Thank you again to the Lloyds Bank Foundation for forwarding the following funding opportunities: Co-op Local Community Fund: New fund to help organisations that support the mental and physical health of others in the community Application deadline midnight 28 June 2020. Social and Community Capital: £5,000 – £50,000 grant available to organisations across the UKContinue Reading

Wider Impact is delighted to be commissioned to carry a review of governance of West Midlands based Sandwell Community Hubs, with objectives that include supporting members to: o   Gain an in-depth understanding of key issues that may be standing in the way of the future development of the organisation o   Identify and provide practical andContinue Reading

Thank you again to the Lloyds Bank Foundation for kindly forwarding the below: Funding GOV.UK: Full list of government financial support for charities in response to COVID-19, including general schemes from businesses they can also access. The National Lottery Community Fund: A reminder that the Government’s new Coronavirus Community Support Fund, distributed by the TNL Community Fund,Continue Reading

No one can underestimate the long-term wider impact this terrible COVID-19 Virus will have on our world as we have known it. Such will be felt by those many thousand third sector organisations who will be at the front-line, supporting local communities recover and plan for the future. As you will note from my BlogContinue Reading

Wider Impact is delighted to be thanked for our role in supporting West Midlands charity, Sandwell Advocacy with its Business Planning process. Funded by the innovative Lloyds Bank Foundation Enhance Programme, the commission has involved working closely with Trustees, Project Coordinator and frontline staff. The following is a testimonial received from the charity: ‘I wantedContinue Reading