St Joseph’s Parent Council is a group of parent and carers who strive to support the local school in delivering their values, vision and aims. We have supported local members of the community in various ways by accessing funds to support physical activity, decrease isolation and decreasing health inequalities in the community. 

With any funding received the parent council would like to provide equipment for any group who would like to access the school facilities out with school operating times. There is a system in place for groups to ‘let’ the school out, but this funding would ensure that groups had access to health promoting and sporting equipment. This equipment would be based in the school to remove the barrier of storage for community groups. The equipment would be accessible to the groups to use to promote health and wellbeing via physical activity and healthy eating.

This project would be advertised as an opportunity for families to access a safe space whilst being active and healthy. This would be of particular use in the winter months when access to appropriate activity space is limited. This project would start in the 2024/25 school year.   

Alexandria Community Council is seeking to use the Communit Grant to commission two community notice boards to be erected in areas with regular footfall in Alexandria town centre. These would be handcrafted in durable wood. They would be designed to be accessible to wheelchair users with duplicate notices at 1000-1100mm and 150-1700mm. They would be place in locations which provide adequate turning space for wheelchairs. The design features of the notice board would hopefully become small focal areas in the town centre.

We will be engaging with a local wood crafting group in the design and construction of the notice boards.  Once constructed we will be communicating with community groups and inviting them to use the boards to promote their activities and events. We will have a QR code link to the Alexandria town website and Community Council Minutes and Agendas. The boards will be available for use by any group excluding political groups. We feel that these will be accessible and benefit local people and visitors to the area. It will provide information, which is often only available online at present, and often not readily available to many residents. It is hoped that this will help link more people with the groups and activities which are available.  

The Claire Burns School of Dance Fundraising Committee is looking to purchase equipment to aid deliver classes to less physical able-bodied children to which we would love to welcome at the school. The Committee supports the dance school as a parent led organization. We raise funds to buy equipment to aid the dance school deliver the best teaching possible and give the kids the best opportunities, which in turn helps kids with their physical health and mental well-being.  

The school has offered scholarships to kids who would not be able to do dance classes, be it through affordability or disability. Claire believes in inclusion no matter their abilities be it mental or physical.  Having more specialized equipment will help use be able to deliver classes to the less abled.   

All kids have the chance to work towards B.A.T.D. exams no matter there abilities as they get older and we have one young person who has just done this and now holds her own dance class within the school.