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YOUR COMMUNITY
Can you contribute to the Eastleigh Twinning Exhibition? Do you have memories of Eastleigh Borough’s twinning visits over the years? The Eastleigh Twinning Association is organising an exhibition about our long-established links with Villeneuve-Saint-Georges in France and Kornwestheim in Germany. The exhibition will take place at Eastleigh
Museum from September to November. If you have memories, photographs or souvenirs of twinning visits that you would like to share, please contact info@onecommunity.org.uk
Movie buffs will programme festival fans’ night Movie buffs are being invited to programme one special evening for 2019’s Eastleigh Film Festival. Thanks to support from the BFI and the National Lottery, the Festival is handing over the curation of the programme to audiences who are invited to suggest, film titles and related Borough locations for an Audience Presents Night. In 2018 the Festival scared people with a screening of The Cabin in the Woods at Itchen Valley Country Park, showed My Beautiful Launderette in… where else?...a launderette, brought Chicago to the region’s foremost jazz venue and turned the interior of a hairdressers into a cinema for Steel Magnolias. True to the Festival’s quirky style, audiences are asked not to give away the film name and location title but to give enough clues through their social media image, hashtag #EFF2019 and post to get
other audience members guessing! One lucky audience member will have their chosen film and or location selected for screening for the new Audience Presents night along with four free tickets for the evening.
£15,000 in grants for local groups Funding will support 44 local community groups to thrive Local organisations have benefited from financial support from either the Borough Council, through the Borough-wide community grants scheme or the more local scheme provided by the Hedge End, West End & Botley Local Area Committee (HEWEB LAC). Borough-wide scheme
Eastleigh Film Festival runs from Monday 23 to Saturday 28 September, at various venues. It is managed by The Point, Eastleigh with support from Eastleigh Borough Council and Arts Council England.
We received 48 applications in total which was more than double the number of applications that were received last year. A total of £5,000 ranging from grants of between £250-£750 was given to 11 local groups who all provide services for local people.
For more information visit facebook.com/ eastleighfilmfestival or email ideas to filmfestival@eastleigh. gov.uk Picture above: Horror movie fans may want to keep hush if they can guess which film suggestion this is
Cabinet Lead for Social Policy Cllr Tina Campbell, said: “The Council is delighted to provide financial support to help empower local community groups who in turn support hundreds of local people. It is by building a strong, vibrant local community that we are able to address our key priorities of tackling health
inequalities, combating social deprivation and reducing social isolation so that all our residents have an equal opportunity to flourish.” £10,000 awarded by the Hedge End, West End & Botley scheme Thirty-three grants of up to £500, totalling almost £10,000, were given out to local groups to recognise and celebrate the breadth of community work being undertaken in the local area. This includes providing opportunities for children and young people, and supporting young carers, people with learning disabilities and older people.
Councillor Cynthia Garton, Chair of HEWEB LAC, said: “It’s great to present these grants, especially to people who volunteer and who give up their time to ensure that the community groups continue to thrive. I would encourage all community groups across the area to apply next year.” Youth grants awarded Grants to a wide range of youth groups have also been made by the LAC working with the HEWEB Youth Council. A breakfast club for young carers, equipment for scout groups and support to help children with special educational needs to go swimming were among the bids that received funding from the Youth Grants Panel.
