Redbridge Council pledges more than £6,000 to three local crowdfunding projects
Published: 9 December 2021
Three local community projects have been awarded funding from Redbridge Council as part of our Crowdfunding programme.
Now we ask you - our residents and local business owners, to turn dreams into reality for those who have come up with great ideas by helping to fund them.
Redbridge Council Deputy Leader and the Ambassador of the programme, Cllr Kam Rai, said:
“Our Community Crowdfunding programme has been a real success story this year, enabling local community-led projects to deliver projects making a positive difference to all in Redbridge.
“Having attended the launch of the Loxford Park Table Tennis project, I’ve seen first-hand the benefits our NCIL funding has in keeping our community active.
“The second round of projects demonstrate how our community has been inspired to further tackle our key challenges to improve wellbeing, climate change and food-growing to help young people make healthier food choices head-on.”
The three projects are:
- Walk it Out – walking and talking initiative to empower local women
- Greening South Woodford - improving local green spaces through new planting and furniture
- Grow a School Dinner for John Bramston - reinvigorating the schools’ food-growing garden and educating school children on making healthier food choices.
These projects are now all crowdfunding as part of the Redbridge Community Crowdfunding programme, which is run in partnership between the council and Spacehive.
The aim is to provide a springboard for project ideas to attract the funding they need more easily, whilst enabling everyone who cares about the area to contribute using the online portal Spacehive, the UK’s leading crowdfunding platform.
Projects have already begun drumming up support from their communities by getting financial pledges. Local people can also support projects just by volunteering their time.
Cllr Rai added: “We are committed to supporting projects that truly galvanise community spirit in the borough, a spirit which has seen us through an incredibly challenging 18 months.”
The aim is to empower and raise awareness for women, creating a safe environment where women feel acknowledged, heard and valued. They believe that supporting and guiding young females and women in overcoming their challenges, facing their fears, building their self-esteem and conquering themselves, will lead to better relationships and better decision making, allowing women to feel stronger and more in control. They will do this by walking and talking in parks in Redbridge borough installing positive mindsets, building confidence and resilience in young female women, making a positive impact in their lives.
The aim is to make South Woodford a better place to live, work and visit by improving the look, air quality, recreation opportunities and community cohesion of the area. There are three main locations we want to improve. An orchard has been established by local people and is now ready for the next stage of making it a community meeting area where residents can tend and benefit from its produce as well as sit and enjoy. The second is a plot of land which we would like to regenerate with flower beds, play opportunities for children and a meeting area for local people including a community herb garden created by local people for local people. Thirdly, we would like to support further a local gardening group with resources to enhance the amazing work they already carry on flowerbeds in the area.
Grow a School Dinner for John Bramstom Primary School
Aims to enhance children’s enthusiasm and real-life experiences of growing produce and incorporate it with the schools’ current chickens production of eggs that enables our community, which is suburban and has a majority of socially deprived families with limited access to basic provisions of a garden, to be able to experience first-hand where and how food comes from. We wish to build on encouraging our children to be healthy individuals across many aspects of their lives, including promoting healthy eating as a life necessity.
