£31,200 Heritage Lottery Fund grant secured It was fantastic to receive news last night that the Rudyard Lake Trust, one of our long-term clients had received confirmation from the Heritage Lottery Fund that their Heritage Emergency Fund Bid has been successful. How will this grant help? The trust operates Rudyard Lake one of Staffordshire’s most popular, iconic and historic locations. This funding will assist them to cope with the financial fallout from the COVID-19 lockdown which meant that they were closed for a large part of the lakes normal busy spring/summer season this year. Due to the income lost during the lockdown period, without theRead More →

Celebrity has a unique power, today I was privileged to collaborate with Nigel Howle PR supremo as he developed the fantastic article below. It starts by considering Marcus Rashfird’s recent success in changing government policy and goes on to focus on how celebrities can help not for profits and other good causes make a difference. You can find more about Nigels work here. Rashford scores for holiday hunger relief but what can charities learn from his success? The success of Marcus Rashford’s campaign to get free school meals is rightly gaining huge praise right now. With experience in the business of charity PR and theRead More →

COVID-19 Statement This statement describes how Heaward Sports Ltd. (trading as Heaward Solutions) is reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic. Meetings: For the foreseeable future, all meetings will be conducted via the telephone or online, ensuring all parties are protected from COVID-19 risks and reducing our impact on the environment. Where meetings cannot be held online for example where a site meeting is required that photographic or video content cannot replace, we will attend face to face meetings. In these situations, we will respect the 2-meter social distancing rules at all times. Both personal protective equipment and hand sanitiser will be used by all parties asRead More →

  C.A.R.E.s latest funding award Following a bid developed by Heaward Solutions, this month sees C.A.R.E. (Herefordshire) CIC commence work through its GV Fitness Centre to deliver of a series of exciting new projects which have been funded by Sport England’s small grants scheme. These projects will dramatically increase C.A.R.E.s impact on the local community and support a range of people to get more active and benefit from this.  The grant of £9,750 will let C.A.R.E. reach over 60 people from Herefordshire’s rural Golden Valley over the next 12 months through: Delivering a twice-weekly gentle exercise programme for older people and those living with conditionsRead More →

£10k from Sport England is good news for the Rudyard Lake Trust.  Over the past year, HeawardSports Ltd. has been supporting the fantastic Rudyard Lake Trust to deliver a range of funding bids. These aim to help the Trust secure and grow access to the lake for a range of paddlesport. The latest development in this exciting journey has seen the Trust awarded a grant of £10k from Sport England. This grant will fund a range of new projects at the lake, all designed to bring this popular Staffordshire beauty spot alive for paddlers of all kinds, including those new to the sport but whoRead More →

  New Community Project Funding for C.A.R.E. It’s always great to see a project go from strength to strength. In this case, I’m pleased to report that we have now received confirmation that yet another funder, Herefordshire Community Foundations IRON Fund has agreed to support the amazing work of C.A.R.E. Herefordshire CIC. The new £4,995 grant will help C.A.R.E expand their work by covering the cost of key new youth work staff and vital equipment needed to deliver much-needed youth provision for the Golden Valley. This will include a new weekly teen cafe and a kids club, both of which will run for at leastRead More →

Ladsandads receive funding for a new mower Recently the Newcastle Under Lyme Branch of Long term HeawardSports Ltd. clients, important Staffordshire youth football charity Staffordshire Ladsandads, received some good news from the Football Foundation small grants programme. A grant of £3,756 has been approved, half of the total £7,512 cost of a new mower. This small but significant award provides the Newcastle branch of Ladsandads, based at Pool Dam Playing Fields, vital funding for a new mower. Purchase of the new mower will help the branch continue with their successful campaign to enhance the quality of the facilities on-site by upgrading the quality of grassRead More →

New Funders for GV Fitness Centre This week has been really busy down in Herefordshire Golden Valley for our client C.A.R.E. (Herefordshire) CIC. On Saturday as the GV Fitness Centre celebrated it’s Grand Opening three significant new funders came on board to support this exciting venture. New funders:  The Social Investment Business (SIB) committed £30,000 to the gym through their ‘First Steps’ programme which is run in partnership with ASDA, Sport England (SE) offered a £9,750 grants towards key projects like the teen fit program, volunteer training, activity for older people and setting up new ladies running groups.  Co-op confirmed that C.A.R.E. had been selectedRead More →

Earlier today HeawardSports Ltd. long term client C.A.R.E. (Herefordshire) CIC, were informed that they had secured a £10k Power to Change grant under their innovative Bright Ideas Fund. We have been working with CARE now for several months and its great to see another stride made towards delivering what will be both an exciting and critically a sustainable project, Phase one award Following a successful bid prepared by HeawardSports Ltd. for C.A.R.E. earlier this year Power to Change accepted CARE into phase one of their Bright Ideas Programme. This first phase of their investment provided 10 days of valuable consultancy support from Power to ChangeRead More →

  RLT receives its second pledge of support The Garfield Weston Foundation is the second charitable funder to offer a £5k pledge towards the Rudyard Lake Trusts (RLT) canoe store and watersports project. Some months ago HeawardSports Ltd. helped the Rudyard Lake Trust prepare a series of funding bids to help support the cost of creating a new canoe store, workshop, launching improvements and the purchase of new canoeing equipment for use at this stunningly beautify Staffordshire lake. Two of these have now been successful and a final decision is awaited on several others. As with many charitable bids, these were complex and its takenRead More →

image_printPrint page