Project activities funded so far through small grants....
Applications for a small grant of up to £3,000 must demonstrate how they link into at least one of our priority themes below :
creating new job, enterprise or training opportunities
improving health and wellbeing
feeling safer- helping to reduce crime and improve community safety
providing more activities for Children and Young People
activities bringing different generations together.
And how they meet the four Big Local Outcomes:
communities will be better able to identify local needs and take action in response to them.
people will have increased skills and confidence, so that they continue to identify and respond to needs in the future.
the community will make a difference to the needs it prioritises.
people will feel that their area is an even better place to live.
2502 BA Squadron Royal Air Force Cadets - Virtual reality flight simulator
This small grant has enabled the squadron to purchase and launch, in late September 2019, the use of our Virtual Reality (VR) flight simulators. This has to date enabled 37 cadets to take part in flying circuits in a VR Grob Tutor from RAF Leeming (our AEF base). Eight cadets have subsequently completed Air Experience Flights and have subsequently re-flown their flights in VR, as a result maximising their learning experiences.
We have been approached by the local scout group and a local school to take the VR flight simulator into their community, which we will complete during 2020.
Although early days for its use, we can confirm that the VR system has been extremely well received by the cadets on the squadron, all of whom are aware of the sponsor. We have advertising the opportunity on local community radio (during which we acknowledged the kind support of the Gaunless Gateway).
We have also had one Cadet Corporal spend an hour on the VR flight simulator then decide to apply for a flying scholarship, We have subsequently completed a reference for the scholarship application, which closes in February 2020.....watch this space!