Natasha Heaphy
Discover Twickenham BID Manager
The Active Richmond Fund
The Active Richmond Fund aims to support local organisations and individuals to provide an extended range of activities that enriches the Social Prescribing or Cultural offer, promoting an active lifestyle for borough residents. This fund is open to the voluntary and community sector, but also to small businesses like sole traders (e.g. fitness instructors).
The Fund exists to respond to both current and emerging needs, gaps and opportunities by offering social, cultural and physical activities (including sports, fitness, arts and social groups). We particularly encourage applications from organisations and individual providers who are working with adults who are less active, ‘hard to reach’, in Care or engaged with Social Prescribing. The Fund awards grants for activities which improve people’s physical and mental health and wellbeing.
Grant schemes
The Active Richmond fund offers two grant schemes to apply to:
- Micro Grants – up to £500
- Main Grants – up to £5,000
The main website link is: https://www.richmond.gov.uk/services/wellbeing_and_lifestyle/improving_wellbeing_through_exercise/active_richmond_fund
The Cultural Strategy For Richmond Consultation
Richmond Council are developing a new vision for culture for the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and we want to hear from you!
Now more than ever we recognise the value of arts, parks, sports and libraries in enriching and improving the lives of residents and visitors and the opportunities these services present in supporting us to manage some of the current and future challenges the borough faces.
Our aim is to develop a ten-year vision and set of priorities for arts, parks, sports and libraries (currently known as the ‘cultural services’) in Richmond and we would like your input in helping inform and guide this process. We are particularly interested in:
- Hearing what you think / understand ‘culture’ to be
- Current engagement with arts, parks, sports and library services in the borough
- Barriers which prevent people from using these services
- Successes and challenges for borough organisations
- Opportunities for cultural services to support current challenges, eg public health, climate emergency
- The role of the cultural services in place-making and the London Borough of Richmond’s identity
Your responses will help us understand what is important to residents, organisations and businesses over the coming decade so that we can identify how cultural services can support this and create an innovative and diverse cultural offer which aims to empower, enable and inspire all residents.
Have your say:
Please click on the Online Survey link below to give us your views.
If you require the questionnaire as a paper copy or in another format please contact consultation@richmond.gov.uk
https://haveyoursay.citizenspace.com/richmondecs/109e13a6
The survey closes on 23 February 2021.
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