The Nantwich Youth and Community Centre has been awarded a £20,000 grant by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Staff and members are celebrating the cash boost which will help fund dedicated youth workers at the centre on Birchin Lane.
Cheshire East Council has no plan in place to deal with its massive special needs budget deficit, just a seven-year proposal to bring spending back in line with grant income, a councillor said.
The Dedicated School Grant (DSG) overspend was reported to be about £112.1 million at the end of the 2024/25 financial year.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East bosses want more people to use bus services so it can increase passenger numbers and get more government grants to improve services.
It comes as the authority has been allocated more than £5.4 million in a local bus grant for 2025/26 from the Department for Transport.
Charities and community groups in Nantwich have a new ally in their quest for funding.
The South Cheshire Funders’ Forum offers an easier approach to securing grants, allowing organisations to submit a single expression of interest to access multiple opportunities.
Calveley Primary Academy near Nantwich has secured funding to expand its nursery provision.
The village school is one of 300 across the UK to be approved for the school-based nursery capital grant 2024-2025.
Dear Editor,
I asked earlier this week: Is anyone else questioning the allocation of the dedicated schools grant, due to be ratified at next week’s CE’s Children & Families Committee? That meeting was held – and the answer is no.
Just to clarify the situation for everyone, the grant money has been allocated at three different rates based on deprivation factors.
Dear Editor,
As we approach the budget setting council meeting at Cheshire East I have to ask:
Is anyone else questioning the allocation of the dedicated schools grant, due to be ratified at next week’s CE’s Children & Families Committee?
Shavington has opened a new “Warm PlacCEs” facility at the village hall after the parish council was awarded a grant.
It opened up with a Bingo afternoon and offers a place for families struggling to pay fuel or food bills during the cost of living crisis.
Nantwich looks set to get a new skate park facility on the Barony after the project received a £100,000 grant from FCC Communities Foundation.
The money will be used to create a multi-wheeled sports facility which will allow skateboarders, scooters, roller skaters and other park users access to an enormously improved facility at Barony Park.
Dear Editor
All Cheshire East Conservatives are delighted by the £12 million fund that this Government has allocated to Family Hubs.
Some of this money is now coming to Cheshire East.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
A £5.799m government grant for potholes is welcome but “will not even begin to scratch the surface” of the £180m backlog of repair work, Cheshire East’s deputy leader said.
Cllr Craig Browne said Government funding to Cheshire East for road repairs has remained largely static over the last decade.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council will drive ahead with scaled-back plans to improve bus services despite the government putting the brakes on some schemes by refusing grant funding.
The council had put together an ambitious bus service improvement programme (BSIP) in the hope of securing funding as part of the government’s national “bus back better” strategy.
Cheshire East Council is inviting businesses to apply for funding of up to £6,000 through the government’s Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant scheme.
The scheme provides one-off grants to support eligible rate-paying hospitality, leisure and accommodation businesses experiencing difficulties because of the Omicron coronavirus variant.
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