In total, since lockdown began, we have successfully distributed £200 million in funding to over 7,100 small and medium-sized organisations across the UK to help communities respond to the impact of COVID-19.
Charities and community groups across Yorkshire and Humber have been awarded more than £2.2 million of National Lottery funding since the beginning of June – providing crucial support to overcome challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis.
The National Lottery Community Fund is today announcing £2.4 million of grants to over one hundred projects across Wales that are helping communities to tackle issues including domestic violence and isolation, which have risen as a result of the lockdown. In Wales, charities have reported an increase of calls reporting domestic abuse to help lines since March*. The National Lottery has today announced its support for six organisations working with families suffering from this issue with grants totalling £171,766.
The National Lottery Community Fund the UK’s largest funder of community activity in the UK, has today announced the appointment of new Chairs of its England and Scotland Committees.
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.
