Grant Winners April 2008

This group wants to set up an allotment to grow vegetables together while socialising and learning about gardening.  Their grant will pay for spades, forks, trowels, a wheelbarrow, a tool shed, a hose pipe, seeds, canes and twine.

Thomas and a friend are experienced in construction and want to get back to work after a period of homelessness. Their grant will pay for safety equipment, a course for health and safety certification, and a wide range of builders’ tools.

This group is interested in gardening and horticulture, and wants to create a vegetable garden to the side and rear of their hostel. The grant will pay for equipment including seeds and plants, gardening tools, a storage box, a greenhouse, grow bags, a galvanised potting area, planters, hanging baskets/liners, corrugated sheeting plus wood for a shed, a hose pipe, watering cans and a wheelbarrow.

This group wants to publish a service user newsletter, sharing information with other clients and organising activities independently of staff.  Their grant will pay for a printer/scanner/copier, stationery and an internet connection.

Rough Spell is a hostel-based art group which aims to use painting sessions as a way to combat feelings of isolation among the residents.  Their grant will pay for painting materials, a camera, refreshments during the sessions, art magazines and books, and travel to exhibitions and galleries.

This group wants to make a documentary film about alcohol and its effects, telling their own stories and generating discussion.  They have obtained funding from Nottingham Crime and Drugs Partnership to work with an independent film-maker, and the Groundswell grant will pay for a video camera, blank DVDs and miniDV tapes for copies of the film, packaging and design of the DVDs, and publicity.

This group of hostel residents wants to make an orientation DVD to inform new residents about life in the hostel.  The grant will pay for a camera and cameraman for 2-day shoot, and the film production organisation will match fund the amount to contribute to the edit costs.

Philippe has a PCO licence and wants to set up as a minicab driver. The grant will buy a second hand car for use as a cab.

Shelina wants to make clothing and soft furnishings, and has taken a short course in fashion.  Her grant will pay for a sewing machine, fabric, thread, pins, cutters, chalk, a dressmaking mannequin and some advertising flyers.

This group wants to build an allotment and create wormeries which they can use on their own allotment and sell to other allotment users.  Their grant will pay for renting the allotment, a shed, camping stove and kettle, gardening tools and gloves, seeds and plants, plastic chairs, plastic storage bins for the wormeries, worms, sand, gravel and leaf mould.