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[17 APR 00] COVENTRY CITY COUNCIL NEWS
Community Chest Opened For Coventry Groups
BY ANTONY HOPKER

Community groups in Coventry are set to receive more than £37,000 in grants to continue millennium celebrations.

Decisions are to be made on Thursday on the second round of the Community Chest ‘Celebrate 2000’ fund.

The money has been given by Coventry City Council to support community events being planned by non profit-making groups.

Members of the events Policy team are to rubber-stamp the second wave of applications, which will include money for popular group the Notables.

The band wants to run a series of events reflecting post-war Coventry through music.

Other activities up for approval include a millennium harvest held by the Allesley Walled Garden Group and a day of creative crafts and fun activities for children of all ages.

Cllr Gillian Darby (Labour, Whoberley), acting chair of the Events Policy team, said:

“The Millennium is a special time and groups all over the city want to celebrate it in a range of unique ways.

”The Community Chest is our way of offering financial support to a range of exciting events which will reflect Coventry’s proud culture.

“All of the events that we support will add to the vibrancy of the local community, be open and accessible to people with disabilities and in some cases enable the event to actually take place.”

Event organisers had to show that they met 14 separate criteria before being considered for the money.

Twenty-nine bids have been rejected, including a trip to Disneyland proposed by the Catholic Fellowship, the annual Donkey Derby run by Coventry Lions club and the Godiva procession.

A further 11 applications have been deferred while further information is sought and many of the 29 successful groups were not given the full amount they asked for.

Cllr Darby added:

“We have been overwhelmed by the number of applications that we received for this round of funding and this just goes to confirm the belief in the community spirit that there is in our city.

“People from all areas are getting together to put on all sorts of events and we are delighted that we will be able to support many of them.”
    
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