leadership through change

ACE Loneliness Fund

NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.

as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively

To help you build on the work and impact from Space to Connect Explore funding, aimed at providing communities with a space to connect

over two years towards the core costs of an organisation that uses the arts, and runs a social prescribing hub, to engage marginalised people on the Isle of Wight

Grant from The Fore's RAFT Immediate Response Fund to Independent Arts, as part of The Fore's COVID-19 Response programme.

towards three years' running costs of a project providing social singing groups for older people in the Isle of Wight

Grant to Independent Arts

We need funding to keep our Creative Cafe running so older people can try new activities and make friends over a free cup of tea every week.

towards two years' salary of the Chief Executive at a project providing support to vulnerable older people in residential care and in the community on the Isle of Wight

This new two-year project is based on a pilot scheme. Independent Arts will run a singing for Breathing project, to offer a social group activity for older people with long-term respiratory conditions who will come from different areas on the Isle of Wight. Participants will benefit from the opportunity to meet other local people and form stronger links and ties.