The latest round of Your Pots funding is giving grants of up to £10,000 to local projects that can regenerate North Lancashire’s environment and support our communities. Some great projects have applied for a grant this year and they need YOUR VOTE to turn their ideas into reality. 

Join the ‘Your Pots – Your Say 2025’ community voting day on 15 November to have your say on who should get funding for their local project. At this community voting day, organisations who have applied will pitch their project ideas and the audience – that’s you! – will vote on who should get the money.

Places at the voting day are limited so registration is essential.

Watch this video to see what happened at last year’s community voting.

These are the projects wanting your vote:

1061 Sewing Cafe ‘Runway Revolution’ (£6,122)

Second Runway – showcasing the diversity of clothing made in Lancaster. Aiming to widely share implicit processes and outcomes to inspire.

1306 Lancaster Men’s Hub ‘A Quantum Leap in Expanding our Capacity for Recycling, Refurbishing & Repurposing’ (£9,994)

Creating, repairing/refurbishing wooden and crafted items and sharing our facilities, tools and expertise with other members of our local community.

1308 Bold Stores & Events CIC (£7,625)

Coffee sack up-cycling workshops, outdoor clothing swaps and wellbeing walk events.

1311 Wildlife Wellbeing Walks & Wild Roots Nature Fest ‘Nature Connectedness – Wild Roots Nature Fest 2026’ (£8,800)

Growing love of nature through connectedness activities, supporting health and wellbeing and promoting more sustainable practices including waste reduction.

1312 More Music ‘Three Degrees Festival’ (£10,000)

Youth led, climate action, community music festival and workshops. Three Degrees will engage the West End community in climate action.

1321 Queen’s Market Morecambe (£10,000)

A mosaic of “BEE Leaf” making you smile, created by young people’s dreams of a sustainable future. Build Enable Empower.

1323 Adullam Programme ‘Treasured’  (£9,978)

Pilot a social enterprise offering supported work experience and purpose for people facing complex barriers to employment and inclusion.

1326 Whinney Hill Farm ‘Growing the Community’ (£8,250)

Expand Whinney Hill Farm Garden for growing space, volunteer training, food production, and community sharing to support skills and wellbeing.

1327 Good Things Collective ‘Piloting a new community-led cafe: Connecting cooking & creativity’ (£9,990)

Piloting a new community-led cafe: designing an exciting sustainable menu using local produce, making connections between cooking and creativity.

1332 Charge My Street ‘EV Charger Circular Reuse Project’ (£9,866.72)

A pilot to recycle, remanufacture or repurpose redundant commercial EV charging units, reducing e-waste and lowering carbon footprint in our region.

1333 Global Link ‘Friday Global Cafe’ (£7,985)

Asylum seekers and refugees will use locally grown and/or surplus food to cook lunches Fridays at Stanley’s Community Centre.

1338 The Hygiene Bank (£5,000)

The Hygiene Bank provides free products to people in need, tackling hygiene poverty and promoting dignity, health and wellbeing.

That’s it! Do you have any favourites among those twelve exciting local projects? Share your views and support them at the voting day on 15 November:

The Your Pots grants of between £5,000 and £10,000 are to support projects that will have a positive, long-term impact on the environment and people of North Lancashire, whether that’s by reducing waste, providing healthy, sustainably produced food or inspiring people to change the way they buy and use everyday items.