Grants scheme

Working in partnership, we are pleased to announce that the following organisations have been awarded funding from the our Home Improvement Grants Scheme.

The Scheme aims to support vulnerable people in their local community, helping to provide them with a safer home environment.

In September 2011, 31 Home Improvement/Care and Repair Agencies were awarded a share of funding from a combined fund total of £100k.  Partners will  use the funding to provide grants to individuals in need of having  essential minor electrical works carried out.   Eligible recipients of the grants are home owners over 60 years of age, who are on means-tested benefit, state pension (and with no other income) or home owners  who are 21 years of age or over and who are registered disabled.

ESC works closely with these agencies’ national bodies, who assist us by promoting the Grants Scheme to their respective agencies and also help to co-ordinate the application process on ESC’s behalf.  We value the support we receive from Foundations (representing England), Care & Repair Scotland (representing Scotland), and Care & Repair Cymru (representing Wales) and also the support we receive from Gable (Shelter) in Northern Ireland.  Collaborating with these national bodies ensures every eligible agency in the UK has the opportunity to apply for funding.

Full details of this year’s awards are outlined below.

 

England

Organisation

Town

Age UK North Tyneside

North Shields

Bolton HIA

Bolton

Guildford Waverley Care & Repair

Guildford

Lancaster City HIA

Lancaster

Newham HIA

Newham

In Touch HIA for Kent & Midway

Kent

Manchester Care & Repair

Manchester

Orbit Care & Repair Coventry

Coventry

Orbit Care & Repair Rugby

Rugby

Orbit Care & Repair Mid Staffordshire

Burton on Trent

Papworth Trust Home Solutions

Cambridge

Ridgeway Care & Repair Somerset

Somerset

Ridgeway Care & Repair Berkshire

Reading

Ridgeway Care & Repair Swindon

Swindon

Ridgeway Care & Repair Wiltshire

Wiltshire

Three Rivers Housing Care & Repair

County Durham

Lincolnshire Home Improvement Agency

Gainsborough

Epsom & Ewell Home Improvement Agency

Epsom

WE Care & Repair

Bristol

Foundations Independent Living Trust (FILT)

Glossop
 

Scotland

Organisation

Town
Aberdeenshire Care & Repair

Ellon
Arran Care & Repair
 Isle of Arran
Borders Care & Repair
 Greenock
Inverness Care & Repair (Cairn Housing Association)
 Inverness
Lomond and Clyde Care & Repair Dumbarton
 

Wales

Organisation

Town
Ynys Mon Care & Repair
 Llangefni
Flintshire Care & Repair
 Flintshire
Blaenau Gwent Care & Repair
 Abertillery
Cardiff Care & Repair
 Cardiff
 

Northern Ireland

Organisation

Town
Gable (Shelter)
 Strabane