WREN Grants Spring Forth!

There will be shouts of glee from Wisbech St Mary this summer, after a grant award of £39,923 was made by WREN towards new teenage leisure facilities on the recreation ground.  This grant completes the funding required for a full range of equipment from tots to teens, to deliver a £100,000 project.

Wisbech St Mary Sports and Community Centre have been actively fundraising for a number of years to provide the youth of the village with a wide range of up-dated facilities, and after all their hard work, it now means that their playground project will be completed before the Summer.

Another project which received funding from WREN this round was Wicken village hall, who have received a grant of £12,753 to enable replacement of their ageing and leaky flat roof, and improve insulation values.

The grants made under the Landfill Communities Fund (formerly known as the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme) look to improve community life by enhancing existing facilities as well as providing new facilities, including play areas & village halls. In addition, historic and religious buildings can also receive funding for restoration work. During 2008, WREN distributed over £760,000 to 32 projects in Cambridgeshire.

Sarah Gosling, WREN Project Manager for Cambridgeshire, explained: "Projects applying for grants from WREN are assessed by an individual panel of locally based experts in each county for their need, community benefit and support, sustainability and value for money. Each of these projects demonstrated individual benefits to their community."