The Community and Culture Project Fund is the project and event fund for arts, museums, heritage, community, physical activity and play activities.
View the grants for:
- Community projects awarded a grant round 1
- Community projects awarded a grant round 2
- Community projects awarded a grant round 3
- Community projects awarded a grant round 4
- Community projects awarded a grant round 5
- Cultural projects awarded a grant round 1
- Cultural projects awarded a grant round 2
- Cultural projects awarded a grant round 3
- Cultural projects awarded a grant round 4
Community grants
Round 5 of community projects awarded a grant
| Organisation | Project | Grant | Area of benefit |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Jolly Good Company | Jolly Dance & Yoga sessions | £2,000 | East Dorset |
| Purbeck Gateway Club | Improving social activities & event | £1,600 | East Dorset; Purbeck and Weymouth |
| Countryman UK | Creative Countryman Project | £3,600 | North and West Dorset |
| Blandford Foodbank | Nourish Community Larder Project | £2,500 | East Dorset |
|
Weymouth Foodbank |
Support for foodbank food costs | £5,000 | Weymouth and Portland |
| Castleman Community Larder | Support for Cost of living | £1,500 |
East Dorset |
| Prout Bridge Project |
Mental Health Drop in Café |
£3,088 | West Dorset |
| Dorchester Disabled Club | Discover and Connect Project | £1,600 | West Dorset |
|
Home Bridport |
Food Security for All Project | £5,000 | West Dorset |
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Storehouse (Fathers Church) |
Open Fridge & Community Café Project | £1,500 | North Dorset |
| People Need Nature |
Green Social Prescribing Project to improve Wellbeing |
£1,000 | West Dorset |
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Dorchester Transport Action Group |
Streets Alive Project | £3,000 | West Dorset |
|
South -West Multi-cultural Network |
Support for One World Event | £3,000 | West Dorset |
| Waterside Weymouth Community Forum | Christmas for the Park District Project | £4,000 | Weymouth and Portland |
| Dorset Climate Action Network | Support for Climate Event | £1,500 |
West Dorset |
| Ripple Workshop | Beaminster Young Parents Project |
£1,500 |
West Dorset |
|
Ferndown Community Support CIC |
Healthy Eating Project offering healthy eating courses to Foodbank users |
£3,000 | East Dorset |
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David Ellis Foundation |
Veterans' Health and Resilience Heroes Project | £2,632 | Weymouth |
Round 4 of community projects awarded a grant
| Organisation | Project | Grant | Area of benefit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fontmell Magna | Fontmell Community Support | £2,400 | North Dorset |
| Gillingham Community Church | Warm Spaces Project | £2,000 | North Dorset |
| Parish St Nicholas & St Huberts | Warm Spaces Project | £5,000 | East Dorset |
| Prama Life | Warm & Safe Spaces Project | £4,000 | East Dorset |
| Shaftesbury and District Carers Association | Warm Spaces Project | £4,000 | North Dorset |
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St. Leonards and St Ives Parish Council |
Warm Spaces Project | £2,000 | East Dorset |
| St. Pauls Mission Church and school Rooms | Warm Spaces Project | £3,500 | Weymouth and Portland |
| The Bus Shelter Dorset | Cost of Living Project | £3,800 | Weymouth |
| The Friendly Food Club | Access 2 Cook Project | £5,000 | Council - wide |
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Stonehouse Church Dorchester |
Community Warm Space | £1,500 | West Dorset |
|
Weymouth Foodbank |
Fresh Food Project | £4,000 | Weymouth |
|
Wimborne Foodbank |
Funding For Extra Food Costs | £1,500 | East Dorset |
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In Jolly Good Company |
Continuation of Community Lunches | £1,500 | East Dorset |
| Sixpenny Handley & Pentridge Parish Council | Warm Spaces Project | £1,200 | North Dorset |
| St Mary The Virgin Church | Warm Spaces Project | £1,000 | West Dorset |
| Corfe Community Kitchen |
Soup and Pudding Lunch Club |
£1,000 | Purbeck |
| The Lantern Trust | Cost of Living Relief Fund | £3,200 | Weymouth |
| Cary Hut Charitable Trust | Coffee Mornings | £1,120 | Purbeck |
| Mosaic | Supporting Bereaved Children Project | £4,050 | Council - wide |
|
Refresh (Churches Against Poverty) |
CAP Life Skills Project | £2,800 | Weymouth and Portland |
| Bridport Town Council | Cost of Living Crisis Support | £4,700 | West Dorset |
| Waverley Community Hub | Support of Low-Income Families | £1,500 | Weymouth |
| The Nest Westham | Support of people on low incomes | £1,000 | Weymouth and Portland |
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Winfrith Newburgh |
Warm Places Project | £1,000 | West Dorset |
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Stourpaine Village Hall |
Community Warm Hub | £800 | North Dorset |
| Prime Time Kids Club | Cost of Living Support for Childcare Places | £1,000 | Purbeck |
Round 3 of community projects awarded a grant (Aug 2022)
| Organisation | Project | Grant | Area of benefit |
|---|---|---|---|
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Dorchester Community Plays Association |
‘Spinning the Moon’ Community Theatre project. | £1,000 | West Dorset |
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Purbeck Gateway Club |
Fun events and activities for adults with learning difficulties |
£1,500 | Wareham & Purbeck |
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People First Dorset |
Toolbox project to build resilience and independence during difficult times |
£4,857 | All Dorset |
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The Nest Weymouth |
Expansion of Nest Café for the benefit of Westham community | £4,800 | Weymouth & Portland |
|
Acts Fast |
‘Brighter Future’ project to provide therapeutic and emotional support to parents and carers of children that have been abused | £5,000 | All Dorset |
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Win on Waste |
Medicines Blister Pack project to improve recycling of waste and reduce landfill. | £2,000 | East Dorset |
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Ferndown Community Support CIC |
Community Food project to provide easy and nutritional meals and cookery classes | £5,000 | East Dorset |
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Dorchester Disabled Club |
‘Discovery and Connect’ project offering creative and practical pursuits for people with a wide range of disabilities | £1,400 | West Dorset |
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Bridport Town Council |
‘Energy Champions’ Roadshow to promote warmer and more energy efficient homes. | £1,600 | West Dorset |
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Wimborne District Community Association |
Improvement of Community kitchen to help improve training opportunities at the centre | £5,000 | East Dorset |
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Pathways To Care |
Support Café to help people with the cost-of-living crisis and fuel deprivation |
£3,350 | West Dorset |
Round 2 of community projects awarded a grant
| Organisation | Project | Grant | % of project costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Association of Dorset Watches | 40th Anniversary and networking event | £4,000 | 82% |
| Corfe Mullen Allotment Association | Improvements to allotments, new starter plots, and disabled access | £2,382 | 70% |
| Allington Hill and Coopers Wood Field Community Group | Outdoor activities for all event | £2,500 | 80% |
| St Johns CE Primary school PTA | All at sea wellness event | £3,000 | 46% |
| Bridport Community Shed | Running costs to continue and expand project | £4,950 | 64% |
| South West Dorset Multicultural Network | Support to run inclusion events and improve understanding between cultures | £2,850 | 58% |
| Youth Resource Service (The Rendezvous Sherborne) | Young Parents project in Sherborne | £4,770 | 79% |
| The Borough Harmony Centre | Physical activity programmes for improving wellbeing and mental health | £3,000 | 80% |
| In Jolly Good Company | Dementia friendly activity sessions in east Dorset area | £5,000 | 67% |
| Friendly Food club | Waste Not Want Not food programme for people on low incomes | £4,300 | 81% |
| Blandford Foodbank | Support of Community Grocery project | £5,000 | 17% |
| Friends of Stour Connect | Lunch club service for older residents experiencing isolation and loneliness | £5,000 | 42% |
| Dorchester Youth & Community Centre | Healthy eating project for young people | £3,000 | 16% |
| The Blackmore Vale Charity (Pantry) | Funding to support food insecurity for families | £5,000 | 4.5% |
| The Nest Weymouth | Support to set up a new community shop (social supermarket) in Littlemoor | £5,000 | 16% |
Round 1 of community projects awarded a grant
| Organisation | Project | Grant | % of project costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chesil Sail Ability | Life jackets for sailor’s and their carers | £1,000 | 100% |
| Cycling Without Age | New trishaw for Bridport and West Bay | £5,000 | 100% |
| Dorchester Family Support | Summer food programme to provide food parcels to vulnerable children and families | £1,500 | 100% |
| Dorset Parent Carer Council | Teenager to adult online event for young people aged 9 to 25 | £5,000 | 41% |
| In Jolly Good Company | Funding of staff member and admin costs to reopen after C-19 | £4,000 | 100% |
| Island Community Action | Community Shed project | £2,160 | 100% |
| MYTIME Young Carers | Memory Making Retreat for young people / carers | £5,000 | 100% |
| Stour Provost Village Hall | Installation of super-fast broadband, Wi-Fi, and new audio system for visually impaired / hard of hearing | £2,524 | 100% |
| The Nest Weymouth | Setting up of new café, volunteer training, rent and C-19 measures | £5,000 | 100% |
| The Vale Pantry | Support with setting up pantry. | £1,500 | 30% |
Cultural grants
Round 4 of cultural projects awarded a grant
| Activate Performing Arts | Inside Out Festival Event Wild Woodbury - Bere Regis Sept 2023 | £4,700.00 | Purbeck |
| Artsreach | High quality creative activities for children in rural Dorset during summer holidays | £3,000.00 | County wide |
| Bank of Dreams and Nightmares | Newspaper project free creative writing after school club | £1,750.00 | West |
| Blandford Fashion Museum | Reminiscence Boxes and visits into Dorset based care homes | £1,500.00 | North |
| Bridport Youth & Community Centre Trust | 2-day free Drawing Festival for families and adult | £1,800.00 | West |
| B- side | Provide a creative hub for local people addressing loneliness on Portland | £3,870.00 | Weymouth and Portland |
| Active8 Dorchester Town Council | Anonymous Youth Festival- a family music event run by young | £1,300.00 | West |
| Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society | Meeting Elisabeth Frink - a community engagement project at Dorset Museum | £2,500.00 | West |
| Dorset Community Action | A pilot project in rural villages offering creative activities and energy advice. (withdrawn) | £2,500.00 | West/North |
| Emerald Ant CIC | Glow Badbury Project - an artistic celebration at Badbury Rings hill fort | £4,000.00 | East |
| Landance CIC | LIGHT - a contemporary dance project and workshops in Swanage | £3,600.00 | Purbeck |
| Lyme Regis Boat Building Academy | Taster days for students introducing boat building skills and industry | £1,000.00 | West |
| Lyme Regis Development Trust | Lyme Regis Fossil Festival 2023 (withdrawn) | £2,500.00 | West |
| Nothe Fort | Co-designing with young people to create a programme of events | £3,500.00 | Weymouth and Portland |
| Opera Circus | 3 days of Bridport youth events for UK's International Day of Democracy | £2,500.00 | West |
| Shaftesbury Abbey & Museum Preservation Trust Company Ltd | Creating Shaftesbury Abbey's Digital Museum | £4,500.00 | North |
| Shaftesbury Town Council | Introduce a Park Run and Aquafit sessions at the Shaftesbury Lido | £4,300.00 | North |
| Sturminster Newton Literary Festival | Marketing and Live streaming facilities for talks and events | £1,000.00 | North |
| Westham Community Group | free weekly Park yoga and dance aerobics at Marsh Recreation Ground | £1,600.00 | Weymouth and Portland |
| Weymouth Skate Park | Free Skateboard sessions to families facing financial difficulties. | £3,000.00 | Weymouth and Portland |
Round 3 of cultural projects awarded a grant
| Organisation | Project | Grant | Area of benefit |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Keep Military Museum | To provide military history outreach boxes for loan to community groups and schools. | £2,400 | West – Dorchester and surrounds |
| Dorchester Arts | To research and develop the creation of a new community music project for summer 24 – Hussein and the Boy King celebrating the discovery of Tutankhamun. | £3,250 | West – Dorchester and surrounds |
| Teatro Vivo | To put on 6 community workshops and an immersive theatre performance with a difference! Fronted by punk Band the Maze to be held in a retail space in Weymouth. | £2,500 | Weymouth |
| Activate – REMIX | Activities for adults who are disabled aged 18 – 25 to help them develop artistic skills and social opportunities. | £1,500 |
West & East Dorchester & Wimborne |
| Bridport Arts Centre | To provide a 10-week accessible walking and creative writing wellbeing project and final showcase of an anthology by participants. | £1,500 | West - Bridport |
| Bridport Youth Dance | To create a new outdoor site-specific dance performance on Eggardon Hill and film. | £2,500 | West -Bridport |
| Cape Farewell | Science and arts project to raise awareness of river ecologies delivering at Dorchester Science Week and Cerne Giant Festival. | £3,000 | West – Dorchester and Cerne |
| Dorset Rural Music School | A local folk history and music project delivered in local schools including special needs schools and a community folk music walk. | £3,500 | North - Blandford |
| Dorset Youth Dance | Professional artist working with young people (co-producers) to deliver a series of creative workshops leading to a celebration event in June. | £1,500 | West - Dorchester |
| Guggleton Farm Arts |
Purchase a new kiln to help expand and deliver community workshops including one free ceramic lesson for every primary school aged child in Stalbridge schools and hire out the kiln to local potters and schools. |
£4,500 | North - Stalbridge |
| Houseworks | To deliver 36 flexible 'pop-up' 2 hours sessions of art experiences over one year in community settings in Dorset in four localities, for people experiencing isolation. | £3,000 | Countywide |
| Marine Theatre | To provide training and skills development in technical and event management to a diverse and disadvantaged youth community in an area of rural deprivation. | £2,500 | West – Lyme Regis |
| Weymouth Skate Park Association | For a Dorset based artist and signwriter to lead a graffiti project teaching young people how to graffiti in a safe and responsible way. Will include young people with special educational needs. | £2,000 | Weymouth |
| Angel Exit Theatre | Workshops and a new free immersive show and installation: ‘The Fairy Tale Forest’, at Thorngrove Garden Centre Gillingham in Dec 22. Will involve disabled participants, students and volunteers. | £4,500 | North - Gillingham |
| Cattistock Community Fund | To install outdoor gym equipment in their community area to provide an amenity for teenagers and possibly older people as well. | £3,500 | West - Cattistock |
| Bridport and West Sports Trust Ltd | To offer free general swimming (inc. Fun Sessions) to all children aged 0-15 visiting Bridport Leisure Centre at weekends and during the school holidays for a period of 12 months from Sep 22 | £4,000 | West - Bridport |
| Streetlight | To support children who have been affected by lockdowns and financial pressures by opening the centre for more people to access by lowering the hourly cost. | £1,500 | East - Wimborne |
| EPIC Games Dorset | Support to develop and deliver EPIC Snipers a fun and immersive physical experience that caters to those who would never normally access sport through conventional means. Sessions for all ages in Portland. | £2,800 | Portland |
| Wessex FC | To help this new football club to purchase equipment, kits and coach qualifications. | £1,000 | Weymouth |
| Lyme Regis Gig Club | To assist with a pilot project to offer Boot Camp experiences based in the Jubilee Pavilion on Lyme sea front for young people (12-16yrs), a six hour programme including 30 minute introduction and warm up. | £1,500 | West –Dorchester |
| Andrew Simpson Sailing Academy | To fund 38 young people through the Discover Sailing programme at their Portland Centre. Discover Sailing sessions will enable young people, from all walks of life to access sailing. | £2,000 | Portland |
| Radio Wimborne | The project will deliver advice, support, mentoring and experience for 12 young people (age 14+) and/or disadvantaged people that may have an interest in working in the radio/marketing sector. | £2,000 | East - Wimborne |
| Symene Football Club | To enable the club which provides for 17-18 year olds to purchase football equipment and kit for training and matchdays, mandatory training costs (safeguarding and welfare) and first aid equipment. | £1,000 | West - Bridport |
Round 2 of cultural projects awarded a grant
| Organisation | Project | Grant | % of project costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artsreach | Delivery of 24 children’s creative workshops in rural villages across Dorset | £3,500 | 38.46% |
| Arts Development Company | The Raise the Roof project to organise an artist-led training programme to train community members in creative and practical skills | £4,000 | 80% |
| Broadwindsor Group | A creative project to bring together the community of Drimpton to welcome new residents of the CLT's development of 15 affordable homes for rent | £1,600 | 80% |
| B-Sharp | Mentoring and supporting 15 young musicians over 12 monthly sessions with musicians and other industry professionals | £4,010 | 51.68% |
| Bank of Dreams and Nightmares | Creative writing in two after school workshops to create 16 poetry pieces by disadvantaged children in the Bridport area each to be narrated and filmed for the 'From Page to Screen' film festival in Bridport | £2,000 | 72.73% |
| Bittersweet Harmony | To deliver a series of community-led singing workshops and community choir summer concerts, purchase new speakers and mics | £4,000 | 80% |
| Co Create CIC (Community Interest Companies) | Consultation with deaf people in Dorset with artists to co-create creative options to bring their artwork to a wider audience. Addressing mental health and loneliness | £4,934 | 63.35% |
| Dorchester Arts | Elevate pilot/case study for dance for those with MS and their carers | £3,713 | 33.73% |
| Emerald Ant | 4-day creative residency at Yewstock Special School and day tour of the Iggy Experience to Beaucroft Special School in 2022 | £4,150 | 14.54% |
| Gillingham Youth Club | 2-week drama and performance project in the summer, accessible for young people in Gillingham and surrounds | £2,875 | 80% |
| Home in Bridport | Choral and film project to create a composition around the Bridport Citizen Charter with community groups | £3,000 | 8.74% |
| Lyme Regis Development Trust | To produce two animated films to capture the place and the community of Lyme Regis | £5,000 | 78.02% |
| Outland Opera | Co-production with local communities to produce site-specific operas in 2022 | £1,500 | 1.21% |
| Purbeck Arts Week Festival | Public street theatre/dance performances with Autin Dance Theatre and 4 days of workshops to 60 disadvantaged and 60 mainstream young people | £4,100 | 71.30% |
| Portland | To stage a mini-tour of the family friendly show ‘The Pippos’ | £4,512 | 80% |
| Streetlight Project | To set up a new group of Team Riders (skateboarding) for young people aged 6-18 | £1,200 | 20% |
| Shire Hall Historic Court House Museum | A partner event with the British Museum bringing the Lampedusa Cross to Dorset. Commission a textile artist to work with Dorset communities to create a permanent wall hanging reflecting the themes of the exhibition with a series of World Kitchen, food, music, and art events to reflect the distinct cultures | £5,000 | 35.71% |
| Weymouth Hockey Pitch | To expand usage and improve user experiences at the facility. Install two team shelters, and to purchase pitch dividers and new football goals | £5,000 | 58.96% |
| Weymouth Cougars | Replacing old and unserviceable equipment. The purchase of materials essential for keeping the surface areas playable | £2,000 | 20.62% |