Funding Boost For Community Projects Across Harborough

Funding totalling over £200,000 has been awarded to community groups across Harborough.

The cash from Harborough District Council’s £1m Community Grant Fund will support projects in Great Bowden, Fleckney, South Kilworth, Husbands Bosworth and elsewhere.

The fund has now provided support totalling over £870,000 since it was launched last year.

Cllr Phil Knowles, leader of Harborough District Council, is delighted so many projects have benefitted:

The latest 16 successful projects to receive funding are:

Leire Parish Council – (£8,565.34) for a four-phase approach to improve the village, with new signs, benches, audio visual equipment and surface dressing

Fleckney Village Hall – (£28,784) to install solar panels and storage battery

Fleckney Athletics AFC Junior (£928.40) – to purchase a new set of folding, metal football goals for the younger age teams

Thurnby & Bushby Parish Council – (£50,000) to install an outdoor gym at the Manor Field multi-use games area

Scraptoft Parish Council – (£38,462.89) to refurbish the Community Hub car park

Misterton with Walcote Parish Council – (£1,597.70) to purchase an extra set of football goals for the field by the Memorial Hall in Walcote

Great Bowden Residents Management Company – (6,764) to purchase and install eight new bins

South Kilworth Bowls Club – (£3,500) for an extension of concrete slabbing to the west side of the bowling green

Houghton Field Association – (2,281.70) to purchase furniture for new community pavilion/sport changing facility in Houghton on the Hill

Dunton Goes Green – (£613.94) to purchase litter picking equipment

Husbands Bosworth Parish Council – (£13,250) to construct a new garage/workshop at the Millennium Pavilion for the equipment required to manage this facility

Harborough Youth and Community Trust – (£5,028) to upgrade bi-fold doors at The CUBE youth centre

RFM Studios CIC – (£16,012.62) to improve the community garden, install lockable storeroom cabinets, to install an access control system, to install climate control systems for studios and control room and to purchase additional studio equipment

Gilmorton Parish Council – (£10,000) to install a new grass mat safety surface in toddlers’ play area

North Kilworth Parish Council – (£10,000) to redevelop the village playground

Great Easton Village Hall – (£9,997.35) to renovate and upgrade the kitchen

Each organisation demonstrated how their projects aligned with the council’s priorities which are community leadership to create a sense of pride in our place, promoting health and wellbeing and encouraging healthy life choices, creating a sustainable environment to protect future generations and supporting businesses and residents to deliver a prosperous local economy.

The £1 million Community Grant Fund will continue in 2025-26 and 2026-27. The remaining funding allocation from year one will be combined into a standalone underspend grant.