Have you got a great idea that can benefit your community?

Have you got a great idea that can benefit your community?

£5,000 up for grabs!

Are you a small voluntary or community group, not-for-profit organisation or Tenants and Residents Association with an average income of £20,000 or less over the last three years?

Apply for a Grassroot Grant of up to £5,000 for a range of community projects - this could be an event on your estate, computers to help people learn IT or look for jobs or doing up your community hall or gardens.

Grassroots Grants is available until 2011, with four closing dates a year. The next closing date is Friday, 9 January 2009.

Find out more here: http://www.hcvs.org.uk/en/pages/funding-grants/grassroots.aspx

Butterfield Green's 'Babbling Brook' - Outline Design Proposals

Home to the fabulous duck race at the Butterfield Green Fair, the Green's river is usually running dry.

But Hackney Parks and the Butterfield Green users' group are plotting to open the floodgates and get the stream flowing again.


Click here to read the Hackney Learning Trust's Pathfinder Playspace improvements for Butterfield Green's 'Babbling Brook' feature. (PDF file)