Wath Breakfast Club
This breakfast club, with three adults employed from the community, will be accessible to all 200 pupils at the school. It service food to children who arrived early at school, before lessons begin. Recent studies of breakfast clubs show that they support health and nutrition, improve children's education, meet children's social needs and support parents and family life.      

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St Mary's film Club
This initiative is a community-cinema type operation based in the church hall serving the local Stainforth Town community and aimed particularly at children, young people and families. The town is a rural former mining community 7 miles north east of Doncaster, suffering severe multiple social deprivation. It is hoped that the community cinema will provide a creative, engaging, social activity to raise the morale of children and young people who suffer severe disadvantage in accessing leisure activities. Church and Cinema Website

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Burngreave Ashram
This is a new three year project set up as a Christian presence and ministry in one of Sheffield's most deprived inner-city areas. There is enormous need in the area, with the violence, drugs, prostitution, unemployment, lone-parent families - all at the highest levels. In addition, there are many different races and cultures in the area, and 22 different faith communities. The project is organised by the Ashram Community Trust, a small national charity who have spent £110,000 in the last three years on purchasing and renovating the property. Other churches and missions are also involved in the project.

£500 was given to help fund the startup costs and the employment of a coordinator.

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Little Angels Baby Group
There are several toddler groups in the district, but no groups which specifically cater for new parents with young babies. This project provides a supportive environment for parents to discuss their needs - without fear that their young ones will be trampled on by a toddler!

The £500 grant was used to purchase a baby changing unit for the Church Hall, and three gym mats to provide a padded area where babies can play safely on the Church Hall floor.

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St John Deepcar Bereavement Support
This project aims to provide support and care for families following bereavement. The project involves all the local churches in the valley through the leadership in the fraternal. This area is geographically isolated and it is felt there is a need for bereavement support throughout the whole community. It is hoped to reach as many people as possible amongst the 15,000 population.

The £500 grant was given towards initial setup costs of decoration and providing books, literature and training.

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Skills for the Community
This project was born out of a longing for the church building to be used by the wider community, following the redevelopment of the building in 2000. By April 2001, we had begun to train 15 volunteer learning mentors, and 12 members of a community appraisal team. The Basic Skills Agency gave us our initial years funding, allowing us to employ a Project Administrator and Youth Outreach Worker, both on a .5 post basis.

The primary aim of the project is to develop and to provide a neighbourhood resource to promote the importance of Basic Skills, and to support local people to achieve them. We are particularly committed to working with young people who are intellectually disadvantaged. We have been vetted and accepted by the Attendance and Inclusion Team of The Sheffield Local Education Authority.

Hackenthorpe is relatively isolated. The community has many of the qualities and perceptions normally associated with a village community - residents do not easily move from the locality and do not readily see that mainstream provision for the city is accessible to, or intended, for them. The area has significant difficulties of substance abuse.

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