A project which supports people in need in Pudsey and beyond is requesting a £34,000 grant to make its building fully accessible for all.
Councillors on the outer west community committee will next Monday consider a number of funding applications, including a request for £34,000 from the Pudsey Community Project which supports the area’s most disadvantaged and vulnerable people through a food bank and other schemes.
Money will go towards the installation of a lift at their building in Fartown, which would allow the foodbank and Reduce Reuse Kids’ Clothes to move downstairs to create a dedicated clothes area.
The move will enable one upstairs room to be used as an office, another for storage and a third for small meetings. The move would allow the restart of Pudsey Community Cinema, increase youth work and provide extra capacity at their Seniors’ Lunch Club.
The project covers around 20,000 households in Pudsey, Calverley, Farsley, Swinnow, Tyersal, Rodley and Woodhall.
Calverley United Football Club is also seeking a grant of £3,500 towards replacement machinery to maintain the football pitch in Victoria Park.
Other applications include:
Swinnow Community Cafe – £3,750
Volunteers plan to run the cafe two days per week to begin with, creating a space where local people can come together and build relationships in a welcoming, inclusive space. The funds would be used to enable the café to run professionally
The Music Box Yorkshire CIC – £2,760
Staff will teach, guide and advise on how to play popular songs to the participants on an instrument of their choice such as guitar, bass, drums, vocals, keyboard or percussion for their adult band project. A second project will provide musical activities and entertainment for people over 55 living with dementia and their carers.
Pudsey Greenside Greenway – £2,112
To provide heritage information display boards at former Railway station sites of Greenside and Lowtown.
The Music Box Youth Music – £4,500
Funding will support two projects – delivering music workshops with young people at Swinnow Community Centre and build on the success of their youth choir at Pudsey House.
The Outer West Community Committee meets next Monday, 2 September 2024, at 1pm in Farnley Hall. It is made up of nine councillors from three wards: Calverley & Farsley, Farnley & Wortley and Pudsey and has five Labour, three Conservative and one independent councillor.
The full agenda and reports can be read here embers of the public can attend the meeting in person and can also watch via livestream on the council’s Youtube channel.
Read more of WLD‘s ongoing coverage of the committee here.
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