Emergency Assistance Grant for Food and Essential Supplies
The government has announced emergency assistance of £63 million to be distributed to local authorities in England to use to support groups who are helping people who are struggling to afford food and other essentials due to Covid-19.
Vale of White Horse District Council has been allocated £43,077, which will be used to support local charities and community organisations that are delivering essential services to vulnerable residents in Vale of White Horse impacted by Covid-19.
Proposals must satisfy one or both of the funding priorities:
The scheme opened on 1 September 2020 and applications will be assessed on a rolling basis. The assessment panel will meet every two weeks. Applications are now being assessed and funding is being allocated. The next deadline is 26 October.
We expect the money to spent by 31 October 2020 so encourage early applications.
Funds awarded need to be spent by 31 March 2021
How to Apply:
Please read the detailed Guidance Notes before completing the online form
If you require any further information or have any queries, please contact the Community Connector Team at communityconnectors@southandvale.gov.uk.
Every Councillor has up to £2,000 to make discretionary grant payments to community groups and other appropriate organisations that are directly responding to the Coronavirus pandemic in their ward. Please contact your district councillor directly or email grants@southandvale.gov.uk
Community Resilience grants from Oxfordshire Community Foundation
The aim of the grants are to not only give immediate relief to respond better, they are also our way of ensuring the local voluntary sector recovers stronger. https://oxfordshire.org/resilience-fund-overview/
Government and National Lottery Emergency Covid-19 Funding
This is a £200m fund aimed primarily at small-to-medium sized organisations, supporting them to continue to deliver services to people and communities affected by Covid-19. Further information on the government grant scheme and lottery funding can be found via the National Lottery website, or for a full list of government funds available for voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations responding to coronavirus.
Other grants for organisations
A summary of other grants schemes available locally during the current crisis for not-for-profit organisations can be found here, or at a national level here.
For specific guidance for organisations on issues of governance, finance and supporting your volunteers, staff and communities, please visit https://www.ncvo.org.uk/practical-support/information/coronavirus.
If you are a business that has applied for a government business grant or want information about the schemes available then please contact the South and Vale Business Support team by emailing business.support@southandvale.gov.uk.
Applications for the Discretionary Grant Fund have now closed. You can find more about what support is available to your business through the SVBS website.
We absolutely recognise that in these current, very challenging circumstances, your organisation may well be reviewing the services and support you currently offer to residents to provide the advice, help and support they will need over the coming months. For current grant recipients, we understand that Covid-19 has very likely had an impact on your council supported projects and would encourage you to keep in regular contact with the community enablement team on grants@southandvale.gov.uk to discuss extending the time in which you have to start/complete your project during this period
You can find out more about the grants awarded up to March 2020 in the download below
If you’d like further information about the grants awarded or completed, please contact the Grants team on 01235 422405 or grants@southandvale.gov.uk
Please read more about how we may use your information and your rights, including those about accessing your records, by downloading our Community Enablement team’s Privacy Notice
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Vale of White Horse District Council
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