Tameside Community Recovery Fund

Ambitions

Ambitions provide social activates such as; disco’s, outings, physical activities and a social club to young adults with leaning and physical disabilities. Their aim is to listen to their members and whenever possible put their requests into actions. Ambitions activities are there to build our members with confidence, encourage them to make new friends, promote independence and because our discos are held in public places, integrate them fully into the wider society.

At the moment they work out of the ‘Engine Room’ Pub in the centre of Ashton-Under-Lyne and the discos are attended by members from all over the Tameside Area (Ashton, Dukinfield, Stalybridge, Hyde etc.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Lindley Educational Trust

Walks for Health

This group will provide healthy and engaging activities : walks and sporting activities for children each Saturday.These are run by local people who we have trained up. They will also run some local family walks / picnics to encourage families to get out and enjoy the fresh air and the local countryside. As part of the project they will also run a fun day that will bring everyone together including the wider community.

West African Development (WAD)

St Gabriel’s Community Group

St Gabriel’s Community Garden

This group  will develop the outside area into a community garden to be proud of; one that is beautiful, calming, productive, therapeutic and beneficial to all. The community will be involved in the creation of the garden and will then be able to use and enjoy it once it is complete.

Khush Amdid – KA

This group will have 2 sessional workers and the support of volunteers to deliver the project. This will involve having 2 workshops one to educate the members on food labelling and to understand the colours, look at various food products, select those that are healthy etc. They will also discuss the calories in food and share information on how to see on the product and also traditional Asian food, talk about food portion etc. We will also look at other alternative foods, particularly meat free.

Friends of Sunnybank Vale

The project aims to ensure that the footpaths as part of the Duck Trail are suitable and in a good condition to be safely used by children and their families irrespective of their physical abilities.  It will also make it more suitable for wheelchair users and others with disabilities.

Tameside Arts Ltd

Creating inter-generational links through IT.

This group will organise a month-long IT development programme whereby we make provision for activities and workshops to be delivered by younger people for older members of neighbouring communities to:

• enjoy IT
• up-skill IT capability
• develop friendship groups
• create community links
• gain AQA and Arts Awards qualifications.

St Martins Church

Droylsden Community & Safe Garden

The project aim is to make the green safe space for all the community to use. The project will also improve the green areas around the church while also making the outside of the church a safer environment for people accessing the building.

New Life Church

This project will address issues currently faced by local adults due to mental health, addiction, homelessness, learning difficulties and poverty. Through these projects we aim to engage people that are hardest to reach; those whose obstacles and challenges mean they are currently struggle to engage with more formal community learning and support opportunities.

Denton Park Social Bowling Club

Denton Bowling Petanque Project aka French Boules Project

To facilitate a new sporting activity that will bring together the wider community and  appeal new members of the community, individuals, families, local schools and colleges.

Assheton Avenue Residents’ Association

This grant will be used to replace our communal greenhouse which was destroyed by Storm Eunice in February 2022. The greenhouse acted as a social-hub connecting residents across age ranges, physical/mental capabilities and backgrounds. Growing and nurturing plants promoted discussion, respect, knowledge exchange, mutual encouragement, pride and built self-esteem. It was a facility anybody could use and it was well used.

Magical Memories

Jubilee Tea Party & Wellbeing Classes

Magical Memories will be planning an afternoon tea party in honour of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee 2022. They as a group haven't celebrated together properly since the pandemic and this is a perfect opportunity to come together as a community again. Their  goal is to also help the vulnerable or homeless with food parcels. So, they  plan to donate an extra 25 food parcels and deliver them to a local community group or organisation, it’s their goal to work in partnership with other community groups and try to help make a difference in our communities.

Friends of Waterloo Park

This group will  provide regular meals for the over 50’s.

• A regular knit & natter day session on Friday’s aimed at people of all ages.
• Our community garden/orchard is open daily to our user groups.
• We will be donating fruit & vegetables from our community garden to elderly local residents, Infinity café & Greystones.

This group will be holding a Family fun day to bring the whole community together, young and old, encouraging involvement and friendships.  They will provide food, refreshments, bouncy castle, games and a face painter for the children (or adults!).  We feel confident that this fun day will strengthen our community! 

St Mary’s Church, Droylsden

This group will use the grant over 3 main areas all aimed at re-connecting with our community and helping to alleviate isolation and loneliness across the generations:

• To plant out 4 troughs with summer flowers situated within the immediate vicinity of the church.
• To introduce a phone line and Broadband into the church building.
• To refresh the kitchen area.

Denton Autism ADHD Family Support (D.A.A.F.S.)

D.A.A.F.S Denton Autism ADHD Family Support

The Parents and children living with Autism, ADHD and S.E.N. Alongside Local ex Service Veterans Living with Injuries, PTSD and various Mental Health Issues. These are a group of people living within Denton and the Local Community that are isolated and feel detached from the community who remain within their own safe space in their family Homes. This group are offering 2 sites of local safe spaces to support and increase their wellbeing, a coffee morning and the Defence Garden Scheme. They aim to promote Autism/ADHD awareness and acceptance within the local community. The meeting will be held at St Georges Church, Dane Bank for the coffee mornings. The Defence Gardens, Rosehill Denton for gardening and therapy with the Veterans.

Friends of Victoria Park

Party in the Park

To bring back a confidence of the community to come together and enjoy a  event of music Talent Competition, fairground rides, Stalls to promote Tameside recognised community groups and organisation .

Richmond Park Neighbourhood Watch & Community Group

Richmond Park In Bloom 2022 & Richmond Park Defibrillator Purchase.

In 2022 this group will extend and refresh the public gardening areas that they created in 2021 and following the death of a local resident last year from cardiac arrest we also want to purchase a defibrillator and first aid training for use by local residents and visitors.

Stalybridge Town Team

This group will continue to keep them well stocked with seasonal bulbs and flowers. As the Greater Manchester Town of Art & Culture for 2022 they want to create a clean, bright, attractive town centre to present to visitors

Holy Trinity and Christ Church

Trinity Tots

Developing a sensory garden for children and adults.

Dukinfield Brass Band

Christmas Light switch on 2022.

Luncheon Club-Victoria Park

Since the restart of the luncheon club, the group have seen a massive increase in people wanting to join in the session, but they currently don’t have the equipment to cater for everyone and have had to turn people away.The funding will help this group increase the number of people taking part in the session by funding extra equipment (pots, pans, plates, knifes & forks ects) and therefore enable us to be able to provide people a hot meal. The club will also provide people with the opportunity to mix with others but also build their reassurance and help to improve their mental health and well-being. After the Pandemic, isolation has been difficult, we aim to help with their anxiety issues and build up confidence.

Springs Botanical Garden

Brighten up Ambleside

Plant flowers to brighten up the fence panels outside the Baptist Church/ Community Garden, to make it a conversation piece within the community and get more residents involved with in the garden.

Stalybridge Coderdojo

The grant money will be used to purchase computing equipment and purchase monthly internet usage for their meetings to facilitate the projects selected by their young people.

• To engage with young people and offer a safe environment
• Enhance networking skills and facilitate the learning of new skills
• Develop young people's self-confidence and future potential 

Coder Dojo is free to access and inclusive of males and females and does not deter families on low incomes from attending.

The Together Centre

The Together Centre would like to bring Young Children and local Isolated Elderly Residents aged 60+ Together by participating in a new and exciting outdoor Intergenerational ‘Grow your own Fruit and Vegetables’ Program called Fuel for the Future.

Stalybridge Neighbourhood Watch

Wild Flower Community Garden

GX Brabyns Neighbourhood Group

GX Brabyns is a group of local residents whose aim is to bring the community together to create a more friendly, active and secure community who can work together with local residents and organisations to enhance the safety, awareness and harmony of the environment in which they live.

Hyde Mela Trust

The Community event aims to promote community cohesion by providing an opportunity for residents to experience a range of cultural provision from Hyde’s local artists and performers, for Hyde’s small businesses to reach new customers, for Hyde’s community groups to advertise their activities and to bring the communities of Hyde together.

LEAP – St Peters Partnerships

This group will be creating an encompassing outdoor space as a sanctuary for our participants, friends, and neighbours to come together for a cup of tea and a chat.  The aim is to learn coping strategies and improve general health by practicing wellbeing exercises so we can all make a difference and thrive.

Hattersley Big Community Garden

Hope Community Church

CAP Life Skills

To help people live well on a low income. The course covers Money; Organisation; Health and wellbeing and Relationships. The course is designed to give practical skills, be part of a fun/relaxed community that can learn from one another. We will also offer 1-2-1 coaching and access/signposting to other community based activities as appropriate.

Groundwork GM

 Go Green.

This project equips local residents with the skills and knowledge to make Hattersley greener by encouraging them to co-design their community spaces to become places that bring people together, connect them with their environment and nature, learn to grow and bounce back after the pandemic by taking part in activities outdoors where they will enjoy the benefits to their health and wellbeing.

Residents are already invested in the areas and have taken part in clearing the spaces. We will also offer ‘pop up and grow’ sessions to encourage people to grow their own, whilst using the spaces.

Ark of Hope

Men’s Room

Social activities for men in Tameside e.g. Bowling,Walking,Tennis etc          

Heyrod Residents Community Association

Project Reform

This group will use the grant to reform the way they communicate as a village post pandemic; green space to kick the proceedings off, notice board to manage communication.

Academy hq

An activity day that enables people to join in taster sessions of mindfulness health & wellbeing, fun activities encouraging family participation whilst promoting footprint in the area by putting a face to business owners to help overcome boundaries of stepping over the threshold of local shop owner’s and enterprise schemes.

Carrbrook Residents Hub

Community outreach Program

This group are trying to include the community in Activities using the community garden teaching our residents to grow vegetables creating new raised beds which will be made by our team. They also want to organise monthly litter picks where children and adults work together in an intergenerational work. They will also teach residents to bake using home grown vegetables and eat healthier to create self-well-being and help with future volunteering

Community Cutz CIC

Droylsden Community & Safe Garden

To increase the amount of people across Droylsden engaging in our services.

To offer new bespoke feel good and health & wellbeing sessions.

To improve people’s health and wellbeing across Droylsden.

To deliver new sessions across Droylsden, Audenshaw & Denton.

FiT Over Fifty

Those Were The Days

This group want to support people to engage in social interaction, whereby supporting isolation and loneliness  by looking at their past life, thus sharing memories and experiences , things they had or have in common and help make new friends/ contacts

St. Mary’s Church Hollingworth

Eden +’

This group aim to be of service to the local community by offering facilities and providing social and group activities. They run an after-school youth club, ‘The Eden Club’ for 12-16 year olds. Members have expressed a wish to continue to associate as a group after they leave Longdendale High School. They would like to facilitate this by hosting a club for college level students, maintaining the level of friendship and support that they currently share.     They shall encourage club members to find safe, positive ways to enjoy themselves while developing concern for the welfare of others and the environment and being of benefit to the wider community.

They expect the membership to be 16-18 year olds, who have recently left the local high school.

POP Hyde CIC

Community Cultural Cohesion

This group are Working in conjunction with local representatives of the Bangladeshi Community to organise a project that will bring together the local communities for a cultural diverse event.

The project is aimed at drawing together all members of the local community for a shared cultural experience including food and music

Community Matters

Theatre

This group will use the funds to:

To bring theatre to the children of the area that do not have ready access to these experiences.

To celebrate the diversity of our community.

To bring people together to share the experience of live performance.

Ensemble Theatre Inclusive Arts

A shared Garden

To creative an outdoor space to bring people together to create, inspire, plan, and learn.

A community garden and seating area.