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Getting grants

The National Lottery Awards for All programme offers community grants between £300 and £10,000 for kneeler projects.

You need to show how your project or activity will:

  • Bring people together and build strong relationships in and across communities
  • Improve the places and spaces that matter to communities
  • Enable more people to fulfil their potential by working to address issues at the earliest possible stage

A kneeler project designed and delivered by members of your local community for your church – ie your local community building – will probably feature weekly meetings for stitchers and designers for mutual help and encouragement. This enhances designing and stitching skills – ie enabling ‘more people to fulfil their potential’ – and certainly provides an opportunity to reduce loneliness. Your kneeler project is ideally eligible for a community grant.

Go to The National Lottery Community Fund. Read the guidance notes and fill in the application form.

Your budget will be along these lines:

One-off capital expenditure

  • Lightbox – Optional, lots of choice on the internet
  • Books – The New World of Needlepoint is useful.  None are essential but all are enjoyable (see suppliers)
  • Appletons – Wools shade swatch,current price £30 (see suppliers)

Cost of materials

  • Canvas – Current price just under £12 per kneeler (see suppliers).  Your probable minimum aim will be 20 kneelers – but some churches have over 300.  Be ambitious!
  • Wools – Five hanks of 2ply Appletons Wools @ £3 per kneeler = £15. (see suppliers) This is a generous allowance but you will need a big range of colours at the beginning and the need for further wools will diminish as you progress
  • Chip foam – Cut to the size of your kneeler: check current prices at Pentonville Rubber Co
  • Sundries – Needles, curtain rings, tape etc.
  • Graph paper, laundry marker pens & photocopying – Around £25 (see suppliers)

Volunteer expenses

  • Hire of hall / electricity costs

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