Bickerley Green Nursing & Residential Home vintage virtual bus rides among schemes receiving share of £2,500 Ringwood Town Council grant aid

VINTAGE virtual bus rides for care home residents are among schemes benefiting from £2,500 in Ringwood Town Council funding.

A recent full council meeting confirmed the sharing of the last funds remaining in its grant aid pot for the 2023/24 financial year.

Bickerley Green Nursing & Residential Home was awarded £500 towards two schemes to stimulate residents who are frail or have dementia.

A partial interior of a period 1950s/60s Hampshire and Dorset bus will be recreated, along with Ringwood Market Place and Bournemouth Gardens bus stops, in its grounds.

The other scheme is to create a Ringwood-centred café/social centre with town photographs and memorabilia, to benefit residents and visitors.

In its bid for funding, the home said the vintage period-style resource would also be open to appropriate external groups, assisted living communities and like-minded town senior groups.

Ringwood Girl Guiding is receiving a £750 grant towards providing a disabled toilet at the guide hall on Clough’s Road.

Another £750 has been handed to Greyfriars Community Centre towards to replace the old parquet floor in Greyfriars Hall.

Friends of Ringwood Infants School (FORIS) is receiving £500 towards providing a covered outdoor learning area.

This will be placed to the rear entrance to Badgers, Foxes and Sika Deer classrooms of Year 1 pupils.

Proposals for the development were due to be submitted imminently, with hopes it will be carried out during the summer holidays.