Cambridgeshire Community Foundation

Cambridgeshire Coronavirus Community Fund Appeal

The fund will offer community organisations emergency funding to deal with issues in the community, affecting older people and other vulnerable people
£1,203,420
raised of £1,500,000 target
RCN 1103314

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Story

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.

About the charity

Cambridgeshire Community Foundation helps local people to offer support to projects they care about; ones that are making a difference to the lives of local people. Through the Funds donors set up and grow at CCF, grants are made to support local charitable projects

Donation summary

Total raised
£1,203,419.22
+ £10,350.49 Gift Aid
Online donations
£51,783.22
Offline donations
£1,151,636.00
Direct donations
£49,260.22
Donations via fundraisers
£2,523.00

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