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26 March 2004

Voluntary sector groups in Enfield to receive £500,000 in grants from Community Fund


Two Enfield groups are celebrating today after being awarded grants totalling £446,960 in the latest set of grants announcements from Community Fund, one of the National Lottery distributors. Both groups funded play an important role in community life, helping those at greatest disadvantage have the best possible access to a range of opportunities.

Ponders End Community Development Trust will use their grant of £223,916 to bring the local community together with the aim of promoting pride and a sense of community spirit in an area of disadvantage. The organisation will encourage and facilitate local people to voice their ideas about how change can be delivered in the area. This is an exciting project that will help unify residents and community groups to make Ponders End and the surrounding areas a better place to live and work.

Matt Lane, Ponders End Community Development Worker, said,

“We are delighted to receive this grant from the Community Fund. Our organisation has been working very hard over the last few years to become established in Ponders End. Thanks to the Community Fund's support we are able to expand our project, create more opportunities, engage more community members and develop as an organisation, all helping us make a real impact in our community!

Enfield Disability Action (EDA) will work with disabled people to encourage and empower them to live as independently as possible. The project, awarded £223,044, focuses on giving disabled people control over the types of services EDA deliver and the direction the organisation takes. This ensures that the needs of users are addressed. Advocacy will play a key role in helping to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities and to make sure that their voice is heard.

Debbie Pippard, London Regional Manager, said,

“It is fantastic to see that both projects actively involve users at every stage, ensuring that those who benefit from the projects have the opportunity to have their voice heard. Enfield is one of our fair share areas, and in the past has had less Lottery money than other boroughs. We want to put Lottery money into Enfield and ensure it makes a lasting difference to the community. By helping local people have a say in what happens locally these two groups will make this a reality.”

Under the fair share scheme, the Community Fund and New Opportunities Fund will provide guaranteed funding of £175 million to 77 disadvantaged areas throughout the UK who have not had a fair share of lottery funds, ensuring that funding goes to the communities who need it most.

The Boroughs that were successful at this meeting are:

Barking & Dagenham - £59,066 - 1 award
Bexley - £284,735 - 2 awards
Brent - £536,931 - 3 awards
Bromley - £161,628 - 1 award
Camden - £164,031 - 2 awards
Croydon - £141,916 - 1 award
Ealing - £200,000 - 1 award
Enfield - £446,960 - 2 awards
Greenwich - £192,824 - 1 award
H/smith & Fulham - £54,520 - 1 award
Hillingdon - £171,402 - 1 award
Lewisham - £236,530 - 2 awards
Merton - £102,449 - 1 award
Newham - £116,484 - 1 award
Redbridge - £156,000 - 1 award
Southwark - £597,651 - 4 awards
Sutton - £169,805 - 2 awards
Waltham Forest - £248,257 - 2 awards
Wandsworth - £177,896 - 1 award
Westminster, city of - £121,842 - 2 awards


Overall, 27 large grants and 5 medium grants were awarded totalling £4,433,272.

Ends –

Notes for Editors:

·The Community Fund shares out money raised by the National Lottery to charities and to voluntary and community groups. Out of every £1 spent on the National Lottery, the Community Fund gets 4.7 pence. Since 1995 Community Fund has awarded over 59,000 grants worth more than £2.7 billion to UK charities and voluntary groups.

The London Regional Committee, the body that awards the grants, meet every two months to decide which projects will be awarded a grant from the current portfolio.

The legal name of the Community Fund remains the National Lottery Charities Board. The National Lottery Charities Board was set up in 1994 and changed its operation name to Community Fund – Lottery money making a difference in April 2001.

Next year the Community Fund is to merge with the New Opportunities Fund in advance of creating a new National Lottery distributor that will administer 50 per cent of all good cause funding. The merger will not affect current programmes, beneficiaries or applications. Further details on the new lottery distributor are expected to be available in Spring 2004.

The New Opportunities Fund distributes National Lottery money to health, education and environment projects across the UK. We intend to support sustainable projects that will improve the quality of life of people throughout the UK, address the needs of those who are most disadvantaged in society, encourage community participation and complement relevant local and national strategies and programmes. (Funding for programmes is divided between England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales on the basis of population weighted to reflect levels of deprivation).



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