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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