In November I spent many hours filling in a form to apply for a Local Network Grant to try to get some money to extend the Outside Area so that it can be used by all children - at the moment it is only big enough for a small group as we only received £3500 last year.
I had to visit Jim Wong at Ealing Community Network in order to have our application checked, and had to contact the Outdoor Play Company to get a new quote.
I had an email back from the clerk saying that we needed to provide named people in our Child Protection Policy (which I thought we'd done), and was warned that unless all staff and committee members had current police checks any funding may be delayed.
We wait to see whether we will get any funding. I applied for the maximum amount - £7000.
