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Fairshare Trust â€“ Waveney

The Fairshare Trust (FST) is a Big Lottery Fund initiative to ensure that deprived areas receive their 'Fair share' of lottery money. The programme is running until March 2013. The broad aims of Fairshare are to

Build capacity and sustainability
Build Social capital
Improve the local environment

Fairshare Trust Waveney will invest Â£850,000 over the next 6 years into the North Lowestoft community. The area covers the 4 wards of Harbour, Normanston, Oulton Broad and St Margaret's.

A local panel has been operating in the area for the last 3 years and has set the Local priorities for the area. To view the latest priorities document for the area please click here.

Currently the panel has awarded grants to 7 organisations to run projects which meet the needs of the area. These projects include;

Waveney Community Forum

WCF were successful in applying to the Fair Share Trust to employ a full time community development worker for the 4 wards covered by the Fair Share Trust Waveney. The role involves holding funding surgeries, developing groups in the area, provide information to the community and the local panel, represent FST on local partnerships etc.

This project helps to meet the FST priority 1, of appointing a dedicated community development officer.

The Yard

The Yard were awarded Â£89,299 for the delivery of Pride in Our Road project which is about enhancing the built environment of 3 Fair Share Wards, (St Margarets, Normanston, and Harbour) over 3 years. The work will involve â€œdoing upâ€ the fronts of houses through various tasks including planting, repairing walls and laying paving. This project will also involving developing community groups to take ownership of the project beyond the life of the FST funding. The groups will be able to use the support of the Yards base where growing tunnels are being developed.

This project helps to meet part of the FST Priority 2, local priority of FST/AP23, improving the local environment and liveability.

Lowestoft Volunteer Bureau

Lvbx were successful in being awarded a 1 year grant to pay for a project to develop the volunteer base in the FST area. This involves employing a volunteer coordinator who will recruit and train the volunteers in the FST area, especially linking in with the work of the Yard and those volunteers developed through the WCF CDO.

This project helps to meet part of the FST Priority 2, local priority of FST/AP14, increase and develop the volunteer involvement.

DIAL

DIAL have been successful in applying for a volunteer coordinator to work with the volunteer advisors at the centre, who offer advice to all people with disabilities and their carers over various issues including benefit advice. This post is match funded for 2 years with the department of health funding which is already secured.

This project helps to meet part of the FST Priority 2, local priority of FST/AP14, increase and develop the volunteer involvement.

Suffolk Constabulary

Suffolk Constabulary applied to the Fair Share Trust in Waveney to employ a Police Community Support Officer to be dedicated to the wards of Normanston, St Margarets and Oulton Broad. This officer will work in partnership with 2 other PCSOâ€™s employed by Lowestoft Together, and are additional to the statutory number of PCSOâ€™s funded by the Home Office in the area. The PCSO will be based within the Northern Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT)

The FST specific PCSO will be employed to provide visible, reassuring foot patrols, dealing with low level crime, anti social behaviour, environmental problems, road safety and other community issues. They will liaise with community groups and other agencies and assist the public by directing them to local services and support networks.

Signpost Gunton

Signpost Gunton in Partnership with Roman Hill applied to the Fair Share Trust Waveney to undertake the DreamworX Project. The project is a street based youth project working with 8 â€“ 13 year olds throughout the Fair Share area. The DreamworX project is targeted at young people who do not normally use traditional youth clubs or other existing provision because of age or other factors.

They intend to employ a full time project co-ordinator to work along side 2 part time youth workers who will concentrate their efforts on engagement with young people on the streets as well as around schools and other daytime projects, within weekend activities, by referral.

Once engaged, the young people will be signposted to, and supported into, activities and volunteering opportunities developed by the project and by partners. The young people will be encouraged to â€œDreamâ€ about their future and take positive steps towards achieving their goals.

If you are interested in more information about the Fair Share Trust in Waveney or about any of the grants made to date, please contact the business support team on 01473 242500 or email businesssupport@suffolkacre.org.uk