DOZENS of groups and community causes in Tameside will benefit from more than £800,000 funding for projects to enhance the area.
And Mossley and Denton will see six-figure investments after a number of schemes were approved.
Tameside Council’s executive cabinet approved the latest round of grants that come under the Government’s Pride in Place Impact Fund.
Denton’s 1st Haughton Green Scout and Community Centre gained the largest single amount after its request for £80,820 got the go ahead.
That will modernise the Key Scout Centre, on Gibraltar Lane, which has ageing heating, outdated kitchen and toilets, restricted entrance access, tired internal finishes and insufficiently organised storage.
Across the town, Denton West End Community Library will get just over £70,000 towards its refurbishment.
External and internal doors will be replaced and an additional storage room created. Paving areas and all external windows will also be replaced.
And at St George’s Community Centre on Windmill Lane, just over £60,000 will go towards replacing its ageing roof.
Some £65,000 will go towards streetscape improvements aimed at regenerating and revitalising the two main shopping, business and hospitality areas, while £55,500 will go to Woodend Green Gateway, which aims to transform a neglected and inaccessible area within the Woodend Mill complex by creating a community garden.
The town’s community centre will also receive just over £50,000 to provide new windows and doors, plus redecorate the Roughtown Road facility.
Hyde will see investment, with the Grafton Centre, James North Bowling Club, Gee Cross’ Sam Redfern Green and Newton’s St Mary’s Church receiving substantial funding.
Audenshaw’s Ryecroft Hall will get more than £34,000 towards improved lighting, so more community events to be held later in the evening throughout the year.
Schemes in Droylsden, Dukinfield and Longdendale are also included in the list.
Several large requests for six-figure sums, including ones from Mossley Football Club, Hollingworth Community Centre, Emmaus Mossley and Stalybridge Cricket Club, were turned down in tis latest round, but other funding options will be explored.
And recipients were told: “Throughout the programme, the council will undertake monitoring during the lifetime of the projects.
“The grant agreements issued place requirements on the recipient to provide progress updates which will be monitored quarterly or on project completion, with progress reports brought back to executive cabinet.”