| The Grocers' Charity - 2024 Grant - The Helpful Bureau |
| £5,000 |
19/06/2024
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To support a Home Service for older people, which covers virtually all domestic chores from cleaning bathrooms, making beds, tidying kitchens, ironing, dusting, vacuuming, shopping, collecting prescriptions, and preparing light meals.
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| Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Helpful Bureau |
| £1,120 |
21/10/2023
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We would like to have a Reconnect Café for those who are particularly anxious about going out after Covid. Loneliness is reduced by meeting people, and other opportunities open up as a result.
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| National Lottery Community Fund - The Helpful Bureau Trips |
| £10,000 |
15/09/2023
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The funding will be used to provide weekly trips and social groups for older people in the community. It will help with mobility promoting both physical and emotional health and connecting people to make new friendships. The project aims to build
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The funding will be used to provide weekly trips and social groups for older people in the community. It will help with mobility promoting both physical and emotional health and connecting people to make new friendships. The project aims to build strong relationships by developing friendships and widening social circles.
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| Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Helpful Bureau |
| £5,000 |
31/03/2023
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Practical home support services for older people
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| National Lottery Community Fund - Mentoring and Befriending Service |
| £116,109 |
25/11/2022
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The funding will provide older people with befriending mentoring and bereavement support plus additional social activities to help those struggling with isolation and anxiety.THB supports those aged 55 plus with or without disabilities providing the
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The funding will provide older people with befriending mentoring and bereavement support plus additional social activities to help those struggling with isolation and anxiety.THB supports those aged 55 plus with or without disabilities providing the following:• Weekly lunch club• Music to Movement classes• Grumpy Old Men’s club• Games group and craft clubs• Trips to garden centres and the coast in its minibus• Community transport: using volunteer drivers and its Wheelchair Access Vehicle (WAV) taking service users to social activities and medical appointments• Home Support: cleaning and general housekeeping support so people can stay in their own homes• Gardening and Handyman: lawn mowing and garden tidying and other small jobs • Befriending: this service began just prior to lockdown and pivoted to a phone service but has begun to face-to-face again• Opening as a warm space from end November 2022 to be promoted through a market stall social media and posters council and community noticeboards.
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| Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Helpful Bureau |
| £1,952 |
22/10/2022
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We would like to provide meals for the older people in our community.
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| Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - The Helpful Bureau - 24/05/22 |
| £3,000 |
23/06/2022
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Core Funding
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| National Lottery Community Fund - Voluntary Transport Scheme |
| £9,991 |
10/06/2022
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The funding will be used to run a volunteer transport scheme with a wheelchair accessible vehicle. The project aims to enable older people and people living with disabilities to access appointments local services and activities and allow them to
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The funding will be used to run a volunteer transport scheme with a wheelchair accessible vehicle. The project aims to enable older people and people living with disabilities to access appointments local services and activities and allow them to live independently.
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| Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Helpful Bureau |
| £2,420 |
23/10/2021
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We would like to offer a free befriending service to benefit those isolated in our community.
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| Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Helpful Bureau |
| £5,000 |
21/12/2020
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Practical services for older people
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| DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund |
| £7,677 |
14/09/2020
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"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public
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"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
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| Sport England - COVID-19 CEF |
| £3,075 |
20/05/2020
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Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity building
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| CAF - Grant to The Helpful Bureau |
| £4,485 |
04/05/2020
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Grant to The Helpful Bureau to support the organisation through COVID19
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| Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Helpful Bureau |
| £2,782 |
15/11/2019
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We want to buy a wheelchair accessible minibus for use in our local community.
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| Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to The Helpful Bureau |
| £20,000 |
20/10/2011
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the salary of the Practical Services Co-ordinator
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