GRANTS

The Barnes Charitable Trust

The prime objective of the Trust is to maintain the woodlands, orchards and walled garden of Ashmeadow for the safe enjoyment of the public. When the Trust has surplus funds it will use these to make small grants within the village. Grant awards will normally be in the range of £300 to £1,000.  Preference will be given to projects which benefit the environment/education/recreation.

Arnside Grants 2024

Maintaining the Ashmeadow woodlands involves regular work by our contractors as well as the felling of diseased and storm-damaged trees and recurrent repairs to paths and boundary walls. 

 The Trust has had to deal with the cost of repairing the wall of the Walled Garden that was badly damaged in Storm Arwen in November 2021 along with clearance of the many trees that were damaged. We have also recently refurbished the Ashmeadow Lodge in order to keep it habitable for local residents.

 As the cost of this work has exceeded our income in 2023, we regret that we are unable to award any grants in 2024.

Past Grants

Projects which have received grants in the past included Arnside Guides, Minds in Tune, Arnside Football Club, Arnside Sailing Club, Arnside National School and Arnside Art Group. The grant given to the Art Group helped towards the cost of four 'Art for All' workshops run in Arnside to encourage people to take up art. That for the guides helped with the costs of the Jigsaw Camp and also paid to repair one of the tents.

Photos

LHS : Some of the work produced at the end of one of the "Art for All" workshops. RHS: Guides at the Jigsaw Camp in July.

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