2019
Penny Bridge Academy £2,000 contribution to new LED lighting
Lindal Cricket Club, £5,200 for solar panels.
The Wellington public house, Pennington, £7,000 towards solar panels.
Dalton Rugby Club, solar panels installed in a joint project with Baywind.
Dalton Football Club, solar panels installed in a joint project with Baywind.
2018
Dalton Community Association Centre in Dalton-in-Furness, BWECT donated £16,000 to fund the installation of Solar Panels . The centre is home to a number of different groups including the community police, army cadets and dance groups etc. The panels will generate clean, green electricity for the building for the next 20 years.
BWECT Directors outside the Dalton Community Association Building
Community Chat, Community Newsletter – £360 Dunnerholme Golf Club, Askam-in-Furness, Solar PV Installation – £6,000 Memorial Hall, Pennington – £2,500 Lindal Cricket Club, Lindal-in-Furness, Solar PV installation – £5,200 Rainepower, Contribution to Killington Community Hydro – £5,000
2017
Catholic Junior Schools and Ulverston, £1,500 for Forrest School Project.
Dalton Community Centre £4,500 Further building improvements.
Swarthmoor Football Club, £3,000 for cladding.
Kirkby Junior Football Club, £1,600 for a football goal.
Loppergarth playground, £1,000 new equipment.
Pennington PC CLP, £500 for community lead plan.
Swarthmoor Reading Room, £2,700 to improve usability.
2016
St Marys School Ulverston and Our Ladys Dalton – Awarded £750 each school for help with Forest Schools tree planting.
Pennington Memorial Hall – A donation of £250 towards a feasibility study to refurbish the hall.
Lindal School – A grant of £219 awarded towards educational needs.
Loppergarth Playground upgrade – Awarded £1,000 towards the total cost of £50,000 to upgrade the playground.
2015
Furness Future Leaders – A project aimed at establishing a permanent summer school and follow-up mentoring programme to boost skills for young people. BWECT have funded this in the Summer of 2015 with a donation of £2000.
The Furness Future Leaders’ Academy was set in motion in 2015 by Barrow and Furness MP John Woodcock, with the intention of providing young people with the leadership abilities that will be needed to steer the booming local economy of tomorrow.
Mr Woodcock MP said “Tackling the gap in skills and ambition is a serious challenge if we are to ensure young Furness people can benefit from the high-tech economy that is emerging here – this academy can really help with that, and I’m so pleased that local employers and schools have come onboard so enthusiastically.”
Lindal Cricket Club – Lindal Cricket Club’s new pavilion received £5K for a new energy efficient boiler. £5k
2014
Swarthmoor Football Club – Awarded £2,000 towards renovating the club building.
Swarthmoor Sports Club – Pledged £500 towards a larger grant to renovate the club building. After the club were successful in obtaining the larger grant, we awarded a further £2,000 towards the renovation costs.
Top of the Form Competition supported the graduate community programme by donating £200.
2013
Dalton Community Association – awarded a second grant of £3,640 to help towards the costs of insulation and low energy lighting.
Top of the Form Competition supported the graduate community programme by donating £200.
Swarthmoor Community Association was awarded £447 to help towards the cost of installing a double glazed window on the sports pavilion.
Swarthmoor residents – Local residents are able to obtain £200 towards the installation of an energy efficient boilers. Ten residents have so far been awarded the grant, though their installer.
