Local charities get much-needed cash

Newbury Town Council has awarded £14,635 to 17 local charities to support them in their work for the community in Newbury.

The projects to benefit include:

• The Newbury Lockdown Wood promoted by Newbury Friends of the Earth
• The Eight Bells programme post Lockdown
• Making the restaurant at Fair Close Day Centre Covid-secure
• The ongoing youth work at the Nightingales Estate.

All of the projects are registered on The Good Exchange, where the Council’s contribution will be match funded. There is a full list of the grants at the bottom of this article.

The council still have £5,600 left to give out, some of which are available to any person or organisation working to help the local community through the Covid crisis. Any projects benefitting the residents of Newbury and which are registered on The Good exchange between now and the closing date in January will be considered for some of that £5,600.

You can use The Good Exchange to raise money for your local community project. Please follow the link below to The Good Exchange website:

The Good Exchange – Connecting Funders, Fundraisers & Donors.

The Good Exchange is one of the few online funding and fundraising platforms that is wholly-owned by a charity. Greenham Trust runs The Good Exchange to help funders in its local area to give and receive grants more quickly and efficiently and to also enable all charitable organisations from anywhere in the UK to run cost-effective crowdfunding appeals.

Here is the full list of grants given out this week by Newbury Town Council: