Women’s Holiday Centre
This Centre exists: "to provide holiday accommodation for women and children, especially those of moderate or limited means." A variety of women benefit from the low cost accommodation including: single mothers, victims of domestic violence, those with mental health problems etc.
The Centre needs to wash a large amount of sheets and duvets and a new washing machine was required to cope with the load, and avoid trips into Settle to use the launderette. A Beamsley Trust grant of £600 bought an industrial style washing machine.
"Enjoyed my stay here and walking in the Dales. The Centre has been a major part of my healing process. Thank you."
Airton Trust Property Management Committee
Work in progress at the barn
The 17th Century Quaker meeting house in Malhamdale has been restored and made disabled accessible. Since re-opening in 2008 it has been used for local group meetings, arts and crafts exhibitions, concerts etc and as a polling station. To extend this use an adjacent 18th Century barn is being refurbished to include kitchen, toilet and function rooms with disabled access, to be available for local users on a non-profit basis. The use of the Barn as a community centre will help to reduce rural isolation and provide a place where visitors with special needs can be welcomed and accommodated. A Craven Trust grant of £1,000 contributed to this project.
"The Barn was an excellent facility and certainly suited our purposes."
Killington & District Sustainable Energy Trust
The Craven Trust awarded £750 to complete a design study, without which a project to use an existing dam on the River Lune to generate electricity could not go ahead.
On completion the turbine will feed electricity into the grid and the income generated will be used to further the organisation's aims of implementing carbon reduction measures and producing energy from renewable sources.
""We are passionate about the health of the environment and committed to taking all practical and reasonable measures to look after it."
Nick Chetwood
The OurSpace Project
This project provides a residential experience for children from different cultural backgrounds, to encourage greater understanding. Through spending an intensive time together some of the initial barriers are broken down, and friendships across the cultures gradually emerge.
A Beamsley Trust grant of £ 750 went towards the rent of a bunk barn, food and transport for children from a Dales school and a Bradford school.
"I would tell the next group to come because it was awesome! Thanks again for making it possible."
Aisha K
"The activities I will remember the most are doing the cooking, on the walk when we climbed the rocks, and the evening team challenges. I made lots of new friends."
Charlotte