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Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram has unveiled a near half-a-million-pound grant fund to help community projects and groups across the Liverpool City Region – using some of the profits from successful investments the Combined Authority has made.
The pot – which builds on the success of LCR Cares, which raised and distributed over £2.5 million to hundreds of organisations across the region, helping more than 250,000 people during the pandemic – was made possible by a £1.6m return from the Chrysalis Fund.
Under the innovative grant scheme, voluntary and community organisations can bid, via a simplified process, for cash to support initiatives meeting key pillars of the region’s recovery plan, Build Back Better.
These include mental health and wellbeing, community wealth building and digital inclusion as well as providing support for volunteer management.
The flexible scheme has been shaped by the priorities and needs of the community and voluntary sector.
Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said:
The funding will be managed via VS6, a partnership of 11 support organisations working with the 8,600 voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise groups operating across the City Region.”
Independent Chair of VS6 Rev Canon Dr Ellen Loudon, Director of Social Justice & Canon Chancellor, Diocese of Liverpool, said:
Deputy Metro Mayor and Leader of Wirral Council, Cllr Janette Williamson, said:
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