Tackling Poverty, Food and Financial Wellbeing Fund – UK

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3 years ago

Deadline: 11-Jan-23

The Suffolk Community Foundation is seeking applications for the “Tackling Poverty, Food and Financial Wellbeing Fund”.

Priority 1: Ensuring good quality affordable food is accessible for people in financial hardship.
Priority 2: Delivering opportunities for people to improve their financial wellbeing.

Grants of up to £5,000 are available to support the work of voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations.

Priority 1: Ensuring good quality affordable food is accessible for people in financial hardship.
- This might include but is not limited to:
  - Community food initiatives such as lunch clubs and community food growing initiatives
  - Projects that help people with cooking skills and access to low-cost cooking equipment
  - Projects involving foodbanks supporting clients to access other services that help the client address the root causes of their situation.
Priority 2: Delivering opportunities for people to improve their financial wellbeing.
- This might include but is not limited to:
  - Immediate support to maximise income or reduce expenditure for groups of people that may not access mainstream support and are at higher risk of being in or falling into poverty (e.g. disabled households, lone parents, care leavers)
  - Preventative work such as financial education initiatives for children, young people, or adults
  - Projects that help people deal with the mental health impacts of financial stress

This is a short-term one-off allocation of additional funding that must be spent by the end of August 2023 at the latest. It can fund:

the extension of existing work (i.e., a short-term continuation of work that has recently stopped or may be about to stop)
the expansion of existing work (i.e., delivering to more people) or;
new short-term pieces of work
set up costs for longer term projects that have other funding that can sustain the project past August 2023

They are unable to fund core costs
Organisations already receiving funding from other council funding streams for the same work
Work that does not meet one of the two priorities
Organisations proposing to offer welfare benefits or debt advice that do not have the appropriate accreditations, training and insurances.

For more information, visit Suffolk Community Foundation.