Over the last five years, more than £48.5m of National Lottery funding has gone to charities and community groups working to build social connections and address loneliness across the East of England.
Voluntary Services Lewisham are using a £10,000 grant to provide food, toys, supermarket vouchers and a Christmas Eve meal to vulnerable individuals and families in the community.
East London homeless community group, Healthy Living Healthy Lives CIC, has received £10,000 of National Lottery funding to create a mobile consulting room.
A new youth filming project in London is being set-up by the Damilola Taylor Trust to give young people in South London affected by the pandemic a platform to share their experience.
Action For Sport – a Bradford-based project with a goal to collect good-quality, second-hand sportswear and pass it on to children who need it - is celebrating after receiving a National Lottery cash boost of £10,000.
One Herefordshire man is supporting the country’s farmers experiencing mental illness and isolation, after receiving almost £140,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund.
Almost £65 million of vital National Lottery funding has gone to communities across England this quarter to support them as they recover from the pandemic.
Refuge4Pets has been awarded over £240,000 of National Lottery funding to continue its vital work, placing pets in foster care whilst their owners escape domestic abuse.
