This week sees over £32,000 being given to local community groups and schools across the
Heathrow area. The grant scheme, funded by BAA Heathrow in conjunction with Groundwork Thames Valley, received over 120 applications this year from schools, community and voluntary groups.
A judging panel including representatives from local councils, Trinity Mirror Group newspapers, Groundwork Thames Valley and BAA Heathrow had the difficult job of helping to decide the allocation of grants this year.
Thirty-Eight groups across the Heathrow area have benefited from the 2006 BAA Environment
Awards. The exciting, local community projects work to address the "Local Agenda 21" Themes of green transport, health, environmental improvements, energy efficiency, recycling, nature conservation and green business.
Judy Claughton from Groundwork Thames Valley comments, "Congratulations to all the winners. 38 groups are supported in this years grant scheme to help make their community and environment projects a reality. We look forward to seeing your projects take shape over the coming year.
"Good luck to all the unsuccessful groups in their fundraising efforts. This year's scheme was over subscribed by 200% and sadly many great schemes had to be turned away because of the limited funding available."
Balwinder Dhaliwal at BAA comments; "We have been extremely impressed by the standard of entries to the BAA Heathrow Environment Awards 2006. It's fantastic that there are so many groups out there with exciting and innovative ideas to help make a difference to their local environment. BAA Heathrow is pleased to have an opportunity to help get these projects off the ground".
Philosophy behind the scheme:
The BAA Heathrow Environment Awards are based on the themes of Local Agenda 21 - an
environmental action plan for the 21st Century, which came about as a result of the Earth Conference in Rio 11 years ago and was enforced at the 10 year anniversary conference in Johannesburg August 2002. At the conference, the UK pledged to do its bit to preserve and enhance the environment through Local Agenda 21, which has seven key themes, transport, energy efficiency, recycling, nature conservation, improving community well-being, encouraging environmentally-sound business and preventing pollution.
For further information please contact:
Siobhain Connors at Groundwork Thames Valley on 01895 832 662 (press 0)
BAA Heathrow Environment Awards 2006 winning projects
HOUNSLOW
Snakey lane Alltoments Association - winner of the special innovation award - £2,500 awarded for recycling facilities at the Community Allotment and to build a compost toilet!
Contact: Margaret Moore-Saxton - 07791-136899
British Sikh Women Organisation in Heston has received £500 towards their project to start a farmers market in Hounslow, by growing their own produce at local allotments.
Contact: Satnam Kaur - 0208-577-3148
Hounslow Manor School in Hounslow has been awarded £1000 towards their plan to set up and run a commercial market garden that will create produce to cook and serve in the school kitchen for their training restaurant.
Contact: Jacqueline Parks - 0208-572-4461
Beavers Community Primary School in Hounslow has been given £500 to buy water butts amongst other goods to assist with their Water Education Project.
Contact: Patricia Bedell - 0208-570-9347
Chiswick Horticultural & Allotments Society in Chiswick has received £500 to create a recycling area for the benefit of the allotment gardeners and surrounding environment. Contact: Robert Alcock - 07946313029
The Friends of the William Hogarth School in Chiswick has benefited from an award of £800 to build raised vegetable beds to serve as an allotment area for the children and their parents.
Contact: Cassandra Barker - 0208-994-4782
Age Concern Hounslow in Hounslow has been awarded £1000 to look at encouraging their clients to take a healthy approach to their diet as well as fitness my introducing an organic gardening project.
Contact: Seema Bhogal - 0207-386-2657
Chiswick House Kitchen Garden Association has received £550 to purchase a variety of gardening equipment as specified in their application to help to continue the restoration of an area of land that eventually they intend to use for school groups.
Contact: Karen Liebreich - 0208-400-9648
SLOUGH
The Evergreen 2000 Trust has been awarded £500 to allow the Trust to continue with voluntary conservation in Cocksherd Wood and Bangles Spinney i.e. reinstatement of informal footpaths and coppicing projects.
Contact: Mr Collins - 01753-525390
Slough Furniture Project has been given £998 to start a pilot project of re-upholstering small items of furniture using reclaimed materials. Last year the group received funding for two volunteers to attend a college course for upholstery training.
Contact: Norma Palmer - 01753-692535
2nd Denham Scout Group cover South Bucks and they received £250 to renew two fence sides, clear rubbish and make and erect various bird and bat boxes.
Contact: Mrs Long - 01895-832505
Pippins School has been awarded £1000 to install twenty bike stands on the school premises. This is combined with a cycling proficiency initiative to encourage alternative methods of getting to and from school.
Contact: Mr Fry - 01753-682937
The Iver Village Junior School has been given £1000 to help phase two of their three-year initiative; ‘grounds 4 children, grounds 4 learning'.
Contact: Mr Collis - 01753-653059
Friends of Langley Park has been awarded £1000 to establish a network of walks and rides within the park which can be used for a variety of purposes.
Contact: Chris Ring - 07971-965447
Somali Environmental & Action Group has been given £500 to organise an event to celebrate the National Allotment week in August 06 and also the Somali National Day.
Contact: Mo Tarrah - 07737-089396
St Mary's Parish Church received £1000 to create an area with seating within the churchyard for all to enjoy.
Contact: Andrea Sparrow - 07958-320686
SPELTHORNE
Clarendon Primary School has been awarded £1000 to expand the composting area to include a purchase of a shredder and compost bins.
Contact: Peter Smyth - 01784-253379
7th Ashford Scout Group is based in Ashford and has been given £900 to help fund an organic garden by preparing the land with a new fence, planting fruit trees on it and using composters and water butts.
Contact: Paul New - 07789-610637
Fairways Day Service is a day service for people with learning difficulties and gives opportunities to service users to access community venue and has been awarded £1000 to continue planting on the two acre site at Laleham central nurseries. The members will be actively involved in the planting process to build confidence, self-esteem and gain experience.
Contact: Siobhan Gent - 01932-795025
EALING
Gunnersbury Triangle Local Nature Reserve has been awarded £987 to run a series of innovative weekend events throughout the summer at the reserve on public awareness etc. Contact: Kate Coss - 0207-803-4284
APPLE is an organisation that runs play clubs for children who live in the estates in Brentford and Acton. They are located in an art block in Action Park that they lease from London Borough of Ealing. They have been awarded £1000 to build raised flowerbeds to plant and grow fruit and vegetables that the children can cook and eat. Also they propose to put in repairs to the guttering to link up with rain barrels.
Contact: Joy Goddard - 07958-997561
Women's Radio Group (WRG) is a training and networking organisation, which uses community radio to help effect change especially among groups, particularly women. They have received £1000 to create and broadcast radio programmes in various languages to encourage the adoption of more environmentally friendly lifestyles.
HILLINGDON
Whitehall Infants School in Uxbridge has been awarded £1000 to develop a grassy area between two of their reception classrooms and the school boundary.
Contact: Caroline McLucas - 01895-234018
2nd West Drayton Scout Group in West Drayton has benefited by an award of £1000 to produce a meaningful and focussed improvement to an under used community garden in the scouts hut through engaging the community - especially the young children.
Soul2 is a local partnership based in West Drayton that is made of twelve churches. They have received £500 to remove graffiti, provide gardening for the housebound and clear rubbish.
Whitehall Junior School in Uxbridge has been given £137 exactly as they requested, to set up a compost area and install a water butt to re-use rainwater. This project will be set up within their environmental area.
Yiewsley Recreation Ground Management Advisory Group has been awarded £1000 to have a wild flower walk and a scented garden to improve and encourage nature and conservation of the local environment.
2nd/9th Ruislip Scout Group has benefited from £800 to create a fun environmentally aware space for young people using only reclaimed goods where possible.
Girlguiding - Middlesex North West - The Willow Tree Centre has been given £1000 to create an area where they can compost, mulch and keep spare top soil. This is going to be achieved by utilising a clay mould and will be a home to plant various suitable plants and bulbs.
Hillingdon National Childbirth Trust has been given £900 to help promote and run two events in Hillingdon to encourage the environmental message of recycling goods in the home, using all natural products and re-useable nappies. The events are aimed at mothers to help educate them in this area.
Bishop Winnington-Ingram CofE Primary School has been awarded £1000 to provide a secure area to store the children's bikes, which is part of their Healthy Schools project. They also wish to create a conservation area for the children to grow and tend to plants and flowers.
WINDSOR & MAIDENHEAD
Eton Wick CofE First School in Windsor has been awarded £1000 to develop their old swimming pool site into an easily managed and sustainable school garden. It will be used an outdoor teaching area once its is completed.
Contact: Ruth Darvill - 01753-860096
St Luke's CofE Primary School in Maidenhead has been given £1000 to develop an area of the school ground into a Woodland Area and a Growing Garden. They call this the WAGG project.
Victory Fields Fundraising Committee in Sunninghill, Berkshire was set up by a group of local people in the community to improve and update the facilities at a local park. They aim to provide a fun and safe environment with something to offer the whole family and have benefited from a grant of £1000 to purchase wildlife nature boards to capitlaise on the wildlife heritage status of the park.
Contact: Ruth Fettes - 01344-626533
Ellington Primary School & Nursery in Maidenhead has been awarded £1000 to help fund community wildlife garden and vegetable plot.
Contact: Verona Rusted - 01628-621741
RICHMOND
Friends Of River Crane Environment (FORCE) is based in Twickenham and develops and manages a number of council owned sites on the River Crane, which is part of the West London Green Chain, by developing a partnership between the local community, the council and other interested parties. They have benefited from £400 to develop educational facilities on site at the Mereway Nature Park.
Archdeacon Cambridge's School PTA in Twickenham has been awarded £250 to install a wormery for children to explore the lifecycle, habits and habitats of worms.
Bishop Perrin School Association in Twickenham has been given £1000 to turn the area at the front of the school into a science wildlife garden.
Contact: Nicola Furber - 07939-841699
About the Grant scheme, Groundwork and BAA Heathrow
The BAA Heathrow Environment Awards are based on the themes of Local Agenda 21, which has seven key themes, transport, energy efficiency, recycling, nature conservation, improving community well-being, encouraging environmentally-sound business and preventing pollution.
BAA Heathrow supports a range of local projects as part of its community relations' programme, which bring educational, environmental and economic benefits to local people.
Groundwork Thames Valley is an independent local charity, committed to social, economic and environmental regeneration.
We work in partnership with local people, local authorities and business to improve the lives of local people and the profitability of local businesses by enhancing the quality of the local environment. From small community schemes to major national and regional programmes Groundwork uses the environment to engage and motivate local people to improve their quality of life.
As part of the Groundwork federation of nearly 50 local Trusts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Trusts help to form the UK's leading environmental charity that makes sustainable development a reality in the UK's most deprived neighbourhoods.
For more information please contact: Siobhain Connors at Groundwork Thames Valley on 01895832662
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