Hilltop Community Fund

Every year in April/May, we launch our Hilltop Community Fund for local initiatives and projects who aim to improve the social and environmental landscape of Newtown and the surrounding area. Initiatives and projects can apply for up to £10,000 in funding to cover the costs of resources that are required for the project.
Read on to see our previous winners from 2022-2024.
2024 awardees

Montgomeryshire Family Crisis Centre

Montgomeryshire Family Crisis Centre aims to help anyone experiencing or affected by domestic abuse. They support women, men and children. Their target hardening project aims to help clients who have experienced domestic abuse and who wish to remain safely in their own homes.
(what their project will do for community)

Meals On Wheels

Meals On Wheels is a food company run by volunteers and as all their volunteers are older people over 65 (they do approximately 70 meals a week). They wish to put the funding towards equipment and other essentials to help the volunteers produce food for the community. It will benefit the older and vulnerable people who live in Welshpool and surrounding areas.
(what their project will do for community)

Ysgol Cedewain

Ysgol Cedewain is a special needs school with pupils ranging from 4-19 years of age. They wanted to have the funding to feed the children in their breakfast club as the staff were funding this themselves from their own money. By receiving the funding from Hilltop, their breakfast club will become feasible to run for 5 days and help students, in the morning, take medication with food to help with their day.
(what their project will do for community)

Caersws Bike Park

Caersws is one of the most iconic venues of British downhill. First raced in 2004 as part of the Midlands Super Series, Caersws has been a favourite of the UK race scene ever since. Over the next 12 months Caersws Bike Park is looking to create a mountain bike skills area. This will be an asset for the local community as it will provide an area that can be used to develop skills of new or younger riders in a safe environment. The skills area will allow the park to offer bike skills days or holiday courses for local young people in the area. Caersws is in a growth period and investment in the park has a number of positive knock-on effects for the local community.
(what their project will do for community)

Ysgol Caersws CP School

Caersws CP School is a small but successful community school with a real sense of family. They want to promote the health & wellbeing of all pupils by ensuring they feel safe & secure in a supportive school environment and through being a part of a thriving local community. They aim to support our pupils' growing minds by building their knowledge & understanding through topics which will capture their interest & stimulate their imagination.
(what their project will do for community)

Newtown White Stars Junior Football Club

Newtown White Stars J F C are a group of about 40 volunteers whom organise fun and competitive football training and matches for nearly 250 children from the ages of between 4-16, in the local area. This includes many festivals and social events. . The aim of them requesting the funds is that it will help the 250 children, plus their family & friends who support them, not only that, all of the visiting clubs that come to festivals and matches.
(what their project will do for community)

Montgomeryshire Family Crisis Centre

Montgomeryshire Family Crisis Centre aims to help anyone experiencing or affected by domestic abuse. They support women, men and children. Their target hardening project aims to help clients who have experienced domestic abuse and who wish to remain safely in their own homes.
(what their project will do for community)

Meals On Wheels

Meals On Wheels is a food company run by volunteers and as all their volunteers are older people over 65 (they do approximately 70 meals a week). They wish to put the funding towards equipment and other essentials to help the volunteers produce food for the community. It will benefit the older and vulnerable people who live in Welshpool and surrounding areas.
(what their project will do for community)

Ysgol Cedewain

Ysgol Cedewain is a special needs school with pupils ranging from 4-19 years of age. They wanted to have the funding to feed the children in their breakfast club as the staff were funding this themselves from their own money. By receiving the funding from Hilltop, their breakfast club will become feasible to run for 5 days and help students, in the morning, take medication with food to help with their day.
(what their project will do for community)

Caersws Bike Park

Caersws is one of the most iconic venues of British downhill. First raced in 2004 as part of the Midlands Super Series, Caersws has been a favourite of the UK race scene ever since. Over the next 12 months Caersws Bike Park is looking to create a mountain bike skills area. This will be an asset for the local community as it will provide an area that can be used to develop skills of new or younger riders in a safe environment. The skills area will allow the park to offer bike skills days or holiday courses for local young people in the area. Caersws is in a growth period and investment in the park has a number of positive knock-on effects for the local community.
(what their project will do for community)

Ysgol Caersws CP School

Caersws CP School is a small but successful community school with a real sense of family. They want to promote the health & wellbeing of all pupils by ensuring they feel safe & secure in a supportive school environment and through being a part of a thriving local community. They aim to support our pupils' growing minds by building their knowledge & understanding through topics which will capture their interest & stimulate their imagination.
(what their project will do for community)

Newtown White Stars Junior Football Club

Newtown White Stars J F C are a group of about 40 volunteers whom organise fun and competitive football training and matches for nearly 250 children from the ages of between 4-16, in the local area. This includes many festivals and social events. . The aim of them requesting the funds is that it will help the 250 children, plus their family & friends who support them, not only that, all of the visiting clubs that come to festivals and matches.
(what their project will do for community)
previous awardees

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