We do not receive any government or statutory funding. We are a CIC (Community Interest Company), which means that we have to find funding or raise our own revenue, which is ploughed immediately back into the Company. We do this through tea rooms and plant nursery income, as well as constant funding applications.
We thank the following bodies/ organisations for having supported us so far:
We thank the following bodies/ organisations for having supported us so far:
.Money from the National Lottery has helped us equip the Pottery and fund our pottery tutors (2014-15). It has also provided a large amount of funding to set up and buy equipment for our woodworking project (2016-17). We secured funding for our kitchen activities, encouraging service users to become chefs and cooks. In 2019-20 we spent the funds on expanding our service user sports program and setting up a purpose built space for a gym. 2020-21 of course saw us use the funding to provide activity packs and weekly communication sessions with all of our lock-downed service users as well as improve sanitation in the light of the Covid-19 outbreak.
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Durham County Council's Community Chest funds our Volunteer Coordinator (2014-15) and our lovely quiet room was built with support by an NHS Adult Mental Health grant (2013-14).
Equipment, PPE, compost and promotional material for a practical horticulture project have been funded through the Community Health Revenue Fund (2016-17). In 2018 the CDCF in conjunction with the NHS Health improvement Fund allowed us to provide volunteer & staffing costs and some equipment to improve the health awareness of our service users. They also allowed our staff, volunteers and service users access to first aid, food hygiene, safeguarding and mental health awareness training. |
LionMouth's 'Fair Game' project has been funded by Sported, the UK’s leading Sport for Development charity empowering community groups to improve the lives of disadvantaged young people through sport.’ This grant funded equipment and training to provide regular indoor games activities for our service users and other community events (2016-17).
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The Shakespeare Temperance Trust Have generously donated us funding to build and kit out a new boot cabin for the service users. This means that they have their own private space to store all their gear and get changed (2015-16)
In 2017-2018 we were able to re-home our small flock of hens in a beautiful, wood free (which means no mites hence no chemicals) chicken palace due to more generous donations from the Shakespeare Temperance Trust Their donation in 2018-2019 allowed us to purchase a set of waterproofs for every client, along with some walking sticks, a couple of rucksacks and personalised maps, so that we can go out walking for longer periods. The following year monies donated went into to buying a wider range of amazing fruits that you may not ordinarily find in an orchard; slightly unusual or forgotten plants for our orchards. |
If you think that you or your business would be able to help with our funding, or donations of equipment please don't hesitate to get in touch with us here at LionMouth Rural Centre:
The Workshops, Broadgate, Esh Winning, Durham DH7 9QE
info@lionmouth.org.uk /
0191 373 4794 or 07814883048
The Workshops, Broadgate, Esh Winning, Durham DH7 9QE
info@lionmouth.org.uk /
0191 373 4794 or 07814883048