South Wales Police Authority

 

The theme for the grants was helping to combat anti-social behaviour by providing facilities/assistance for young people.  The successful recipients were:

 

 

BRIDGEND COLLEGE - £200 – for community focussed activities to help build relations between young people and the elderly
Brief overview and references
BRIDGE MENTORING PLUS SCHEME - £300 – to purchase a video camera for socially excluded young people to use during mentoring activities
BRIDGEND PEOPLE FIRST - £200 – fund  visual arts project for people with learning disabilities.
CHRISTIAN YOUTH OUTREACH - £200 – provide equipment for the Solid Rock Youth Centre.
FRIENDS OF BRYNHEULOG - £200 – to purchase a storage container for a recycle a bicycle campaign.
GOOD NEWS CLUB - £200 – provide equipment and games for a weekly meeting of children
LLYNFI VALLEY COMMUNITY TRANSPORT - £400 – to train volunteer drivers, to help provide a bus service for people in the community.
SAMARITANS - £200 – to help with the ‘Feet on the Street’ campaign, which aims to connect and communicate with young people
WILDMILL COMMUNITY LIFE CENTRE – £200 – to purchase equipment to start a gymnastics club for young people.

 

 

BULLIESOUT - £500 – To provide hands, paints and poem cards for children during an anti-bullying week in Cardiff.  The money will pay for the packs to remind them of the day.
THE DOME, PENTWYN YOUTH CENTRE - £400 - The grant will be used to set up a 10 week anti-social awareness course for young people.  This will involve the young people learning about the negative effects of anti-social behaviour. 
MINISTRY OF LIFE - £350 - It is a youth events programme that operates on a monthly basis.  A youth café runs and guest performances are invited to perform beat boxing, singing, dance, rapping, DJing and other street based arts.  The money will be used to help the nights.
SATURDAY CLUB - £300 - To improve resources and widen the choices available to extend the existing opportunities and purchase games etc.
CARDIFF KYOKUSHINKAI KARATE - £200 - To obtain a set of 30 training jackets to be worn by our students when representing or supporting our club. 
PENTWYN DYNAMOS FC - £200 - Training facilities – football nets, training aids, etc.
WHITCHURCH RANGERS FC - £200 - Contribute towards rain jackets for the children and help to pay for winter training facilities.

 

 

BEDLINOG LEISURE ASSOCIATION - £750 – to help pay for tutor costs and hall hire for a local dance group, which has 22 young people.
LINKING HANDS ACROSS THE WORLD - £725 - To further develop links and hosting a party of learners and educators from Eqinisweni School in July 2009
DOWLAIS MINI & JUNIOR RFC - £675 – to purchase new training equipment

 

 

ASSOCIATION FRIENDS AND PARENTS OF CROESERW - £195 – to purchase of games and activities for children and young people who attend our club
DULAIS VALLEY MUSIC CENTRE - £195 - To purchase disco equipment to run discos for under 14s. 
FAIRFIELD BOXING CLUB - £195 - To buy more additional boxing equipment as our members are growing. 
FRIENDS OF THE CABIN - £195 - to pay for the services of youth workers to bring this facility in to the category of a professionally run youth service. It will also be used to decorate and renew some electrical equipment.
GLYNNEATH CUBS FOOTBALL CLUB  - £195 – to secure funding towards training venue costs payable for this season.
THE HIDEOUT - £195 – to help fund workshops on drugs, alcohol, anti social behaviour and graffiti
NEATH BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB - £195 – to purchase art and craft supplies for workshops and to provide facilitated workshops highlighting dangers associated with drugs and car crime.
NEATH EAST UNDER 16 YOUTH FORUM - £195 - for transportation of cycles and participants to and from venues outside the community.
PORT TALBOT & DISTRICT AMATEUR OPERATIC YOUTH THEATRE - £195 - To purchase a suitable portable keyboard to be used for our community functions.
SNAC (SPECIAL NEEDS ACTIVITY CLUB) - £195 - To provide sports equipment that will both stimulate and enhance the well being of young people that attend the centre.
VELINDRE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - £195 – to purchase of crockery, refurbishment of pool table, initial start up costs of Friends Group.

 

 

ALISON HOUSE YOUTH & PLAY PROJECT - £268 - Young people have expressed an interest in designing a mural and this grant would enable us to run a project with a local artist to design and paint a mural in the main kitchen area. 
BLAENLLECHAU COMMUNITY REGENERATION - £268 - to continue operating its minibus service to provide a safe means of transport to and from its drop-in provision. 
CLWB IEUNCTID Y CYMER - £268 - The money would be used in training the members of the committee in team building, reaching decisions and democracy.
CYNON VALLEY CHURCH YOUTH DEPT - £268 - to purchase the multi-media equipment that we need to modernise our teaching style
GOING4GOLD - £268 - to complete our Gold Award next year visiting South Africa for 1 month which will involve volunteering work in orphanages.
MISKIN CRIME & SAFETY GROUP - £268 - To do a video project with young people which will focus on the consequences young people will be faced with if they were caught committing a criminal offence.
PENDERYN COMMUNITY CENTRE - £268 – to purchase mats for the martial arts students to enable the tutor to conduct his course.
POWERHOUSE YOUTH CLUB - £268 - To purchase new games equipment.

 

 

HAFOD YOUTH ACTION GROUP - £435 - To provide equipment and refreshments for a pilot being held in the evening – a youth club
MONDAY CLUB - £435 - to bring in new equipment to keep the kids interested on a weekly basis and keep approx 50 children off the streets of Blaenymaes
RIVERSIDE YOUTH CLUB - £435 - To purchase new technology, enabling more individuals to engage in activities within a limited space,
TRALLWN YOUTH FOOTBALL CLUB - £435 - To purchase football kit (male and female) and training aids. 
BIRCHGROVE YOUTH CLUB - £200 – to purchase sports Equipment – at present the children/youths bring their own if they wish to play any sports.
JR GROUNDFORCE - £200 - To pay for buses to take the children on day trips.

 

 

LLANTWIT BOOSTER GROUP - £700 - To support programme designed to motivate pupils, bring them back ‘on track’ and build self esteem.
ST CYRES SCHOOL - £700 – to start the Duke of Edinburgh award for the group & Operation Clean Swoop – a community based project to clean the routes to school of litter and graffiti.
BARRY BEAVERS DISABLED SWIMMING CLUB - £375 - To help pay for the club to hoist a gala next year, for our club and for other clubs to come and join in. 
PENARTH MINI AND JUNIOR RFC - £375 - To purchase playing kit for under 10’s age group (current kit old and shabby).