The main grant giving organisations in Wales, who regularly meet as the Wales Funders’ Forum, are working together more closely than ever to ensure that funding goes to the Welsh charities, organisations and communities that need it most during lockdown. Between them £20 million has already been distributed to communities across Wales.
The National Lottery Community Fund is today announcing funding of £1,798,134 to 62 community and voluntary projects who are supporting the health, well-being and quality of life of people across Northern Ireland.
A local charity is adapting to life under lockdown by bringing music and performance right into the homes of some of Cumbria’s most vulnerable people – thanks to a National Lottery cash boost of £21,000.
A non-profit friendship and dating organisation in Cambridgeshire for adults with additional needs has received more than £23,000 of National Lottery funding to support its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure isolation and loneliness during lockdown is minimised.
An Essex community group that brings together local volunteers, charities and organisations to tackle loneliness and meet challenges in the county’s care homes has received a much-needed National Lottery grant to support its efforts during the coronavirus pandemic.
A hospital radio station serving Buckinghamshire’s biggest hospital has received £22,500 from The National Lottery Community Fund, to help boost its efforts of reducing loneliness and isolation felt by some patients and healthcare staff during the coronavirus pandemic.
A Sussex-based befriending community project has just received a £22,000 National Lottery grant to help it meet a surge in demand for its support in Worthing and Adur.
A Bury-based charity has taken a unique and innovative approach to help reduce loneliness and isolation among the town’s BAME community during lockdown, by providing local people with traditional, ethnic, hot meals thanks to Bury’s first halal Fusion Foodbank.
Vital access to help and support during COVID-19 for vulnerable and isolated people in Kingswood will continue, thanks to a National Lottery grant to local community hub Kingsmeadow @ Made Forever.
