A grant from the Len Pick Trust has enabled Bourne Baptist Church to create a new sensory room for babies and toddlers.
Mihaela Jones from the Bourne Baptist Church said: “We are so grateful for Len Pick who supported us (Bourne Baptist Church) with a generous grant which as enabled us to upgrade one of our rooms (from a storage room) to a beautiful new sensory playroom for babies and toddlers.
The Len Pick Trust have been really friendly and helpful and we appreciate their help in supporting this project! This lovely sensory playroom will benefit the
Bourne community through our weekly toddler group on a Tuesday (all are welcome) at 9.30am and will support our young families who attend our Sunday
church gatherings. Thank you Len Pick!”
Check out these before and after photographs from Twenty Village Hall, which has been given a new lease of life thanks to some new double-glazed windows and doors!
The hall has not been in regular public use for some years, but a new committee is aiming to change that and the Len Pick Trust was pleased to support them by awarding a grant to fund the installation of new windows and doors at the building. This, alongside some more refurbishment works, will enable the building to be enjoyed by the local community once again.
A recent grant from the Len Pick Trust has enabled Bourne Arts and Community Trust to upgrade the CCTV systems at Wake House Community And Business Facility.
The new system helps to keep this much-loved community facility safe and secure, also offering reassurance to user groups who are in the building alone.
It’s great to see the improvements that Bourne Cricket Club have made over the summer. A grant from the Len Pick Trust has supported the provision of a new reversible sight screen, meaning the club can continue to host county, regional and club matches more easily.
The club also used the grant to support the laying of a second non-turn net surface at the southern end of the ground, which has been transformational to the club’s coaching provision.
Well done Bourne Cricket Club, and we look forward to seeing the next phase of your planned improvements over the coming months!
The Len Pick Trust was deeply saddened to learn that Adrian Smith, our former Trust Manager, passed away earlier this week.
Adrian was a Founding Trustee, and then went on to serve as Trust Manager until his retirement last October. He was well respected within the community, and we know that many people will have benefitted from Adrian’s boundless enthusiasm and dedication to town life.
The Len Pick Trust has supported hundreds of community projects and organisations since its inception in 2006, and great credit must be given to Adrian for his stewardship and guidance of the Trust which has enabled it to support the community in this way.
Trustees join the local community in sending our deepest condolences to Adrian’s family.
Earlier in the summer, Christian’s Against Poverty UK used a grant from The Len Pick Trust to host an event for clients in the Bourne area, with around 60 people enjoying an address from an inspirational speaker. They’ve also used their grant to deliver their CAP money coaching course at the Bourne Baptist Church.
It’s great to see the work this charity is doing to support our local community.
The East Midlands Tornadoes mixed netball club took part in their first Netball Nationals at the end of August, proudly wearing their new kit which was funded by a grant from the Len Pick Trust.
Lorna Clayden, Head Coach for the club, said: ‘The mixed netball club took part in their first Netball Nationals on 23-25th August 2024. This was made possible by much support from local businesses and people. The Len Pick Trust came forward immediately with a very generous donation to help buy the kit, this was totally amazing for us . It was hard work and the team worked hard to earn their place and we will be returning next year to get a higher ranking . We can’t thank you all enough for supporting the team . Thank you!’
We have had another successful season in the Len Pick owl tower.
Two chicks have successfully fledged and will soon be on their way to finding their own area to live in away from the adults.
Our original four eggs produced two healthy chicks. The weather has meant a lack of prey particularly field voles so our parent birds have done really well.
We look forward with optimism to next year.
In the meantime, the camera will be switched off ready for maintenance work.
Yesterday our chicks were ringed under licence with a few of the LPT trustees observing.
Both were males and looked very healthy and well fed.
They were six weeks old yesterday and will soon be venturing into the tunnel to look out over the farmland.
The camera has been playing up again so it hasn’t been easy to follow the action in the nest.
We had some heavy rain in mid May and our brood of four chicks are now down to two.
This is typical for barn owls. They often suffer in bad weather when it is difficult for the adults to hunt.
The chicks are now five weeks old and we shall soon be ringing them.
