Making a difference:  our impact (under review)

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Picture shows, left to right:  Lou Phillips (Community Centre Manager), Geoff Brodie (Hon. Treasurer) and Mary Craven (Chair of Trustees).

In February 2019, Pan Together’s trustees were successful in receiving substantial grant funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, which allowed us to employ a full-time Community Centre Manager who took up post in June 2019.  Working with a range of partners, the primary focus of her role is to build the resilience of the centre and the charity by:

• developing the already vibrant centre’s role at the heart of the community to new levels; and
• helping to secure its on-going and future success as a community hub to best support more and different local residents of all ages and abilities.

In June 2022 as part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Pan Together was awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service (QAVS).  This is the highest award a voluntary organisation can achieve in the UK and is the organisational equivalent of an MBE.

Queen’s Award for two Isle of Wight volunteer groups | Isle of Wight County Press

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Prince Edward and Sophie Countess of Wessex visit Isle of Wight | Isle of Wight County Press

Since June 2019, our capacity to deliver is demonstrated by the significant number of successful funding applications, each of which has been dependent upon rigorous monitoring and reporting, and donations. For example:

ASDA Foundation; Action Hampshire; Arnold Clark Community Fund; Artswork; Bauer Music Group; British Science Association; Charities’ Aid Foundation Resilience Fund; Daisie Rich Foundation; Edgar E Lawley Fund: Fidelity International; Garnett Foundation; Hampshire & Isle of Wight Community Fund (various); Hants & IW Grand Masonic Lodge; Healthwatch IW; HM Government (various); HMRC Gift Aid; Isle of Wight Council (various); IW Distillery; IW Festival; Isle of Wight Foundation; Isle of Wight High Sheriff’s Trust; IW Lions Club; IW Rotary Club; Localgiving / People’s Postcode Lottery; Mackley-construction company; National Lottery Community Fund (three significant grants); Neighbourly; Newport and Carisbrooke Community Council (various); Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner; P3P Partners; Priory Schol, Whippingham; Quakers Legacy Group; Ridge Clean Energy; SNG (housing association) (various); Southern Co-op; Southern Vectis; Southern Water; Unison, IW Local Govt. branch; Tesco Community Grants; TK Maxx & Homesense Foundation; Utilita; Vinci UK Foundation; and Wave 105.

Unsolicited donations from a wider range of individuals and businesses are further testament to the respect which is afforded to Pan Together locally.  Further recognition comes in the form of the high volumes of news cuttings secured.