Grant request
May. 8, 2012
Last night Rebecca Simms, Andrew Haworth, John Worsfold & Helen Simms represented the Band at the Shepshed and Hathern Area Forum. This Forum is responsible for granting money to local organisations to help them with the running of their organisations. This year they had £12,500 to distribute to organisations in Shepshed & Hathern.
The Hathern Band had previously completed a written application form applying for £3,500 to go towards the purchase of 2 instruments for the Band.
There were 15 other requests for grants and each organisation had 2 minutes to present their case to an audience of local people, councillors and other worthies. Rebecca volunteered to give a PowerPoint presentation about the Band and its structure, emphasising the way that young people are trained within the organisation, Rebecca herself being a product of the “system”. Well done to Rebecca on an excellent presentation.
In the end, there was pressure to reduce the amounts that organisations were requesting so that more ‘got a slice of the cake’ so the Band decided to lower their bid to £2500.
In the voting which followed, the Band were placed 4th out of the 16 and their request for £2500 will be recommended to the Leicestershire County Council who have the final say, but we understand this is a formality. You can see on the link below the final results for the evening.
http://www.leicestershireforums.org/shepsh/your-voice—view-and-comment-on1.html
Thank you to everyone who helped with the preparation of the bid, and to all the Band supporters who went along on the evening to support the bid and to those who took the time to comment online prior to the evening.
Lesley