Frome Town Council’s Grants Committee met on Wednesday 7th February 2024 at Frome Town Hall, to hear from applicants for the latest round of funding.
A total of £35,000 was available, with a maximum grant per organisation of £3,000. If all applicants had received the full amount requested, the total sum would have been £57,560. All the applications were of a high standard and the committee would have liked to fund them all, but some difficult decisions needed to be made.
A range of project types received grants from the committee between £1,000 and £3,000, many of which aim to improve emotional wellbeing, such as the Frome branch of Journeyman Mentoring Network Ltd, who received the maximum grant of £3,000 to support mentoring for disadvantaged teenage boys. Focus Frome also received £3,000 for a drop-in wellbeing cafe for young people.
Other beneficiaries of this round included Shared Earth Learning, who received £1,995 for ‘Project Grow’ and adult wellbeing activities, and Somerset Bus Partnership/FAVBUG, who will use a grant of £1,995 to promote using buses over cars in the local area.
Cllr Anne Hills, who sits on the Grants Committee, said:
“These grants make such a difference to small organisations, who are, in turn, making a difference to others in our community. It’s fantastic to be able to help them grow and support their activities. There are always more good causes than there are funds, but we hope to be in a position to support the people who weren’t successful this time in the future.”
Any organisation awarded £2,000 or more for their project in this round will need to wait two years before applying to the fund again for the same project.
You can watch the grants meeting on FTC’s YouTube channel.
| Organisation | Project | Amount awarded |
| SHARE Frome | Threads Children’s Costume Hire Service – marketing and promotional campaign | £1,995 |
| Frome Medical Practice | Art in a Healing Enviroment | £1,000 |
| Frome Autism and ADHD Parent Forum | Parent Support Group | £3,000 |
| Byword Theatre | Launch of Frome Pub Theatre | £1,000 |
| Frome Festival | Support for freelance fundraising position | £1,995 |
| Frome Birth Talk | Baby loss support group | £3,000 |
| Journeyman Mentoring Network Ltd | Empowering disadvantaged teenage boys for a brighter future through our Frome Mentoring Group | £3,000 |
| Evolve Music | Dads Rock | £1,995 |
| Focus Frome | Young People’s Wellbeing Cafe | £3,000 |
| 1st and 7th Frome ‘Jubilee’ Scouts | Scout Hut renovation | £1,995 |
| Young People Frome | Multicultural Frome Festival | £1,995 |
| Openstorytellers | Wellbeing at Openstorytellers | £1,995 |
| Shared Earth Learning | SEL: Project Grow and adult wellbeing | £1,995 |
| Somerset Bus Partnership/Frome and Village Bus Users Group (FAVBUG) | Promoting bus patronage to achieve a modal shift from cars to buses | £1,995 |
| Frome Families for the Future | Reconnecting with Rodden Riverside | £3,000 |
| Super Roots Outdoor Kids CIC | The Mount Campfire Club – Nature Play Rangers | £1,995 |
