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 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.
Children and young people living with cancer, who are isolating during the COVID-19 pandemic in Hertfordshire and across the South East, will now be able to interact and support each other online with digital meet-ups thanks to a new National Lottery grant.
