On the evening of Thursday 27th June the
Mountsorrel Railway Project achieved simultaneous funding and award
successes.
At Mountsorrel Methodist Church we competed against ten
other local good causes for a slice of £15,000 of funding that was available
from the Leicestershire County Council Community Forum that covers the area
through which the branch line runs. One of the projects dropped out before the
evening and three others unfortunately left empty-handed. The prize winners were
decided by a public vote and the Mountsorrel Railway Project came away with an
allocation of £3,316 to go towards the cost of the proposed Bond Lane
Halt.
Meanwhile, on the same evening, a few miles away at the
Burleigh Court Hotel in Loughborough, two project volunteers, Lianne Holden and Sue Cramp, represented the project at Charnwood Borough Council’s ‘Don’t
Muck Around’ environmental awards,
for which we had been nominated in the ‘Inspiring Others’ category. The category
was again decided by a public vote, organised through the Loughborough Echo.
However, our nomination had
originally been mislaid so we were always playing ‘catch up’ in the voting and
we were distinctly pessimistic about our prospects. Therefore, it came as a bolt from the
blue when it was announced that we had won the category and, apparently, by some
margin!
The most encouraging factor about both of these
successes is that, in both cases, they resulted not from the opinion of an
‘expert panel’, but from the votes of the general public and our dedicated
supporters.
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