Supported Projects

Main Grant Projects

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Seaton Swimming Pool
Project to enable community use of the school swimming pool by enclosing it and installing new changing rooms.
 
MIL funding: £14,000
Total project cost: £70,000
Dates:Sept 2011 - Oct 2012
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Coleridge Memorial Project
Project to commission poetry stones and interpretation to celebrate Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his birth town, Ottery St Mary.
 
MIL funding: £18,000
Total project cost: £31,129
Dates: Oct 11 - June 2012
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Skills Unearthed
Helping Blackdown Hills artists to work collaboratively and improve skills. 
 
MIL funding: £38,500
Total cost:  £55,000
Dates: Jan 2012-July 2013
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Sidford Pavilion

Construct a modern community pavilion at Sidford sports fields adjacent to existing changing facilities, to enable wider sporting and community use. Also enlarging the car park area to allow increased usage of the site.
MIL funding: £66,911
Total cost: £104,379
Dates: May 2011
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Escot Red Squirrel Enclosure
An innovative Red Squirrel walk through enclosure which will allow visitors to experience a close encounter with this rare mammal.
 
MIL funding: £40,026
Total project cost: £80,052
Dates: Feb 2011 - Sept 2011
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Stowford Community Centre
To provide a welcoming community centre for Stowford, to bring both existing and new residents together.
 
MIL funding: £35,501
Total project cost: £50,716
Dates: November 2010 - June 2012
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Bicton EaRTH Interpretation Centre
To create a facility at Bicton College that educates, motivates and inspires students and visitors to understand the link between renewable energy, sustainable land use and a sustainable future.
 
MIL funding: £100,000
Total cost: £175,228
Dates: April 2011 - April 2012
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Beef Butterflies and Trees
A project to encourage collaborative working amongst the Blackdown Hills  and East Devon livestock farming sector in the management of wildlife-rich marginal rough land.
 
MIL funding: £60,000
Total project cost: £104,875
Dates: November 2011 - October 2013
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Stafford Marsh Field Studies Building

To provide a field studies building and associated car park within the Axe Estuary Wetlands where events, training and demonstrations can be offered to the public.

MIL funding: £72,357
Total Project Cost: £103,367
Dates: August 2010 - May 2011
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Rees Strawbridge Centre, Colyton

To install photo-voltaic panels on the roof of the new centre to reduce running costs of the building, passing on the reduced costs to community groups hiring and using the building. To act as an example of best practice and raise awareness of the need for sustainability. 
 
MIL funding: £15,300
Total cost: £22,743
Dates: November 2010 - January 2011
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Sustainable Shute
Shute Community Primary School aims to be a carbon neutral organisation by 2018. This project will help towards achieving this goal by installing 51 solar photovoltaic panels on a currently unused, raised area of land behind the school.
MIL funding: £23,446
Total Project Cost: £49,592
Dates: February 2010 - May 2010
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Otter Brewery Interpretation Centre

To build a new interpretation centre for the Otter Brewery. The Interpretation Centre will help expand the existing range of facilities for visitor groups to the Brewery and provide facilities for educational and interest groups to participate in activities and learning.

MiL Funding Amount: £24,500 (36%)
Total Project Cost: £67,620
Project Period: Oct 2009 to Sept 2010  

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Working Our Woodlands

This project aims to improve the woodland economic resource in the Blackdown Hills area.

 
 
Funding Amount:       £64,704       
Total Project Cost:    £76,904
Project Period: Oct 2009 to Sept 2011           
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Building Sustainable Business Networks

Enable businesses to improve their prospects and long term viability by providing support in the workplace.

 
Funding Amount:      £77,499 (50%)
Total Project Cost:  £155,000
Project Period: Oct 2009 to Apr 2011 
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Pilot Forestry Apprenticeships Programme

Develop a new two year forest apprenticeship for five apprentices in the local area.

Funding Amount: £98,539 (36%)
Total Project Cost:£315,051
Project Period: Oct 2009 - Jan 2012

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Digital Mentors

Provide ICT support to local businesses, organisation and individuals through a network of Digital Mentors.

Funding Amount: £33,000 (50%)
Total project cost: £66,000
Project Period: Sept 2009 - Sept 2010

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Blackdown Environmental Teams
Environmental volunteering, training and qualifications.
 
MIL funding: £32,962
Total project cost: £47,088
Dates: November 2010 -
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