Recent grants

2024-25
Investing in Communities - Margate Carnival Group

A Delivering grant towards project costs at this CIC supporting the annual carnival in Margate.

£2,500
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Moving Memory Dance Theatre

An Extending grant towards IT, website and marketing costs at this charity working to improve the quality of life for older people and other marginalised communities.

£7,500
2024-25
Investing in Communities - The Sheppey Hall Trust

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this organisation providing training, activities and opportunities to a deprived community.

£5,000 x 2 years
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Romney Tweed

A Stabilising grant toward core salary costs at this organisation providing employment and skills development opportunities in a deprived region of Kent.

£15,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - 3rd Walderslade Guides

A Delivering grant towards project costs at this charity providing opportunities for local young people.

£2,500
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Rochester Indoor Skate Park

A Stabilising grant towards rent at this organisation providing activities and support for socially excluded and marginalised young people.

£15,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Kithen Social and Cookery Club CIC

A Stabilising grant towards core costs at this organisation providing access to food, companionship and skills development opportunities as part of a healthy ageing project.

£15,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Maidstone Winter Shelter

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity providing shelter and support to the homeless of Maidstone.

£5,000 x 2 years
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Streetlight

A Delivering grant towards programme costs at this charity providing frontline specialist support service for women involved in prostitution and all forms of sexual violence and exploitation.

£5,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Sunlight Development Trust

A Stabilising grant towards a range of core costs at this healthy living centre.

£15,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Touchbase Care

A Stabilising grant towards a range of core costs at this CIC providing support to those with physical disability, sensory impairment and neuro-diverse conditions.

£9,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Medway Death Cafe

A Stabilising grant towards a range of core costs at this small non-profit group set up to support people in Medway who have faced loss and bereavement.

£2,000
2024-25
Investing in Rehabilitation - Youth Unity

Mentor support.

£15,000 x 2 years
2024-25
Investing in Rehabilitation - Pact

To distribute emergency welfare grants to people affected by imprisonment in Kent.

£20,500 x 3 years
2024-25
Investing in Rehabilitation - New Leaf Support

To deliver a Healthy Relationship Program in HMP Sutton Park, in the year the female prisoners are to be released.

£20,000
2024-25
Investing in Rehabilitation - Dante or Die Theatre

A creative development programme with prisoners at two prisons in Swale, aiming to improve employability opportunities, support rehabilitation and rebuild family relationships.

£25,000
2024-25
Investing in Families - Rochester Diocese

Support for vulnerable and disadvantaged people from Kent and Medway, through churches and volunteers.

£50,000 x 2 years
2024-25
Investing in Families - Repton Community Trust

Funding to provide innovative, sustainable solutions to families experiencing food insecurity.

£28,000 over two years
2024-25
Investing in Families - Parental Education

To provide support for parents, carers and guardians who are experiencing abuse from their child (minor and adult aged) within Kent.

£5,000
2024-25
Investing in Families - Medway CAB

To fund a staff member who will carry out and coordinate long-term casework support for families with debt, mental health, fleeing domestic violence and/or with illnesses/disabilities.

£20,000
2024-25
Investing in Families - Dover Deal CAB

A three- year outreach advice service across Dover district for families in financial crisis.

£45,000 over 3 years
2024-25
Investing in Families - Compas Charity

To enable the charity to work with Roma families in Margate.

£20,000
2024-25
Investing in Families - Bechange

To provide practical and emotional support to disadvantaged families who are struggling to cope.

£35,000 over 3 years
2024-25
Investing in Young People - ThinkForward

To deliver and further develop the FutureMe programme in Kent, empowering 300 young people to transition from school to work.

£30,000
2024-25
Investing in Young People - Pie Factory Music

For a creative open access intervention for 14–19-year-olds in Thanet, countering disadvantage they experience in this area of high deprivation.

£20,000 x 3 years
2024-25
Investing in Young People - Perfect Place to Grow

Living wage for trainees on supported work training and placements for vulnerable 18-24 year old NEETs.

£20,000
2024-25
Investing in Young People - London Youth Rowing

Extra-curricular water rowing provision with a focus on life skills development to disadvantaged students in schools around Gravesham.

£20,000 x 3 years
2024-25
Investing in Young People - Family Trust

Core running costs for a charity supporting children and young people across Maidstone, Medway and Swale through educational and engaging activities in primary and secondary schools.

£16,000 x 2 years
2024-25
Investing in Young People - Dover Smart

Young Carers Weekly Paint Jam - to fund 2 project workers over 3 years to support and inspire disadvantaged young people living in Dover.

£36,000 over 2 years
2024-25
Investing in Young People - Blackthorn Trust

Funding to broaden and develop work with young people aged 16 and above who have poor mental health.

£51,500 over 3 years
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Child's Vision

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this Charity that works with children affected by domestic abuse.

£5,000 x 2 years
2024-25
Investing in Communities - POW Thanet

An Extending grant towards developing partnerships and achieving Arts Council England National Portfolio status for this female led arts organisation that works to promote equality and diversity.

£10,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Heart in the Community

A Delivering grant to cover the costs of a programme of activities at this small CIC that works to support people with poor mental health and isolation.

£3,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Let's Get Chatty

A Delivering grant for this small community group towards a range of costs associated with activities designed to alleviate loneliness and isolation.

£2,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - People United

An Extending grant towards a strategic planning process at this participatory arts organisation that works with marginalised groups.

£5,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Sal's Shoes

A Delivering grant towards supporting this small Kent based charity's Kent School Shoes Project, which will provide 500 pairs of new school shoes to community organisations/schools for families experiencing poverty. 

£5,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Happy Here

A Stabilising grant towards running costs at this small CIC providing online and in person mental wellbeing support, aimed at the LGBTQIA+ community, but open to all.

£5,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Caring Hands in the Community

A Stabilising grant towards utility costs at this Chatham based church community centre which provides food, washing facilities, clothing and support to people who are homeless, vulnerable and at the margins of the community.

£7,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Ashford Together

An Extending grant towards the cost of a Development Worker at this charity that brings local churches together to support the community including families, refugees and homeless people.

£15,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Citizens Advice Swale

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs for this organisation that provides advice to help people overcome their problems.

£10,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Cliftonville Cultural Space (ARK)

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this small charity that operates as a resource for local people, especially those from traditionally marginalised communities.

£8,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Hands of Hope

An Extending grant towards the costs associated with developing a strategic plan at this charity that works towards tackling food poverty, rural isolation and loneliness.

£15,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Youth Ngage

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this small Gravesham based CIC that works to engage young people to develop their potential.

£5,000 x 2 years
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Herne Bay Festival

A Delivering grant towards a programme of summer activities for vulnerable and socially excluded families.

£2,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Medway Puzzles

A Stabilising grant towards a range of core costs at this small charity providing help and advice to adults with autism and the families that support them.

£5,000 x 3 years
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Whitstable Umbrella Community Support Centre

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs and rent at this centre providing services for socially excluded people and space for local charities.

£12,500
2024-25
Investing in Communities - MEGAN

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this CIC that provides essential services, including support groups, for people suffering from acute mental ill health.

£7,500 x 2 years
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Projekt Europa

A Stabilising grant towards core costs at this theatre group that works with marginalised groups including refugees.

£5,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Walk Tall Therapeutic Play Services

A Delivering grant towards a programme of free therapy sessions for children of disadvantaged families.

£5,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Rochester Cathedral

An Extending grant to support the expansion of services to those suffering from mental ill health, improving organisational sustainability as a result.

£15,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Care for Calais

A Delivering grant to provide essential support to asylum seekers and refugees in Kent.

£5,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Edenbridge and Westerham CAB

A Stabilising grant towards core staff costs at this centre providing essential free advice services to the community.

£10,000
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Holcott Charitable Trust

A Stabilising grant towards core staff costs at this charity providing respite and support for vulnerable and excluded families including disabled young people.

£5,000 x 3 years
2024-25
Investing in Communities - Slough Fort Preservation Trust

A Delivering grant for project costs awarded to this small charity offering educational opportunities to socially excluded young people and engagement for elderly isolated.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Rehabilitation - Primal Runners CIC

To help young people living in care to avoid the criminal justice system through outdoor fitness.

£15,000
2023-24
Investing in Rehabilitation - The Forces Employment Charity

Towards the Project Nova Kent programme which helps reduce the reoffending rates of veterans within in the criminal justice system.

£37,500 x 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - West Kent Mind

To provide free fast-track counselling/support for victims of domestic abuse and their families.

£20,000 x 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Tunbridge Wells Welcomes Refugees

To enhance support given to refugee families in Tunbridge Wells in the areas of education, finding employment and relieving financial hardship.

£15,000
2023-24
Investing in Families - The Sports Trust

To provide seven weeks of free holiday camps with 5,600 spaces for young people from the most deprived families in Folkestone and the surrounding area.

£20,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - South Kent Mind

To build and develop new mental health services to meet the increasing diverse needs of a deprived community that have been affected by the financial cost of living crisis..

£38,500 over 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Kent Association for the Blind

A counselling service for people with a sight impairment in Kent to talk about their feelings and learn strategies with professionals who understand sight loss.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Families - The Hygiene Bank Medway

To provide hygiene/cleaning packs to families in Medway who are experiencing hygiene poverty.

£10,000
2023-24
Investing in Families - Home Start North-West Kent

To support pre-school children and their families living in a deprived area to have the best start in life.

£18,500 x 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Heart of Kent Hospice

To run twice-weekly drop-in clinics for patients who are living at home with a terminal illness, and their families to access tailored, specialist, hospice support.

£83,500 over 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Diversity House

Towards the charity’s strategic plan.

£4,000
2023-24
Investing in Families - Changing Minds, Kent

To fund the development/delivery of a programme to support the wellbeing of parents/carers of children with cancer in Thanet and East Kent.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Families - Baby Umbrella

To provide support for families facing isolation and challenges of new parenthood to ensure they maintain good wellbeing for all.

£10,000
2023-24
Investing in Young People - The Zone Youth Club

To support and amplify youth work in the local community.

£30,500 over 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Young People - School Home Support

Continuation funding towards a School-Home Support practitioner at Westcourt Primary in Gravesend - getting disadvantaged and vulnerable children in school, ready to learn.

£52,000 over 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Rowan Tree Dramatherapy CIC

To fund dramatherapy for care leavers and young people preparing to leave care, supporting mental health and access to higher education and arts.

£23,500 over 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Young People -Launch It Trust

To support young people to start/grow their own business, especially those who are marginalised, disadvantaged, with barriers to employment.

£60,000 over 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Commonwork Trust

Delivery and expansion of accredited education programmes for disadvantaged and disengaged young people needing learning opportunities outside of mainstream education provision.

£22,000 over 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Carers First

Mentoring service helping 48 young adult carers (16-25yrs) living in Medway improve their educational outcomes whilst balancing caring responsibilities.

£25,000
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Arts Education Exchange

To enable Arts Education Exchange to double the number of young people it can to support and focus on building sustainability for the future.

£30,000 over 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Young Medway

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this umbrella group supporting organisations working with young people.

£10,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - The Tunbridge Wells Counselling Centre

A Stabilising grant towards core costs at this charity that offers low cost counselling sessions.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - The Folkestone Leas Lift (Leas Lift Lockout)

A Delivering grant towards project costs at this CIC that provides educational activities for socially excluded young people.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Rusthall Community Cinema

A Delivering grant towards replacement equipment at this community cinema that supports elderly isolated.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Project Village

A Stabilising grant towards a range of core costs at this organisation that supports single mothers.

£2,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Opportunities with Experience CIC

An Extending grant towards salary costs at this organisation that tackles low attainment of women with educational disadvantage who wish to consider working in the construction industry manual trades.

£10,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Nourish Community Foodbank

A Stabilising grant towards central costs at this charity providing emergency food, provisions and support to individuals and families across Tunbridge Wells and South Tonbridge.

£10,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Keep Talking Services

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this CIC that provides a check in and chat service, to support elderly and vulnerable people.

£4,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Hersden Community Centre

A stabilising grant towards core costs at this charity that offers a range of weekly no-cost/low-cost classes, activities, workshops and information sessions to the local community.

£5,000 x 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Harmony Maidstone

A Delivering grant towards workshops providing a creative outlet for vulnerable and socially excluded young people and families at this small theatre group.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Gravesend Methodist Church Daytime Hub

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this service that provides support to homeless people with complex needs

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Future Skills

A Stabilising grant towards salary costs at this organisation that supports vulnerable individuals into employment.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Foreland Fields Charity

A Delivering grant towards a horticultural project at this charity that supports individuals with profound and complex needs.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Compas Charity

A stabilising grant towards core costs at this charity that seeks to support migrants, particularly those from the Czech, Slovak and Roma communities.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Westgate Youth Project

A Stabilising grant towards a range of core costs at this charity which aims to increase access and inclusion to social leisure activities for young people with hidden disabilities

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Walderslade Together

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this CIC that provides services to people living at the edge of the care system who are socially isolated, lonely and vulnerable.

£15,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Unleash Yourself with Gladness

A Stabilising grant towards core salaries at this CIC providing employment and mental wellbeing support to vulnerable people.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Tunbridge Wells Mental Health Resource

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this registered charity providing safe spaces and person-centred mental health support in the community to help people improve their wellbeing.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Tonbridge Counselling Services

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity providing low cost/no cost counselling support to vulnerable people.

£5,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Communities - The Princess Project

A Stabilising grant towards core staffing costs at this charity supporting vulnerable young mothers.

£7,500
2023-24
Investing in Communities - The Forward Trust

A Delivering grant towards care packages for recovering alcohol and drug users.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Switch Youth Services

A Stabilising grant towards volunteers costs at this charity providing support and facilities for young people in Maidstone.

£4,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Shepway Spectrum Arts

A Delivering grant towards project costs at this organisation that supports people with profound disabilities.

£3,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - See and Create

A Stabilising grant towards website development at this CIC that seeks to inform and support those suffering with hearing impairment.

£4,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Samphire

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity that supports refugees.

£5,000 x 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Rubicon Cares

A Stabilising grant towards a range of core costs at this organisation that provides free one-to-one specialist trauma counselling for people affected by any crime across Kent & Medway.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Pneuma Church

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity providing volunteer opportunities , job search skills and free clothing for vulnerable women.

£10,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Out to The Woods

A Delivering grant towards project costs at this CIC providing forest school experiences to vulnerable people from the local community.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Napier Friends

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity supporting those seeking asylum who are accommodated at Napier Barracks in Folkestone.

£15,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - KRAN

A Delivering grant towards the cost of life lesson classes at this charity that supports refugees.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Kent Acre

A Stabilising grant towards legal advice at this umbrella group that supports the rural community.

£4,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Council for Voluntary Services Northwest Kent

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity that provides voluntary and community sector infrastructure support.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Books Beyond Words

A Delivering grant towards the production costs of a specialist book for disabled children and their families.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Bags of Taste

A Delivering grant towards the project costs of mentored home cooking courses at this organisation that supports people in food poverty.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Ashford Street Pastors

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this organisation that supports vulnerable people suffering the effects of drugs, alcohol or homelessness on the streets of Ashford.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - A Survivor's Story

A Stabilising grant towards storage costs at this organisation that supports people affected by domestic abuse.

£1,500
2023-24
Investing in Rehabilitation - Naked Frank Theatre

To provide an onsite rehabilitation programme for incarcerated ex-offending mental health patients to develop their self-awareness and help them find purpose through producing music.

£12,500
2023-24
Investing in Rehabilitation - Kent Refugee Help

Funding for this small user-led charity that offers advice and support to foreign national prisoners in various prisons as well as to those who have been released.

£10,000
2023-24
Investing in Rehabilitation - Imago Dei

New women’s accommodation with support specifically for women leaving prison in the South East who may otherwise be homeless and need further resettlement provision.

£20,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Rehabilitation - Charlton Athletic Charitable Trust

Funding to support CACT’s mentoring programme in Thanet, which promotes personal resilience and raises the aspirations of young people from areas of deprivation.

£45,000 over 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Small Places Partnership

Advocacy and mental health support for parents in Medway whose children are in or on the edge of care, improve lives and reducing the number of children entering care.

£21,000
2023-24
Investing in Families - SATEDA

To support SATEDA services for female survivors of domestic abuse across Swale, Medway and expanding into Maidstone

£45,000 over 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Octopus Foundation

To part-fund salaries of two project workers over three years to deliver mental health support.

£10,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Home Start SW Kent

To support vulnerable and disadvantaged families with children under five in the districts of Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks.

£46,200 over 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Hearsay

To expand support groups for parents of children with additional needs, increase the number of subsidised counselling sessions, and cover rental costs.

£11,000
2023-24
Investing in Families - Health Action Charity

Engaging with African men in abusive relationships living in Medway to provide outreach events and inclusive services.

£18,500 over 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Children and Families

To ensure children and families are kept safe around water and can physically and mentally thrive.

£10,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Celebration Church

Towards a food project that provides pre-prepared ingredients and recipes for families to learn to cook healthy food on a budget.

£10,000 x 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Canterbury Housing Advice

Towards the salary of a full-time caseworker for three years to prevent homelessness and reduce poverty, disadvantage and social and financial exclusion.

£52,000 over 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - BSL Community

Parenting Services supports families disadvantaged by Deafness & communication barriers. The funding will train staff to become parenting facilitators for specialist support.

£15,000
2023-24
Investing in Families - Age UK Thanet

To provide welcoming support at a Community Hub and outreach opportunities across the whole Thanet area in partnership with statutory and voluntary organisations.

£30,000 x 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - 21 Together

To provide a community hub resource to enable families supporting a child / young person with Down`s syndrome to access on a local level.

£20,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Young People - POW Thanet

To provide young people aged 16-24 years with work experience, mentorship and opportunity for creative expression as part of POW's International Women's Day Festival 2024.

£17,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Dame Kelly Holmes Trust

Reconnect with Employment – helping 16-25 year old NEETS into employment through confidence, resilience and skill building mentoring programmes.

£25,000
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Curly's Legacy

Towards improving the life and employability chances of vulnerable Sheppey (and wider Swale) young adults aged 14-25 through agricultural and retail work experience.

£19,750 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Medway Watersports Trust

An Extending Grant towards the costs of a new safety dingy which will improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase sustainability at this small charity providing water-based activities in a deprived part of the county.

£4,100
2023-24
Investing in Communities - The Living Paintings Trust

A Delivering Grant towards the cost of Touch to See Books, tactile books with immersive audio descriptions, helping to ensure blind and partially sighted people experience the books in the same way as their sighted peers

£3,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Garlinge Phoenix Project

A Stabilising Grant towards a range of core costs at this community based sensory garden.

£2,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Dover Street Pastors

A Stabilising Grant towards the Coordinators Salary at this charity that works to protect vulnerable people on the streets of Dover.

£3,500
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Reform, Restore, Respect

A Stabilising Grant towards core salaries at this charity that delivers anti-crime, anti-gang, anti-drugs, behaviour-challenging programmes.

£12,500
2023-24
Investing in Communities - wHoo Careso

An Extending Grant towards developing an alternative income source at this charity that uses volunteers to provide a range of services to elderly, vulnerable and socially isolated people living on the Hoo Peninsula, a deprived rural area on the North Kent coast.

£15,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - CAS Community Solutions CIC

A Stabilising Grant towards an Administrator's salary at this organisation that provides employment, education, training and volunteering support to the most vulnerable in the community.

£5,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Communities- Medway Plus

A Stabilising Grant towards core salary costs at this CIO that provides a range of projects including community outreach work and support to migrants and refugees.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Kent Equine Facilitated Learning CIC

A Stabilising Grant towards core salaries at this organisation promoting mental health and well-being, especially among young people and families facing challenges, through therapeutic interactions with horses.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Mutual Aid Road Reps

A Stabilising Grant towards core staffing costs at this CIC that aims to fight loneliness, isolation and improve community cohesion.

£4,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Catching Lives

A Stabilising Grant towards rent and utilities at this charity that supports people who are homeless and socially excluded in Canterbury and East Kent.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Confidance

A Stabilising Grant towards rent and salary costs at this inclusive organisation delivering dance for people with and without learning disabilities in East Kent.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Margate Independent Foodbank CIC

An Extending Grant towards developing innovative additional income sources at this CIC providing support to those in food poverty.

£12,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Canterbury Street Pastors

A Stabilising Grant towards salary costs at this charity that helps care for vulnerable, mentally ill and homeless people in Canterbury.

£7,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Mama to Mama

A Stabilising Grant towards rent, utilities and insurance at this charity providing essential baby items to vulnerable parents.

£7,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Caring Altogether on Romney Marsh

A Stabilising Grant toward core salaries and volunteer costs at this charity that supports socially isolated people living in Romney Marsh.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Cranfield Trust

An Extending Grant towards salary costs at this charity that supports capacity building in small organisations in Kent.

£10,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Mary's Child (MCK)

A Stabilising Grant towards core staff costs at this charity based in Dartford and providing support to vulnerable families and individuals in need.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Blue Town Remembered

An Extending Grant towards a new staff structure and training at this charity working on the Isle of Sheppey providing support and opportunities to several vulnerable groups including those with dementia.

£10,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - GAP - A Thanet Community Project

A Stabilising Grant towards core costs at this charity providing a range of services to vulnerable local people in a deprived area of the county.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Athena Herd Foundation CIC

A Stabilising Grant towards administrative overheads at this small CIC that delivers facilitated, equine based experiences to vulnerable adults, including those with PTSD.

£5,000 x 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Something in Kent

A Stabilising Grant towards core salary costs at this charity set up by people with disabilities or long-term health conditions that runs activities and training and supports local residents to become less isolated and improve their physical health and well-being.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Rehabilitation - Rising Sun Domestic Violence

Supporting young men struggling with domestic abuse trauma who are on the brink of the criminal justice system.

£20,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Rehabilitation - The Beckmead Trust

Towards a music club to improve the mental wellbeing of young people in Cookham Wood Young Offenders’ Institution.

£10,000
2023-24
Investing in Families - Kent Autistic Trust

Support, training and information to autistic individuals, their families and professionals.

£15,000
2023-24
Investing in Families - Thanet Community Churches

Towards 'Margate Family Project' supporting families in poverty by running empowering courses/programmes.

£58,000 over 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Kith and Kids

To support families living with “child to parent” violence, eliminating isolation, shame and hopelessness.

£2,000
2023-24
Investing in Families - Home Start Shepway

Supporting families with young children both emotionally and practically.

£20,000
2023-24
Investing in Families - Dads Unlimited

To improve efficiency of family separation service supporting fathers post-separation, by recruiting a caseworker.

£18,000 x 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Families - Carers' Support East Kent

Programme of well-being activities to support carers by giving them a break, helps them to make connections and reduces isolation..

£22,500
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Youth Ngage Kent

Personal and career development support for BAME youths in Gravesham; to acquire key skills.

£15,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Kent Film Foundation

Towards the costs of reinstating youth film/arts workshops.

£30,000
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Invicta National Academy

Financial literacy course for 16-18 year olds to equip them with essential real life skills

£11,000
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Education Business Partnership Kent

Using in-house teams and specialist employer volunteering to provide support to vulnerable learners and those at risk of disengaging.

£20,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Young People - East Kent Rape Crisis Centre

Specialist rape and sexual abuse counselling for young people and a follow up support group.

£10,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Cement Fields

Bespoke, specialist support for Medway’s NEET creatives including 1:1 mentoring in partnership with Medway Youth Services.

£20,000 x 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Be Me Project

To expand Wellbeing/Mental Health courses into Secondary Schools in deprived areas of Tonbridge & Malling.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Axis Educational Trust

Towards a holistic programme of support for NEET young people, offering academic tutoring, employability skills, volunteering and 1:1 coaching.

£58,000 over three years
2023-24
Investing in Young People - Afghanistan and Central Asian Association

Accredited English classes, digital/IT skills training and careers advice in Folkestone for young NEET newly-arrived Afghan and Ukrainian refugees.

£23,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Horsebridge Arts Centre

A Delivering grant towards project costs at this charity providing opportunities in the arts for priority communities such as older, younger and least engaged people.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Accessible Coders

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this CIC that aims to provide a supportive environment, where individuals with disabilities can learn programming skills.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Bright Shadow

A Stabilising grant towards the CEO salary costs at this charity that works with people at all stages of the dementia journey, often until the end of life

£15,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Slide Away

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity providing Kent children access to a bereavement service that responds to their needs following the death of a family member or friend.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - The Perfect Place to Grow

A Stabilising grant towards the set up costs at this newly formed CIC providing a training café alongside a programme of off-site work placements supporting young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds.

£4,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Making a Difference to Maidstone

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity supporting the homeless, those in addiction, socially isolated, disadvantaged and in crisis in Maidstone.

£15,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Inspiration Creative CIC

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this accessible arts organisation that aims to bring together people of all abilities, catering for disadvantaged people and breaking down social barriers.

£5,000 x 3 years
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Space To Be Me

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this small user-led charity providing support to children with additional needs and their families.

£15,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Canterbury District CAB

An Extending grant towards essential IT infrastructure at this charity providing free, confidential and impartial advice to the public.

£15,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Kent Coast Volunteering

A Stabilising grant towards core salaries at this organisation that operates a range of services including a volunteer matching service in the deprived coastal communities of Kent

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Lily's Social Kitchen

A Stabilising grant towards rent, utilities and core salaries at this CIC that trains people with disabilities and supports the local community through food.

£13,000 over 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Espression Arts

A Stabilising grant towards core salaries at this CIC that delivers programmes aimed at elderly people who are isolated and lonely.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Medway Vineyard Church

A Stabilising grant towards the costs associated with providing school uniforms for those in need.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Cliftonville Cultural Space

A Delivering grant towards the cost of running several programmes across Cliftonville's diverse community.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Abbey Psychic Community Garden

A Stabilising grant towards core salaries at this charity that seeks to support individuals’ positive mental health, reduce loneliness, and improve knowledge and skills.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Pegasus Play Scheme

A Stabilising grant towards staff costs at this charity that provides an annual summer programme providing support and services for children with a variety of severe and complex disabilities.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Inclusive Sport CIC

A Stabilising grant towards salaries at this CIC that provides inclusive sports programmes for disabled people in Kent.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Cast a Thought

A Stabilising grant towards an Administrator salary at this CIC that provides fishing programmes and support for those suffering from mental ill health.

£4,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - All Saints Community Project

A stabilising grant towards core salaries and utilities at this community group that offers crisis support to the people of Chatham and Medway.

£15,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Moving Memory Dance Theatre

A Delivering grant towards dance workshops at this organisation that works to improve equality and quality of life for older people and other marginalised communities.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Nigerian Community Association Kent and Medway

A Stabilising grant towards rent and office costs for this organisation supporting the welfare needs of Nigerians living in Kent and Medway.

£5,000 x 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Wetwheels

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs for this primarily volunteer led group that provides water-based activities for disabled and disadvantaged people.

£5,000 x 3
2023-24
Investing in Communities - The Hygiene Bank Medway Branch

A Stabilising grant towards storage costs at this charity that distributes free hygiene projects to those in acute need.

£3,000 x 2 years
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Safer Communities Alliance

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this umbrella group that supports small, primarily BAME led groups to build capacity.

£5,000
2023-24
Investing in Communities - Dover Vineyard Church

A Delivering grant towards project equipment enabling this church to start up a non-profit shop that donates good quality clothing to women who may be refugees, in refuge or struggling with the current poverty crisis.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Rehabilitation - Spurgeons

To transform the relationships between residents and their families, working 1:1 pre and post release to improve rehabilitation, and strengthen family outcomes.

£75,000 over 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Rehabilitation - Shannon Trust

Towards ‘ Turning Pages’ an evidence-based reading programme in Kent prisons which gives people in custody the opportunity to learn to read.

£50,000 over 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Rehabilitation - Prison Fellowship

Towards the Sycamore Tree restorative justice programme and Angel Tree family support programme in Kent prisons.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Rehabilitation - Prison Advice and Care Trust (Pact)

Towards Side-by-Side, strategic research project that will put family at the heart of criminal justice in Kent.

£33,000
2022-23
Investing in Rehabilitation - Not Beyond Redemption

To provide pro bono family law advice and representation to mothers in prison to help re-establish and maintain contact with their children.

£50,000 over 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Rehabilitation - Beating Time

Support for group singing programmes for those with personality disorders and/or addictions, some of the hardest to reach people in HMP Swaleside.

£25,000 over 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Mid Kent Mind

To support a whole-family approach to mental health & wellbeing in Maidstone, Ashford and Swale.

£38,500 over 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Medway Foodbank

To part-fund the new Project Manager’s salary over 2 years.

£20,000 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Home Start Dover District

For two part time family support workers to provide practical and emotional support to struggling, vulnerable families with children under the age of 11.

£15,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Hi Kent

To support Hi Kent's Outreach Programme of free lipreading classes for people of all ages in Kent living with hearing loss.

£10,000 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Friends For Families

To expand services to meet the additional urgent need for support for disadvantaged families.

£10,000 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Domestic Abuse Volunteer Support Services

To provide life-changing trauma-led recovery programmes for children and young people in West Kent experiencing domestic abuse.

£20,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Citizens Advice Maidstone

To provide sustained support and advice on money/debt, entitlements, housing and employment matters to clients with mental health issues, in partnership with Blackthorn Trust.

£10,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Young People - School Home Support

Continuation funding for a School-Home Support Practitioner at St John’s Catholic Comprehensive School in Gravesham.

£25,000
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Rewrite Your Story

To support vulnerable young people in Maidstone who are experiencing various forms of mental health difficulties.

£7,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Positive View Foundation

For a fully qualified, SE Kent, 'Wellbeing & Mentoring Executive' focused permanently around Dover, Folkestone and Hythe.

£25,000 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Young People - The Oaks Specialist College

To generate and support opportunities for young adults with learning difficulties and/or disabilities to positively contribute to society through meaningful employment.

£40,000
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN)

Towards the cost of the CEO, Finance Officer, Community and Corporate Fundraiser, Evidence and Impact Coordinator and new Senior Management Team.

£85,000 over 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Involve Kent

To improve the health and wellbeing of young people with mental health problems, by supporting them to overcome barriers to engagement & support.

£20,000
2022-23
Investing in Young People - FASD Awareness

To support the prevention of alcohol exposed pregnancies and to improve the quality of life for those living with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.

£10,000 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - JAM

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity providing arts opportunities and education to a deprived part of Kent.

£7,500
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Touchbase Care CIC

A Delivering grant towards the project costs of an arts programme at this CIC providing support for people with physical disability, sensory impairment and neuro-diverse conditions.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Creating Community Space Co. CIC

A Stabilising grant towards a range of core costs including rent for this newly formed CIC that supports small businesses through trading opportunities, especially for those suffering financial hardship.

£2,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - No Walls Garden

A Delivering grant towards the project costs of a food growing programme aimed at food bank users at this CIC that provides work experience and skills training by carrying out community gardening and greening.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Faversham Assistance Centre

A Stabilising grant towards central management costs at this charity that supports elderly people to stay in their homes.

£12,500 over 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Music for Wellbeing

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this CIC providing support to those living with life-challenges including disability, dementia, Parkinson’s, loneliness and bereavement.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Ashford Volunteer Centre

A Stabilising grant towards the CEO's salary costs at this charity delivering a range of much needed and well used services aimed at elderly and vulnerable service users.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Creative Lives

A Delivering grant towards an art project in a socially deprived area of Dover.

£1,700
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Disability Assist for Independent Living

A Stabilising grant towards back-office costs at this charity that works to equip disabled people to be self-advocates, and lead a more independent life.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Wye Community Farm

A Stabilising grant towards core costs including salaries and running expenses at this organisation that provides training, skills development and volunteering opportunities to vulnerable groups.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - City Impact CIC

A Stabilising grant towards administration costs at this growing CIC providing a range of critical services including low cost/free counselling for socially excluded people experiencing mental ill health.

£5,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Folkestone Nepalese Community

A Stabilising grant towards core salaries at this small charity that addresses disadvantage within the Nepalese community by providing support and assistance, sharing information, acting as an advocate and promoting Nepalese history and culture

£5,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - The Princess Project

A Stabilising grant towards a range of core costs at this organisation that supports young mothers.

£10,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Friends of Holcott

A Stabilising grant supporting this charity that provides services to vulnerable and socially excluded families in one of the poorest parts of Kent.

£15,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Action with Communities in Rural Kent

An Extending grant towards consultancy costs at this charity that supports rural communities and organisations in Kent.

£15,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Dover Big Local CIC

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this newly formed CIC which supports the local community around isolation, food poverty, money management, employment skills, health issues and digital skills

£4,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Ashford Counselling Services

A Stabilising grant towards core costs including salaries at this charity that provides low cost counselling for vulnerable people.

£5,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - All Shades of Life CIC

A Stabilising grant towards core costs including rent, at this small CIC that provides a variety of free activities aimed at children, vulnerable families and individuals to help improve emotional wellbeing and confidence.

£4,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - New Romney Counselling Services

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity providing affordable counselling services for those whose needs fall outside the scope of NHS mental health criteria, those who cannot afford private counselling, or others whose needs are more complex and may require longer term therapy.

£5,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Inspire Schools Educational Foundation

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity that aims to improve the health, wellbeing, educational attainment and life opportunities of children across Kent.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - West Kent Community Radio

A Stabilising grant towards a range of core costs at this charity that provides a local broadcasting service for hospitals, residential homes and similar institutions, and for patients receiving community care.

£4,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Edenbridge and Westerham Citizens Advice

An Extending grant towards upgrading the IT system at this charity that provides free, confidential and independent advice for the benefit of the community.

£10,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Thanet Iceberg

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this organisation that supports families and individuals in severe poverty, providing advice, meeting space, emergency food and free furniture.

£5,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Beyond the Page

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this non-profit that provides free, creative spaces for marginalised migrant women in deprived areas of Thanet to learn English, develop intercultural friendships and overcome the daily community integration challenges they face.

£5,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Swale Gloves Amateur Boxing Club

A Delivering grant towards equipment costs at this small organisation working in a deprived area supporting young people to stay away from crime and anti-social behaviour.

£4,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Coastal Family Hub

A Stabilising grant towards marketing costs at this newly formed organisation that works to improve mental health among children and young people.

£1,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Reform Restore Respect

A Delivering grant towards project salary costs at this small charity that delivers age-appropriate, anti-crime, anti-gang, anti-drugs, behaviour-challenging workshops in schools.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Cafe Revival, Bexley and East Kent Mind

A Delivering grant funding an outreach project at this social enterprise which works to reduce isolation for those suffering or vulnerable to mental health concerns

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Rehabilitation - Uprising Youth and Community

Funding to become the key referral route for young people to access Buddi Tags through its Metanoia Project.

£45,000 over 18 months
2022-23
Investing in Rehabilitation - Sports Connect Community CIC

To facilitate positive resettlement, reduce reoffending and harness family relationships through sport.

£26,500 over 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Rehabilitation - Prisoners Education Trust

Supporting distance learning opportunities for prisoners in Kent

£8,250 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Rehabilitation - Construction Youth Trust

To support young people caught in a cycle of reoffending or at risk of offending, to progress into employment/education/training.

£75,000 over 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Second Chance

To expand the Food Aid services and stabilise tenancy support services.

£15,000
2022-23
Investing in Families - St. Georges Community Children's Project

Providing low-cost/free childcare to vulnerable children from families struggling with domestic violence, illness, mental health issues and financial hardship.

£5,000 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Lyrici Arts

Bring an annual touring theatre production to Medway, working collaboratively with the Luton Arches community to facilitate participation by local people.

£7,500 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Dandelion Time

To establish a service to support children and families impacted by trauma and abuse in North Kent and Medway.

£20,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Citizens Advice Swale

To enable technical and quality support to the team working across several advice channels so they can provide the best service to clients.

£55,000 over 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Bright Shadow

To provide an enhanced & expanded programme of community-based creative activities that boosts the wellbeing of people living with/affected by dementia.

£25,000 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Age Concern Herne Bay and Whitstable

Towards an Information & Advice Service which supports older people to deal with issues that could lead to poverty and exclusion

£28,000
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Zone Youth Club

To increase youth work provision in the local community.

£20,000
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Young Lives Foundation

To sustain the provision of youth hub services for two more years, providing innovative support to disadvantaged young people in Gravesham.

£45,000 over 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Think Forward

To deliver and further develop the FutureMe programme in Kent, empowering 350 young people to transition from school to work.

£45,000
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Romney Resource

To help young people with social, emotional, mental health challenges resulting from complex trauma.

£25,000 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Rising Sun

Expand work with 11–16-year-old female survivors of domestic abuse to new areas and offer more 1:1 support to promote recovery from trauma.

£50,000 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Ideas Test

Support to deliver the Make Waves creative careers programme for a further two years.

£30,000
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Icon Theatre

Supporting disadvantaged young people in Sheerness to enter education, employment or training by building confidence and communication skills through a youth theatre club.

£15,000 over 16 months
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Future Foundry CIC

Levelling the Playing Field, a programme supporting disadvantaged young people to take the lead in creating events and initiatives.

£15,000 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Music at Malling

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity that seeks to engage people who would not otherwise have access to high quality arts provision.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - The Mason Foundation

An Extending grant towards exploring new partnerships at this charity which runs programmes to support vulnerable communities to live happier, healthier, fulfilled lives.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Napier Friends

A Stabilising grant towards volunteer and office costs awarded to this small charity set up to support people seeking asylum who are accommodated at Napier Barracks in Folkestone.

£4,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Bags of Taste

A Delivering grant awarded to this organisation that supports people in food poverty. The funding will provide mentored home cooking courses for 60 socially excluded people in Thanet.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Tree of Hope

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs for this charity that supports the families of seriously ill and disabled children who need specialist medical treatment.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Citizens Advice Swale

An Extending grant towards IT equipment enabling video link advice giving at this charity proving vital support to people living in a deprived part of the county.

£10,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Gravesham Sanctuary CIO

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity providing advice, support and accommodation to street homeless people.

£15,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Cruse Bereavement Support East Kent and Swale

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity that provides support to people who have suffered a bereavement.

£5,000 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Projekt Europa

A Delivering grant to enable this small theatre group to provide an 11-week community engagement programme aimed at first generation migrants, refugees and asylum seekers with little or no previous experience of theatre.

£4,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Cruse Bereavement Support Maidstone and Medway

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity that provides support to people who have suffered a bereavement.

£5,000 x 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Beach Creative

A Stabilising grant towards building and insurance costs at this community organisation that provides space for local charities and activities for socially excluded groups in a deprived part of the county.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Well Projects CIC

An Extending grant towards digital infrastructure improvements at this community organisation that offers cultural opportunities to under-represented groups.

£7,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Bright Shadow

A Stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this organisation that uses the power of creativity to help people with dementia to live and thrive.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - The Community Driving School

A Stabilising grant towards a range of core costs at this organisation that offers low cost and free driving lessons and employment support to vulnerable and socially excluded young people.

£5,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Rehabilitation - Kenward Trust

Towards provision of a new, safe resettlement home for homeless people at risk of offending or released from custody.

£45,000
2022-23
Investing in Rehabilitation - Refocus

Mentoring service to reduce young people’s offending and re-offending, and (in years 2 & 3) employ 2 young people as peer mentors.

£25,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Whizz Kidz

To support young wheelchair users and their families in Kent.

£20,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - We are Beams

To finance the launch of a new Support Brokerage Service for disabled young people aged 18-25 years which will give them control over their own lives.

£45,000
2022-23
Investing in Families - Spurgeons - Fegans

To set up a Whitstable family hub providing whole family support: counselling for vulnerable children and young people and parenting support for struggling/hard to reach parents & families.

£15,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Families - Slide Away

To provide assessment, individual and group support to children, young people and their families following the death of a relative or friend.

£30,000
2022-23
Investing in Families - St. Augustine's Church Gillingham

To improve accessibility for all members of the local community.

£30,000
2022-23
Investing in Families - Medway Citizens Advice Bureau

To match fund the post of a Financial Capability Officer.

£15,000
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Woodpecker Wood

Develop EET opportunities for NEET young people by developing an employment and training generating “Farm to Fork” provision at Woodpecker Court, including a community café.

£30,000
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Trinity Fencing

For training, uniforms, and tools for young, disadvantaged people to participate on an 8-week paid training and work placement programme.

£15,000
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Rochester Indoor Skate Park

To provide more structured support to young people and their families in a safe, secure, and fun environment promoting sport and all its benefits.

£17,500
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Open Roads Vision

To provide the young people of Medway leaving structured treatment (for drug and alcohol addiction) with a mentor.

£50,000 over 2 years
2022-23
Investing in Young People - I CAN

To improve outcomes for young people in Kent by equipping them with essential communication skills needed for work.

£25,000
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Halpern Charitable Foundation

To provide Medway-based vulnerable and marginalised young people aged 14 to 25 the opportunity to increase life chances through creativity.

£73,750 over 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Blueprint Arts Foundation

Filmmaking project offering technical and transferable skills to over 180 Northfleet and Gravesend-based disadvantaged young people

£57,110 over 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Young People - Alkham Valley Community

To teach new skills, knowledge and confidence to disadvantaged under 25s who may pursue volunteering, apprenticeships or employment.

£30,000 over 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Arts in Ramsgate

A stabilising grant towards core salary costs for this CIC that uses the arts to improve the health, training and employment opportunities of vulnerable people living in Ramsgate.

£15,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Medway Plus

A stabilising grant towards a range of core costs at this organisation that promotes regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Assoc. of Parents and Friends of Bower Grove School

A delivering grant towards the costs of providing play activities at this school for children with educational, social and behavioural needs

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Ashford Mediation Services

A stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity providing mediation services to those experiencing conflict with others.

£5,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Hands of Hope

A delivering grant towards the cost of the organisation's 'Get Growing' project tackling food poverty.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Mental Health Resource Tunbridge Wells

A stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this resource centre providing support for those with complex, enduring mental health conditions.

£7,500
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Team Tasha Fitness CIC

A delivering grant to provide children in poverty with activities and child-care during the school holidays.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Bethersden Community Cinema

A delivering grant towards the costs associated with running a community cinema, reducing isolation in a deprived rural area.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Hanover House Residents Group

A delivering grant towards the cost of a Jubilee party.

£750
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Kent Equine Facilitated Learning

A delivering grant towards the cost of free places for vulnerable young people at this CIC that provides equine assisted learning and horsemanship skills.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - RCCG Life Start Connections

A stabilising grant covering core salary costs at this Gravesham based foodbank operated by a group of local churches.

£5,000 x 3 years
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Shepway Spectrum Arts CIC

A stabilising grant supporting accessibility and inclusion at this arts group delivering services to those with profound disabilities.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Trinity Fencing

An extending grant towards core salary costs supporting the growth of this CIC providing employment and training opportunities for ex-offenders and vulnerable young people.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - The Hope Street Centre

A stabilising grant towards core salary costs at this charity delivering a range of activities aimed at adults with learning disabilities, people suffering with long-term health conditions and the isolated.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Gravesham Network Development CIC

A delivering grant to fund beginner IT classes for older and isolated individuals.

£2,600
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Computers for Charity

A stabilising grant towards core salary and rent costs at this charity that refurbishes donated IT and distributes it to those in need.

£5,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - The Living Paintings Trust

A delivering grant towards the production and distribution of Touch to See books for blind children living in Kent.

£2,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - The Tunbridge Wells Counselling Centre

A stabilising grant towards rent at this charity offering accredited counselling to people in the local community who could not otherwise afford it.

£3,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Talk it Out

A stabilising grant towards rent and volunteer costs at this volunteer run organisation providing help and support to people in the Deal and Dover District who are experiencing mental health problems.

£4,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Making a Difference to Maidstone

A stabilising grant towards core salaries at this organisation that supports those in crisis in Maidstone.

£10,000
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Hoo Peninsula Cares CIC

An extending grant to fund the employment of a Business Development Manager at this CIC specialising in matching volunteers with isolated elderly people.

£14,500
2022-23
Investing in Communities - Kent Enterprise Trust

A stabilising grant towards core costs at this charity that supports people into work.

£5,000 x 2 years