Some great projects have come forward this year to apply for a Pots of Possibility Your Pots grant. The local community – that’s YOU – will vote for who should get funding at the ‘Your Pots – Your Say’ community voting day on Saturday 16 November.
Everyone who comes to the event will get to meet the projects pitching for your vote, ask them questions and watch a short film. You’ll then vote on who you think should get the money.
To be part of that audience, register here.
These are the projects wanting your vote at this year’s voting day:
West End Impact ‘Restoration’ (£10,000)
Restoring lives through restoring furniture!
LESS (Lancaster District) CIC ‘Productive Plots’ (£10,000)
Empowering North Lancashire’s regenerative economy: a two-wheel tractor to build soil health, increase local organic food production, foster community collaboration.
Queer By Gum ‘Sustainable Queer Craft’ (£8,750)
Deliver sustainable craft workshops and events, building community knowledge about reusing, re-purposing and repairing materials, alongside empowering the LGBTQ+ community.
Lancaster Film Initiative ‘Green Plates’ (£8,825)
Seasonal Sessions – Creating two videos per season (one recipe, one craft) all themed on reducing waste and living with nature.
Lancaster & Morecambe Repair Cafe (£5,000)
Encourage reuse and repair of everyday items, sharing, learning new skills and increasing knowledge of our social and environmental impact.
Escape2Make ‘A Year in the Making: Co-designing a new sustainable creative youth space’ (£10,000)
Support young people’s creative vision, ensuring sustainability is central to their new space, through a year of free workshops.
The Bay: A Blueprint for Recovery ‘Foraging, Outdoor Cooking & Nature Connection’ (£8,850)
Foraging workshops and outdoor cooking sessions using nature connection to build community resilience and inspire healthy and sustainable food choices.
More Music ‘Repair, Recycle, Remix’ (£10,000)
Repair donated instruments, share instrument maintenance skills, remake scrap gamelans with repurposed instruments alongside community participants, make new music together
Wise Up Workshops ‘Creative Saturdays’ (£7,014)
Creative Saturdays will invite young people to create, learn & grow together using recycled materials and imaginative storytelling.
Tara Project Lancaster ‘Wellbeing Cafe for Asylum Seekers & Refugees’ (£7,776)
A weekly Wellbeing Cafe for Asylum Seekers and Refugees to foster friendship & connection, distribute surplus food & offer nourishing meals.
The Gregson ‘Grassroots Sustainable Action! (£5,015)
Grassroots community events to stop things going to landfill and encourage all ages to think about the planet.
West End Players ‘Theatre for Wellbeing, Sustainability & Joy’ (£5,000)
Delivering a message through comedy, theatre, music and dance simultaneously improving the health of participants and enriching perceptions of themselves
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.
