The Parish Trust is proud to announce that we have been awarded a grant of £2,000 from GAVO’s Cash 4 U Grant, a youth-led grant scheme where a panel of young people chooses projects to support.
This grant will allow us to develop a bike safety workshop for young people in the local area by Toby Jones, age 15, who is a junior leader at our Youth Club and has worked hard to submit a grant application for a project that is close to his heart.
Toby has volunteered at The Parish Trust since last summer, and has become a core member of the team, valued by all staff and young people that attend Youth Club. Toby has made strides in becoming a trusted member of the youth club team and advocating for his peers over the past year. An avid biker, Toby understands the importance of bike safety, particularly in the local area where many young people cycle to Youth Club, and as a means of transport to and from school.
Toby is a talented cyclist, and regularly cycles to our HQ, a 40-minute journey in which he takes every safety precaution. He has vital skills to share to our young people, and is keen to use the £2,000 to invest in the community and create a workshop on bike safety for them. The money will also be used to provide free helmets to anyone who completes the workshop as a way to provide necessary safety equipment for free, and to purchase a bike repair station and new bike racks, which will find its home at our new Youth and Children’s venue, The Bryn Hall.
Carrie Gealy, the Youth and Children’s Programme Manager said, “This project is something that hits home for the Youth Club team. Every week we see our young people cycle to us without helmets, and know the risks of this. Toby’s passion and enthusiasm for sharing his knowledge and keeping people safe on their bicycles is an inspiration to us all. I’m looking forward to guiding Toby through this project and creating something meaningful and vitally important for the community.”
