Charity and Voluntary Sector

BIG: Projects to help keep ex-prisoners & offenders on the ‘straight and narrow’ have received £1.8m in National Lottery good cause funding from the Big Lottery Fund (BIG). The projects help communities suffering from crime by working with former offenders in Yorkshire, London, West Midlands and women leaving prisons across England to reduce re-offending.
Press release & links
 
WAG: Environment Minister, John Griffiths has visited the Llangattock Green Valleys project in the Brecon Beacons National Park to see the latest sustainable developments in this energy-efficient community. The project was set up in 2008 with the aim of establishing Llangattock as a carbon negative community by 2015.
 
In addition, the Minister learned how Llangattock Green Valleys is proceeding with 5 local micro-hydro schemes and is in talks with the local Glanusk Estate to develop an anaerobic digestion project fuelled largely by grass clippings harvested on the Estate.
Press release & links ~ Llangattock Green Valleys
 
CLG: A £10m cash boost to train thousands of new volunteer leaders for national youth groups (like the Scouts, Guiding & Police Cadets) will give young people valuable skills & opportunities. 

Over the next 2.5 years Youth will recruit & train up 2,700 new adult volunteers to run 400 new youth groups in communities across the country that will mean over 10,000 more young people will be able to join a pack or troop.
Press release & links ~ Youth United
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