Category: Grants

The trustees met recently to consider the latest applications, and they agreed on the following grants:

• £400 to the 1st Morecambe & Heysham Boys’ Brigade towards the cost of coach hire for their week-long summer camp in South Wales.
• £1,175 to Skerton Community Centre for their youth group to go to Brockhole, Lake District for the day.
• £2,000 to the Lancashire Association of Boys & Girls Clubs towards Bushcraft sessions and an outdoor adventure weekend for young people.
• £5,000 to Arnside & Silverdale AONB towards work with local schools to create artwork for Light Up Lancaster in November.

A group of 8-10-year-olds from Lancaster Boys & Girls Club visited Beacon Fell over the half-term and, despite the rain, managed to have a good time.

The Areti Trust has made last-minute grants to help pupils from St Patrick’s Primary in Heysham and St Joseph’s Primary in Lancaster visit Leighton Moss nature reserve for the day.

The Areti Trust made a grant last week to enable children from Skerton St Luke’s CE Primary School to visit Leighton Moss nature reserve in May.

One of the activities funded by the Areti Charitable Trust was a day of caving for Lancaster Boys & Girls Club.  Over the February half-term they visited Ormside Mill in the Yorkshire Dales and – kitted out in the appropriate gear – went to Thistle and Runscar Caves near the Ribblehead Viaduct and then to the Great Douk Cave.

The trustees met at the beginning of January to consider recent applications and made the following awards:

• Lancashire Youth Challenge for a 5-day walk along Hadrian’s Wall in summer 2019;
• Lancaster Boys & Girls Club for 6 outdoor educational activity days during half-terms in 2019;
• Lancaster Road Primary School for Year 3 pupils to visit Leighton Moss RSPB wildlife reserve in the summer term;
• Marsh Community Centre for a residential outdoor education trip in summer 2019
• Morecambe Bay Partnership to work with local primary schools to explore and develop an activity around Sunderland Point, its fishing history and the shoreline during the spring and summer terms;
• Morecambe Bay Community Primary School for Year 6 pupils to go on a residential outdoor education trip in the summer term;
• Piccadilly Garden to develop holiday club activities in the outdoors.