Big Lottery pledges £5.5million funding to London projects

 
London funding: the Big Lottery will support eighteen projects in the capital with £5.5m in grants
Standard Reporter17 March 2015

London projects are to receive a share of more than £5.5million in Big Lottery funding.

Eighteen projects in the capital will be granted a share of the funds, with the largest grant being awarded to an employment project led by EACH Counselling And Support which aims to develop skills and confidence in people recovering from substance misuse.

The project will use its £487,039 funding to deliver workshops covering topics including CV writing, presentation skills, self-esteem and confidence, job search, interview preparation and IT skills.

Elsewhere, Headway East London's First Steps For Survivors project will deliver specialist information, advice and advocacy services for brain injury survivors and their families thanks to its £446,956 grant.

The group will offer this service throughout the whole care pathway, from hospital and back into the community, ensuring all those affected are aware of the support available to them within the NHS, social services, housing, the community, the voluntary sector and the welfare system. The project will benefit 500 brain injury survivors and 300 families.

And Green Shoes Arts CIC (GSA) in Barking and Dagenham will aim to reduce the mental health needs and social isolation of 80 adults each year with its £124,162 funding. Drama and radio production, music making, visual art and photography will be used to help manage depression, work-related stress, grief or bereavement and mild to moderate phobias and anxiety.

In Camden, Abbey Community Centre (ACC) aims to use its £369,169 grant to help reduce isolation by enabling older people to develop and maintain friendships and help them to keep themselves physically and mentally active, while Urban Partnership Group (UPG) aims to improve the health, wealth and wellbeing of 660 vulnerable young families in areas of Hammersmith and Fulham with its £270,089 windfall.

A grand total of £21,078,200 has been handed out to 67 projects nationwide through the Big Lottery Fund's Reaching Communities programme.

Others benefiting in the capital include Duckie Ltd, which will deliver an arts-based project for homeless and vulnerable Londoners, and Sutton Borough Volunteer Bureau's Young Heroes Mentoring, a new project to support young carers with specialist one-to-one mentoring.

Lyn Cole, Big Lottery Fund deputy England director, said: "Our Reaching Communities programme helps communities and people most in need and we are very pleased to make awards to these worthwhile projects across the region."

The Big Lottery Fund is responsible for giving out 40 per cent of the money raised by the National Lottery and invests more than £650 million a year in projects in health, education, environment and charitable purposes.

Since June 2004, it has awarded more than £6.5 billion to projects that make a difference to people and communities in need.

Additional reporting by the Press Association

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