Aylesbury Town Council Grants

We award grants that will benefit the town and its communities. Grants can be awarded to fund projects or activities as well as projects working in Aylesbury to improve public wellbeing. There are also grants to support young sports people representing their sport at a national or international level to help them achieve their potential.

We have recently given grants to…

We awarded £4,000 towards Florence Nightingale’s Hospice at Home service, FNH@Home. FNH@Home aims to improve the charity’s capacity to enable patients to stay at home and be cared for nearing end of life.

We gave a Social & Emotional Wellbeing Grant of £2,000 towards site maintenance costs, providing bespoke short programmes and a new focus for young people, including a peer support programme at Lindengate. The natural beauty and richness of the site helps to restore and heal, whilst specialist gardening, conservation, construction, cooking, and nature-based arts and crafts activities provide focus and purpose.

The Ducklings Trust received a grant from us for £2,000 for a new birthing pool at the maternity unit in Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

The Pace Centre supports a very vulnerable group of children and youngsters with neurodisabilities, including CP and other motor related disorders. We granted £3,720 towards the cost of a Learning Support Assistant supporting the service of a Music Therapist to deliver music therapy lessons.

We awarded Youth Concern a Social & Emotional Wellbeing Grant of £8,000 towards the supervision, counselling co-ordinator and overheads to continue the free counselling provision for 13–25 year-olds. For over 40 years, Youth Concern has supported young people across Aylesbury. Last year, 473 young people visited the Drop-in Centre on Whitehill Lane. In addition to other services – emotional support, help with education, training and employment, food and care parcels, advice about sexual health and substance misuse, and accommodation support, 50 of those young people received counselling.

The next Grants Committee meeting will take place on Wednesday 23 June 2021. The deadline for grant applications to be considered at this meeting is Wednesday 9 June 2021.

For more information on how to apply for an Aylesbury Town Council grant visit bit.ly/AylesburyTownCouncilGrants or email Jane Eden, Grants Officer jane.eden@aylesburytowncouncil.gov.uk or call 01296 425678.