Poverty Hurts Appeal Fund
August 2023
Weston Favell Centre Foodbank - £1625
The grant will be used towards Food Bank Manager and toiletries
July 2023
Home-Start Kettering - £2000
The grant will be used towards the emergency food parcel distribution hub in partnership with KCU
June 2023
Community Law Service (Northampton & County) - £2,957.76
The grant will be used towards a Telephone Triage Worker to give debt advice to people experiencing financial distress
May 2023
The Lowdown - £2000
Care Packages for young people using their services
Weston Favell Centre Foodbank - £3000
The funding will be used to support salary costs to deliver food parcels.
April 2023
NorFAMtoN - £3000
The funding will be used for a Windrush generation doorstep befriending team delivering home cooked meals and cultural hampers
March 2023
Northampton Town of Sanctuary - £3000
The funding will be used for ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) for disperged refugees
Peak Empower - £2,750
The funding will be used to support families in need with toiletries
Power of the Mind Networks - £2,996.80
The funding will be used to shop for food stuffs of African background, package them and deliver to families in need.
Dostiyo Community Fridge - £2,989.72
This grant will enable their service users to better cope to feed themselves and their families with being able to access free food from the Community Fridge.
February 2023
Emmanuel Group of Churches - £3000
This funding would go towards a warm spaces provision, and provide advice and sign-posting to other services addressing poverty. It would also support the well-being of adults, and the healthy growth and development of babies in disadvantaged families.
Northamptonshire Carers - £3000
They will open up to more Adult Carers and Young Carer families, and purchase a wide range of essential food and toiletries and have them in stock so that this is easily accessible for the most vulnerable clients as and when needed.
The Shack Food Project - £3000
The funding will support food parcels to families and individuals in Kettering and Corby
Dostiyo Asian Women & Girls Organisation - £2,962
The funding will go towards Fuel poverty Advice and Welfare Benefits service to local people and their families
January 2023
SNVB - £3000
The funding will support the SNVB Community Larder in Towcester
Daylight Centre - £3000
The funding will support the running of the foodbank through the staff costs of the Foodbank Adminstrator
Springs Family Centre - £1500
The funding will support their food bank activities
Citizens Advice Services Corby and Kettering (CASCK) - £3000
The funding will support their help and advice line service
United African Association - £3000
The funding will be used for Children's Winter Coat Vouchers
Weston Favell Centre Foodbank - £3000
The funding will enable them to provide foods for more people, helping to reduce food hunger and poverty
Doddridge Centre Ltd - £1,792.44
The funding will be used to replenish the kitchen with crockery, utensils, equipment etc so they can run cooking on a budget courses, lunch clubs, breakfast and pop up cafes
September 2022
The McCarthy-Dixon Foundation - £1000
The funding will support to combat the cost of living crisis through their foodbank activity