Burwell and Reach Community Fund

Fund criteria

Projects should:

• Strengthen the community and build resilience
• Provide or maintain community assets and/or
• Enhance the environment/surroundings for the benefit of those communities.

Although the maximum grant size is £2,000, requests for larger amounts can be considered on exception.

Recently Funded Projects

• Burwell Community Sports Centre received £2,000 to provide a wireless data network, three new laptop computers and a new network printer / scanner, plus two new customer payment units.
• Burwell Museum Trust received £1,000 towards consultant fees to cover the future Mill maintenance requirements.
• Burwell Community Print Centre was awarded £1, 338 towards running a varied and inclusive programme of creative workshops in partnership with external artists.
• Burwell Baptist Church Cooking Together @ Home was granted £2,000 to provide monthly food parcels to local families in need so that they are able to cook together and eat at home.
• Burwell and District Horticultural Society received £2,000 to to buy and install new water tanks on the allotments.
• Reach Cricket Club was awarded £2,900 to buy a verticutter to bring the pitch to a standard required for league cricket.
• Burwell Community Sports Centre was awarded £1,000 for phase 2 of their IT upgrade including software.
• Burwell Print Centre received £4,000 to enable the continued provision of training and work placements – changing the lives of adults with additional needs who want to work, want to learn a skill and gain education to contribute to their local community and beyond.
• Burwell & District Day Centre was awarded £4,800 to help fund the 2025 events and entertainment plan benefitting older local residents in the face of the loss of other local provision.