Cornish Lithium Fund awards grants to more community groups across Cornwall

This image is of recipients of a Cornish Lithium grant in 2023. Zoe Richardson from Cornish Lithium went to visit St Dennis Art Group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cornish Lithium has awarded £17,310 to 11 local organisations through its Summer 2024 Community Fund.

Cornish Lithium uses innovative and sustainable processes to extract lithium from geothermal waters and hard rock in Cornwall. The Company aims to support the UK’s transition to renewable energy by producing a secure domestic supply of lithium, which is critically important to the manufacturing of electric vehicles, grid scale electricity storage and the rechargeable electronic devices on which many of us rely.

Established in collaboration with the Cornwall Community Foundation, the Cornish Lithium Community Fund supports the work of clubs, charities and activity groups who seek to make a positive difference in the areas where the Company’s projects are located.

Each summer and autumn, Cornish Lithium encourages applications from projects that will enhance skills and education, upgrade social welfare facilities, support industrial heritage and mining history, improve environmental impacts or promote health and wellbeing.

The successful recipients of the Summer 2024 Cornish Lithium Community Fund awards are:

  • ClayTAWC is a vibrant and inclusive hub in St Dennis that plays a vital role in uniting its community through a diverse range of recreational clubs, educational courses and workshops, and social groups.
  • Crofthandy Village Hall provides an accessible venue for community events, recreational activities and local support groups.
  • Georgia’s Voice works to prevent suicide among young women in Cornwall, who are aged between 18 and 25.
  • Imerys Bowling Club based in Bugle, has one of the best bowling greens in Cornwall but the Club needs a Supaturf Even Sprayer to keep it in tip-top condition and edging clippers to keep its borders under control.
  • Imerys Singers is a ladies’ choir from the St Stephen-in-Brannel area of China Clay country that performs in retirement homes and hospices, at memory clinics and in social clubs, and raises money for charitable causes.
  • MHA Communities Cornwall supports older people to live later life well and runs friendship groups across Cornwall to reduce loneliness and social isolation.
  • Mount Hawke Youth Group seeks to update the café, lounge and social areas of the Mount Hawke Skatepark, which is the largest facility for skateboarding in the south west and hosts a number of nationally-recognised events and championships.
  • St Day Old Church CIC is a valued community amenity for exhibitions, the performing arts and education that plays an important role in the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site bestowed by UNESCO IN 2006. As a historic building without a roof, it requires improvements to its structure and facilities in order to attract larger audiences, secure more income and achieve financial sustainability.
  • St Day Youth & Sports Association is creating a climate- and eco-friendly building for use by the local community.
  • Sunrise Cornwall – aims to reduce the devastating ripple effect of loss through suicide by providing those affected with free, safe and supportive events, workshops and activities, based on music, art and wellbeing.
  • Porthtowan Surf Life-Saving Club

“As a Cornish company, we are proud to support organisations that benefit communities in the vicinity of our projects,” explains Founder, CEO and Interim Chairman of Cornish Lithium, Jeremy Wrathall. “As the footprint of our operations in Cornwall expands, the Cornish Lithium Community Fund for local groups increases. This aligns with our proactive approach to protecting, enhancing and supporting Cornwall through social and environmental initiatives as we contribute to a secure domestic supply of lithium, reduce our reliance on imports and support the UK’s transition to electric vehicles and Net Zero targets.”

Tamara Sherston-Baker, Development Director of the Cornwall Community Fund added: “It is immensely rewarding to work with a Cornish company that places such value on people and place, and strives to benefit as many neighbouring communities as possible by supporting a growing number of distinctive projects.”

If your community group seeks funding, find out more about which parishes are eligible and how we can help by visiting www.cornwallcommunityfoundation.com/introduction-to-grants/

Applications to the Cornish Lithium Community Fund can be made through the Cornwall Community Foundation portal.

The Autumn 2024 Cornish Lithium Community Fund is now open and the application deadline is Thursday 10th October.

Apply here.

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