Lottery grants, what's your area getting grants for!

[69 coupe]

What are the lotto grants in you local authority area spent on, my borough seem to get more lotto grants for refugees, asylum seekers, Afghanistans, Somalians, Iraq Iran & so on, not really what I think it should be spent on.

Just type your local authority in the Local Authority box to search
http://www.lottery.culture.gov.uk/AdvancedSearch.a...

[MX7]

That's an interesting link, and I'm actually pleasantly surprised that the vast majority are very worthwhile causes.

Cheers for that.

[Riley Blue]

"The group will use the funding to install a composting toilet at the allotments site." What a load of crap (literally!)

[EDLT]

Can't work out how you single out Daily Mail enraging grants, the worst I found was teaching English to chinese people. bds.

[69 coupe]

EDLT said:

Can't work out how you single out Daily Mail enraging grants, the worst I found was teaching English to chinese people. bds.

I guess its down to your borough, mine is Brent.

[Chrisw666]

Riley Blue said:

"The group will use the funding to install a composting toilet at the allotments site." What a load of crap (literally!)

We installed a composting toilet on our woodland, it cost us £150 and took about 3 hours, who needs a grant for that?

[SmoothCriminal]

My borough recieved £990,000 to celebrate it's history...... dear oh dear

[Tsippy]

£90k on a fking hat fair, £25k to "Winchester Action on Climate Change -Past Matters: remembering our past to change our future"

Some good causes (Lots for the armed forces) however there's an awful lot of nonsense such as arty farty bks that seems to win the largest amount of grants, the university for example had £41k for a conference on largescale outdoor puppetry

[DonkeyApple]

Don't do the lottery. It's a voluntary tax.

[Oakey]

Seems someone else is on with the 'eco-toilet' here too, £10k;

Site said:

This is a project by a community group in Blackpool. The group will use the funding to install an eco-toilet and portacabin within the grounds of their allotment site. This will provide plot holders with improved amenities and environmentally friendly facilities within a community space.

There seems to be a lot of jollies for WWII veterans +1 which, in the case of the £800 for the commemorative trip to Normandy, seems fair enough. It's the £2k, £3k and £4k for 'commemorative' trips to Italy, Israel and the Caribbean I'm a little unsure of. How easily could this system be abused do you think?

[Sheets Tabuer]

Celebrate Swahili culture £9361
Weekend school for Somalians £9268
Wellbeing classes in the Indian Community £9771
Celebrate Ivory coast independence £2365
Tamil Community workshop £9956

See lots of things I could join in with...

[carmonk]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Celebrate Swahili culture £9361
Weekend school for Somalians £9268
Wellbeing classes in the Indian Community £9771
Celebrate Ivory coast independence £2365
Tamil Community workshop £9956

See lots of things I could join in with...

I read the last one as Taliban Community workshop (I guess they get funding from a different source).

[Chris Type R]

Someone holding the purse strings really likes Netball in North Hertfordshire ! 7 out of 8 of the top spends totalling £22,749,072 out of £40,788,940 of all spending. Shenanigans ?

England Netball Netball (Whole Sport Plan)
£8,100,452 19/06/2006 North Hertfordshire
All England Netball Association Netball: Performance
£5,331,722 01/10/1999 North Hertfordshire
England Netball Netball (Whole Sport Plan)
£2,578,673 25/04/2005 North Hertfordshire
All England Netball Association Netball: Performance
£2,362,578 20/09/2001 North Hertfordshire
North Hertfordshire District Council Letchworth Garden City, Howard Park & Gardens
£1,969,500 18/09/2007 North Hertfordshire
All England Netball Association Netball: Performance
£1,660,752 09/03/2004 North Hertfordshire
All England Netball Association Netball: Potential
£1,518,543 03/01/2002 North Hertfordshire
England Netball Club & Coach funding 2007-10
£1,196,352 30/05/2007 North Hertfordshire

Edited by Chris Type R on Monday 1st August 18:44

[rover 623gsi]

this might be why

England Netball
Netball House
9 Paynes Park
Hitchin
Hertfordshire
SG5 1EH

[ninja-lewis]

Chris Type R said:

Someone holding the purse strings really likes Netball in North Hertfordshire ! 7 out of 8 of the top spends totalling £22,749,072 out of £40,788,940 of all spending. Shenanigans ?

England Netball Netball (Whole Sport Plan)
£8,100,452 19/06/2006 North Hertfordshire
All England Netball Association Netball: Performance
£5,331,722 01/10/1999 North Hertfordshire
England Netball Netball (Whole Sport Plan)
£2,578,673 25/04/2005 North Hertfordshire
All England Netball Association Netball: Performance
£2,362,578 20/09/2001 North Hertfordshire
North Hertfordshire District Council Letchworth Garden City, Howard Park & Gardens
£1,969,500 18/09/2007 North Hertfordshire
All England Netball Association Netball: Performance
£1,660,752 09/03/2004 North Hertfordshire
All England Netball Association Netball: Potential
£1,518,543 03/01/2002 North Hertfordshire
England Netball Club & Coach funding 2007-10
£1,196,352 30/05/2007 North Hertfordshire

Edited by Chris Type R on Monday 1st August 18:44

England Netball (the equivalent of the FA) is based in Hitchin. The funds probably go to England Netball who then fund the national squad and distribute funds to local clubs across England.

[voyds9]

It surprised me how much went back to what I consider normal council spending.

£45,000 for seeds (Barnsley council)
£433,000 domestic violence
£200,000 Barnsley council sports partnership
£456,000 DIAL Barnsley (advice service for disabled)
£127,000 for social care for over 50's
£375,000 for at risk young families
£100,00 Barnsley cultural project (waste of money there is no culture in Barnsley)
£400,000 Barnsley sports partnership (again)

£2.7mil Wentworth heritage
£1.4mil Sculpture park

[Honk]

2 free trips valued @ c £2000 to the zoo for chavs.

[DonkeyApple]

ninja-lewis said:

England Netball (the equivalent of the FA) is based in Hitchin. The funds probably go to England Netball who then fund the national squad and distribute funds to local clubs across England.

Either that or England Netball is a bloke who's been on the piss up of his life since these cheques started arriving.

[Chris Type R]

ninja-lewis said:

England Netball (the equivalent of the FA) is based in Hitchin. The funds probably go to England Netball who then fund the national squad and distribute funds to local clubs across England.

Right, that makes sense....nothing to see here

[tank slapper]

I'm glad to see quite a lot of these type of awards:

site said:

A Second World War veteran from Essex has been awarded a grant towards travel costs for a commemorative visit to Holland in May of next year. Funding has been provided for one Second World War veteran.

There aren't many in my area that make me raise an eyebrow. The majority seem to be going to very worthwhile things.