Funding, Grants and Donations
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If you would like to raise funds or sponsorship for the Friends of the Flitch Way then you can use the Paypal donate link.
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Since we formed ourselves into a Charity we have needed to generate funds to allow us to operate. Listed below is a list of where the main grants and funding have come for each year.
2025/26
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Rayne Parish Council
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The Friends of the Flitch Way were recently given a Citizenship award by Rayne Parish Council “In recognition of their contribution to the village keeping the Flitch Way tidy and accessible to all. “
It’s much appreciated when the efforts of our volunteers are recognised. |
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Braintree District Council
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Councillor Ann Hooks funded the £256 cost of a new locomotive for the Railway Carriage Museum with a Councillor community grant.
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Great Hallingbury Parish Council
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Funded the cost of a £528 replacement bench on the Flitch Way.
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Takeley Ward, Uttlesford District Council
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Councillors Sutton, Colletta and Brignall each funded the £528 cost of a bench on the Flitch Way in Takeley ward as part of the Uttlesford members Initiative and Community Grant scheme.
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2024/25
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Little Canfield Parish Council
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Funded local history information boards about Little Easton Halt and resurfaced the carpark at High Cross Lane carpark.
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Derek Atkinson
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The family and friends of volunteer Derek Atkinson, gave us a donation which will be used in the Railway Carriage Museum at Rayne Station where Derek spent many happy hours volunteering and sharing his knowledge with visitors.
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Indigo Scaffolding
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Indigo Scaffolding have made a donation of scaffolding to use as replacement rails at Stane Street Halt.
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Dick Hughes
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Donated a Powerstrim Portek Roughbrush cutter which is a walk-behind strimmer to be used on the path edges.
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2023/24
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Honeycomb Storage
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For storage of the people carrier trailer
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Branson Leisure
Takeley PC Little Dunmow PC |
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Branson Leisure and the parish councils of Takeley and Little Dunmow all provided benches for the Flitch Way.
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2022/23
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Braintree District Council
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Braintree District Council (BDC) provided a new people carrier trailer which will be used to transport conservation volunteers around sites. This was funded as part of the BDC Welcome Back fund for health and wellbeing.
The Chair of Braintree Council chose the Friends as one of her charities and donated £1000. |
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Essex & South Suffolk Community Rail Partnership
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Essex & South Suffolk Community Rail Partnership donated £50.
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Essex County Council
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Essex County Council Locality Fund Scheme agreed a grant of £1,188 for replacement flooring in the Railway Carriage Museum.
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Great Notley parish council
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Great Notley Parish Council donated a petrol strimmer for use on volunteer work parties.
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Grange Farm & Dunmow Runners
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Grange Farm & Dunmow Runners have kindly chosen the Friends of the Flitch Way as their annual charity and in January, presented us with a cheque for £2,000.
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2021/22
Like many charities and organisations this has been a difficult year for the Friends of the Flitch Way. We rely on membership subscriptions, donations and grants to fund our work. We'd like to say a big thank you to the following for helping us out including our members who support us by paying £12 a year to become a Friend of the Flitch Way and also a thank you to all those people who sent us a Paypal "cost of a cup of coffee" donation to help keep us going.
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Szabina Nemeth
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Szabina Nemeth ran the 2021 London Marathon, raising £267.38 for our charity. It was to say thank you for helping to look after her favourite running route, the Flitch Way.
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Great Bardfield Parish Council
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Great Bardfield Parish Council gave a £100 donation in appreciation of the work of the Footpath workgroup team on their "amazing and difficult job to enhance the footpath network in our parish."
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Braintree District Council
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We received COVID Additional Restrictions Grant Phase 2.1 funding from Braintree District Council of £4,416. This helped offset the overheads of the Railway Carriage Museum whilst the Museum was closed.
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2020/21
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Barbara Holdsworth
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The family and friends of Barbara Holdsworth gave us a generous donation which will be used to provide a memorial bench at Rayne Station where she had many happy memories.
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The Booking Hall Cafe
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Grace and Josh Meehan of the Booking Hall Cafe donated £250 from their online cake orders.
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Essex County Council
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Essex County Council Locality Fund Scheme agreed a grant of £1,605 to purchase and install 4 benches and information boards between Braintree and Rayne, purchase of hi-visibility vests, tools and safety clothing.
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Braintree District Council
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In September we received a Councillors Community Grant of £1,050 from Braintree District Council to cover the cost of repainting the Railway Carriage Museum and planting the wildflowers in the Signal Box base.
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DET Scaffolding
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DET Scaffolding have made a further donation of scaffolding to use as replacement rails at Bannister Green Halt, following their previous donation last year.
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2019/20
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Iris Cloke
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Iris Cloke kindly donated her late husband Jim's prize collection of railway lamps. Jim was instrumental in bringing back the history of the Flitch Way by his work on restoring the Halts and in bringing the Carriage to Rayne in 2013.
You can see the lamps on display in the Railway Carriage Museum and the Booking Hall Cafe. |
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Essex & South Suffolk Community Rail Partnership
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Essex & South Suffolk Community Rail Partnership donated £200 which allowed us to reprint and update the Flitch Way leaflets.
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DET Scaffolding
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DET Scaffolding kindly donated scaffolding to use as replacement rails at Stane Street Halt.
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2018/19
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Hare & Tortoise Running Ltd
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Hare & Tortoise Running Ltd donated £258 - £1 for every runner who has participated in one of their organised events along the Flitch Way in 2018. The money will be used to help with the maintenance and upkeep of the Flitch Way.
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The Booking Hall Cafe
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Grace and Josh Meehan of the Booking Hall Cafe donated £500 from the Rayne Free Festival held in July 2018. The money will be used to update and provide new information boards.
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2017/18
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David Goodliff
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David kindly donated £110 and a Class 31 Diesel model locomotive for the Carriage Museum. The money was used to improve the model railway within the museum.
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Essex Community Foundation
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On 29 June 2017 we received a grant of £3,500 from the Essex Community Foundation (ECF) to professional waterproof the roof of the Carriage Museum. The grant was awarded from the Yellow Car Charitable Fund (£2,500), the Essex Life Charitable Fund (£722) and the Acorn Fund (£278) which are administered by ECF.
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The Booking Hall Cafe
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Grace and Josh Meehan of the Booking Hall Cafe donated £300 from the Rayne Festival held in July 2017. The money will be used to fund the publication of the new version of the Flitch Way information guide.
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2016/17
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The Booking Hall Cafe
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Josh and Grace Meehan of the Booking Hall Cafe kindly donated £402 from the Rayne Festival held in July 2016.
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Braintree Athletics Club
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Braintree & District Athletics Club raised over £1400 for the Friends as part of the Braintree 5 mile event held in April. Click here for details of the 2016 event.
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Great Dunmow Beavers
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On February 28th a group of Great Dunmow Beavers completed a sponsored bike ride on the Flitch Way from Rayne to Flitch Green and raised £253.
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2015/16
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Tesco Bags for Help
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Tescos customers voted for our project in the Tesco "Bags for Help" scheme and in March 2016 we were awarded £12,000 to help us improve the Langford Halt area of the Blackwater Rail Trail near Maldon.
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2014/15
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High Sheriffs' Award
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In March 2015 we were awarded the 2014 - 2015 High Sheriff's Award. The award recognises voluntary organisations which provide a high standard of encouragement, support, training and supervision to their volunteers. The award included a £1,000 donation to be used at the discretion of the trustees in line with our charitable objectives. Read more
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Booking Hall Cafe
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Josh and Grace Meehan of the Booking Hall Cafe donated £400 from the Rayne Station Festival which was used for new carpets in the Carriage Museum.
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Essex Community Foundation
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On 30 December 2014 we received a grant of £2,500 was obtained from the Essex Community Foundation (ECF) to support conservation work along the Flitch Way and surrounding areas. The grant was awarded from the Greenfields Community Fund (£1,000) and the Essex Rural Fund (£1500) which are administered by ECF.
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2013/14
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Big Lottery Fund
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A grant of £3,004 was awarded from the Big Lottery Fund for our project "involving the wider community in volunteering in the outdoors". This grant will allow us to equip our current and new volunteers with the appropriate protective clothing, tools and training as well as covering travel expenses to the sites where our work is carried out.
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Booking Hall Cafe
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A cheque for £300 was presented to Stan Davies from Rob Branch of the Booking Hall Cafe being the proceeds of the fundraising at the Rayne Station Festival in July 2013.
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2012/13
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Community Grant Scheme
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Wendy Moss successfully secured a grant of £1,500 from the Community Grant Scheme for the improvement of the car park and picnic area at High Cross Lane and the purchase and installation of an interpretation board and bench on the site.
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Funding for Railway Carriage
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A number of successful applications were made during 2012 in order to obtain the funding for the siting of the Railway Carriage at Rayne Station. Our thanks go to Stan Davies for his hard work. The following list gives the details:-
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2011
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Community Grant Scheme
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Wendy Moss secured funding from both Dunmow Council and Uttlesford District Council under the Community Grant Scheme for a total of £3,628 to create two Station Halts, install 15 more benches along the Flitch Way and install a bench and interpretation board at Dunmow Cutting.
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Stansted Airport Passenger Community Fund
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We received a grant of £700 from Stansted Airport Passenger Community Fund. This is to help towards the cost of the printing and art work for the Flitch Way leaflet that has been created by Stan Davies. This leaflet has proved to be very useful and sought after by visitors to the Flitch Way.
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Co-operative Community Fund Award
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Stan Davies successfully applied for funding of £1,800 from Co-operative Community Fund Award to enable us to continue to undertake important environmental work along the Flitch Way and to provide our volunteers with essential safety equipment.
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2009
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Greenfields Housing
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Wendy Moss made a successful application to Greenfields Housing for funding of a woodchipper, wood processor, trailer, tools and safety equipment for the volunteers with a grant of £33,470.
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Pre 2009 funding
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Stansted Community Fund
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Stan Davies managed to get a grant from Stansted Community Fund to allow us to buy display boards. These boards will be used to advertise our group at fetes etc.
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Braintree District Council
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We received £1000 from Braintree District Council, as the result of the Knights Development at Haslers Mill, Rayne. The money was used to fund safety equipment. Thanks to Mike Banthorpe and Pete Lane.
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Action Earth
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Jo Fish managed to get a grant of £50 from Action Earth to enable us to buy litter pickers for the group.
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Dunmow Mayors Fund
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We were awarded £200 from the Dunmow Mayors Fund to use towards general brushcutter expenses.
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Community Champions
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Pete Lane managed to secure £2000 from Community Champions. The funds were for general running costs/training courses/clothing etc.
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Co-operative Bank
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We were awarded £1,000 from the Co-Operative Bank. This money was spent buying waterproof trousers, steel toe-capped Wellington boots and other equipment to help our cause.
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