How we help our local community!

Over the last 20 years Burnham Health Promotion Trust has paid for, or secured funding for, a huge range of activities, equipment and facilities in the village. These include children’s play equipment in local parks and playgrounds, the outdoor gym in Burnham Park and a wide variety of equipment in ALL the local schools.

In addition, BHPT has provided financial support to many organisations. These have included the Youth Centre, the Children’s Centre, Burnham Lighthouse, Home Start, the Well @ Lent Rise, Friends of Burnham Library and Thames Valley Adventure Playground. BHPT also helped fund the renovation of the public toilets in Jennery Lane, Burnham, a much needed High Street facility.

BHPT work in partnership with many providers. You can see more information on who we work with and what we do with them on our PARTNERS page, but to give you an idea, we fund Citizens Advice Bureau sessions, and provide a free community room for various counselling services, housing advice drop in sessions, sexual health drop in clinics and much more.

Last but by no means least, BHPT organises one off events such as Wellbeing Days and Fun Days and provides or actively supports a wide and growing range of weekly activities and services.

Here we can share some examples of how we have helped!

Helping to fund the goals for Burnham Walking Football group
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Food Vouchers

  • Over 4000 issued since our Care & Share project opened.
  • Helping thousands of people with food, groceries and toiletries.
  • Help with ongoing support or one off visits.
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Grants given

  • By BHPT, to over 50 organisations in the local community.
  • To provide funding for local equipment, facilities and services.
  • We are proud to have helped support and grow so many local projects and groups.
The Marathon Challenge - Helping Burnham get fit
Burnham Park, the site of the BHPT Marathon Challenge, where BHPT installed the Green Gym. The Outdoor Gym Group and Walking football meet here & sometimes Tai Chi have their class outdoors in the park if the weather is nice.
A Lent Rise School pupil models the Green Gym BHPT installed at the school
The new shed at Burnham Men's Sheds site. Helping launch and promote groups in the community is something we love to be involved with.
Project 57

Project 57 focuses on the footpath area between St Peter’s Close & Opendale Road and the playground. It’s been the subject of many concerns over the years including antisocial behaviour, drug taking, litter and fly-tipping. It’s an essential walking route for residents but many are afraid to use it after dark due to the fear of crime. Its also a well used playground for local children & families.

The Parish Council led a major project to address all of these issues and the work has included: installing new street lights and CCTV along the path to deter fly-tipping and motorcyclists & to help people feel safer, transforming a neglected woodland into a wild play area & resurfacing the worst areas of the path, repairing, resurfacing & improving access to St Peter’s Playground and a street art project with pupils from the former Burnham Park Academy along the wall.

The project was made possible through a very generous donation from the Veolia Environmental Trust, and was also supported through grants from Buckinghamshire County Council, us at BHPT and the Tesco Bags of Help grant scheme. We wanted to show you some pictures of the difference it has made!

The dull, graffiti covered wall
An overgrown area

And not forgetting some additional features, such as benches, the viewing platform and nesting boxes throughout.

This project was a labour of love from the local volunteers, community & uniformed groups.

To a colourful wall of art!
To a play area with seating!
Rusty, broke swing area
A bare stream area
To painted, new swing area!
In to a new water habitat!

The area will be renamed in time, there was due to be a opening ceremony but it was unfortunately delayed when the Pandemic hit. For more information or if you want to make a suggestion on the name, please click here to visit their website.