Sixteen organisations have been awarded a share of £195,000 of grants from Ørsted’s East Coast Community Fund.
Imran Nawaz, Senior Advisor & Community Benefit Fund Manager for Ørsted, said: “Our community benefit funds are a powerful tool to deliver critically important funding to our communities. We included communities at the start of each fund, asking them to shape what the fund to be what they needed, and we have then evolved as we’ve listened to how to respond to new challenges of our time – e.g. covid. Thank you to everyone who has applied. We look forward to seeing their work.”
Organisations awarded grants are:
- Sight Support Hull and East Yorkshire, Bridlington Day Group for the Visually Impaired, £4,008
- The Boston Men’s Shed, Collection of Recycled Timber for use within the Boston Community, £1,403
- Purfleet Trust, Volunteering and Workshops, £24,702
- Linkage Community Trust, Oasis, Volunteer & Community Activity Hub at Weelsby Hall in Grimsby, £26,260
- Make 2nds Count, Boston Support Group for Secondary Breast Cancer Patients, £2,387
- All Things Good and Nice CIC, Wellbeing Canoe Trips, £5,000
- Walpole St Peter Parish Hall, Rebuild of Walpole St Peter Parish Hall, £25,000
- Withernsea Town Council, Valley Gardens, Withernsea Accessible Pathway, £8,868
- Cornerstone Community Church of the Nazarene, Cornerstone Community Grimsby New Flooring, £4,500
- Motor Neurone Disease Association Yorkshire Coast Group, Bridlington and Local Area – Provision of Therapist, £2,640
- Sutton on Sea Social Club, Sutton Social Club Solar Power Project, £21,372
- INTOUNI, IntoUniversity Grimsby Local Community Learning Centre, £23,482
- R-evolution, North East Lincolnshire Community Cycle Hubs, £20,253
- Climb 4 Limited, Family Inclusion Support- Grimsby, and Immingham, £18,625
- Blue Cross (Grimsby), Blue Cross Grimsby Car Park Green Space, £1,500
- We Are ONE (Outreach North East), Pilot Community Pantry 2024, £5,000
The East Coast Community Fund is part of the community engagement programme for Ørsted. Each year, until 2037, approximately £390,000 will be available from the main fund to support a wide range of community and environmental projects.
