The fund provides community organisations emergency funding to deal with issues in the community, affecting older people and other vulnerable people as a result of the continuing threat of Covid-19. This includes; financial hardship, potential for hunger, lack of shelter, further exacerbation of health issues, need for self-isolation, loneliness and isolation of vulnerable people.

This fund will support vulnerable people and help to:

· Reduce the impact of isolation during any isolation period as a result of the threat of Covid 19,

· Support ongoing needs of people, to ensure that their well-being is maintained,

· Support initiatives that will help ensure people remain, safely connected with the outside world during this time.

The fund will be used to:

· Tackling the impacts of financial hardship.

· Enable people to access nutritious food by connecting them to services providing groceries, and other essential.

· Enable and encourage people to use and access technology to keep them connected to the outside world.

· Reach out to isolated people by telephone, and befriending if possible.

· Support home education for children and young people.

· Enable people to keep warm & to cook.