Charities Aid Foundation launches Coronavirus Emergency Fund
By Tara Underhill -
The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has launched a new Coronavirus Emergency Fund. Through this fund smaller charities, not for profit organisations, social enterprises and unregistered community groups can apply for grants of up to £10,000 to help them to continue to deliver much needed support to within their communities.
The funding is available to help with core costs, staffing, volunteer costs, supplies and equipment, communications or other critical charitable areas.
They advise that they may need to focus on:
- Charities, and other organisations, whose established charitable activities are at risk of being severely reduced to the detriment of vulnerable groups
- Organisations that are having to deliver core services in fundamentally different or unusual ways in order to respond to the crisis and still reach their beneficiaries
- Organisations that are deeply embedded with communities and have established networks to deliver their charitable activities
- Organisations experiencing current cashflow problems, rather than concerns that future income will be reduced.
More information: https://www.cafonline.org/charities/grantmaking/caf-coronavirus-emergency-fund
