Purpose

The Cabinet will be asked to consider
recommendations from the Grant Working Party in respect of the
levels of funding (if any) to be awarded to applicants to the
Thriving Communities Fund for 2026 to 2027.

Decision

Resolved:
 
That:
A.          
The allocation of Thriving Communities funding for
2026 to 2027, be approved, namely:
 

1.          
Hundon Village Hall and Community Café, Hundon
£1,512

2.          
St Mary’s Church, Haverhill £6,000

3.          
Bardwell Village Hall, Bardwell £1,080

4.          
BME Suffolk Support Group (BSSG), Bury St Edmunds £4,000

5.          
Haverhill Mens Shed, Haverhill
£4,500

6.          
Hope after suicide loss, West Suffolk £4,005

7.          
Oblique Arts, Newmarket £2,760

8.          
Second Chance Stroke Survivors, Bury St Edmunds £2,480

9.          
Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal £4,000

10.       
Still Good Food, Bury St Edmunds £10,000

11.       
Alumah CIO, Brandon £15,000

12.       
Compassion, West Suffolk £6,060

13.       
Phoebe, West Suffolk £9,500

14.       
Restore Women's Aid, West Suffolk £8,150

15.       
Bridge Community Projects, Bury St Edmunds £15,000

16.       
CLASP Community Transport, Clare £15,000

17.       
REACH Community Projects, Haverhill £10,000

18.       
River Lark Catchment Partnership, West Suffolk £2,700

19.       
Art Branches CIC, West Suffolk £5,700

20.       
Breast Friends CIC, Bury St Edmunds £2,800
22.        
Bury Drop In, Bury St Edmunds £17,500
23.        
Epic Dad, West Suffolk £4,500
24.        
Families Together Suffolk, West Suffolk £5,000
25.        
Haverhill Health & Wellbeing Hub, Haverhill £15,000
26.        
Our Special Friends, West Suffolk £7,500
27.        
PACT Parents Together, West Suffolk £3,600
28.        
Rural Coffee Caravan, West Suffolk £5,000
29.        
St Nicholas Hospice, West Suffolk £16,890
30.        
Steel Bones CIC, West Suffolk £6,400
31.        
Suffolk Accident Rescue (SARS), West Suffolk £5,000
32.        
Suffolk Mind, West Suffolk £10,000
33.        
The Voluntary Network, Newmarket £15,600
34.        
West Suffolk Hive CIC, West Suffolk £6,446
35.        
Abbeycroft Teen Chill, Brandon £3,281
35.        
Lyward Colley Trust CIC, West Suffolk
£5,230
36.        
The Offshoot Foundation, Newmarket £5,500
37.        
Volunteer Matters, Bury St Edmunds £4,039
38.        
Newmarket Charitable Foundation, Newmarket £7,719
 
B.          
For the reasons set out in paragraph 3.3.2 of Report
number CAB/WS/26/008, no Thriving Communities funding for 2026 to
2027 be awarded to:
 
39.        
St John’s Church, Beck Row
40.        
Lakenheath Heritage Group, Lakenheath
41.        
Jiggens Memorial Hall, Ixworth
42.        
Brave Futures, West Suffolk
43.        
SOS Bus, Newmarket
44.        
Freedom Church, Gt Barton
45.        
Gatehouse Caring, Bury St Edmunds
46.        
Newmarket Open Door, Newmarket
47.        
Pakenham Pavillion, Pakenham
48.        
Market Place Arts, West Suffolk
49.        
National Horse Racing Museum, Newmarket
50.        
Abbeycroft NEET Stand Tall, West Suffolk
51.        
Inspire Suffolk, West Suffolk
52.        
Suffolk Family Carers, West
Suffolk
53.        
The Racing Centre, Newmarket