By Grimsby based charity CARE, which supports homeless and vulnerable people across N E Lincolnshire, is today celebrating success in securing National Lottery funding.
The £415,000 funding, given over 3 years, is a National Lottery Community Fund (NLCF) grant. This will allow CARE to carry on offering Housing and Community Support services to local people here in North East Lincolnshire. The funding will enable CARE to help with obtaining housing, and supporting people with what can be quite complex associated needs.
Stephen Durkin, CARE’s General Manager, says:
When people approach our services, very often they are at a crisis point in their lives. This grant means that we will be able to continue to help prevent people’s homelessness, and to improve their health and wellbeing, their life-skills, and, just as importantly, their confidence.
This and other NLCF grants are made possible through the players of the National Lottery, the people who buy their tickets each week. By doing so they are not only purchasing the chance of a dream for themselves, but also helping numerous good causes locally and up and down the country. What could be a life-changing win for the player can help charities like CARE, to have a potentiallylife-changing effect on vulnerable, needy, and often marginalised sections of the community.
Kim Ward, who is the Housing and Community Support Manager at CARE, told us:
Many of our clients report to us as they leave our service that what we have done for them has been life-changing for them. So, we just want to say thank you to all the players of the National Lottery.
CARE offer a housing service that works mainly with private‐sector landlords, who make their properties available to the people we help. There is no advance rent or deposit required. In return, CARE offers the landlord a limited damages guarantee. It also offers one-to-one floating support to the tenant to help them maintain the tenancy and sustain independent living.
The community support CARE offers also includes an Open House drop-in facility through which people have access to help Monday to Friday.
Louise Law, one of CARE’s Community Support Workers, was over the moon with the news of the successful bid – like everyone at CARE! Louise said:
securing funding for a further three years has been a Godsend for struggling families in our area. As public funds are cut back across the board, our service is increasingly important to the people we support.
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