Charities urged to apply for funds

CHARITIES in Leicestershire are being invited to bid for a helping hand as homebuilder, Miller Homes, pledges to donate £10,000 through its Community Fund to good causes across the region this year.

Local charities, community groups and other organisations across Leicestershire are encouraged to apply to the first of two funding rounds due to take place in 2023.

The housebuilder, which is building new homes in Great Glen, Sileby, Quorn and Stoke Golding, has introduced a regional community fund to help local grassroots projects linked to education, wellbeing, the environment and sport across the East Midlands.

Applications for the first round of funding will close on Wednesday 3rd May 2023.

Last year, 10 good causes across the East Midlands benefitted from the Community Fund, including primary schools, Scout groups and sports clubs.

Leicestershire organisations to have recently received donations from Miller Homes’ Community Fund include the Pantry at St Cuthbert’s Church in Leicester, which received £750 to help deliver cooking tutorials, maintenance skills courses, and mental wellbeing support to its Friday night youth groups.

Loughborough’s Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People, which is run by Cope Children’s Trust, received a donation of £420 towards its support services, which include end of life palliative care, bereavement services, sibling days out and respite breaks for families.

Alastair Parsons, area sales director for Miller Homes Midlands, said: “We are committed to building communities, in addition to building homes, and have developed a Community Fund to support local projects that promote education, wellbeing, physical activity and the environment.

Applications for the first round of funding close on Wednesday 3rd May, after which donations up to a maximum of £2,000 will be awarded to the successful applicants. To make an application to the Miller Homes Community Fund visit www.millerhomes.co.uk/ corporate/commuity-fund