Projects Supported in 2008 - 2009
Recipients of Sustainable Development Fund Grants
| Ref No | Project | Applicant | Description | Grant | |
| BA.101 | Care Farming in The Broads: Phase 1 - Fact-Finding Visits | East Anglia Food Link | Phase 1 of a proposed Care Farming project in the southern Broads. A 12-strong party of farmers, and health and social care providers will visit eight care farms in Holland and two specialist care providers in Norfok. | £2,791 | |
| BA.103 | New Victory Hall, Neatishead: Ground Source Heat Pump | Victory Hall | Installation of a ground source heat pump rather than a conventional oil-fired boiler in a new, low carbon, eco-friendly village hall complex, which will be used by three neighbouring Broads communities. | £19,000 | |
| BA.106 | Business Start-Up Grant for New Reed-Cutters | Paul Eldridge and Rowan Nichols | Business start-up grant for two young reed-cutter graduates of the HLF Broads Bursary Scheme. The SDF grant will part-fund an initial outfit of equipment that will allow the two partners to work year-round. | £2,136 | |
| BA.111 | Happing Bag for Life | Stalham with Happing Partnership | A youth project-inspired scheme to produce and sell 2,200 re-usable hessian shopping bags branded to the local area. Bags will be sold at farmers’ markets and tourism outlets and the money raised will be used to fund the purchase of more bags in due course. | £1,000 | |
| BA.113 | A Day in the Broads | VisitNorwich | Minority funding of 175,000 folded A3 leaflets describing what to see and do in The Broads. The SDF contribution funded editorial content promoting sustainable tourism in The Broads. | £750 | |
| BA.114 | Sustainable Grounds Development for Broads Secondary Schools - Pilot Project | Landscaping for Biodiversity/The Hewett School | A pilot programme that will promote sustainability in Broads secondary schools via an understanding of biodiversity and its management. The project will address a recognised deficiency in the integration of outdoor learning in this sector and will build on the lessons learnt during ‘Broad Futures’. | £7,840 | |
| BA.115 | Carbon Audit for the Broads - Scoping Study | Broads Authority | An initial data gathering and assessment exercise that will explore and establish the scope of the full scale carbon foot-printing exercise that will follow in Phase 2. The work will be carried out by CRed at UEA. | £5,825 | |
| BA.116 | Broads Sustainable Lifestyle Road Show | Low Carbon Britain | Majority funding of a series of family orientated exhibitions with seminars in at least five Broads communities. Topics to be covered included carbon reduction, resource management and energy efficiency. Regrettably the project had to be curtailed after only two events because of poor attendances. | £16,495 | |
| BA.117 | Whitlingham Outdoor Education Centre Canoes | Norfolk County Council Children’s Services | Purchase of a fleet of up to 20 open canoes that will be used by Whitlingham Outdoor Education Centre to promote canoeing to young people in particular. Personal and skills development, social inclusion, improved physical and mental well-being and the environment will all be addressed. | £7,265 | |
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BA.118 |
YMCA Training at Whitlingham |
YMCA Training |
A programme for socially disadvantaged young people from Norwich who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) and who will spend one day a week at Whitlingham Country Park working on conservation projects and carrying out team building, confidence building and motivational exercises. |
£10,605
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| BA.119 | Energy Tools for Secondary Schools | Norfolk County Council Children’s Services | Minority funding of an EU project that will develop highly innovative computer interfaces that will allow young people to understand ‘real time’ energy usage within their schools, compare it with other partner schools in Norfolk, Suffolk and Stavanger and evaluate their carbon management strategies. | £7,603 | |
| BA.120 | Climate Change Challenge: Visit to the Centre for Alternative Technology | Eastern Region Gifted & Talented Partnership | Part funding of a visit to the Centre for Alternative Technology by 20 Gifted and Talented children from Norfolk and Suffolk who are engaged in a Climate Change Challenge project. Nine of the 20 children are from Broads schools and four of these are Looked After Children. |
£2,500
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| BA.121 | Establishment of the Three Rivers Way Association | The Three Rivers Way Association | Establishment and promotion of a community group that is campaigning for the development of a safe route for walkers, cyclists and other non-motor vehicle users between Hoveton, Horning, Ludham and Potter Heigham. The bulk of the grant will be used to fund awareness raising materials and events. | £1,000 | |
| BA.122 | Suffolk Energy Busters | Suffolk County Council/National Trust | A five school pilot project that will build on the good practice and experience gained during BA.59 Broader Energy Choices to develop an energy programme for Broads primary schools in Suffolk. | £7,754 | |
| BA.123 | Flegg High School Biomass Project | Flegg High School | Part-funding of a new 550kW biomass boiler that will reduce the school’s energy consumption by 197,000 kWh and CO2 emissions by 177 tonnes p.a., be used as a teaching resource and help raise Martham’s awareness of sustainability issues and renewables. | £30,000 | |
| BA.124 | Ellingham Wind Turbine Enhancement Project | Ellingham VC Primary School | Installation of a wireless weather station, which will initially be used to monitor wind speed and help assess the true potential of the school’s wind turbine. | £700 | |
| BA.125 | Carbon Neutral Workshops | Nutmeg Puppet Company | A series of 15 all-day workshops in Broads primary and middle schools that will encourage innovative thinking about ways of living with a reduced dependence on carbon-based technologies. | £6,081 | |
| BA.126 | Upton Marshes Restoration - Wind Pumps | Norfolk Wildlife Trust | Part funding of two wind pumps, which will be used to manage water levels - and therefore habitat - at the Upton Broad and Marshes Nature Reserve. | £5,602 | |
| BA.127 | Country Trust Broads Initiative | The Country Trust | An initiative that will introduce 450 children from deprived areas of Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to The Broads landscape, its management and wildlife. | £5,000 | |
| BA.128 | Broads Businesses Environmental Support Scheme | Norfolk County Council | A pilot project that will focus on sustainable waste management in the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads area. The pilot will provide 1,000 tourism businesses with advice on a range of environmental issues and will include a detailed review of 50 businesses and the development of a Broads Waste Recycling Plan. | £16,250 | |
| BA.130 | Sustainable Rowing Project- Phase 2 | Beccles Rowing Club | Majority funding of Amateur Rowing Association training for three new coaches. This will allow BRC to maximise the use of its boats- in particular those used by young members and funded by BA. 109. | £999 | |
| BA.131 | Towards a more sustainable Bungay | Sustainable Bungay | Part funding of the public consultation phases of a project that will allow Bungay to benchmark its carbon footprint; raise public awareness; join the Transition Town network; and develop a Town Plan. | £4,646 | |
| BA. 132 | YMCA Entry to Employment- Forest Schools | YMCA Training | A one year extension of YMCA Training's sucessful Forest School-based course (BA.108), which caters for socially disadvantaged 16 - 19 year olds from Norwich who are not in education, employment or training (NEET). Up to 160 young people will benefit. | £9,550 | |
| BA.133 | HSBC Youth Initiative | Hickling Broad Sailing Club | A project that will introduce young people without their own boats to competitive dinghy racing. The SDF funding will provide three race specification dinghies, which will be used exclusively by junior club members. | £9,445 | |
| BA.134 | Carbon Audit for the Broads | Broads Authority | A full carbon audit of the greater Broads (the area SDF funds within and which the Broads Authority considers to be within its 'sphere of influence'). The project will also include a separate, self-funded, audit of the Broads Authority's own operations. | £30,000 | |
| BA.135 | Whitlingham Wayfarers | Whitlingham OEC/ Norfolk County Council Children's Services | Co-funding of the purchase of three high specification Wayfarer dinghies, which will be used to introduce 500+ youngsters a year from Norfolk and Norfolk schools to advanced dinghy sailing. | £9,775 | |
| BA.136 | Wilder Qualifications | Avocet House School in partnership with Norfolk County Council Children's Services. | Majority funding of a collaborative project that will allow Avocet House School and Norfolk Children's Services to develop a framework that will allow disadvantaged young people who are at risk of exclusion to gain nationally recognised qualifications. | £10,875 | |
| BA. 137 | Beccles to Reedham Ferry Cycle Route | Beccles Cycling Strategy in partnership with Norfolk County Council | Minority funding of a project that will upgrade an existing un-signed cycle route between Beccles and Reedham Ferry. The work will be carried out to National Cycle Network Standards and the upgraded route will become part of National Route 31. | £5000 | |
| BA.138 | S.A.P.Lings School Allotment Project | Chapel Break Infant School | A two year project that will introduce the 310 children at the school and the local community to sustainable and organic food production, healthy eating; recycling; biodiversity; and the ecology of the local environment. | £8,610 | |
| BA.139 | Care Farming at Clinks Farm - Business Plan | East Anglia Food Link | Development of a business plan that will help EAFL and partners to bid for the tenancy of one of Norfolk's Country farms. If successful a new social enterprise will be created that will operate Clinks Farm as a Care Farm producing food for local consumption. | £1,000 | |
