Communities
Between 1st April 2015 and 31st March 2016:
Some projects we chose to support through our community fund with a share of the annual £100,000 budget were:
Some projects we chose to support through our community fund with a share of the annual £100,000 budget were:
- Wycombe Sound - £10,000 to purchase a playout system and licences for a year
- FOCUS (Families of Children United Support) - £8,000 to fund salaries to enable staff to support vulnerable families with training and practical help
- Toddlers play equipment at Piddington recreation ground - £3,000
- Micklefield Community cafe - £10,000 to fit out the new cafe
- Buckinghamshire Mind adult counselling - £5,000 for 1-1 counselling sessions
- Active in Go Tri - £5,000 to encourage young people into triathlon events across the district
- Business Start Up Course giving 25 local residents the opportunity to attend a 12 week workshop to learn how to set up their own business
Over 100 staff and volunteers got out into the community to give something back on our annual community day. We supported organisations such as South Bucks Hospice, Lady Ryder Memorial garden, the Princes Centre, Castlefield Children’s Centre and Booker Hill School with a whole range of activities such as gardening, painting, and working with children and vulnerable people
We ran a Chef’s Club to teach 11 members of the local community how to cook for Christmas on a budget and enable them to gain qualifications in food hygiene
We ran a Christmas food parcel programme that saw 68 families provided with free food from a charity food distributor during the festive season to help people who were struggling financially to put food on the table and to teach those people about shopping online to save money
35 customers benefited from a range of training to increase their skills in aspects such as sitting on interview panels, procurement, face painting, making presentations, and using Excel
We ran a Chef’s Club to teach 11 members of the local community how to cook for Christmas on a budget and enable them to gain qualifications in food hygiene
We ran a Christmas food parcel programme that saw 68 families provided with free food from a charity food distributor during the festive season to help people who were struggling financially to put food on the table and to teach those people about shopping online to save money
35 customers benefited from a range of training to increase their skills in aspects such as sitting on interview panels, procurement, face painting, making presentations, and using Excel
Our tenants make the decisions about what we spend our neighbourhood and environmental improvement budget on, so that the money is spent in the right places and really does improve the quality of life for local people
Approximately 340 people have benefitted from improvements, which include things like:
Approximately 340 people have benefitted from improvements, which include things like:
- Improved parking at Coppice Farm Road and Larch Close
- A new communal back door at Oak Crescent
- A shed and new external tap at Kennet Close
- Better lighting at George Lee Court and New Road in Booker
- A new play area at the Gayhurst Road flats
Janet Roake (Tenant Volunteer)
“Red Kite genuinely wants to support people in the local community. That’s why they hold an annual community morning every April and all of their staff and volunteers get out and about supporting local organisations.
As a tenant volunteer with Red Kite, I was part of the team visiting the Princes Centre in Princes Risborough that supports vulnerable people on April 27th this year. All of us participated in the activities taking place, including games and arts and crafts and were greeted with enthusiasm by the clients taking part.
It was one of the most heart warming mornings I have experienced in a long time. This was a place full of love, acceptance and empathy which was given in abundance”.
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