How to raise an enormous amount of funds needed for new building construction
- Martin Lewis - has made £1m available to fund urgent coronavirus grants of £5k to £20k to small registered UK charities - community aid, financial advice help and more - to help with specific UK coronavirus-related poverty relief projects. His hope is to get the money is distributed within the next couple of weeks. Applications close midnight 25 March. Apply online. That man is an absolute star.
- London Funders - has launched a £2m fund for organisations facing immediate financial pressures and uncertainty because of the coronavirus. These include increasing demands for services, higher staff absences, fewer volunteers and lower donations. The London Mayor has pledged £1m to the fund.
- John Lewis & Waitrose - launched a £1m Community Support Fund to be distributed by Waitrose shops to local communities, and a support fund to aid staff facing additional costs as a result of the pandemic.
- The National Emergencies Trust - launching an to help those most effected by the outbreak. They collaborate with charities and other bodies to raise and distribute money and support victims at the time of a domestic disaster.
- The Scottish Government - has announced £350m to support welfare and wellbeing, including a £20m 3rd sector Resilience Fund.
- Community Foundation NI - launched a Coronavirus Community Fund for community organisations emergency funding to deal with emerging issues in the community, affecting older people (aged 50 and over),
- Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and N'berland - launched a Coronavirus Response and Recovery Fund. Two stages: response, then recovery. Response - extra money to organisations supporting older people and other vulnerable groups. Recovery - a wider group of local charities and community organisations whose operations and finances have been affected.
- Suffolk Community Foundation - older people at risk (typically over the age of 70), vulnerable people with medical conditions, those that are isolated and therefore have limited support networks, those picking up extra demand – such as food banks, telephone befriending, and advice services, good neighbourhood schemes.
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