The Heritage Lottery Fund required that for the final bid to be successful, there had to be a financial commitment from the various communities who would benefit from a successful project outcome. The requirement was that £125,000 was raised as community funding.
The South Cliff Community Group led by David Auton became the driving force behind this. Hundreds of leaflets were posted through letterboxes by an army of volunteers. David coordinated the fund raising and also acted as PR officer becoming the face of the project – giving radio and TV interviews.
(from their website:)
“The South Cliff Community Group is a fully constituted, not for profit community group, managed by a small committee of volunteers. Our primary aim is to promote, develop and maintain a community where people want to live, work and visit.
We work to develop good relationships with key people and agencies who can help us to achieve our aim and provide reassurance to members. These include local Councillors, members of Scarborough Borough Council, the Police, other agencies and similar groups.
We hold quarterly meetings when we invite our Ward Councillors, local police officers and other guests to talk to the group about key developing matters, and where members can raise issues that concern them. These may relate to community matters such as planning, housing, crime/prevention, events, transport or tourism.
We run informal coffee mornings every 6 weeks, where members can meet new friends, and socialise…”
(about their fund raising for the project:)
“… during the summer of last year [2018], we received cash pledges of support totalling over £105,000 which, together with pledges offering support ‘in kind’, gave us a total of over £112,000 – this obviously convinced the judging panel of the commitment to the project by the community.”
www.southcliffcommunitygroup.com
