Merseyside charities celebrate over £99,000 funding...

5 charity groups in the Merseyside area have received grants of £99,513 between them. Using money raised by Health Fit CIC, through The Health Lottery, grants have been awarded by People’s Health Trust through Active Communities, a funding programme which invests in local people and groups in communities with great ideas to make their communities even better.

The 5 charities celebrating the funding include:-

► Sutton Manor Active Community Hub, £21,222; This new 1 year project will set up a Youth Centre for 7 to 11 year olds from Sutton Manor in Merseyside operating twice a week. A Youth Council will be set up to organise and run the Centre under the supervision of youth workers, the trustees of the charity and volunteers. Parents will also be invited as well as older teens that have been identified as positive role models in the community.

► B.A.P.T.A (Clock Community Centre), £12,480; This new 12 month project aims to deliver holistic therapies, exercise activities and a Healthy Eating Lunch Club, for mainly elderly and isolated residents in the Everton area. The intention is to raise people’s wellbeing through exercise and learn healthy recipes on a budget through the Lunch Club. A key outcome expressed is to have a social aspect to the project in order to increase social networks.

► Granby Somali Women's Group, £36,648; This new 24 month project aims to deliver a weekly Somali dance project for Somali, BAME and White women residing in the Princes Park ward of Liverpool.

► Leighbridge JFC, £8,578; This 12 month project aims to deliver new summer football sessions with tournaments and weekly winter season sessions (linked to existing provision) for girls and boys from the Kensington, Wavertree and Edge Hill areas of Liverpool.

► Sefton OPERA Older Persons Enabling Resource and Action, £20,585; This existing 2 year project aims to deliver tea dances and other activities including trips to places of interest, to older people in Bootle, a coastal Town in the Borough of in Sefton.

Chris Lunn, Director of HealthFit, said:- "The projects, supported using money raised by HealthFit, are extremely valuable to a wide range of individuals across this region; we look forward to hearing more about how these initiatives are supporting people to live longer healthier lives."

John Hume, Chief Executive of People’s Health Trust, said:- "We are delighted to be investing in these local organisations with great ideas to make their communities even better places to grow, live, work and age."

Active Communities is for community groups and not for profit organisations with an income of less than £350,000 a year that are seeking investment of between £5,000 and £50,000 a year, for projects lasting up to 2 years. For more information visit:- PeoplesHealthTrust.org.uk.

So far, Health Fit CIC has raised more than £1,323,475 for good causes in Merseyside.

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