Thirteen local community projects have been awarded small grants of up to £2,500 each to celebrate local culture and diversity, help improve health and wellbeing and for community celebrations.
The Pepper Pot Centre will be working with Westbank Gallery to celebrate the cultural and artistic contribution of the older generation in Ladbroke Grove.
British Lionhearts in the Community, a project to engage London communities in non-contact boxing activities spent the afternoon giving free lessons under the market canopy at Portobello Green.
Community grants from Westway Trust in 2015 have supported a wide range of successes for community groups in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. More than 30 grants of between £400 and £2,500 were made from the first round of the Trust’s programme which forms part of its aim to support arts, heritage and community activity in the local area.
Thorpe Close currently offers a route between the active high streets of Portobello Road and Ladbroke Grove, but is a route that currently doesn’t to encourage much footfall between them.
Groups of older people have been learning how being online could make their lives easier thanks to digital lessons being offered by Westway Trust.
The Be Online sessions at North Kensington Library and Brompton Library are part of thousands of events running across the UK that are helping people who’ve never been online before to see how life can be quicker, easier and better online.
A few months ago we told you that we were in the process of inviting non-for-profit organisations to bid to partner with us to run our sports and fitness facilities. That work has continued and it is clear that like us, several organisations see a significant opportunity for the centres to reach many more people in the area so that process is continuing positively.