Community groups in Belper are set to receive more than £3,250 from the Herbert Strutt Charity.
The Charity’s management committee agreed to make grants to seven organisations when it met on Monday, 23 April 2007.
The Herbert Strutt Charity has spent more than £150,000 improving the quality of people’s lives in Belper and Milford since it was set up by Amber Valley Borough Council and Belper Town Council in 1986.
The details of the latest grants are as follows:
Badger Explorer Scouts - £212.44 to help provide helmets for use with indoor canoes.
Holbrook St Michael’s Juniors Football Club - £350 to help purchase new football posts which meet new safety rules.
Derbyshire Children’s Holiday Centre - £580 to help provide holidays for Belper children in need.
Poetry People - £470.09 to install an aluminium poetry plaque as part of the ongoing development of Beth’s Poetry Trail.
Belper Meadows Cricket Club - £650 to help with the purchase of junior safety equipment and a junior safety net.
Belper & District Neighbourhood Watch Support Group - £500 to help with the provision of security equipment and high visibility body straps, armbands and jackets for the elderly and vulnerable residents of Belper and Milford.
Belper Pheonix Neighbourhood Watch Association - £500 to help provide security products to vulnerable people in Belper and Milford.
The Charity has benefited from a donation of £223.21 from the Belper & District Scout Council who raised the money at last year’s St George’s Day church service collection.
The key aims of the Herbert Strutt Charity are to:
·provide relief for residents who are sick, distressed, elderly or poor;
·support social welfare and recreation and leisure facilities; and
support educational facilities
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News release issued by the Council’s Policy and Change Unit (01773 841655)
