PROJECTS

C.A.N.E COMMUNITY CHEST - Small grants for the community

The C.A.N.E. community chest is an opportunity for people and organisations in New Eltham to benefit from a small grant to help with a community project. C.A.N.E. is offering grants of up to £200 for projects and activities that help to meet local needs and benefit the community. C.A.N.E. sees this grant as a way to benefit people in New Eltham who are running a project, or setting up a new project for and on behalf of the local community.

We envisage the grant not taking up the whole cost of running the project or activity. C.A.N.E. wants to encourage the setting up of new activities as well as supporting existing ones. It hopes to encourage groups that are active within the following sectors:-

Youth, self help, support for the elderly, community arts, disability, equal opportunity, parent teacher associations plus using the IT equipment.

All applications for a community chest grant must be made on an application form available from the community rooms in New Eltham Library. All applications will be considered by the C.A.N.E. community chest sub committee who meet approximately every six weeks. The application will be aknowledged and the applicant notified of the date when it will be considered.The named applicant will be notified of the outcome in writing.

C.A.N.E. wishes to promote youth involvement in New Eltham. Applications must be signed by a person over the age of 18.This will not necessarily mean that an activity run by young people will be excluded from consideration.

In 2009 we gave £200 to "Small Group Tutorials" to put towards a new photocopier for their educational group. £150 to the "Inferno Rangers", a new guiding group for older members of the organisation, and £100 to "The Friends of Fairy Hill Park" to buy a hot water urn and a laminator.

In 2010 we gave £200 to The Chinese Wushu Culture Foundation to help with the refurbishment of their premises in Sandling Rise, New Eltham. They are opening a martial arts academy for the local people.

This year we have given £200 to a new Girl Guide group who have started meeting in The Methodist Centre in Footscray Road, and £150 for a PA system for the bingo club in Roberts Close, open to residents and non residents.

To enquire about the above project you can call the community centre co-ordinator (Sue Killick) on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday between 9:30am and 2:00pm on 020 8850 7122, or E-mail us on cane.sue@hotmail.co.uk.

C.A.N.E. Helping Hands:

In January 2008 C.A.N.E. launched its "Helping Hands" project. The committee met to discuss how the Community Association of New Eltham could help the local people both young and old. It was agreed that a pre set sum of money from the Community Associations funds would be set aside to be used for certain projects agreed by the committee at the beginning of each year.

In December 08 and January 09 C.A.N.E. refubished the kitchen in its rooms. As the cost of this was over £7000, the committee decided not to actively pursue to Helping Hand fund in this financial year.

In December 2009 C.A.N.E. gave £300 to Montbelle School to help with their allotment project.