Tag: Emergency Fund

Young Women’s Trust launch emergency fund for young women

Stuart Mitchell

A fund to help economically vulnerable young women hardest hit by the impact of the coronavirus crisis has been launched today by the Young Women’s Trust. The Young Women’s Emergency Fund will provide relief payments to help young women aged 18-30 who are facing financial crisis. Young women struggling to afford essentials such as food, utilities and rent for themselves and their families will receive £150 each.  Young Women’s Trust has donated £85,000 of its own money to the fund and is seeking to raise a further £50,000 to help hundreds of the most vulnerable women in England and Wales.  The charity, which evolved from the YWCA England and Wales and was formed more than 150 years ago, has…

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Kent Community Foundation launches new Emergency Fund

Stuart Mitchell

With immediate effect Kent Community Foundation will be supporting charities and community groups facing extreme difficulties or closure, as the impact of government measures to reduce the spread of the virus, affects their crucial fundraising activities. The KCF Coronavirus Emergency Fund will take applications for grants of up to £10,000, from charities, with an annual income of £200,000 or less, to fill the gap that not being able to fundraise during the Coronavirus restrictions, will inevitably create. The KCF Coronavirus Emergency Fund will initially give priority to applications from charities…

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