Rainbow Community Cafe in Grangetown receiving a grant award
THOUSANDS of pounds is being offered to community groups by the firm behind the Woodsmith mine project being built at Whitby and Teesside.
The Sirius Minerals Foundation, the charitable body supported by Anglo American’s Woodsmith Project, has launched the second part of its Covid-19 recovery fund, worth a total of £400,000.
Grants of between £500 and £5000 are being made available for small voluntary and community organisations in Scarborough, the North York Moors National Park and Redcar and Cleveland.
Leah Swain, chief executive of the Sirius Minerals Foundation, said: “The aim of this grants round is to fund projects and activities that are focussed on helping people in our communities to regain their confidence and restart their lives, as the country begins to come out of lockdown.