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Seven lucky projects receive a share of £12,000 YOUdecide fund
Almost 200 people voted at the biggest ever Decision Day at Thorngate Hall on Saturday 17th November 2012. Out of the seventeen finalists, seven projects received the highest amount of votes and were awarded the following amount of funding:
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1st
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6th Gosport Scout Group New Home
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A completely new building is required by this Rowner based scout group. They have raised £12,000 through fundraising and seeking the remainder to implement the rebuild.
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£3,000
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2nd
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Momentum & Active8 Youth Clubs
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These two clubs are run by Gosport Family Church volunteers (for ages 12-18 and 7-12 respectively), funding is required to replace equipment and grow the lighting and music aspects of the groups.
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£2,439.90
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3rd
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Moving on Project
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Volunteer counsellors provide 24 hours of counselling per week to young people in Gosport. Funding is sought to pay for training of volunteers.
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£900
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4th
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Aspiring Autism
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This voluntary run support group for families affected by Autistic Spectrum Disorder would like funds to purchase additional toys and equipment to run the group & costs for one-off special events like Christmas.
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£2,000
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5th
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Forest School Leader
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Provision of a trained Forest School Leader to run sessions for 3-5 year olds at Oxstall Meadow, Grange Farm over the academic year.
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£800
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6th
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Gosport Street Pastors
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Train 5 volunteers; who every Saturday night & one Friday per month support and give a sense of peace & safety to the night-time community.
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£1,650
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7th
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Fortonfest 2013
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A free community event of live music and activities at Forton park, run by volunteers. Money will pay for hire of fair, bands and event promotion/insurance.
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£1,210.10
(part funded)
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You can watch two short videos from the day on the links below - the first includes the 'before and after' parts of the presentations made by the finalists. The second shows the winners being presented with their cheques:

A video of the presentations made by the finalists is currently in production and feedback from evaluation forms completed by the voters will be made available here in the coming weeks.
Please click on the links below for articles that were published by the News in October and November:
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/local/groups-get-slice-of-12-000-as-the-public-decides-1-4513950
For more information, please contact Sam Mitchell on 023 9254 5232 or e-mail: sam.mitchell@gosport.gov.uk

The Town Hall Council Chamber hosted the sixth YOUdecide Decision Day in May 2012 - which proved to be the most popular and lively so far!
Fifteen projects presented to residents of Gosport in the audience, with some lively and heartfelt presentations from rapping, to body-popping through to poems and speeches! The event was filmed and live-streamed so people who couldn't make it to the event were able to enjoy it. Videos of the event and the vote count are available on youtube via our facebook page: www.facebook.com/GosportCSP

The scores for the projects was particularly close in some places - with only one point separating some projects! The £12,000 YOUdecide fund was able to give money to eight projects in total, with the 8th place project receiving just over two thirds of the original amount they asked for. All of the bidders who received funding were ecstatic, especially the Forton Footy project who received the highest score!

Details of the all of the projects who took part can be found in the document below, along with the projects who were awarded funding:
Summary of projects [WORD, 148k]
Projects awarded funding [WORD, 42k]
For more information about previous of YOUdecide, please visit the History of YOUdecide page and watch the video below which includes interviews with some of the projects funded in 2010.