2016-17 funders and sponsors
TSP Projects raised £2,530 for St Nicks as their chosen charity of the year
In the 2016-17 financial year St Nicks is pleased to have received funding and support from the following:
- York’s first ever Green Party Lord Mayor, Dave Taylor – As a good omen for York’s ambition to be a collaborative One Planet city, we are joining forces with York Racial Equality Network, York LGBT Forum and York Civic Trust to raise funds and awareness of all the good work our charities do. St Nicks is raising funds for our flood-mitigation project, York Urban Becks Project. We aim to replace non-native Himalayan Balsam plants along the Foss tributaries, Tang Hall and Osbaldwick Becks, with bank-stabilising native plants. Please get in touch if you’d like to help in any way and check out our Events page for special events.
- Members of the public for supporting our new Wetland Habitat Creation project, who donated through crowdfunding platform Downstreams
- Lendlease – donation towards the Wetland Habitat Creation project
- Cobb Charity – support for our weekly volunteer programme
- Big Lottery for funding our Ecotherapy project
- D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust – donation towards our practical conservation volunteer programme
- Grow Wild – a project to plant creative wildflower displays on the nature reserve
- Shine – project funding to run summer holidays activities for children
- Brelms Trust – contribution towards the Nature Reserve Manager’s salary to upskill volunteers and increase biodiversity on site
- Hungate York Regeneration (joint venture partnership between Lendlease and Evans Property Group) – sponsoring Autumn Fayre
- John Spedan Lewis Foundation – donation for a series of wildlife workshops for our volunteers and members of the public on surveying for different wildlife, including owls, butterflies, bumblebees and amphibians
- TSP Projects – raised £2,530 for St Nicks as their chosen charity of the year
- Postcode Local Trust, a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery – awarded £17,180 for a habitat restoration and improvement project at Heworth Holme
- Purey Cust Trust CIO – towards additional activities for our Ecotherapy project
- Jack Brunton Charitable Trust – contribution towards our weekly volunteer programme
- Patricia and Donald Shepherd Charitable Trust – contribution towards our weekly volunteer programme
- Illingworths – our corporate member and sponsor of our annual Ceilidh dance
- Ambiente Tapas on Goodramgate – raised £1,311 for our Eco-Crafters club by making St Nicks their charity of November 2016
- Waitrose on Foss Islands Road – shoppers donated green tokens through their Community Matters Scheme, raising £448 for our Lord Mayor’s Charity appeal towards York Urban Becks Project to alleviate flooding and help wildlife, including endangered water voles
- Persimmon Homes York – made a contribution towards our volunteering programme by choosing St Nicks as their Community Champions. This programme helps local community groups, good causes and charities.
- Arlish and Chambers Charity – made a contribution towards our weekly volunteering programme
- The City of York Council‘s Improving Communities for Children fund to run summer holiday activities for children
- The Big Lottery Fund‘s Celebrate Programme for funding Autumn Fayre 2017
- Goodricke College at the University of York – we have a three-year partnership scheme to work with students to support, develop and deliver activities which aim to build volunteering within the college and raise funds and awareness for the charity
- Woodroffe Benton Foundation – contributed to the charity’s operations to help wildlife and people
- Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Your Consortium – to support the further development of our ecotherapy programme
- Guildhall Ward – funding equipment to maintain the nature reserve and contributing to the Centre Repairs Fund through funding a new pond-dipping platform
- Two Ridings Community Foundation‘s York Flood Appeal – contribution towards the York Urban Becks Project
- Micklegate Ward – for a project to boost recycling participation in parts of York City Centre
- City of York Council Community Recycling Fund – a project to run workshops to help people learn how to fix household items
- Martin Wills Wildlife Maintenance Trust – contribution towards St Nicks Volunteer Programme
- Feoffees of St Michaels Spurriergate – the full cost of fixing the shutters, contributing to the Centre Repairs Fund
