£5k boost for young carers
CHESHIRE Young Carers has secured a £5,000 Assura Community Fund grant for a project which will improve physical health and wellbeing, mental health and emotional wellbeing, education, independence, participation and inclusion, enrichment as well as personal and social development.
The charity will be able to buy slow cookers, the required food and recipe books to enable more young people to join in with sessions thanks to the grant from the Assura Community Fund, administered by Cheshire Community Foundation.
Assura is a real estate investment trust and long‐term property partner to more than 600 primary care buildings across the country, in which more than 500 GP practices operate and from which more than six million patients are served. The Assura Community Fund supports health improving projects in the communities surrounding those buildings.
Cheshire Community Foundation raises funds to support hundreds of small charities and voluntary groups across the whole of Cheshire and Warrington.
They are expert grant makers, ensuring that the money their donors invest reaches right to the heart of the local communities that need it the most. CCFs aim is to tackle poverty, disadvantage and inequality, helping to build stronger, happier and more resilient communities.
Assura have partnered with CCF as their local Community Foundation for three years and together they have awarded over a million pounds of grants to charities.
Zoe Sheppard, the chief executive of Cheshire Community Foundation, said: “It is an honour to partner Assura to manage their Community Fund, and the £1 million milestone is such an exciting achievement in our longstanding collaboration.
“Through their generosity and commitment to their communities, Assura really are changing lives for the better. We look forward to an exciting future working in partnership with the Assura team.”
Jonathan Murphy, Assura CEO, said: “Our community fund is one of our proudest achievements. It had been in the plan to launch in 2020 for some time, but when the pandemic hit, it became quickly apparent that the fund now had a very specific role to play – supporting the work of projects helping vulnerable people from all backgrounds with health and wellbeing needs that would last far beyond Covid in England, Scotland and Wales.
“Isolation and struggles with mental health in particular have been big themes as they have affected so many people over the last 18 months. As our fund goes from strength to strength, we’re looking forward to continuing to help the voluntary and community sector’s incredible work to support primary care and social prescribing.”