Sports clubs, schools and charities are among 16 organisations that will receive a share of just over £150,000 from a Watford community funding pot.
Just under £155,000 will be distributed to help pay for projects after applications were submitted to Watford Borough Council.
Bids of up to £20,000 were invited with the money coming from the council’s community infrastructure levy pot, which is funded by developers.
The council’s Cabinet ratified the successful applications when it met on Monday November 28.
Watford mayor Peter Taylor said: "It’s great to see so many local organisations have taken advantage of the grants available. The funding is supporting projects that will make a real difference to the lives of people in our communities.
"It has also been brilliant to see the wide range of proposals from our diverse community, helping people get more actively involved in their neighbourhoods.”
Everett Rovers Football Club in North Watford will receive the maximum £20,000 to help fund its £800,000 plus fundraising drive to create a 3G all-weather artificial grass pitch.
Watford Town Cricket Club will also get £20,000 to replace “dangerous” cricket nets with new nets that are enclosed and lockable.
And £20,000 has been awarded to Watford & Three Rivers Trust to invest in its kitchen, main hall and entrance facilities at Holywell Community Centre, as well as to Watford FC Community Sports & Education Trust to make its car park at Meriden Community Centre safer. This includes fixing potholes and painting white lines.
Pump House Theatre and Arts Centre off Lower High Street will receive £19,383 towards its £25,000 project to make its theatre more watertight, increase capacity, and develop an educational space.
Employment and life skills charity Watford Workshop will get £15,000 to replace its toilet and washroom facilities while Random Cafe on the Meriden estate, which offers food donated by supermarkets, will receive £7,923 to make its site more wheelchair-friendly, create a patio, and install solar panels.
A sum of £8,773 will be awarded to Cathartic C.I.C to create artwork for public buildings in Watford. The art will be done by children and adults, including refugees, those bereaved, with special needs, domestic abuse survivors, and those living with an illness.
Five thousand pounds will help pay the £26,000 costs to make Victoria Passage near Vicarage Road safer, including installation of a CCTV camera. The road, which is by a primary school, is said to suffer from street drinking and drug dealing.
Elsewhere, Beechfield School has been awarded £5,000 for an allotment, and Cherry Tree School will get £4,500 for a biodiversity garden.
Homelessness charity New Hope will use £3,111 to create a memorial garden at St Mary’s Church in High Street to replace the community market garden it has lost, and £1,822 will be spent on installing six interpretive signs at Cassiobury Park nature reserve by Friends of Cassiobury Park.
The Veterans Support Group Watford & District will spend £2,000 on metal detector kits for 20 people to encourage people to get out and about on farmland as part of its ‘Get Active’ scheme.
Glen Rovers Hurling & Football Club in Radlett Road will spend £2,340 on a defibrillator to be installed at the club. This is after an incident at a game where a defibrillator was needed.
Finally, a dance teacher from B Dance will get £80 to buy equipment for her seated exercise class at Luther Blissett Hub.
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