| Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award |
| £20,000 |
07/10/2022
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Age UK Cheshire East Core costs
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| Cheshire Community Foundation - Winter Wellbeing Project |
| £5,000 |
17/01/2022
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Winter Wellbeing Project
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| Cheshire Community Foundation - Older Person's Information & Advice Service |
| £8,740 |
25/06/2021
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Age UK Cheshire East is a locally based charity which provides a bespoke range of services, specifically designed for older people. The project will help fund their Older Person's Information &
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Age UK Cheshire East is a locally based charity which provides a bespoke range of services, specifically designed for older people. The project will help fund their Older Person's Information & Advice service, which continues to be a vitally important service supporting older people with the many challenges they face in later life, by providing targeted information and support, empowering older people to take better control of their lives and achieve more financial freedom. A grant will pay staff costs for four months. This project makes a significant difference to the lives of older people who access it, and can bring about life changing outcomes to support them in later life, which includes realising additional benefits to pay for essentials such as heating; adaptations to their homes; or to cover caring responsibilities. This Service is even more important than it ever was before during the post-pandemic recovery phase, to help rebuild the confidence of a cohort of people who have been disproportionately affected by this virus.
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| Cheshire Community Foundation - Remote support for dementia carers |
| £12,034 |
01/12/2020
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Our project will support people with dementia, and their carers, who are not able to access face-to-face support and services due to the COVID-19 restrictions, which we know leads to isolation and
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Our project will support people with dementia, and their carers, who are not able to access face-to-face support and services due to the COVID-19 restrictions, which we know leads to isolation and anxiety. The support will include the circulation of bespoke monthly activity packs for carers to hold ‘remote’ sessions with their loved ones. The packs will include a range of activities enabling the carer to run activities to break the monotony of isolation. We will hold ‘virtual’ coffee mornings with carers who are digitally connected, as well as other ad-hoc support, including regular welfare calls; distribution of ‘mental health welfare packs’ (jigsaws, puzzles, treats etc) or loan of equipment we have traditionally used in our Day Club to occupy those with dementia. By having regular contact with carers, we will be able to identify early on issues which may need additional support, such as access to benefits, which we can signpost to our own Information & Advice Service, or other relevant local services. Our project will ensure that isolated older people, struggling with the additional pressures of COVID-19, are not forgotten because they cannot receive face-to-face support, and empowering them to better support their loved one independently.
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| Cheshire Community Foundation - Men in Sheds (Congleton) |
| £13,638 |
19/05/2020
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Men in Sheds in Congleton is operated by Age UK Cheshire East, a charity working to support older people. The project aims to give older men a safe and friendly environment in which to meet other
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Men in Sheds in Congleton is operated by Age UK Cheshire East, a charity working to support older people. The project aims to give older men a safe and friendly environment in which to meet other like minded men, whilst enjoy friendly conversation and the chance to undertake some woodworking activity in a well equipped workshop. The amount being applied for would pay the staff costs for the project for one year. We know from our six monthly satisfaction surveys of service users that those attending the Shed get a significant benefit from attending, and we know that their attendance helps their mental health, feelings of isolation and loneliness and helps them develop new friendships as well as all important peer support networks.
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| Ministry of Defence - £10M Veterans' Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund |
| £11,403 |
15/05/2020
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to provide immediate support for vulnerable veterans with reduced social contact
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| National Lottery Community Fund - Age UK East Cheshire - COVID-19 response |
| £28,393 |
15/05/2020
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Age UK East Cheshire deliver a range of services across the area from their base in Macclesfield. Funding will be used to support the existing Information and Advice service which acts as the
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Age UK East Cheshire deliver a range of services across the area from their base in Macclesfield. Funding will be used to support the existing Information and Advice service which acts as the “gateway” to all services and offer support to beneficiaries – all of whom are in the group most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| Cheshire Community Foundation - Covid 19 support |
| £10,000 |
07/05/2020
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We were very grateful to the Cheshire Community Foundation for its very generous contribution towards our Information and Advice service, and are now seeking additional funds to carry on the work
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We were very grateful to the Cheshire Community Foundation for its very generous contribution towards our Information and Advice service, and are now seeking additional funds to carry on the work which was kick started by that grant funding. Being able to retain our Information & Advice service has meant that we were able to look at how best we could support the older people of Cheshire East through enquiries coming into our I&A service. We are therefore seeking further funding from the Foundation to help pay for the costs associated with this project. As explained in our previous application, around 75% of our income has completely stopped since mid-March, and as a result, these services are operating by dipping into our reserves, which before this started were only at 65% of their desired level as at the end of March 2020, and likely to be considerably worse as this crisis continues. The funding detailed below sets out the full cost of providing this service for a sixmonth period. Whilst I understand that the amount quoted is likely to be more than the Foundation felt it was able to support, we felt that it was important to set out the full cost of the service to ensure there is full visibility on how we are trying to resource this support. This bid would fund all of the support work we have put in place, and we are looking to other funding sources to fund other resources which are needed in our wider work of supporting older people.
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| Cheshire Community Foundation - Covid 19 support |
| £4,241 |
06/04/2020
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Age UK Cheshire East supports older people at their time of need. This project will deliver much needed support to older people during the Covid 19 pandemic. The funding will be used to pay for our
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Age UK Cheshire East supports older people at their time of need. This project will deliver much needed support to older people during the Covid 19 pandemic. The funding will be used to pay for our Information and Advice service (which is normally funded from our shop income which has now stopped), which is now focusing solely on supporting older people with practical advice and signposting on issues they face during the pandemic. We hope that the service will ensure that people can access a trusted and reliable source of information at a time of lots of conflicting advice, enabling them to be better supported at this time of need.
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| National Lottery Community Fund - Older Person Scams Information/Awareness & Aftercare Project |
| £66,332 |
17/10/2019
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Older Persons Scams & Doorstep Crime Awareness & Aftercare Project
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| Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award |
| £20,000 |
28/05/2019
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Older Persons Scams Information & Aftercare Project
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| Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award |
| £10,000 |
20/09/2017
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Information and Advice for Older People in Cheshire East
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| National Lottery Community Fund - Information & Advice for Older People |
| £10,000 |
06/09/2017
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The project will provide information and support for older people and enable them to access services, training, activities and local groups to improve their independence, health and wellbeing.
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| Cheshire Community Foundation - Men in Sheds Cheshire East |
| £6,050 |
13/03/2017
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Age UK Cheshire East, founded in 1988, is a local charity supporting people over 50 years of age, their families and carers through the provision of high quality practical and emotional support. The
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Age UK Cheshire East, founded in 1988, is a local charity supporting people over 50 years of age, their families and carers through the provision of high quality practical and emotional support. The project is the ‘Men in Sheds’ programme helping over fifty older men (65+) improve social contact and take part in meaningful and productive activity. This service reduces isolation, supports disadvantage, improves access to local services and is considered by many existing users as a lifeline. The grant will be used as a contribution towards staffing costs of two part time coordinators, transport costs, utility bills and insurance.
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| The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Age Concern East Cheshire |
| £15,000 |
22/04/2016
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refurbishment of office for a charity which works with elderly people
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| National Lottery Community Fund - Sustaining Knowledge and Independence in Later Life (SKILL) |
| £299,885 |
01/12/2014
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| National Lottery Community Fund - Health Eating in Later Life Kitchen |
| £10,000 |
20/06/2013
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This is a project by an incorporated charity in Cheshire. The organisation will use funding to install a kitchen area at their new premises. This will enable the group to provide healthy cookery
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This is a project by an incorporated charity in Cheshire. The organisation will use funding to install a kitchen area at their new premises. This will enable the group to provide healthy cookery demonstrations and lessons for older members of the community, with the aim of reducing isolation and encouraging a healthy diet.
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| National Lottery Community Fund - Health & Wellbeing Centre Disabled Lift |
| £10,000 |
08/02/2012
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This is a project by an incorporated charity in Cheshire. The organisation will use the funding to install a disabled lift in the centre. This will provide access to the upper floor for people not
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This is a project by an incorporated charity in Cheshire. The organisation will use the funding to install a disabled lift in the centre. This will provide access to the upper floor for people not able-bodied and increase usage by people within the community who can access the upper floor for activities.
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| National Lottery Community Fund - Cheshire East Later Life Support Network |
| £489,360 |
08/09/2010
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This project provides information, advice and support services for older people in the Cheshire East area. Information and advice is provided from the 'hub' at the Macclesfield base but home visits
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This project provides information, advice and support services for older people in the Cheshire East area. Information and advice is provided from the 'hub' at the Macclesfield base but home visits and outreach posts are in operation. Information and advice is given on a range of issues such as benefits, social activities, health, housing and access to other community services, as well as other Age Concern services.
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| National Lottery Community Fund - Making IT Easy |
| £10,000 |
04/03/2010
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This group manages and delivers projects and services for older people in the local community. They will provide a project aimed at increasing the skills of older people in how to use computers and
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This group manages and delivers projects and services for older people in the local community. They will provide a project aimed at increasing the skills of older people in how to use computers and the Internet. Learners will be shown how to use the Internet and computers in order to make their daily lives easier.
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