History of Grant Awards

Lindal Bowling Club £3,000 for LED lighting

Barrow Cricket Club £6,021 for LED lighting

The Brantwood Trust £2,300 for funding towards an energy audit

Emmanuel Christian Centre £8,232 for replacement of windows

Sandylands Methodist Church £5,733 funding for solar panels and battery

Furness Rugby Club £10,000 solar Panels on main clubhouse

Castle Park School 4,537 LED lighting

Grizedale Arts £6,000 for heating

Burton Memorial Hall  3,618 for lighting

Ulverston Ford Park  £12,500 for solar PV

Chitter Chatter Group Ulverston £1,500 for warm space resources

Wigton Rugby Club £1,500 funding towards an energy audit

The Ashton Group Theatre, Barrow £5,000 for LED theatre lighting

Helsington & Brigsteer Village Hall £3,500 for solar PV

Millom Rugby Club £2,340 funding towards an energy audit

Ulverston Food Project £3,392.57 for LED lighting

Windermere & District Angling Association £5,396 for aeration batteries

Crosthwaite School £3,000 for solar PV

Rookhow £5,000 for double glazing windows and new doors

Cockermouth Scouts £1,500 funding towards an energy audit

Church Walk Nursery £5,000 funding towards solar PV

Swarthmoor Local Quaker Meeting £1,410 funding towards an energy audit

Dalton Rugby Club £3,614 for LED lighting

Barrow-in-Furness Sea Cadets £5,700 funding for solar PV

Bethany Church £2,914 for heating and insulation

Citizens Advice, Barrow-in-Furness £5,000 funding for lightbulbs and those struggling with fuel poverty

Gateway Church, Kendal £1,000 contribution to warm hub set up and resources

Age UK, Barrow-in-Furness £5,000 contribution to warm spaces and resources

Fairfield Mill, Sedburgh £750 contribution towards energy audit

Aldingham Parish Hall £6,665 for LED lighting and draught proofing

Askam Silver Band building £3,443 LED lighting.

Grizedale Arts £1,925 energy audit for their new premises.

Church Walk Nursery £5000 toward insulation and double glazing for lodge.

Dalton Church £5000 roof insulation.

Emmanuel Christian Centre £8207 Door and Window double glazing.

Rook How £7000 contribution towards cost of heat pump.

Crosthwaite School £4530 LED lighting and insulation.

Barrow-in-Furness Citizens Advice Bureau £5000 grant to cover fuel poverty.

Bethany Church £5000 LED lighting and energy efficiency measures.

Pennington Parish Council £600 contribution to LED lighting in Parish Rooms.

Penny Bridge Academy £2,900, LED lighting.

Channel House Farm £1,025 contribution to LED lighting and a more efficient milk cooler.

Barrow and ULVERSTON food banks £504 LED light bulbs for distribution.

Ulverston Parish Church Council £4,401 further double glazing.

Hindpool Tigers Rugby Club £7,824 PV panels installed.

Dunnerholme Golf Club £1,500, LED lighting.

St Perrans Scout Club £7,488 PV panels installed.

Milnthorpe Parish Council £500 contribution to LED lighting.

Leven Valley Academy £3,000 towards PV installation.

Emmanuel Christian Church, Ulverston £4,000 towards LED lighting.

Ford Park Community Trust, Ulverston  £3,000 towards well being.

Ulverston Parish Church, Parish Rooms £4,486 towards energy efficiency, double glazing.

LED light Bulbs, £500 to be given away at Food Banks in Barrow and Ulverston.

Swarthmoor Reading Rooms energy efficiency and well being £150.

Leven Valley Academy  £3,000 towards LED lighting.

Kirkby Community Centre £4,000 towards energy efficiency measures.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.