Cornwall Council and?Ocean Housing?have joined forces to help communities recover from the pandemic by providing more Community Chest grant funding.
Cornwall Councillors make Community Chest grants to support grassroots community action in their areas. Now the Ocean Housing Hardship Fund will match their grants in four areas of Cornwall, including in St Blazey, Fowey and Lostwithiel.
The Council’s Community Chest Crisis Scheme gives grants of up to £1,000 to not-for-profit groups to help them provide Covid 19 support to residents in need.?The programme operates across?Cornwall’s 19 Community Network areas, and groups can apply for grants from individual Cornwall councillors. Ocean Housing is now providing a boost to this cash in the areas in which it operates.
Councillor Edwina Hannaford, Cornwall’s portfolio holder for Climate Change and Neighbourhoods, said: ’We have speeded up our Community Chest allocation processes so that Councillors across Cornwall can provide prompt support to grass roots community action in their areas.?We are keen to support projects helping affected residents and supporting community recovery and renewal, and groups whose funding may have been affected by the pandemic.?I would like to thank Ocean Housing for their generous offer in helping support community action.’
To apply for the Community Chest Crisis Scheme, email brief details of your group and the work you’re doing to your Community Link Officer - their contact details can be found on the?Community Network map
The Community Link Officer will then contact the relevant Cornwall Councillors in your Community Network area on your behalf to see if they are willing to support your project in principle. They will also check if they have sufficient funds in their Community Chest to do so.
Examples of schemes which have been granted Community Chest funding in these network areas include: An emergency food voucher scheme; a project providing clothes to families in need; and a project to provide food parcels run by Fowey Isolation Service.