LCRCares
LCRCares is a new crowdfunding campaign to raise £1million to support community and voluntary organisations on the frontline of helping the city region’s communities cope with the impact of Coronavirus.
Recipients of grant payments are as follows:
Torrington Drive Community Association
Helping Halewood Project to support vulnerable residents that are suffering from isolation due to the Coronavirus. The grant will cover staff, volunteer expenses, costs for the meals and equipment.
Brunswick Youth Club
Emergency response programme to support the community while they are locked down due to Coronavirus by delivering food parcels to the vulnerable. The grant will be used for food boxes, volunteer costs and coordinator costs.
Gallier House C.I.C
To continue group centre running due to loss of fundraising income – in order to deliver suicide interventions and bereavement from suicide support.
Wirral Society Blind & Partially Sighted
Set up a support service through phone and video calls to support vulnerable people in the community due to the Coronavirus outbreak. sessional costs and volunteer expenses.
Age UK Mid Mersey
Provide emergency bag drop of basic food supplies and telephone wellbeing checks for vulnerable members in the community. The grant will be used for staff, volunteer costs ad items for the food bags.
Listening Ear
Provide telephone counselling for vulnerable community members. The grant will be used for staff, counselling, telephone equipment and software.
The Florence Institute Trust Limited
Provide food and essential items packages to vulnerable families. The grant will be used for volunteer expenses, staff and items for the food packages.
Litherland Youth and Community Centre
Provide food parcels, including toiletries twice a week to vulnerable members of the community. The grant will be used for items for the food parcels.
Creative Health Initiatives CIC
Deliver a range of hot meals to local individuals and families during the Covid crisis. The grant will be used for staff, volunteer expenses, ingredients and bills.
Big Help Project
To pay for the food for the foodbank for up to one week.
Tailored Advice Services in Communities
To continue delivering advice to existing and new clients over the phone. Funding will cover the costs for two advisers for an additional 10hrs per week over 12 weeks as well as stationery, postage and printer ink costs.
Apostolic Church
To deliver food packages to those in need. Funding will cover volunteer travel expenses, food and essentials for packages and protective equipment, sanitiser etc.
Granby Toxteth Development Trust
To provide emergency food and health packs to the most vulnerable and elderly in the community.
The Brain Charity
Provide on the phone counselling sessions for vulnerable community members to help reduce the impact of isolation. The grant will be used for salary costs.
City of Liverpool Football Club
To maintain the group’s delivery service to vulnerable and isolated residents. Funding would contribute towards volunteer costs including travel, overheads including rent and cleaning costs and purchase of wholesale items to be delivered.
Micah Liverpool
Funding will support the continuation of the foodbank by covering staff costs for 12 weeks and additional food and essential items.
Galloway’s Society for the Blind
To relieve the loneliness of 389 blind/partially-sighted people in Sefton who use the service regularly. Funding will contribute towards the costs of two sight loss advisors, a Talking News coordinator and a Communications coordinator to continue the service via audio and other means.
Citadel Arts
Deliver a virtual programme for vulnerable people in the community, this will be a way to improve mental health and wellbeing during the Coronavirus Crisis. The grant will be used for performer costs and facilitator costs.
Liverpool Six Community Association
Provide food packages and general essentials to vulnerable members of the community. The grant will be used for volunteer expenses.
The Opening Doors Project
Provide the online activities for families and continue to deliver the emergency foodbank. The grant will be used for travel costs, items for the foodbank and marketing\.
St Joseph’s Hospice
To protect staff and patients during the virus. Funding will cover the costs of face masks, disposable gloves and disposable aprons.
Norris Green Community Alliance
Provide food packages for vulnerable community members. The grant will be used to pay one staff member to support the volunteers with deliveries of food and packing and answering the telephone.
Liverpool Community Advice
Provide financial wellbeing checks and offer specialist advice for vulnerable members of the community. The grant will be used for staff, stationary, rent and equipment.
The Whitechapel Centre
Support with daily welfare visits and regular food and toiletry parcels. There will also be telephone calls to vulnerable people. The grant will be used for travel, salary and items for the parcels.
Porchfield Community Association
Offer emergency food and care parcels to the most vulnerable and provide online and telephone support to help reduce isolation. The grant will be used for staff, food package items and telephone costs.
Open 360
To offer remote wellbeing support, advice and connectivity for current and former participants during Covid-19 crisis as well as meals delivered to beneficiaries who are having to isolate.
Citizens Advice Halton
The grant will be used to provide secure encrypted ICT kit to up to 6 trained advisers that will help when dealing with telephone enquiries.
Halton Play Council
Use social media platforms to help reduce isolation in young people that are struggling due to the Coronavirus. The grant will be used for staff and phone costs.
Nightstop Communities Northwest CIC
Provide support, food and toiletries to vulnerable community members that cannot go out due to the coronavirus.
Halewood Youth In Community Centre
Deliver food and activity parcels over an initial twelve week period across the Halewood area. The grant will be used for travel food and items for activity packs.
Thred
To deliver online support sessions for dementia sufferers in Liverpool. Funding will cover administration and facilitation costs, shopping vouchers and a Zoom subscription.
Voice of Nations
Provide online mental health wellbeing workshops and support for women. The grant will be used for staff and equipment costs to deliver sessions.
Ibijoke Children Foundation UK
To deliver food and essential household items as well as providing support and advice over the phone and online. Funding will cover volunteer costs, laptops and mobile phones.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Trust
Provide an enhanced online counselling service for vulnerable people. The grant will be used to employee Assistance Programme for two months.
Liverpool Community Launderette t/a Kitty’s Launderette
Provide the Foodbank voucher scheme for vulnerable families in the community.
Dovecot Princess Drive Community Association
Distribute food to people in the area. The grant will be used for purchasing food stock.
Bridge2
To provide communication and online activities for asylum seekers and refugees. Funding will cover administration and facilitation costs as well as Zoom and teaching resources.
Congolese Association of Merseyside
Deliver food/care package with essential items the delivery to families / or vulnerable people will be done by the group.
BEE Wirral CIC
To buy food wholesale for food bags which volunteers will deliver to families and individuals who are self isolating. Budget to cover cost of purchasing food and cycle safety for volunteers such as cycling helmets.
Power in Partnership
To provide an emergency virtual classroom to students so they can continue learning and to provide food vouchers to vulnerable people.
The Cotton Street Project
The grant will go towards three months of running costs. To take homeless people off the street, address their addiction and mental health needs and train them in an employability skill.
RAISE Limited
To support non-housing association clients with access to welfare rights and food vouchers/essential items.
Marie Curie
To continue providing advice and support online, over the phone and via email.
Chasing the Stigma
Provide yoga sessions, meditation, fun activities like lock-down bingo and quizzes for vulnerable isolated people. The grant will be used for staff costs.
KFCA
To enable KFCA to deliver a community support plan in response to the Covid-19 outbreak. To fund tele-befriending, shopping service, emergency food provision and children’s lunches.
Compassion Acts
Grassroots poverty reduction group tackling food poverty and providing debt and benefits advice. Funding will be used for foodbank, coordinator costs and additional cleaning costs.
The Independence Initiative
The funding will be used to maintain running costs in group housing units including a backlog in rent. It will also pay for the top-up food and other household goods that group normally provide via donations. To avoid people making themselves homeless, to manage and reduce levels of anxiety amongst residents and community members and to prevent food poverty.
Impetro CIC
To support vulnerable and isolated members of the community by providing care packages including essential personal hygiene items.
Chrysalis Centre for Change
Provide a bereavement support group and Key carers therapy group. The grant will be used for two qualified counsellors.
Positive Life Workshops CIC
Provide well-being items crafts products and snacks/treats and online activity sessions for vulnerable community members. The grant will be used for staff, items for the boxes, equipment and advertising.
Wirral Hospice St John’s
Grant to cover core costs of providing palliative care.
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPT
To purchase PPE, flasks and food containers in order to provide food to people who are socially isolating.
St Paul’s Church Widnes
To fund membership of Fareshare and purchase freezer so church can continue to provide food for local families.
Savera UK
Provide items to vulnerable people that are struggling due to the coronavirus. The grant will be used for volunteer expenses and items for emergency packs.
Feedback (Global Feedback Ltd.)
Provide food to vulnerable members of the community that are struggling due to isolation. The grant will be used for staff and food package ingredients.
Merseyside Play Action Council
To put together, make up and distribute up to 1000 activity play packs for families facing additional hardships through financial and other forms of crisis.
K.I.N.D
To enable group to provide 150 food parcels for struggling local children and families during Covid-19 crisis.
Merseyside Domestic Violence Services
To maintain service delivery by covering a proportion of costs and additional hours of facilitators, front line safety workers, administration, equipment and social media development needed to meet an ever growing demand for services.
Granby Somali Womens Group
The project will focus on those who are self-isolating and provide nutritional health meals twice weekly, along with twice weekly calls in their community languages to check the mental health of those in self-isolation.
Personal Success
To address isolation of BME elderly and vulnerable persons who have being locked down due to coronavirus lockdown. The proposed service is to offer Community Calls.
Cogs Education
To enable group to deliver online creative activities to enable people to express and deal with experiences of the pandemic.
City of Liverpool Young Men’s Christian Association
The grant will cover staff costs and ingredients for food packages.
Deafness Resource Centre Limited
Provide online services to support vulnerable community members to help reduce isolation. the grant will be used for staff, travel and equipment.
Hope Centre
Provide support for vulnerable people in the community by supporting the foodbank and the digital skills and Breathe Mental Health courses.
St Helens District Citizens Advice Bureau
To improve Citizens Advice Adviceline response rates and to secure investment for urgently needed laptops and mobile phones.
SWAN Women’s Centre
Provide telephone/online counselling or telephone support to vulnerable people. The grant will be used for staff costs.
Veterans Community Force Halton CIC
Buy and distribute food and other much needed items to local vulnerable and elderly residents. The grant will be used for staff, volunteer costs, transport and items for the packages.
Halton Carers Centre Ltd
Purchase technology and equipment to allow working from out of the office to provide online support.
Knowsley Community Hub Incredible Edible Knowsley
Help people to grow seedlings in their gardens which is helping people who are having to isolate. The grant will be used to help contribute towards salary to manage the project as well as volunteer refreshments, PPE, delivery, seeds, compost and pots.
NSC Care Ltd
To deliver an amended service in line with social distancing and guidance. Costs include home visits, transport and food parcels for participants to take home.
Merseyside Jewish Community Care
To provide food and essentials packages and provide telephone support to the most vulnerable in the Jewish community. The group would also like to provide crisis grants.
The Reader
To purchase food to allow the group to continue delivering to the most vulnerable members of society.
Amadudu
To cover staff costs, management costs and increased cleaning costs in order to continue resettling service for families fleeing domestic violence.
Everton in the Community
To cover the costs of food parcels and essentials, online sessions and support and advice.
Triple C
To fund two Children and Family Workers to keep in touch with vulnerable families and provide them with essentials during the pandemic.
Unity Community Association
Provide education support packs and fresh fruit for families that are finding it hard to cope with lock down. The grant will be used for volunteers, items for the packs and fruit.
Netherton Feelgood Factory
Food delivery to vulnerable people self-isolating and helping with essential items. The grant will be used for staff, volunteer, travel, equipment and telephone costs.
Orrell Trust
To continue supporting the local community by signposting to relevant providers and suppliers as well as offering telephone and online support and sessions.
Rapid Response North West
To cover the costs of suicide patrols, food delivery and volunteer expenses.
Wirral Unplugged
To pay towards staff, publicity and printing costs for #FairyTrollPost which is a unique, personal and exciting letter and craft exchange which started in March 2020 as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
AJ AND FRIENDS ASSOCIATION
To pay towards PPE, volunteers costs, insurance and BACP membership in order to continue counselling service.
Wigzee Woo Ltd
Provide Wigzee Woo packs to community members. The grant will be used for staff and equipment.
The Initiative Factory
To contribute to welfare benefits advice service facing increased demand due to Covid-19 crisis.
The Parochial Church Council Of The Ecclesiastical Parish Of St Peter Woolton
To fund two part-time staff to deliver community resilience work over 12 weeks.
Sefton OPERA
Provide mental health support to vulnerable older people by providing equipment and mindfulness DVDs. The grant will be used for volunteers and equipment.
Eastham Community Group
To support elderly and vulnerable residents in Eastham through regular phone calls and by buying essential shopping. The grant will be used to bring back their part-time manager from furlough to lead on increased demand and pay for food and toiletries for residents.
Workers’ Educational Association
To provide the most vulnerable members of the community with internet access and enabled devices.
Big Help Project
To provide the most vulnerable members of society with internet access and enabled devices.
Granby Toxteth Development Trust
To provide the most vulnerable members of the community with internet access and enabled devices.
Rotunda Ltd
To provide the most vulnerable members of the community with internet access and enabled devices.
The Greenbank Project
To provide the most vulnerable members of society with internet access and enabled devices.
Speke Training & Education Centre Ltd
To provide the most vulnerable members of the community with internet access and enabled devices.
Everton Development Trust
To provide the most vulnerable members of the community with internet access and enabled devices.
Big Issue In The North Trust
Support vulnerable community members by helping to purchase essential items. The grant will also be used for salary costs to offer support.
Child Bereavement UK
Halton Provide online and telephone support for struggling vulnerable families. The grant will be used for staff costs.
A Better Tomorrow
To purchase laptops to loan out to vulnerable asylum seeking families with children who are attempting to learn English and hope to continue attending school post-lockdown.
The Accessible Guide C.i.C
To purchase a new computer and software and a subscription to Zoom that would allow group to deliver online sessions during the current pandemic. Members can join in speak to their friends, which will help reduce stress and social isolation.
Merseyside PPE Hub CIC
To purchase and distribute PPE equipment to care workers, shop workers, GP practices, public transport workers and more.
Rotunda Ltd
Continue working on the Welfare Advice Service,. The grant will be used to purchase equipment and to pay salary costs.
The Initiative Factory
To contribute to welfare benefits advice service facing increased demand due to Covid-19 crisis.
Netherton Park Community Association
To provide basic hygiene goods (personal and domestic) as people cannot cover their essential household needs. Group will also resource women’s hygiene needs and support young mothers to purchase essential baby-care goods, including nappies.
Persona Insight CIC
To contribute to staff costs, mobile phone cost and cost of Mental Health First Aid Course to provide service for vulnerable people.
Youth With A Mission – The King’s Lodge
Expanding essential food parcel delivery to include emergency packs containing mobile phones, hygiene items and toiletry supplies.
Norris Green Youth Centre Ltd
Developing food pantry service supporting families with food poverty with hampers and for those in need
James’ Place
To provide a model of crisis intervention to care home staff who are experiencing emotional distress and who otherwise wouldn’t find the support they need for their mental health.
Alzheimer’s Society
Volunteer service provider specialising in dementia care. This grant will allow group to keep important services running over the next two months.
Croxteth and Gillmoss Community Council
Support vulnerable older people that are struggling due to isolation, by providing food parcel supply and emergency items.
Kirkdale Amateur Boxing Club
To offer boxing club services as a food and everyday essential provider to the vulnerable community.
Parochial Church Council (PCC) of St George Everton
To enable Church to safely continue to operate their food pantry service – and ensure volunteers and members remain safe.
New Destinations Network CIC
To meet the huge increased demand for emergency food as part of Community Food Partnerships, delivering food parcels to people and families isolated due to the Covid-19 crisis.
Kinship Carers
To purchase growing equipment and cooking equipment to develop families skills in respect of growing and cooking fruit and vegetables. To also purchase laptops to enable families who do not have any access to these to support their children to do online schoolwork.
Liverpool Muslim Society
To support group in supplying food packs and hot meals to those in need and to replenish the group food bank
Beautiful New Beginnings
To provide maternity service mental health and well-being support from counsellors, by providing free wellbeing calls and checks.
Health Energy Advice Team Ltd (HEAT)
To cover staff costs and purchase mobile phones and laptops to enable counselling service.
Liverpool Bereavement Service
To cover the costs of over-the-phone counselling. Funding would cover 75% of the manager’s salary for 12 weeks.
Linacre Methodist Mission and Community Centre
Hampers to be distributed through two local primary schools. Linacre Hampers for Schools will provide a bag of food for those families who “fall through the net” of other provision.
Talk the Talk Education CIC
To deliver health and wellbeing education workshops to 45 groups of young people when the Coronavirus pandemic ends. Funding will cover workshop and staff costs and the production of a workbook.
Wirral Multi Cultural Organisation (WMO)
Provide online and telephone support to isolated vulnerable community members that are struggling due to Coronavirus.
Men Too Army Ltd
To provide one-to-one support for men in the community when needed by a mental health professional, including; a telephone call and text service and befriending service to check in with people and make sure they are okay.
Wirral Change
To provide Halal food parcels to families across Wirral: send out information packs in different languages; and contact families to ensure that they are safe and well and have the support that they need.
Gautby Road Play and Community Centre
To provide outdoor sports packs, containing garden activities, tennis rackets, footballs and other engaging activities. Alongside this, to provide arts & crafts packs for children.
St Mary’s parish church
To alleviate food poverty issues for the people of Eastham/Wirral South
Southdene Community Association
Deliver family packs which include food to vulnerable families. The grant will be used for travel, volunteers and items for the packs.
Radio City Cash for Kids
To purchase food vouchers, gas / electric vouchers or other basic essentials such as baby food, nappies and toiletries to be distributed to the families.
Parish church of St Anne, Stanley
To support isolated older people and families by providing food parcels and care packages for older members, and crafts, games and other activities that parents and Carers can do with their children.
AL-GHAZALI MULTICULTURAL CENTRE
To pay for phone and internet bills. Group will support parents to continue supporting their children’s education at home, through delivery of online lessons and links to keep them active.
Anfield and North Liverpool Boxing Club
Continue offering support to young people who have used and continue to use the service that has been put in place since lockdown began. Supporting 93 young people and 5 parents through coaches and youth work team.
Chinese Wellbeing
Additional telephone support and help line set up in response to the crises to support service users who have limited English. Group are seeking funding support the increased cost of staff to maintain this additional service delivery.
Merseyside Somali Community Association
To extend the duration and reach of a meals delivery service to the most vulnerable older adults in the Granby/Toxteth communities affected by the closure of the centre and wider lack of access to services due to self-isolation.
PCC of Walton Breck and Holy Trinity
To fund part of the costs of key worker for group foodbanks and pick up and takeaway service, providing a pastoral and practical response to people needing support.
Tom Harrison House
To provide a new package of support for veterans with addictions, living in Liverpool, so that group can enable them to avoid relapse during the Covid-19 Crisis and maintain good levels of wellbeing and resilience.
Migrant Workers Sefton Community
Offer support to vulnerable people that will help them through this difficult time due to the Coronavirus. They will help by offering a helpline and offer foodbank vouchers . The grant will cover foodbank vouchers and staff costs.
The Inclusion Network
Emergency project to support young people and families by providing weekly food bags. the grant will be used for sessional costs and ingredients for food bags.
Bradbury Fields – services for blind and partially sighted people
Use telephone calls to help with vulnerable members of the community which will support them to feel less isolated and improve wellbeing. The grant will be used for staff costs, equipment and room hire.
Croxteth and Gillmoss Community Federation
Support for food through our food pantry centre delivery service, Food vouchers with local grocery store collect and deliver, hygiene packs and telephone support services. The grant will be used for staff, volunteer expenses and equipment/items.
Shoreline Church
Purchase food for clients as they are unable to leave the house due to Coronavirus outbreak.
Breckfield & North Everton Neighbourhood Council
Support the most vulnerable people in the community by funding an emergency food & Hygiene packs for individual. The grant will be used for travel, insurance and marketing costs.
Local Solutions
Provide support via phone/Whats App/video call to members of the Hub as due to the Coronavirus they are feeling isolated. The grant will be used for additional internet data, food, utility, other emergency costs and for tablets
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
The grant will be used for staff costs to keep the ‘ask the nurse’ service up and running.
Koala North West (previously known as Home-Start Wirral, change of name 1/4/20)
To offer support via bespoke telephone and video calls for parents with young children and pregnant women and to deliver food and essentials to those most in need. Funding would cover staff costs, a laptop with camera and the costs of food and essentials.
Liverpool Homeless Football Club
Deliver food parcels, family supplies, feminine hygiene products and offer coaching support via online services. The grant will be used for volunteer expenses and items for the parcels.
Garston Adventure Playground
Provide food, essentials and activity packs to people in the community, the activity pack will be so that people are able to join in with online youth club sessions. The grant will be used for staff costs, ingredients and materials.
Daisy Inclusive UK
The grant is to cover revenue lost as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak and pay for staff costs to keep the foodbank up and running.
Womens Health Information & Support Centre (WHISC)
Provide support for vulnerable members of the group via the phone, this will help to reduce isolation. The grant will be used for staff, Management overheads contribution towards phone bill costs.
Autism Adventures Training Ltd Community Interest Company
Provide workshop videos to vulnerable members of the community that are struggling with isolation. The grant will be used for instructors, food vouchers and staff costs.
The Local Carers Network
Provide an online platform to support families in who have disabled children and offer food packages.
Care Merseyside
Provide a service for vulnerable people in the community by offering wellbeing videos and telephone calls. The grant will be used for salary, phone bills and website developments.
VENUS
Deliver essential food and other items to vulnerable women and families. Costs covered include travel, gas and electricity, toiletries, cleaning products, food, toys for children and office stationery etc.
Wirral Youth Zone
Provide sessions for vulnerable people and offer food, hygiene and arts/craft equipment. The grant will be used for staff and equipment for the packs.
St. Leonards Youth & Community Centre
Provide support to local residents by using the funding to run South Sefton Foodbank.
Marine in the Community
Deliver food, activities and hygiene packages and arrange transport for vulnerable people in the community. The grant will be used for salary, transport, equipment and food items.
Widnes & Runcorn Cancer Support Group
Support vulnerable people in the community that are affected by Cancer. The grant will be used for support our work, cover IT support, equipment, telephone call costs, postage costs.
CELLS Project CIC
Purchase resources to allow remote-working and distanced-support for vulnerable people in the community.
PLS Food Foundation
To purchase food from wholesalers to be distributed daily to those in need.
Merseyside Law Centre
Support with capital costs to transition from face-to-face services to over the phone. Funding will cover laptops and mobile phones.
Riverside Credit Union
To transfer activities on-line to provide a fully functioning on-line service and a new app to benefit people who do not have a bank account.
Age UK Wirral
Purchase tablet computers that can be used for video calling so that vulnerable members in the community will feel more connected.
People First Merseyside
Provide an essential emotional support for people with learning disabilities that are struggling due to Coronavirus. The grant will be used for staff costs.
Ykids
To provide emergency support packages to children and families in Bootle. Funding will cover the costs of making up the packages and their contents – food, toys, books etc.
Amy & Friends
To supply children with an activity box to keep them occupied during lockdown. Funding will cover the cost of one box per month over three months for 73 children.
Mersey Counselling and Therapy Centre
To continue providing counselling and support to those suffering from anxiety and depression, particularly those whose mental health is affected by COVID-19. Funding will cover staff and administration costs.
Moulana Community CIC
To purchase and deliver essential food packages to asylum seekers in Liverpool. Funding will cover driver, packing staff and volunteer costs and fuel costs.
Tuebrook Hope Group
To deliver hampers to vulnerable people in the community. Funding will cover food and cleaning products, masks and gloves and fuel costs.
Liverpool Somali Community
To deliver hot halal meals to the community and continue providing support over the phone. Funding will cover staff and volunteer costs as well as phone and rent costs.
Priority Youth Project
Deliver online services to vulnerable young people, this would be through mental health workshops, relaxation and daily physical sports sessions. The grant will be used for staff costs.
Home Start Knowsley
To purchase 4 laptops plus antivirus software to enable group to continue to deliver services for disadvantaged children and families remotely.
Centre 63
Provide meals and telephone support for vulnerable families. The grant will be used for salary, travel and food costs.
UB Forever Wellness CIC
To relieve the financial pressures of low-income families by providing three meals a day. Funding will cover costs of food, rent of kitchen, protective equipment and travel expenses.
Acronym Community Enterprises (ACE)
To build a support network vulnerable people by providing a safe communication space for the participants to deliver essential items, and help people connect with their emotions, share experiences and develop resilience to cope with the current isolation challenges.
Maggie’s Merseyside
To continue delivering cancer support online. Funding will cover specialist support wages at 40hrs per week.
Together Liverpool
Provide support for struggling families and tackle food insecurity. The grant will be used for staff costs.
Tunzas Pride
Provide food and essential items to vulnerable community members. The grant will be used for items for the packages and travel costs.
Park Farm ACYP Centre
Provide emergency food hamper deliveries to our most vulnerable community members and telephone support for isolated people.
Neo Community Cafe and Catering
Provide meals and food packages for vulnerable families in the community. The grant will be used for volunteer expenses, travel and ingredients.
kids activities and bootcamps
To cover IT equipment and sessional staff costs to enable group to deliver a range of fun, inclusive on-line fitness/activity sessions to engage local people/families/community groups to stay active and support their physical and mental wellbeing.
St Cyrils Children & Youth Project
Providing food parcels and hot lunches to vulnerable and elderly residents over 15 weeks.
Transform Lives Company
Supporting people with mental health issues through online workshops, activities and direct support.
Friends of Kirkby Gallery & Prescot Museum
To deliver art sessions online to reduce isolation and support freelance artists.
Anfield Breckfield Creative Development (Anfield Community Arts)
To purchase a laptop so we can organise online support in the form of social media and video conferencing. To organise online activities to help reduce feelings of isolation.
Nugent
To purchase food and other groceries and supplies to enable group to keep food market active in supporting people in the Kirkdale and Liverpool communities.
West Everton Community Council
To purchase food and fund a second foodbank worker.
Team Oasis
Funding to cover staff costs and overheads while the group continues to deliver a service in line with national safety guidelines i.e. using online mediums and operating a delivery service and foodbank.
Liverpool Charity & Voluntary Services
Funding to support the costs incurred to deliver the volunteering support project i.e. delivering food, shopping, picking up prescriptions and making calls to vulnerable individuals etc.
Comics Youth CIC
To scale up activities over online platforms to improve the mental health of young people whilst in isolation.
Sefton CVS
To pay associated street volunteer expenses, purchase emergency food supplies and / or shopping gift cards for those who may not be classed as vulnerable, shielded or self isolating and cannot access the food bank networks.
Autism Ventures
To expand the WeGrow service and meet the growing demand for essential food supplies by purchasing a refrigeration unit.
Maximum Edge CIC
Provide online support and packages of food and essential items for struggling families. the grant will be used for volunteer expenses and items for the packages.
Apex Charitable Trust Ltd
To create wellbeing packs for vulnerable service users.
The Carrbridge Centre LTD
To cover staff costs in order to continue supplying the local community with essentials and also to implement online broadcasting and activities.
Leasowe Play Youth & Community Association
To purchase a glass top freezer to support the ‘meals on wheels’ facility and reduce food purchase costs.
Hype
Provide an online-based social competition to keep young people active whilst on lockdown due to Coronavirus. The grant will be used for equipment and videos.
Wirral Mencap
Local charity supporting adults with learning disability and their families across Wirral. To maintain service while the staff team are working from home.
Wirral Citizens Advice Bureau Limited (operating name Citizens Advice Wirral)
To provide one-to-one advice on benefits, debt, bereavement etc. over the phone.
Myaware
To keep the myasthenia community connected and to ensure people living with myasthenia know they are not alone, by enabling group to transfer support services to online and telephone provision for the remainder of the pandemic.
Recharge and Restore CIC
Deliver a series of online training sessions to help improve the mental health and wellbeing of vulnerable people that are struggling to cope with isolation.
Swanside Community Centre
To provide food and toiletry supplies to vulnerable community members that are struggling due to the lock down. The grant will be used for staff and equipment.
Positive Futures North Liverpool
Funding to keep in touch with local young people and provide online activities to support their wellbeing.
Alt Valley Community Trust
Use online services to help support people to combat isolation and deliver support packs. The grant will be used for staff and support packs.
VOLA Consortium
To provide project management support to the delivery partners involved in the Get Yourself Online project.
Sefton CVS
To provide the most vulnerable members of the community with internet access and enabled devices.
Torus Foundation
To provide the most vulnerable members of the community with internet access and enabled devices.
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John, Widnes
To be spent on resourcing families in Widnes, with equipment to help their children learn at home as well as craft supplies to give them a creative outlet and complete projects set by school.
Caring Connections
Provide a phone service for people who have been bereaved by Covid 19. The grant will be used for sessional, phone and stationary costs.
Writing On The Wall
To create an online initiative: ‘The Writer’s Bloc: Community & Creativity’ to support and build community online. This will be the umbrella for a series of creative projects supporting the mental health, wellbeing, and social engagement of individuals and communities, representing a high number of BAME, and other vulnerable people.
Homestart Southport & Formby
Deliver food boxes and essential items to vulnerable community members that are struggling due to isolation and lock down. The grant will be used for items for the boxes.
Business for Youth in Newton-le-Willows
Provide free school lunch packs for children who would usually receive free school meals.
The Seacombe Community Centre
To collect and distribute food parcels and care hampers to residents who are struggling, either due to being socially isolated, or made unemployed or are financially worse off due to the virus.
Crea8ing Careers
To cover the cost of redesigning service to support our vulnerable families. To pay for a Zoom subscription to enable group to offer virtual activities, workshops and support the mental health and wellbeing of the families they support.
Award Solutions
Use online services to provide support and education for young people in the community. The grant will be used for staff, zoom profile and equipment.
AJ AND FRIENDS ASSOCIATION
To pay towards PPE, volunteers costs, insurance and BACP membership in order to continue counselling service.
New Brighton Community Association
Support elderly members that live in New Brighton by proving online support sessions. The grant will be used for staff, transport and office costs.
Flourish & Succeed
Provide phone line/on-line support and practical emergency supplies support packages to vulnerable people. The grant will be used for volunteers, travel and equipment.
Sight and Mind CIC
To offer additional, flexible support to service users with mental wellbeing issues.
ME2U CIC
To support volunteer expenses, including petrol costs and for PPE. To support emergency provisions including food items and basic supplies including self-help health items to help with balanced diets/and common ailments in order that group can continue service for people living with dementia, older people and carers.
EMERGE WAVERTREE COMMUNITY (EWCOM)
Funding will spend on supporting MULTI-LINGUAL grassroot community emergency plan to help those troubled by Coronavirus
Leonard Cheshire – The Orchard
To purchase life-saving Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to protect and keep our 21 extremely vulnerable residents and 48 carers, support workers and nurses safe at The Orchard.
South Central Community Transport
To contribute to transport costs for their fleet of mini buses delivering food/hygiene parcels to lonely/isolated and vulnerable beneficiaries.
Sahir House
To support delivery of key HIV services in alternative ways during the covid-19 crisis.
Liverpool Lighthouse
To deliver crisis and well-being support to the most vulnerable in the community by opening food bank and producing food parcels, and through setting up online workshops and advice.
Clear Futures Communities CIC
To fund specific response to individuals and community groups during the current crisis. The urgent funds will be spent on a combination of essential items to include in care packages such as specialist foods to cater for dietary requirements, toiletries and sanitary products and fresh meat packs.
St. Paul’s RC Primary School
To enable the school volunteer group to cover fuel costs and top up bags of donated foods with fresh items such as bread, milk, eggs, fruit and vegetables.
Birkenhead Y.M.C.A.
To fund additional support staff delivering night shelter services to vulnerable clients.
Running Head First CIC
To deliver of a new 1-1/Group online nutrition and physical activity programme to assist people with ongoing mental health issues during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Life Changers Empowering Ministry
To cover cost of transportation of donated food stuffs from various donors around Liverpool to meet high demand of food delivery service.
Love, Jasmine
To help group continue to provide one to one counselling support to bereaved parents and grandparents at this time. Grant will allow group to provide 17 sessions of counselling per week for a period of 8 weeks utilising team of sessional counsellors.
Dingle Multi-Agency Centre Ltd
To cover hours for group Activity Co-ordinator to keep in touch with our club members (Gardening Club, Family Games Club and Table tennis club). To also cover the cost of materials for the garden once reopened, PPE for members whilst on site.
Sefton Advocacy
To produce a booklet called Keep Well at Home which contains vital information for the benefit of older people.
The Positivitree Ltd
To allow group to deliver wellbeing masterclasses, yoga, and HIIT classes online, creating a space for parent-carers to stay connected and to practice self-care.
Ferries Family Group
To make up craft/pamper packs for 111 families that group are supporting. The families are unable to afford craft materials due to their financial circumstances, low income, not working.
Livingstone street community centre
To renovate a disused space in to a food safe space to meet increasing demand of food hub service.
One Knowsley
Funding is for iPads, software licenses and staff IT support officer in order to adapt to demand during Covid-19 crisis and assist the voluntary sector.
Fazakerley Community Federation
Support vulnerable residents with hunger and food poverty, hygiene poverty, including period and infant poverty, fuel debt and deepening energy poverty. The grant will be used for volunteer costs, travel and the costs of of the food and essential item packages.
Growing Sudley CIC
To deliver a regular telephone outreach service, provide horticulture care packages for them to grow things at home, distanced social connection on the doorstep and the delivery of some socially distanced on site gardening activities as circumstances allow over coming months.
Imagine Independence
To expand and deliver a choice of common interest groups and wellbeing sessions that will mirror those previously delivered face to face. Budget covers IT equipment.
IRANIAN LIVERPOOL COMMUNITY
To address the needs of people from the Iranian, Kurdish and Afghan communities during the pandemic.
Liverpool Cares
Provide virtual social clubs via Zoom to local people in the community which will help to reduce isolation. The grant will be used for staff, equipment, marketing, training, insurance and rent.
Joseph Lappin Centre
The grant will be used to purchase toiletries and cleaning products for inclusion in the food hampers.
Origami Pulse CIC
Sefton Deliver origami kits and postcards with links to Origami videos and provide online workshops to community members to help improve mental health and wellbeing. The grant will be used for zoom fees, management costs, items for the kits and marketing.
Citizens Advice Sefton
Sefton Provide telephone and webchat based advice services. The grant will be used to purchase IT and telephony equipment for volunteers.
Claire House Childrens Hospice
Provide telephone and video calls offering one to one counselling sessions for children, parents and families that are struggling with isolation due to the coronavirus.
Tranmere Rovers in the Community
Deliver of food parcels to vulnerable people and families that are suffering due to the Coronavirus.
Male Awareness international
8 week comprehensive structured and educative empowerment program, which will involve 40 men and their families. Developing a planned road map to success, developing a sense of personal identity, good self-concept, personal confidence and self-esteem.
Liverpool Arabic Centre (LAC)
Provide education support to young people that are continuing with school at home. The grant will be used for tutor costs, equipment and resources.
Methodist Centre
Provide a food and education programme that will support families with basic food supplies and art/Educational packs.
4Wings Northwest CIC
Supporting current service users and volunteers’ mental and physical well-being through Yoga and fitness sessions. Grant will contribute to staff costs, zoom license, rent and cost of yoga mats.
YOGA NATION WELLBEING HUB
To assist group to meet the huge increased demand for emergency food, including delivering to the properties of individuals having to self-isolate. Grant would contribute to purchase of food and volunteer costs.
Symbiont CIC
To deliver a programme of exercise and motivation activities for young people with Autism and a range of mental/physical/emotional challenges.
Core Project Birkenhead CIC
Deliver Covid19 emergency food hampers and supplies to families.
Wirral Enviromental Network
To encourage families to grow their own food by providing a box of food plants. Group will also produce a leaflet with full instructions
Egremont Primary School
To replenish food and keep on top of toiletries and hygiene products to ensure the safety of families being supported. To also stock clothes bank used to support families in wearing clean, fresh clothes every day.
SHARe Knowsley
Provide weekly fresh fruit and vegetable food boxes along with toiletries to families in the community. The grant will be used for items for the packages, travel and salary costs.
South Liverpool Vineyard Church
Provide, food, essential items, craft materials and help maintain gardens. The grant will be used for equipment.
Sanctuary Family Support
Provide counselling and 1-1 support to the most vulnerable service users over the phone and through the use of skype/zoom.
Healthy Together
Provide telephone and online support for vulnerable people to help reduce isolation, the grant will also be used to lead socially distanced community walks and bicycle rides.
Momo’s Cafe CIC
To build an outdoor sensory garden to compliment the group’s indoor sensory room for those families in the area that are currently shielding or unable to go outside due to mental health issues or/and disabilities due to COVID-19,
Crownway Community Centre
Provide a mobile luncheon club with regular delivery of meals to Age Concern and men’s groups and provide access to food for children during the school holidays
Community Capacity Builders
Wirral To allow people with a range of physical and mental health problems access sport/physical activity and facilities available at Moreton Hills Driving Range. This facility has Virtual Golf, Adventure Golf, Short Golf alongside a physical activity and workshop space and cafe.
Mind Clarity CIC
Start a helpline for people that are suffering with mental health issues due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The grant will be used for counselling sessions, telephone and admin support costs.
Sola Arts
To support remote working costs of service to support refugees, asylum seekers, people within Liverpool with mental health difficulties, adults with learning difficulties or without English as a first language, carer of people with complex needs and people who are most isolated within the community.
LCRCares is a crowdfunding campaign to raise £1million to support community and voluntary organisations on the frontline of helping the city region’s communities cope with the impact of Coronavirus.
