Recent recipients
To December 2020, The Geoffrey Watling Charity has distributed £8,276,655 across a total of 1,554 grants.
Recipients of grants approved in the past 6 months include:
- 2nd Dereham (Toftwood) Scout Group Upgrade the Scouthaven WCs, showers and kitchen for community use
- 45th St Cuthbert's Scout Group
To replace the ride on mower & improvements to the site and toilet block
- ACCESS - supporting migrants in East Anglia Grant assistance during the Covid-19 pandemic to provide service delivery
- Asthma Relief
To provide needed Asthma nebulisers throughout Norfolk and Waveney
- Aylsham & District Care Trust To continue the essential Community Response service to those in need
- Billingford Parochial Church Council
Works to retile part of St Leonard church roof to combat dampness
- Connects & Co Core costs for a Young Carers Project Worker to support young carers
- Dersingham Parish Council The provision of a concrete skatepark in the Dersingham Recreation Ground
- Elsing PCC Urgent Church window repairs to buckled windows in danger of falling out
- Home-Start - Norfolk
Donation agreed by the Trustees in December 2020
- Matthew Project
Donation pledge for the Big Give Christmas Challenge - December 2020
- Museum of the Broads Trust Preserve the Museum's collections and create a new display area.
- Nancy Oldfield Trust To purchase a new Dad's Pedal Boat for small group social distancing
- National Centre for Writing
City of Literature for Young People Programme
- Norfolk & Norwich Festival Trust The Lost and Found Films of Norfolk project for disadvantaged young people
- Norfolk & Waveney Foodbanks
8 Seasonal donations agreed by Trustees in December 2020
- North Walsham Vikings Swimming Club
To facilitate the teaching of swimming and train for competitions
- Norwich Cathedral
Bursaries for Boy and Girl Choristers at Norwich Cathedral
- Norwich Open Christmas
Seasonal donation agreed by the Trustees in December 2020
- Rural Coffee Caravan Reaching out to 3 remote villages in the Waveney Area to reduce loneliness
- Salvation Army Norwich Citadel
Seasonal Donation agreed by the Trustees in December 2020
- Shouldham Community Orchard Group
To plant 40 native fruit trees and fence them in the community orchard
- Silver Road Community Centre
Seasonal donation agreed by the Trustees in December 2020
- St Elizabeth Hospice Suffolk Additional Clinical Nurse Specialist at Beccles Hospital
- St Lawrence Church Harpley
To restore the fabric of the church to expand its presence in the community
- St Margaret's Church Fleggburgh
External self composting toilet near the church with mains water connection
- St Martins
Seasonal donation agreed by the trustees in December 2020
- St Peter and St Pauls Church Brockdish Repairing the stained glass windows and the interior Chancel wall
- Suffolk Wildlife Trust To create Scrapes and Foot Drains at Carlton Marshes for wading birds
- Supporting Wounded Veterans Ltd Employment programme offering a bespoke service to 4 Norfolk Veterans.
- The Benjamin Foundation Two Watton Youth Groups to tackle loneliness and improve mental health
- The Country Trust
Food Discovery Programme for School Children in Norwich
- The Excelsior Trust Survival costs to keep the Excelsior ready to sail and to be experienced
- The Pear Tree Fund Funds towards the free self referral Counselling Services
- Volunteering Matters
Match and Mentor project transport costs, gardening and DIY tools
- Woodton All Saints PCC Urgent minor repairs to All Saints church Woodton
- YESU Project leader and youth worker salary costs for twelve weeks
- Acle Parochial Church Council To replace the thatch on the northside of St Edmunds Church, Acle
- All Saints Church Mendham To build an external toilet extension to All Saints church, Mendham
- Assist Trust Ongoing running costs for the Independence Support Scheme
- Attleborough Health, Care & Well-being Trust Research project to establish the Attleborough health and social care needs
- Barnham Broom and Upper Yare Benefice To make Runhall All Saints water-tight, tackle cracking and drainage issues
- Bungay Honeypot Centre Ltd To provide fittings and furnishings for the new community centre
- Cancer Campaign in Suffolk To deliver ten workshops on cancer awareness for an early diagnosis
- Childhood First - Institute Integrated Systemic Therapy Replace septic tank and resurfacing of the Merrywood House driveway
- Food Cycle To provide regular three course meals to Norwich people in need
- Forward Day Centre Ltd To create quiet rooms, a sensory area and an accessible toilet
- Norfolk Accident Rescue Service Grant due to Covid-19 to support operational costs for medical needs
- Norwich International Youth Project Sailing day on Coastal Exploration whelk boat to build young people's resilience
- Rollesby Village Hall Re-roofing and modernising the village hall to increase its versatility
- Saxlingham Nethergate Village Hall Re-ridging the unique and special village hall thatched roof
- SeaChange Trust - SeaChange Arts Capital works to the Drill House to build social enterprise activity
- St George's Church Gooderstone To replace lead sheets stolen from the Church roof
- St Mary's Church Tittleshall PCC Repairs to nave floor, pews and improving the church heating system
- St Michael & All Angels Ruin Trust Feasibility study to apply to funders to enhance this community facility
- Student Life Mental Health Ambassador training course for 12 young people
- Surrey Chapel To maintain the work of debt counselling and job club to relieve poverty
- Ted Ellis Trust To replace 170 metres of Boardwalk at Wheatfen Nature Reserve SSSI
- The Common Lot How's Your Father? creating a theatre show about men's lives as fathers
- The Norfolk Charitable Trust (& The Wheelyboat Trust) A V20 Wheelyboat to provide disabled people with access to the Norfolk sea
- The Norwich Diocesan Board of Finance Limited Filling the Gap - food hampers for 100 vulnerable families for 6 weeks
Open Classroom at Gunton CP, from recyclable materials, Lowestoft
The Geoffrey Watling Room, The Nook
Wereham New Village Hall, Wells
The Geoffrey Watling Room, The Garage, Norwich
NEST, Norfolk Sports Foundation , Norwich
Watling Water, Norfolk Wildlife Trust, Cley
Barton Bendish Village Hall, near Downham Market
Easton Gymnastic Club, Easton, Norwich
Geoffrey Watling engine, Bressingham, Diss
Norfolk Youth Orchestra in OPEN building
The Hawk & Owl Urban Peregrine Project Education Trailer
Teapoint, Little Ellingham Church, near Attleborough
Tapping House Hospice, Hillington, Kings Lynn
Whitlingham Boat House, Norwich
Millennium Building, YMCA, Norwich