Colouring the Community

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Colouring the Community

Manchester

Manchester Reclaim

Reclaim

This award-winning project, dedicated to helping young people become community leaders, lost its offices. Our paint will help them redecorate their new city centre premises.

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Manchester Quick Access Centre

The Quick Access Centre

The Quick Access Centre offers temporary accomodation to homeless men in Manchester, and needs redecorating to provide a cheerful, morale-boosting atmosphere.

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Manchester Scout Drive Children's Centre

Scout Drive Children's Centre

After serving local children since the early 1970s, the Centre is in desperate need of a makeover to enable it to revive interest and help more families.

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Newcastle

Newcastle Egton Guides' House

Egton Guides' House

This holiday house for guides and brownies has been neglected for over 30 years, and desperately needs redecorating in modern, child-friendly colours.

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Newcastle Tynedale Community Radio

Tynedale Community Radio

The station's new premises need an injection of funky colours to give its team of volunteers a boost.

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Newcastle St. Cuthberts

St Cuthbert's Hospice

The donated paint will help the hospice to create a more caring environment for the In-Patient Unit and to re-energise its fund-raising shops.

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Belfast

Belfast 10th Scout Group

10th Scout Group

Help this scout group, with historic links to Narnia creator CS Lewis, to refurbish its 18-room home so it can continue to involve local children.

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Belfast Slievenaman Scout Bothy

Slievenaman Scout Bothy

Once this neglected Mourne Mountains farmhouse has been repainted by scout volunteers, it will be available to walkers and climbers as well as scout groups.

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Belfast TREE Project

TREE Project

Children and the long-term unemployed learn craft skills via this popular community project. They have the skills to repair their centre, but need our help with materials.

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Leeds

Leeds Castle Hall School

Castle Hall School

Repainting can simultaneously help the school to brighten up its corridors and the students to learn valuable skills from volunteer trade professionals.

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Leeds Garforth Guides HQ

Garforth Guides HQ

The building has been extensively refurbished but funds ran out before the redecorating phase. Volunteers can make the interior clean and safe with our donated paint.

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Leeds Mikun Women's Centre

Milun Women's Centre

Our donated paint will enable the centre to transform its creche into a happy, fun place - encouraging more local women to make the most of the facility.

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Maidstone and London

Maidstone Weybourne Care Home

Weybourne Care Home

The paint will be used to create a "Memory Street" in a dementia care home with the work carried out by pupils from a partner school, staff, volunteers and residents.

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London Centrepoint

Centrepoint, Ealing

The aim is to enable homeless, traumatised care leavers, to redecorate the centre, helped by local students, and make it somewhere they can call home.

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Maidstone YMCA

Maidstone YMCA Detached Project

The local YMCA has reclaimed this centre and plans to redecorate and restore its community centre identity with volunteer help from local young people.

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Scotland

Scotland Cosgrove Care

Cosgrove Care, Glasgow

The aim is to make the centre's busy Activity Room brighter and more welcoming for the 100+ children and adults with learning difficulties who use it regularly.

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Hallglen School

Hallglen School

Our donated paint can enable the school to enhance its buildings and playground, encouraging more use of the facilities by the community.

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Scotland St. Margarets Primary

St Margaret's Primary

The school's uninispiring playground area will be revitalised by a parent group working with pupils, staff, local artists and prisoners preparing for release.

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Wales

Wales Dylan Thomas Theatre

Dylan Thomas Theatre

The theatre's murals, a local landmark, need renewal. A professional artist is ready to start the work, but first a supply of weather resistant paint is required.

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Wales Pantyffynnon Social Club

Pantyffynnon Social Club

This small village's only communal facility, the club is in dire need of repainting, only possible with donated materials for volunteer members to use.

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Wales Llandaff Scout Hall

Llandaff Scout Hall

The group's 57-year old hall doubles as a nursery and community centre, but needs repainting to attract more users and celebrate 101 years of scouting.

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Birmingham

Birmingham Snitterfield Sports Pavilion

Snitterfield Sports Pavilion

Used by numerous football teams and the village cricket team, the pavillion hasn't been painted for some time. The donation would benefit many sports people of all ages.

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Birmingham Whitley JFC

Whitley JFC

The changing rooms badly need repainting after flood damage so it can continue to provide much needed sporting facilities for young people from socially deprived areas.

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Birmingham Leamington Hibs FC

Leamington Hibs FC

The club has worked hard to achieve MJPL status and needs to redecorate its tatty changing rooms to keep up with the league's standards and avoid fines or expulsion.

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Liverpool

Liverpool St Cuthberts Community Centre

St Cuthbert's Community Centre

The estate's only community facility, used day and night by many local clubs, has gained extra space. This needs painting before it can be used.

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Liverpool Albion Youth Club

Albion Youth Club

Used by five different groups every day, the club needs to be made smarter and more welcoming. The work will also enable young volunteers to learn useful skills.

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Liverpool PERC

PERC, Islington

This nursery and resource centre is a landmark building in a rundown part of central Liverpool. Repainting will enable it to help more families and brighten up the area.

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