Groups are in the money thanks to community fund
Committee’s cash boost for organisations
A council organisation has awarded grants worth thousands of pounds to organisations including a nature group and schools.
In the 2016/17 period, Paisley South Local Area Committee gave £2,000 to the Cotton Club – Castle Semple Activity Programme, which helped 90 older people from sheltered housing gain a John Muir Discovery Award.
This saw them make bird boxes, bird feeders and bird cake and participate in bird- ringing demonstrations, photography, bushcraft, environmental art, poetry, mammal tracking, pond dipping and wildlife surveys.
Brediland Primary School was awarded £5,000 towards the cost of purchasing equipment to improve the school playground.
The parents raised a further £10,000 from other sources to meet the full cost of the project.
And for Heriot Primary School’s Nursery Class parent group, there was a grant of £1,115 to help fund a comfortable and functional early years library which supports family learning and provides a regular bedtime story club.
A report to the area committee states that the library is also used at school lunchtimes when the senior pupils provide story telling for the younger children.
PAGGS is an international twin town cooperation involving Guides, Scouts, Boys and Girls Brigades, and the Local Area Committee gave it a grant of £2,453 towards the cost of an international Scout and Guide camp at Sutton, in England.
The Cornerstone Drop-in Centre got a £375 contribution towards running costs. This helped the group to assist people using the centre, many of whom have chaotic lifestyles.
Renfrewshire Sports Network was given a grant of £2,400 towards the multi-area application which helped finance the Funding Athletes Supporting Talent ( FAST) Card Scheme, which benefits a number of elite athletes in Renfrewshire from athletics, hockey, basketball, badminton, cricket, squash, cycling, football, g o l f, karat e, gymna s t i c s, judo, swimming, rowing and windsurfing.
St James’ Friendly Hour used its £400 grant to help hire a minibus to collect less fit and disabled members from their homes and take them to the weekly meetings.
The members all have differing degrees of health issues and in many cases this is the only contact they will have with other people in the community.
A number of other grants were also awarded.