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Grants of up to £5,000 available to Leicestershire businesses
THE SIR THOMAS WHITE
Loan Charity pledges to support businesses in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland through £50,000 delivered in grants in 2023
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Having provided interest-free loans to help support aspiring and existing business owners within Leicestershire and Rutland since 1542, The Sir Thomas White Loan Charity [STWLC] is now welcoming applications for grants of up to £5,000 from businesses within the county.
To be eligible for the business grant, available up to £5,000, applicants much be over 18 and under 45 years of age, a resident in Leicestershire or Rutland and operating their business from within this area, having done so for at least one year already. Full eligibility criteria can be found on STWLC’s website: www.stwcharity. co.uk/business-grants
Following a pilot programme in 2021, a successful grant scheme took place in 2022 in which £50,850 was delivered to businesses from various parts of Leicestershire, including a musician, café, gardener, beauty industry, artist and digital marketer.
Based at Friar’s Mill in the heart of Leicester city centre, STWLC provides unique interest-free loans to the value of £20,000 to new and existing businesses in Leicestershire and Rutland to aid start-up or development.
With no interest to pay on loans over a nine-year period and a three-year break before repayments commence, STWLC’s support has helped a number of well-known businesses within the county, including Barrie Stephen Hair whose owner, Barrie Stephen, is a patron of the charity.
Whereas the charity’s interest-free business loans are to be repaid, these grants of up to £5,000 require no repayment by recipients at all.
Anybody interested in applying for a business grant of up to £5,000 from The Sir Thomas White Loan Charity can do so by visiting www. stwcharity.co.uk/business-grants, where you can also find further information on the scheme.
The application deadline is 9am on 31 August 2023. Applications will be reviewed by the grant committee, with final decisions taken on grant awards during the week commencing 21 September 2023.
Visit: www.stwcharity.co.uk schemes, like the one being organised by Wacky Warehouse, are such a welcome and timely initiative for those struggling to afford the expensive back to school season. I’d encourage everyone who is able to, to donate to their local site and give what they can.”
Lorraine Collier, Head of Marketing at Wacky Warehouse, added:
“At Wacky Warehouse, we pride ourselves in being a central part of the local community, and we know how costly the back to school season can be for so many –especially in the current economic climate.
“That’s why we’ve launched our school uniform donation scheme to help families with the annual expenditure this year. To donate, simply head to your local Wacky Warehouse and drop your unused or pre-loved uniforms at the designation donation stations and we’ll take care of the rest!.”
For more about the Wacky Warehouse school uniform donation scheme and to view participating sites, visit: https://www. greeneking.co.uk/pubs-restaurantshotels/wacky-warehouse/uniform
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Mister Weston had a problem with being at least one member of staff short for the coming holiday season. A problem he was pondering when there was a knock on his door. Coming through the door was a middle aged man smartly dressed, if his clothes did seem a bit dated “It is like this,” started the man. “I worked for quite a few years on the railway on the platform at a station near Penzance until they closed it and made me redundant. I still have all my qualifications from before so it would be no problem to me to work on the platform here.”
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The next day a very smartly dressed Bill Grainger entered. He was wearing his old railway uniform. It was the Wednesday evening of the second week when something happened that made the Station Manager doubt his own sanity!
A freight train had passed through the station. After passing through the station there was a slight upward gradient. On tackling the gradient the freight train driver had caused the train to slip badly which caused the train to split in two. The rear wagons started slowly to roll back towards the station. Normally the Guard would wind the brake on and stop the rear part of the train going too far or too fast. Unfortunately the Guard was knocked over and was laying unconscious on the floor, so the wagons were slowly rolling back towards the station.
On the other side of the station the gradient fell away even more, so if the wagons could not be stopped their speed would increase with the added danger that either there would be a derailment of the wagons or worse they would run into a train coming towards them - which would certainly be a passenger service.
As the wagons ran back through the station their speed had only reached just twenty miles an hour. Bill Grainger was out on the platform and saw the wagons rolling back through the station. Not knowing that the Guard was still on the brake van but unconscious Bill jumped onto the running board of the brake van as it passed him. The speed of the runaway was starting to pick up as the gradient increased. Bill managed to climb into the main area of the brake van. Bill was trying to stop the wagons.
Slowly the wagons stated to slow and came to a stand. Bill knelt down to see how the Guard was. He was