Discover how the Torbay Community Fund empowers local initiatives to foster a healthier, more vibrant community.
The Torbay Community Fund is for small community-led schemes that improve people’s health and wellbeing. The Community Fund can be used for example to purchase equipment or to promote a project that enables local communities to get more active, look after themselves better, or become more connected.
Priority will be given to those projects from the areas of the Bay with the greatest need.
Applications may be from £25 to £400. Previously this was £300 but we have increased the amount available.
Below you can see what we have funded over the past two years from the Community Fund. To apply for this fund for this year more information is available on the Torbay Community Development Trust website as they are managing this fund on our behalf.
| Name of Organisation | Purpose of Funding | £'s awarded |
|---|---|---|
| A Kind of Magic animal centre | Costs of starting up fortnightly Saturday club for people over 55. | £150 |
| Apollo Sports Club - Hele | Expansion of family fitness sessions. | £400 |
| Artizan Collective | to showcase artwork of young carers at Torbay hospital gallery. | £150 |
| Ascend CIC | Funding to purchase equipment, insurance, marketing, plus administration costs to extend services and support further into Watcombe, Barton and Hele. | £300 |
| Babbacombe Corinthian Sailing Club | Sailing clothing for those young members who cannot afford it. | £250 |
| Barton Baptist Church | Funding to improve facilities and expand services and support addressing wellbeing, mental health, loneliness etc. | £300 |
| Brixham Heritage Museum | Costs of digitalising tapes to share with whole community and other equipment. | £250 |
| Brixham Swimming Club | Costs of swimming equipment for children and young people. | £150 |
| Crafty Fox café n hub | Costs of volunteer expenses, publicity and first aid kit etc for walking group out of community hub in Foxhole. | £150 |
| Drum Torbay | Funding to offer drumming workshops to wider section of Torbay community. | £150 |
| Friends of Northview Gardens | Creation of platinum jubilee garden – costs for equipment and other resources. | £400 |
| Gulls Netball Club | Funding to support the setting up of a new over 25 's team. | £300 |
| Higher Chelston community team | Funding for tools and storage container so volunteers have safe area to store equipment to look after local area. | £190 |
| Idle Games Club | Funding to improve the library of games for young people in deprived areas of Paignton, plus publicity. | £300 |
| JATIS project CIC | Funding for camping equipment. | £300 |
| Ladies Lounge | Funding for new laptop for training volunteers. | £300 |
| Libraries Unlimited | To purchase books and e-books aimed at supporting people with autism and their families. | £300 |
| Margaret Waugh | Basket balls for use of exercise class participants aged 50+ at the Acorn Centre. | £240 |
| MS society south Devon | Funding to restart exercise classes with physiotherapist in Paignton. | £300 |
| Nourishing Families CIC | Targeted weaning workshops for new young mothers 16-24. | £300 |
| Paignton town centre and Preston Community Partnership | Contribution towards costs of swing in Preston children’s park. | £300 |
| Paignton Villa FC | Affordable safe sports provision for local community by subsidising fees for those on low incomes. Provision of additional equipment for increased participation. | £400 |
| Precinct centre, St. Marychurch | Costs of tools for use of gardening club for older generation to support physical and mental wellbeing. | £200 |
| Punk Against Poverty | Funding for hygiene packs for adults and children provided through food and clothes bank. | £300 |
| Ratchet Theatre Company | Comedy workshops addressing mental health and wellbeing. Costs for room rental. | £300 |
| Reclaim the Night Devon | costs of publicity and raising awareness of Torbay event to raise awareness of sexual violence and harassment experienced by women and girls on 2nd December. | £200 |
| Rising Moments | Craft materials, food ingredients, cracker fillers etc for Christmas gifts. Funding for providing cooking lessons for those who have suffered domestic abuse. | £300 |
| Riviera Life Homestore | PAT testing for electrical equipment donated to people living in poverty. | £300 |
| Rocket Park | Costs of family fun day for platinum jubilee. | £300 |
| Rowcroft beekeeping group | beehive maintenance costs, equipment, protective clothing etc for those looking to undertake garden activities but have no garden themselves. | £300 |
| Scadson Freeride | To build more trails accessible to children and beginner riders. | £250 |
| Shelley Castle | Contribution towards exhibition costs to celebrate achievements of local women. | £175 |
| SMART Torbay | Cost of venue hire and refreshments to help deliver mutual aid group to help support each other from addiction from alcohol and drugs. | £250 |
| St Mary’s Park friends’ group | Costs of COVID memorial raised planter | £250 |
| Taleblazers | Costs of venue hire, publicity and hospitality for participants of Chelston heritage project. | £300 |
| Tea and Talk | Funding for venue hire, printing and publicity for new group to support those with mental health needs. | £300 |
| The Devon Clinic CIC | CCTV camera to ensure safety of staff and vulnerable clients with mental health issues. Hot water heater to improve facilities. | £250 |
| Thrive CIC | Costs of running Sunday afternoon games club for those who are homeless for socially excluded. | £250 |
| Torbay long COVID support group | Costs of room hire at Foxhole Community Centre. | £400 |
| Torbay Retired Activity Club | Costs for new printer for newsletter. | £130 |
| Torbay Social Club for the blind and partially sighted | Funding for printing and minibus trips. | £150 |
| Torbay Triathlon Club | Cost of chains, shackles and concrete so people can safely store clothing etc and make open water swimming safe. | £250 |
| Torquay Athletic Rugby Club | Funding for kit for women and girls rugby/fitness sessions. | £300 |
| Unleashed Community Drama | Funds for publishing book of experiences of their members. | £150 |
| Visual Eyes | Training costs for volunteers for support group for those who visually impaired. | £295 |
| Waldon Athletic disability football team | Equipment for community football sessions, including mini soccer. | £300 |
| Watcombe primary school | Creation of community pond and garden. | £250 |
| We Need Music CIC | Development of a new after school music club. | £250 |
| Wellswood Community Partnership | Cost of repairing iron benches in their local area. | £250 |
| YES Brixham | Development of community garden by young volunteers in Brixham. | £250 |
| Young Adult Carers | Funding for training workshops and transport. | £250 |
| Youth Mental Health Foundation CIC | Set-up costs to provide Zoom assemblies for primary schools in Torbay to help build self-esteem. | £300 |
| Name of Organisation | Purpose of Funding | £'s awarded |
|---|---|---|
| 11th Torbay (Barton) Sea Scouts | Climbing wall has been refurbished and put back into use-need fire extinguishers to meet health and safety requirements. | £300 |
| Amelie Tilley | Costs of producing easy read recipes and online materials for learning disabled adults. | £300 |
| Apollo Sports Club | To adhere to social distancing measures by purchasing equipment which is easier to clean. | £300 |
| Apricot Centre Cic | Nature therapy for veterans suffering from ptsd, stress, anxiety and mental health and wellbeing issues at Lupton house. | £300 |
| Bay Bouncers | Equipment and resources to make activity Covid secure for participants. | £300 |
| Brixham Admiral Swim Company | Purchase of tablets for swim school to enable coaches to keep a digital record of achievement of young children aged 2-10. | £280 |
| Cary Park Tennis Club | Tennis coaching for adults with learning disabilities, costs of tennis equipment. | £300 |
| Centrepeace | Items to make community hub premises Covid secure. | £300 |
| Disabled Sailing Association | New main sail for one of their sailing boats-contribution towards costs. | £300 |
| Friends Of Clennon Lakes | Tools to maintain nature reserve and for planting, | £257 |
| Headway Devon | Purchase of art packs and other resources to use in day centre service | £225 |
| Healthscape Cic | Funding for mental health first aid course for board and volunteers. | £300 |
| Ladies Lounge | Programme and information for perpetrators of domestic violence in partnership with standing tall. | £300 |
| Libraries Unlimited | Purchase of critically acclaimed published e books and books about domestic abuse to help educate people on how to get help, how to cope and understanding the situation they are facing together with an understanding of who can help. | £300 |
| Lorraine George | Intergenerational activity packs for care home residents to reconnect with each other. | £300 |
| Punk Against Poverty | School uniform bank at charity shop for families in need, particularly shoes, trainers and winter coats for children. | £300 |
| Seven Hills Abc | First aid training for coaches. | £300 |
| Shiphay And Higher Chelston Community Partnership | Restoration of concrete and timber benches in Kitson park. | £300 |
| Stanley Beau Foundation | To provide sensory packs for children with life limiting illnesses. | £300 |
| The Devon Clinic Cic | Co-ordination and facilitation of peer lead support group for single parents who have completed Devon clinics single parent stress management programme, costs of producing webinar series. | £225 |
| The Veterans Farm Able Foundation | Delivery of land-based activities at Lupton house in partnership with the apricot centre costs of gardening tools. | £300 |
| Thrive Project | Purchase computer for beneficiaries to use for benefit claims, accommodation applications and job searches etc | £300 |
| Tissues And Issues | To raise profile of group and support available. | £300 |
| Torbay Table Tennis Academy | To make sessions Covid secure and ensure safety of members. | £300 |
| Torre Abbey Museum | Education project with prisoners and their families. | £300 |
| Yes! Brixham | Supporting young people to clean up the local environment; costs of equipment and materials needed. | £227 |
| Youth Genesis | Heads-up project-focusing on engaging young people in activities that benefit and improve mental health and emotional wellbeing as well as helping to tackle social isolation in lockdown. | £300 |