Ørsted awards over £250,000 in latest round of the Walney Extension Community Fund
- Ørsted fund has now awarded over £3.5million to community projects in Cumbria and Lancashire
- A total of 200 projects have now been awarded funding
Sixteen organisations from coastal communities in Cumbria and Lancashire are celebrating the news that they have been awarded a total of more than £250,000 in grants as part of Ørsted’s Walney Extension Community Fund.
Launched in 2016, Ørsted has now supported 200 projects in the region through the main Walney Extension Community Fund and the dedicated Skills Fund. Successful groups have shared a huge windfall of £3,518,456.
Imran Nawaz, Stakeholder Advisor & Community Benefit Fund Manager for Ørsted, said: “With this latest round of grant awards we have passed two very significant milestones, awarding more than £3.5 million to a total of 200 local community projects. The aim of our community funds is to help support the incredible hard work and dedication of local organisations who are striving to make a real difference. It’s a pleasure to be able to support these local projects and help them to make a lasting positive impact.”
The full list of organisations awarded grants from the 12th round of funding are as follows:
- Strawberry Fields Training - £21,500
- Stanleys Community Centre - £24,572
- Neuro Drop In Centre - £22,000
- Shackles Off Youth & Community Project - £18,000
- South Lakeland District Council, Owlett Ash Playground Redevelopment - £10,000
- Cumbria CVS - £30,481
- Citizens Advice North Lancashire - £25,000
- Less UK (Lancaster District) - £19,630
- Lancaster City Council (Friends of Greaves Park) - £15,000
- South Lakes Citizens Advice - £25,000
- Kendal Windows on Art - £4,700
- St John's Church, Waberthwaite - £15,000
- Friends of Bram - £5,000
- SAFE - £18,699
- WIDE, Lancaster - £3,138
- Wyre District Scouts - £1,380
Helen Greatorex, CEO of Citizens Advice North Lancashire, said: “Citizens Advice North Lancashire helps thousands of people each year to solve the problems they are facing with free, confidential advice and advocacy. Our team of expert advisers and trained volunteers specialise in debt, housing, benefit and employment issues but also deal with a huge range of problems.
"We rely on volunteers to help us cope with the demand on our service and we are really excited about our new project, welcoming a new Volunteer Co-ordinator into our team who will help to foster and encourage volunteering at Citizens Advice North Lancashire. We are hugely grateful for the funding awarded to us by the Walney Extension Community Fund and we hope that we will be able to encourage many more volunteers to get involved with us and contribute to our work."
The Fund is made possible by Ørsted, the global leader in offshore wind, which has constructed one of the world’s largest operational offshore wind farms, Walney Extension, off the Walney Island coast in Cumbria. Each year, approximately £600,000 will be made available for community projects for the expected 25-year lifetime of the wind farm.
The Fund is being administered by national grant-making charity GrantScape and more details can be found at GrantScape’s website www.grantscape.org.uk or by calling 01908 247634. The next closing date for applications is 29 June 2022.
