Community and Young People

Community development is a key charitable objective for the Trust, which has considered hundreds of applications from community groups in towns and villages across the region. Typical applications seek financial support to improve amenities in village halls, community centres, at recreation grounds or in clubrooms or pavilions.

Community groups are usually run by hard-working volunteers who organise activities for the benefit of the wider community. In making an application to the Trust, community groups need to demonstrate the benefits their project is bringing to their community, and evidence of their wider efforts to raise funds.

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Recreation and Play Parks

Community and Young People

The Trust recognises that play and recreation areas are important to children’s development, providing places where they can have fun and pursue healthy activities. In recent years the Trust has helped provide equipment at over twenty recreation areas in towns and villages in Shepway and other nearby areas, working with a number of community groups, parish and district councils. From Lydd and New Romney to the Elham Valley and St Margaret’s Bay, major improvements have been made to the amenities available to young people, providing new play equipment specially designed to cater for a variety of age groups. Some of… Read more