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Christmas Connections Grants announced
This Christmas we are once again happy to be supporting local, grassroots charities and community groups who are connecting older people with their community over the festive season.
Building on last year, we are pleased to announce 34 grants for a total of £20,000 of support. This year’s grants range from funding Christmas Day Dinners at local churches and community hubs, through to providing food hampers, supporting community transport services, and helping with the core costs of companionship services. As always, these are all grassroots local organisations, typically dependent on the kindness of volunteers to make their events possible. They range from as far south as Cullompton in Devon, well into Scotland, and will be supporting well over 2000 older people in total over the Christmas period.
Here is the full list of this year’s awards:
| Mishon | £1,000.00 | North London |
| Hetton New Dawn | £1,000.00 | Hetton-le-Hole, Sunderland |
| b:friend | £960.00 | South Yorkshire and NE Derbyshire |
| Hyndburn Food Pantry | £750.00 | Hyndburn |
| Forever Green Community Group | £750.00 | Denton South in Tameside. |
| Brighter Together | £772.00 | South West London (Richmond and Wandsworth Boroughs). |
| The Link Visiting Scheme | £750.00 | Wokingham Borough in Berkshire |
| Crossroads Braintree and Chelmsford | £750.00 | Braintree District and Chelmsford area |
| Hackney Caribbean Elderly Organisation | £750.00 | Hackney and adjoining boroughs (including Haringey, Walthamstow, City of London) |
| Priory Road Community Group (Over 50’s Luncheon Club) | £750.00 | Southampton |
| Parish of Bilborough and Strelley | £750.00 | Bilborough Ward, Nottingham. |
| Radha Krishna Cultural Centre Coventry | £750.00 | West Midlands |
| Dementia Support Hampshire & IOW | £725.00 | Hampshire & Isle of Wight |
| Kirkby Lonsdale Community Cupboard | £713.00 | Kirkby Lonsdale and surrounding area (5-mile radius) |
| Together, Engage, Encourage, Support | £500.00 | Redcar & Cleveland |
| Country Lunches | £500.00 | Heathfield and the surrounding villages |
| Buddies Dementia Cafe | £500.00 | Lincoln and surrounding area |
| DERIC Youth & Community Project | £500.00 | Co Durham |
| Community Life Hub Group | £500.00 | Cullompton and surrounding villages |
| Kingswood Village Association | £500.00 | Kingswood Village, Gloucestershire GL12 |
| Wellsprings Community Church | £500.00 | Taunton, Somerset |
| Barrmill Jolly Beggars Burns Club | £500.00 | Garnock Valley area of North Ayrshire. |
| Bilston Support Network | £500.00 | Wolverhampton |
| Community Lives Matter | £500.00 | Ormskirk, Lancs |
| Chesed hospital transport | £500.00 | Throughout London |
| Lanesfield Methodist Church | £500.00 | Lanesfield (Wolverhampton) |
| Christ Apostolic Church (Vineyard of Comfort) East London Assembly | £500.00 | London borough of Tower Hamlets |
| The Living Memory Association | £500.00 | Edinburgh & the Lothians |
| Wor Hoose Community Project | £430.00 | Newcastle upon Tyne. |
| Friends of Howwood Park | £350.00 | Howwood, Renfrewshire |
| Bromsgrove Youth and Community Hub ‘The Hub Bromsgrove’ | £300.00 | Bromsgrove, Worcestershire |
| Stirling4Community | £250.00 | Stirling Town Centre and outlying areas. |
| Brampton and Beyond Community Trust | £250.00 | Brampton, Cumbria |
| Wag and Co | £250.00 | Across North-East England |