SAV has recently received a grant for £3600 from the Somerset Community Foundation! The Awards for All lottery grant is still in the process of being paid too. The monies will be spent on promotion of our charity, further educational resources including more DVDs and development of our existing website. More importantly for our local community this means we will be putting on a Fireworks display in October! The idea is to do a little bit of fundraising whilst providing our first family/community event. I will mention more on that as things develop.
Me looking like a muppet accepting the cheque
We have a new exhibition display on order from a company in Leeds which we will accompany us to various events to help raise awareness of our work in society as well as increase our presence. An example is seen below. This is possible because of our grant from the lottery and the Somerset foundation. We will also be booking a place at the Education show in March 2011.
We now have a new volunteer who will be helping with events, attending other events with our material and stand, and will also be doing PR and fundraising.
We have also received an O2 Think Big award which means 2 people from SAV (most likley myself) will attend a workshop in Cardiff and then be given a grant of £300 to carry out a project. If we are successfull and show benifit from the £300 we can then go on to apply for bigger grants from O2.
Now, conferences. SAV gets a lot of support from a teacher training organisation called GLEAN. They respresent and support us at many events they attend. They distributed lots of leaflets about our resources at a conference that took place at UWE in Bristol last week. Both myself and a member of GLEAN are attending a large educational/teaching conference in London next month to talk about the resource. This is a high profile conference and people have to apply to have a slot on the stage to present products and resources. Apparently only about 1 in 100 applications are approved but they were so impressed with our application they have given us 2 slots! The plan is to do a powerpoint presentation, show the film and a new film that demonstrates how to use the resource in the classroom.
Finally, Kirsty is back from her Kili climb soon!! We are now starting to collect in the money and so far Kirsty has raised a total of £1300! I will update on the final figure soon.
Our next event we will be attending is the Bridgwater Young Peoples Festival which will be next Saturday on the East Bridgwater community school playing fields.
