Church group receives funding for day care services
Crawley Cllr Alan Quirk
A CHURCH group has received funding from the West Crawley County Local Committee to set up day care services for the elderly and disabled.
Members of Elim Church, which is based in Ifield Drive, Ifield, were granted £2,000 towards helping set up the project.
It will offer a range of services at the church for up to 30 elderly or disabled people, aged mainly 70 or over, during each week day.
The application was one of 19 approved for an Adults’ Services Prevention and Wellbeing Grant on Thursday (June 28) at Crawley Library.
There were also four successful applications under the Community Initiative Fund.
CLC chairman Cllr Alan Quirk said: “This is one of a great number of examples of local communities coming together to develop important projects in their area, which we have been able to fund.
“This new service will be an important facet for our community in helping provide day services for some of the most vulnerable members of our society.”
Approval for other Prevention and Wellbeing grant applications was also given to:-
Moving Barriers, which received a £2,500 grant to provide changing facilities at a BMX track in Cherry Lane for children with disabilities.
Carers in Crawley, which received £1,335 towards the costs of a project that will allow carers to attend and maintain allotments either individually or as a group.
The Eastern Stream Group, which was granted £1,250 towards helping the large Eastern European community in the area with prevention and wellbeing issues and in becoming more involved in the community.
The Uganda Crawley Community Association, which received £700 in helping promote wellbeing awareness among members of the Ugandan community.
Groups also to receive funding were 4Sight, Age UK West Sussex, the Alzheimer’s Society, CAMEO, the Crawley and East Grinstead branch of the Parkinson’s Society, the Crawley Darby and Joan Deaf Club, the Crawley Deaf Social Club, Cruse West Sussex, EKTA, KWWA, Lifecentre, RISE, SASBAH, and Swallows over 50.
Successful applications under the Community Initiative Funding scheme came from:- Sussex Junior Chess, Jolly 60s Bingo, the Celtic and Irish Cultural Society, and the Crawley Mela Association.
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