What will it support? The money will be spent on small-scale community projects that are not funded by other sources and that provide opportunities the Community Champion would otherwise have difficulty accessing.
Previous grant winners include Chris Whitely, a former Rugby League professional whose work as a PE instructor in Lancaster Farms Young Offender Institution has seen him create a programme of personal development challenges to help offenders reconsider their behaviour. Thanks to a grant, he has been able to buy a computer, software, printer and other materials that will enable him to produce course materials for vulnerable and at-risk young people in the North West. In addition, young people can secure funding. For example, St John's Ambulance volunteer Chris Ashley, 17, from Stockport, received funding to support his work in spreading awareness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques and also to fund a campaign for more automated external defibrillators (used for heart attack victims) to be made available in key locations around his home town.
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