Knutsford Fund
Cheshire Community Foundation has reopened it's Knutsofrd Fund on a rolling basis.
This programme is specifically for projects in Knutsford with the aim of achieving the following outcomes:.
- To improve mental health and wellbeing – particularly at an early intervention stage
- To tackle poverty and disadvantage for people of all ages
- To build stronger communities
- To increase education skills and employment opportunities
Priority activities for the fund (agreed in consultation with a range of community groups and stakeholders in Knutsford) are those which support lonely, disabled, disadvantaged and vulnerable people of all ages – who lack access to volunteering opportunities, employment and skills support, regular transport, befriending services, peer support, social activities and key public services and who want to feel more valued and improve their overall mental health and wellbeing, with particular emphasis on supporting:-
- Disadvantaged and vulnerable people affected by the covid-19 outbreak
- Lonely isolated older men
- New Mums
- Young people
- Carers (of all ages)
More information is availble on the Foundation website.
