Youth club activities, village hall refurbishments, a cycle pump track and new play park equipment are among a wide range of projects benefitting from more than £46,000 of funding in the latest round of two community grant programmes.
Westmorland and Furness Council’s Locality Board for Eden met on 15 October for their public meeting, which took place at Voreda House in Penrith.
Locality Board members agreed an allocation of £25,337 to the Community Grant programme and £21,000 to the 0-19 Youth Grant programme.
The full list of successful applications:
Community Grants:
- Asby Village Hall energy efficiencies: £5,000
- Tebay Sports and Social Club new kitchen: £5,000
- Kirkby Stephen Table Tennis Club equipment: £2,587.69
- CADAS Mental Health Training: £5,000
- Long Marton Village Hall repairs: £5,000
- Eden Runners running path: £3,500
0-19 Youth Grants:
- Euphoric Circus U4X Project: £2,000
- Cumbria Youth Alliance Dreamscheme Project: £3,000
- Great Salkeld Parish Council new play equipment: £4,000
- Happy Healthy Together ‘Screen Savvy Kidz’ project: £4,000
- Blue Jam Youth Music and Gardening Project: £3,000
- Brough Parish Council pump track: £5,000
The Locality Board uses its budgets to enable projects which support its priorities and that they hope will make a difference locally:
- To ensure that Eden is a great area to grow up, where children are happy and healthy and have opportunities to reach their full potential
- To better connect our places by maintaining and developing our networks, infrastructure links and modes of travel
- To empower our communities to thrive by supporting a strength and asset-based approach to healthy lifestyles and wellbeing
- To consider the challenge of climate change and biodiversity in everything the board does
Councillor Lorna Baker, Chair of Westmorland and Furness Council’s Eden Locality Board, said: “Members of Eden Locality Board were pleased to see the community funds being used to support such a wide range of initiatives across Eden. This really demonstrates how versatile the fund can be.
“With three further funding panels scheduled for this financial year, we would like to encourage other groups across Eden to contact the Community Development Team and discuss any projects they are working on that may be eligible for funding.”
The remaining applications deadlines for 2025/26 Community Grants, and 0-19 Youth Grants are as follows:
Community Grants:
- Monday 27 October 2025
- Monday 15 December 2025
0-19 Youth Grants:
- Monday, 3 November 2025
- Monday, 18 December 2025
For more information and an application pack, please contact the Eden Community Development Team by emailing Eden.AreaSupport@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk.