Full list of grants made by Sustainable Charlbury

Dates refer to the time the grant was approved by SusCha trustees.

2020/21

03/12/20 The Kitchen Garden People £5,000

Contribution to the purchase of polytunnels for all season vegetable production.

08/03/21 Land & Nature Group, Charlbury Town Council £481.20

Contribution to a project for carbon mapping 3 significant green spaces and 1 regeneratively farmed agriculture site close to Charlbury.  The survey measured the balance between carbon sequestration and emissions at The Mill Field, Southill Solar, Wigwell Nature Reserve and FarmEd.  The money was spent on analysis of soil samples.

26/08/21 Charlbury Primary School £3,450

Learning for sustainability programme.

26/08/21 The Kitchen Garden People £1,458

Deer fencing to protect agroforestry strips of land.

2022

25/03/22 Charlbury Primary School £2,239.65

Wychwood Paddocks ecological programme and survey.

25/03/22 Charlbury Bowls Club £600

Towards Net Zero consultancy.

08/04/22 Finstock for Nature £460

Community engagement costs for nature recovery programme.

09/05/22 Charlbury Bowls Club £210

TNZ reports (air tightness tests and thermographic survey.

08/08/22 Charlbury Primary School £5,600

Sustainable School programme.

08/08/22 Charlbury Bowls Club £2,160

Knaul Earthwool 44 loft insulation.

15/12/22 Thomas Gifford Trust £2,788

Community Workshop insulation.

2023

09/01/23 Charlbury Bowls Club £1,638.28

Door and window replacement cost uplift – extra payment to take account of rising costs.

09/01/23 Chippng Norton School £880.15

Wildlife and ecology programme.

09/01/23 Charlbury Exhibition Foundation £4,572

Charlbury Pre-School building improvements – insulation and secondary glazing

22/05/23 Charlbury Bowls Club £2,945.85

Installation of glasswasher, chiller and handryers.

08/06/22 Charlbury Exhibition Foundation £3,445

Insulation and secondary glazing top-up.

04/09/23 Waywood Song £2,000

Costs of pilot perfoprmance of ‘Nor any drop to drink’ – theatre performance on water quality/sewage crisis.

02/10/23 Charlbury Town Council £960

Restoration of wild meadow on The Mill Field – to be paid in tranches over 2/3 years.

02/10/23 Oxford Conservation Volunteers £1,000

New and replacement land management tools.

20/10/23 Corner House & WMH Trust £1,104

Cosy Homes Assessement and Whole Building Plan for improving the energy efficiency of the Corner House building.

13/11/23 Leafield Village Hall £5,000

Building improvements to increaae energy efficiency.

04/12/23 Charlbury Bowls Club £245

Airtightness and thermal efficiency report.

2024

08/01/24 Corner House & WMH Trust £803.40

Heat loss survey  of the Corner House.

13/02/24 Charlbury Scout Group £2,000

Roof repair and installation, LED lighting and frost heaters.

11/03/24 Charlbury Primary School £10,000

Installation of low energy LED lighting at the school.

15/07/24 Charlbury Scout Group £1,400

Further grant towards roof repair and insulation, LED lighting and frost heaters.

23/07/24 The Kitchen Garden People £6,000

Cost of a propagation greenhouse to facilitate on-site cultivation of seedlings.

23/07/24 Charlbury Exhibition Foundation £612

Secondary glazing for the Pre-School building.

30/09/24 Charlbury Town Council £2,020

2nd stage payment for the Mill Field meadow restoration project – project is taking place over 2/3 years.

04/11/24 Future Trees Trust £1,000

Wild cherry tree planting project.

21/11/24 Corner House & WMH Trust £31,269

Installation of secondary glazing at the Corner House.

19/12/24 Land & Nature Group, Charlbury Town Council £400

Contribution towards the cost of the launch event of the Charlbury Year of Nature Recovery taking place at the Memorial Hall on 11th January 2025.

2025

23/01/25 Charlbury Primary School £2,052

Retrofit specification survey.

23/01/25 Chipping Norton Green Gym £539.52

Purchase of climate change resistant trees + guards + first aid training course.