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Community Budgets Projects ranging from healthy living to community gardens in the Norreys area of Wokingham have won funding from Wokingham Borough Council’s inaugural Community Budget. Residents in Norreys came up with projects to benefit the community and then voted on which projects should be funded. The Community Budget is part of the Norreys Neighbourhood Project, which aims to improve how residents, groups and organisations living in and working with the community link up with each other. Three groups making use of the community budget are: • Transition Wokingham • Community Health Support Group • Open door coffee morning e: josie.wragg@wokingham.gov.uk
Also receiving funding are: • Wokingham (North) Community First Responders: Received £250 towards running costs.
ded r a Aw 00 £8 • Transition Wokingham: Funding to create a community garden behind Eustace Crescent.
Aw ar £40 ded 0 • Community Health Support Group: Funding for exercise at a local leisure centre and basic equipment for the group.
• Eustace Community Association: Received £1,000 to subsidise day trips to Bournemouth and Cotswold Wildlife Park aiming to give low income families a chance to have a least one break from their usual surroundings. • Sunbeams Parent and Toddler Group: Received £500 to provide a trip to Beale Park. • Norreys Community News: Received £610 to buy a photocopier and paper for the community newsletter. • Neighbourhood Speedwatch: Received £450 for publicity material.
• Open door coffee morning: Funding for toys, crafts equipment and refreshments.
Awar ded £500