John's and Highwoods Community Centre | Support seniors’ social activities in Highwoods held at St John’s and Highwoods Community Centre, strengthening social connections and tackling loneliness and isolation. | 27 January 2025 | £368.54 |
Darius Law | LB76 | Munnings Museum | Would enable the museum to deliver a professionally organised press viewing for the exhibition in early summer which would engage with specialist print media and more importantly, TV and radio broadcasting. | 27 January 2025 | £500 |
Sue Lissimore | LB51 | Parks and Rec Lexden Primary School |
Repainting brick tub at entrance to Prettygate library car park. A shed for the gardening club. |
28 January 2025 28 January 2025 |
£400 £600 |
Andrea Luxford-Vaughan | LB99 | Wivenhoe TC Wivenhoe pre-school |
VAS system to reduce vehicle speeds on roads coming into Wivenhoe. Purchase installation of new secure gate. |
16 January 2025 16 January 2025 |
£1,000 £300 |
Jackie Maclean | LB52 | Layer Breton Parish Meeting PCC Layer Marney Copford with Easthorpe Parish Council Birch Parish Council Layer de la Haye PC |
Replacement bench (previous bench has now rotted away having been sited in this location for 20 years) made of recycled materials to sit adjacent the village sign in Layer Breton. Installation of Wi-Fi in [access point within] the new Layer Marney Community Hub at St Mary the Virgin, Layer Marney. Purchase and installation of defibrillator at Copford Village Hall. Provision of an 'any network' mobile telephone booster for the Birch Memorial Hall where a multitude of community events take place. Provision of a defibrillator and electrical installation at the Layer de la Haye Community sports courts. |
21 January 2025 21 January 2025 21 January 2025 21 January 2025 21 January 2025 |
£326.50 £650 £333 £140 £550.50 |
Sam McCarthy | LB06 | C3 Church | To support new and ongoing community projects provided by C3 Church. | 28 January 2025 | £500 |
Samuel Mclean | LB121 | St Helena Hospice Divine Assembly Ministries Skills and Training Engagement Programme (STEP) CIC |
Improving the environment at the Hospice for patients, workers and visitors. Community fridge. Support our youth home economics club for young people between 8 and 18 years old. |
31 January 2025 31 January 2025 31 January 2025 |
£1,000 £500 £500 |
Claire Osborne | LB138 | Kingsford Academy Internal Neighbourhoods UK Blue Sky Prettygate Junior School |
Anaphylaxis kit initiative - Kingsford Academy. Litter picking kit. Blue Sky helps single parents thrive by providing a space where parents can focus on their well-being, reintegrate into society, and share positive energy. Support an exciting new community intergenerational art project at Prettygate Infant and Junior Schools and beyond. |
02 January 2025 09 January 2025 13 January 2025 21 January 2025 |
£700 £47.92 £400 £452.08 |
Martin Parsons | LB139 | Winstree Hundred Parish Council Mersea Island Museum Abberton and Langenhoe Parish Council |
Towards cost of the parish council purchasing and installing a vehicle activated speed sign in Peldon. Production of new signage to outside exhibits and gate notice board and a wall display cabinet in the museum's resource centre. Creating a footpath to link up with existing footpath (Abberton No 10) to Petanque Court on Markes piece. |
15 January 2025 15 January 2025 16 January 2025 |
£1,000 £500 £500 |
Chris Pearson | LB80 | Berechurch Youth Club Monwick Resident Association Foddbank (ST Margarets Berechurch) |
The Berechurch youth club running cost rent/food/refreshments. To part fund an annual fun day organised by Monkwick Resident Association. To assist Berechurch community members who are struggling by supplying food stuffs and other support from St Maragrets Church Food bank sattelite. |
30 January 2025 30 January 2025 30 January 2025 |
£666 £666 £668 |
Carl Powling | LB129 | Winstred Hundred PC | Community speed signs | 15 January 2025 | £1,000 |
Kayleigh Rippingale | LB122 | Stepping Stones Play and Learn group | Supporting an integrated nursery which gives both mainstream children and children with additional needs the chance to play and learn together. | 15 January 2025 | £300 |
Thomas Rowe | LB132 | Munnings Museum | Enable the museum to deliver a professionally organised press viewing for the exhibition in early summer which would engage with specialist print media and more importantly, TV and radio broadcasting. | 27 January 2025 | £550 |
Lee Scordis | LB91 | St Leonard Church | Survey on drainage and planning application for outside toilet. | 23 January 2025 | £600 |
Lesley Scott-Bouttell | LB62 | Colchester Deaf Club Creative Colchester Internal Parks and Rec |
Supporting the deaf community. Funding a creative workshop at The Stanway School. Spring bulbs to come up spring 26. Extending coverage and filling in gaps in highway verges/roundabouts/by street name plates. |
10 January 2025 10 January 2025 29 January 2025 |
£200 £200 £1,000 |
Fay Small | LB131 | Hythe Youth Club The Friends of St Leonard-At-The-Hythe |
To help support the youth club, particularly by contributing to a paid member of staff. Commission of drainage survey and feasibility study for the provision of a toilet and kitchen on the site. |
10 January 2025 24 January 2025 |
£1,000 £700 |
Paul Smith | LB63 | St Annes Community Association | Rent for Singing Mama's community group for 10 weeks. Youth Facilities (food and equipment) for youth club, food parcels for food bank and fun day to be held in 2025. | 15 January 2025 28 January 2025 |
£270 £1,380 |
Rhys Smithson | LB123 | Tiptree Heath FC | Put towards the cost of new goal posts which meet league standards. | 16 January 2025 | £2,000 |
Natalie Sommers | LB133 | St Anne's Church | To be spent on Lego for the community cafe for people to build and play with. | 28 January 2025 | £75 |
Michael Spindler | LB124 | St Cedds Church Hall The C3 Church |
Cooker and catering equipment. Support for Community Food Pantry |
13 January 2025 13 January 2025 |
£600 £800 |
Catherine Spindler | LB140 | St Annes Community Association | Food pantry and youth club. | 14 January 2025 | £1,500 |
Dennis Willetts | LB68 | Friends of Hill House Wood Colchester Croquet Club Eight Ash Green Festival Committee Eight Ash Green Parish Council Aldham Parish Council |
A trailer to be used with the quad bike deployed for maintaining the wood, plus associated additions including the attachment of a secure lockbox for helmet, straps, spare fuel, and any essential spare parts and repairs. Community BBQ for residents to improve community cohesion and to promote interest in the sport. One day community-driven event held on Fordham Heath with stalls, bands and community events. Heavy duty portable strimmer for keeping footpaths clear on Fordham Heath (36 acres). Purchase of a Essex County Council approved highways speed indicator device for deployment on roads in the village prone to speeding. |
19 December 2024 20 December 2024 20 December 2024 20 December 2024 21 December 2024 |
£350 £250 £350 £150 £400 |
Julie Young | LB69 | The Active Wellbeing Society | Organising a local carnival involving local schools, this money will be used to buy materials to create costumes. | 20 January 2024 | £200 |
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