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.
Young people at risk of ‘lockdown loneliness’ and social isolation in South Hams are to be supported by a ‘Digital Youth Work’ project set up by local charity Youth Genesis Trust, thanks to a new National Lottery grant.
Micro Rainbow CIC, an organisation dedicated to supporting LGBTI* asylum seekers and refugees in the UK, has been awarded £10,000 in National Lottery funding for its new Social Inclusion programme, helping them cope with the effects of the coronavirus lockdown.
Mum Bub Hub which aims to bridge the gap in before and after birth care for vulnerable and at-risk women, particularly in BME communities, has been awarded National Lottery funding as their service is needed more than ever during the COVID-19 crisis.
Almost 1,500 community groups across England - many of them helping to tackle social isolation and loneliness caused by the COVID-19 crisis – are in for a share of around £30 million in National Lottery funding awarded this month.
A group of dedicated volunteers in a rural Suffolk village, many of whom are volunteering for the first time, are working tirelessly to ensure vulnerable people are looked after during the COVID-19 crisis – with pet care, hot meals and prescription collection just some of the ways in which support is being offered.
