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Corsham Town Council, has received a grant of £6,100 to hold a fete for the whole community to enjoy on Saturday 19 July. The event will include a circus tent, salsa dancers, Carribbean dancers, live bands, bouncy castles, workshop competitions and even a beach.

The project is one of seven projects in North Wiltshire and 82 in the region sharing grants worth £536,878 in the latest round of the Lottery's Awards for All programme.

David Martin, head of the summer fete initiative, said: "We were overjoyed when we found out we were receiving this grant. We will conduct workshops leading up to the fete at local schools, sheltered accommodation and elderly homes where the community can learn how to make masks, pirate hats and gain circus skills and exhibit their work at the fete."

The grant will help the group hire professional entertainers, workshop leaders, and stage and PA equipment.

Other groups to benefit from this round of awards in North Wiltshire include The Stonehenge School which receives £3,000 to develop an after-school garden and community allotment club. While the Big Brunch Band will provide new musical instruments and equipment for new and existing members with its £7,702 grant, and Ashton Keynes Music Festival Society will use its £3,996 award to help organise a village music festival consisting of 14 events over a long weekend for the community.

Awards for All is the small grants scheme administered by the Big Lottery Fund on behalf of Lottery good cause funders, Arts Council England, Big Lottery Fund, Heritage Lottery Fund and Sport England. The scheme makes awards of between £300 and £10,000 to grass-roots community groups and voluntary organisations.

2:33pm Tuesday 11th March 2008

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