Category: Town Council News Post

police community fund donates £10,000 towards the installation of CCTV in Woodley town centre

Town Council supports project to install CCTV in Woodley Town Centre 

Progress to install CCTV in Woodley Town Centre continues with new fund donation

Woodley Town Centre Partnership has received a further £10,000 from the Police Community Fund, to add to the £5,000 they received in 2023. The money will go towards a CCTV system for the Town Centre. 

Wokingham Borough Council has also recently agreed to contribute £15,000, and Woodley Town Council has now adopted the project and is currently inviting tenders. 

Woodley Town Centre Partnership has already met with several bidders and is planning to work quickly to get an effective system installed.

Town Centre Manager, Brian Fennelly, said: “We are very grateful to have received this further contribution from the Police Community Fund. Wokingham Borough Council’s contribution is also very much appreciated, and it is very encouraging to have these two important stakeholders making an active contribution to Woodley Town Centre. Woodley Town Council has been fully supportive of the project all along and the Town Centre Partnership look forward to working with the Council at pace to get an effective CCTV system installed.”

CCTV Survey

The Town Council would like residents’ views on the potential installation of CCTV in the town centre. If you would like to feed into this, please take part in this short 1 minute survey.

We thank you for your time.

 

Town Centre Manager, Brian Fennelly, receiving a cheque from Matthew Barber, Police & Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley

Town Centre Manager, Brian Fennelly, receiving a cheque from Matthew Barber, Police & Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley

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winning cake of woodley schools bake off competition

Woodley Town Deputy Mayor judges Woodley Schools’ Bake-Off competition!

Four Woodley Primary Schools took to the kitchen recently for the annual Woodley Schools’ Bake-Off competition, held at The Bulmershe School

Budding bakers from Beechwood, Highwood, St Dominic Savio and Willow Bank Junior schools designed showstopping cakes at home and school, then came together to bake and decorate them from scratch.  The Year 5 children worked in pairs, supported by some fantastic Year 9 student Transition Leaders, and they showed great teamwork and perseverance, adapting to deal with any unforeseen issues. 

The children also undertook an icing task, set by Nicola Jolliffe from the Jolliffe Cake Company, where they created beautiful icing roses.  

Winners

Woodley Town Deputy Mayor, Cllr Juliet Anderson, Cllr Keith Baker and Nicola Jolliffe judged the competition and chose a pair from St Dominic Savio School as the overall winners with their wonderful creation, Pollination Sensation. However, they all agreed it was a very difficult decision as the standard of all the cakes was so high again this year.

School Challenge Days

The Bake-Off is one of four Challenge Days that Woodley’s local schools take part in throughout the year. They are designed to give children the opportunity to work with pupils from other schools on tasks that they do not get the chance to do in school.  

Woodley Town Council recently awarded a grant to the schools to cover the costs of the projects, for example, the ingredients for this recent Bake-Off, which enables the schools to take part.  

The Schools’ Cluster team look forward to being able to use this grant to provide more Challenge Days, so that children in all year groups can benefit.

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Woodley Town Council grants

Community and Youth Grants

Woodley Town Council awards Community and Youth Grants

At the recent Strategy & Resources Committee Meeting, on 23 January, the following grants were awarded by Woodley Town Council.

Community Grants

Friends of Woodford Park – £350 – To pay towards the cost of restocking shrubs and plants in the flower beds in Woodford Park. 

You can find out more about our partnership with the Friends of Woodford Park on our page about Woodford Park.

Youth Grants

  • Arc Youth Counselling – £5000 – To pay towards the cost of providing ARC’s youth counselling service in schools.
  • Promise Inclusion Limited – £2500 – To support the service, providing support for children and adults with learning disabilities and / or autism.
  • First Days’ Children’s Charity – £5100 – To pay towards the charity’s costs to provide Woodley Toy Library, a mobile outreach service, one to one coaching, and access to essential items for vulnerable families.
  • Home-Start Wokingham District – £5660 – To help fund the charity’s home visiting support service for vulnerable, disadvantaged and isolated families.
  • Parenting Special Children – £2500 – To pay towards the charity’s provision of specialist support services to vulnerable families of children and young people with special educational needs, disabilities, and early life trauma. 

Our Grants

During the current financial year, Woodley Town Council has allocated funds to make the following grants:

  • Community Grants – Up to £250, for community groups / organisations either based in or supporting residents of Woodley, to fund one-off costs such as specific projects or purchases.
  • Individual Grants – Up to £100, for individuals under the age of 21 living in Woodley, excelling in sporting or cultural activities, to fund representation at county, regional, national or international events.
  • Youth Grants – Up to £3,000 (although exceptions will be considered), for organisations, to assist and facilitate projects that reach, engage and support young people (those aged 21 and under) in Woodley.
  • Annual Grants – No cap, for fully constituted ‘not for profit’ organisations either based in or supporting residents of Woodley, to fund annual running costs or specific projects.

Should you wish to apply for a grant, then full guidelines and application forms can be found on our Grants Page.

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Grants to support Woodley residents awarded at the recent Strategy & Resources meeting

Grants to support Woodley residents awarded at the recent Strategy & Resources meeting

Several grants were approved at the recent Strategy & Resources meeting, held at the Oakwood Centre on Tuesday 21st November.

Community grants

Community grants are awarded to community groups or organisations either based in or supporting residents of Woodley, to fund one-off costs such as specific projects or purchases.

The following grants of £350 each were awarded to: 

Woodley Adopt a Street Project

To purchase additional litter picking equipment for volunteers. 

You can find out more about WASP on its Facebook page.

Woodley Schools Cluster

To fund material required for the running of four cluster projects. 

Woodley United FC

To pay towards qualifications, training courses and CPD for parent volunteers. 

You can find out more about the club on its website.

Woodley Volunteer Centre

To pay towards a new printer to allow the administration of DBS checks in-house. 

Please email [email protected] for more information about the support it provides.

Chemogiftbags

To pay towards the cost of items included in gift bags provided to individuals going through chemotherapy treatment following a diagnosis of breast cancer.

You can find out more about the charity on its website.

Youth Grants

Youth grants are awarded to organisations to assist and facilitate projects that reach, engage and support young people (those aged 21 and under) in Woodley.

The following grants were awarded to:

Berkshire Renegades 

£2,500 

To pay towards the continued use of Reading Sports Park for matches and Woodford Park Leisure Centre for training; providing rookie days, advertising and engaging with local schools, colleges, universities, clubs and community centre; to purchase new equipment; to provide transport to/from away matches.

You can find out more about the club on its website.

Me2 Club

£2,500 

To pay towards the running of the Teen W&RD project in 2024.

You can find out more about the charity on its website.

Full Council

Berkshire Renegades, WASP and Woodley United FC attended the Full Council meeting on Tuesday 5th December to speak to Members about their grant awards. Pictured here with Woodley Town Mayor, Cllr Janet Sartorel. 

Woodley Adopt a Street with Woodley Town Mayor - December 2023 - Town Council Grant Recipient
Woodley Adopt a Street (WaSP) - Community Grant Recipient December 2023
Berkshire Renegades with Woodley Town Mayor - December 2023 - Town Council Grant Recipient
Berkshire Renegades - Youth Grant Recipient December 2023
Woodley United Football Club with Woodley Town Mayor - December 2023 - Town Council Grant Recipients

Full Council

Chemogiftbags and Woodley Volunteers attended the Full Council meeting on Tuesday 6th February to speak to Members about their grant awards. Pictured here with Woodley Town Deputy Mayor, Cllr Juliet Anderson. 

Chemogiftbags with Woodley Town Mayor
Chemogiftbags with Woodley Town Mayor, Cllr Juliet Anderson
Woodley Volunteers with Woodley Town Mayor
Woodley Volunteers with Woodley Town Mayor, Cllr Juliet Anderson

Annual Grants

Applications for our Annual Grants are still open and close on 15th December

Annual grants are available for fully constituted ‘not for profit’ organisations either based in or supporting residents of Woodley, to fund annual running costs or specific projects. 

Find out more HERE.

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