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Barrow Cadbury Trust is partnering with the National Lottery Community Fund? to distribute COVID-19 emergency response funding to the migration charity sector in England. The Trust has ?5 million to distribute for work that will relieve hardship caused by the pandemic among refugees and asylum-seekers and by migrants experiencing barriers to accessing services.?
The criteria is:
- If you are a charity or not for profit organisation registered in England with an income of between ?10,000 and ?1 million whose main focus is on providing support to refugees, asylum seekers or
- The maximum you can apply for is ?50,000 or three months? expenditure, whichever is the smaller.
What they will fund:
Activities and services - any activity that is related to COVID-19, for example:
- enabling access or providing the necessities of life (food, accommodation)
- mental health support or activities to prevent loneliness and isolation
- help with home schooling for children, building digital skills
- preventing exploitation or domestic abuse arising from the pandemic situation
- referral to other services that will help people cope with the pandemic (advice, health, social security etc.)
Other needs arising from the pandemic:
- Changes to systems (for example moving to remote working or the introduction of new systems) that will better enable you to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, or small scale changes to your premises to enable you to safely provide services
- Staff salaries or other investment in staff (such as training or support in relation to the demands of COVID-19)
- Volunteers? expenses
- Equipment to help you respond to the pandemic
- General running costs
- Interpretation costs or other costs specific to supporting this client group
- Contributions to fixed costs/overheads
For further information, including full criteria, funding thresholds and the assessment process visit?https://www.barrowcadbury.org.uk/what-we-do/programmes/covid-19-support-fund/
An online eligibility checker is available here
?If you are applying and want any PHE advice please contact [email protected]
Applications close 2nd August 2020
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