Are you a looking to fund a community project within South West Wiltshire?

If you are a community enthusiast, community or voluntary group or town or parish council looking to fund a community project in the Mere, Tisbury or Wilton community areas during 2015/2016, then you may be eligible for a community area grant.

Wiltshire’s community area grants scheme provides up to £5,000 to help fund facilities, equipment and other projects that are important to the local community and create a lasting legacy.

Funding is also available to help communities wishing to start a new or maintain an existing basic computer skills activity.  For more guidance on what this could be and what you can apply for please click here.

You can now view grant applications online for ideas and inspiration. So, if you have a project in mind and you want to make it happen, why not register and make an application. Register and apply.

A full list of the parishes in South West Wiltshire is provided below:

Mere Community Area, which includes the parishes of East Knoyle, Kilmington, Mere, Sedgehill & Semley, Stourton with Gasper, West Knoyle and Zeals

Tisbury Community Area, which includes the parishes of Ansty, Berwick St John, Berwick St Leonard, Chicklade, Chilmark, Donhead St Andrew, Donhead St Mary, Fonthill Bishop, Fonthill Gifford, Fovant, Hindon, Sutton Mandeville, Swallowcliffe, Tisbury, Tollard Royal and West Tisbury

Wilton Community Area, which includes the parishes of Alvediston, Barford St Martin, Bishopstone, Bowerchalke, Broad Chalke, Burcombe Without, Compton Chamberlayne, Dinton, Ebbesbourne Wake, Netherhampton, Quidhampton, South Newton, Stratford Tony, Teffont and the town of Wilton.

South West Wiltshire Health Fair

We would like to draw your attention to the South West Wiltshire Health Fair event taking place on Wednesday 8th October 2014 at Nadder Hall, Tisbury from 3.30 – 7.30pm.

Alongside the Health Fair will be a series of presentations, including a look at how dementia awareness can be raised in South West Wiltshire at 5.30pm.  David Burton from Alzheimer’s Support will be the main speaker, providing an overview on where people can find support and information, so please come to this to find out more.

One way that you can make a real difference is to become a ‘Dementia Friend’, to understand a bit more about dementia and the little ways you can help; this is nationwide initiative supported by the Alzheimer’s Society and you can read more about it via this link:

https://www.dementiafriends.org.uk/

South West Wiltshire Area Board are initially facilitating three local sessions to enable you to sign up, one in each of our three community areas:

Mere – Wednesday 5 November 2014, Mere Library, 4.15 - 5.15pm.  Click here to sign up.
Tisbury – Thursday 16 October 2014, Tisbury Library, 1 - 2pm.  Click here to sign up.
Wilton – Wednesday 15 October 2014, Wilton Library, 1 - 2pm.  Click here to sign up.

As with the Health fair itself, please invite your friends, family, colleagues, neighbours and anybody else who you think might be interested in attending one of these sessions.  Places are limited but if the demand is there then more can be arranged.  Likewise, if you are not able to attend any of these dates/times but would like to arrange another session then please contact me and we can discuss this further.

If you have any questions please contact Stephen Harris using the details below:

Stephen Harris
Community Area Manager (South West Wiltshire)
Area Boards Team | Communities
Wiltshire Council | Bourne Hill | Salisbury
Wiltshire | SP1 3UZ
T. 01722 434211 | M. 07584 274 055.
E. Stephen.Harris@wiltshire.gov.uk