Across the UK, communities experiencing racial inequality have been disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The crisis has amplified the entrenched structural racism experienced across intersecting issues such as health, work and living standards.
Comic Relief believe communities flourish when we all stand together, advocating for those who are most at risk and partnering with the right organisations to reach smaller community organisations undertaking much needed and valued community work. Working with intermediary technical partners is one way to help to ensure the funding reaches all those who need it.
Comic Relief are seeking organisations willing to act as intermediary technical partners, who have the ability, expertise, networks and knowledge to distribute rapid funding to a diverse range of locally-led and focused organisations across the UK.
How the fund works
You will be responsible for making grants to other organisations focussed on addressing Covid-19 needs and priorities among communities experiencing racial inequality. Some examples of what your funding might support (this is not an exhaustive list):
- Support the ongoing needs of communities who have elevated risk factors which increase their vulnerability to Covid-19
- Support activities that relieve pressure on local statutory services, particularly emergency or health and social care provision, or compliment their response
- Groups and activities that support people who are self-isolating (older people, people with pre-existing medical conditions…etc.);
- Immediate response interventions such as foodbanks or other hardship funds caused by Covid-19
- Volunteer costs for new and existing organisations responding to the effect of the crisis
- Additional costs of working remotely and adapting services delivered in the wider community
- Additional support as required for emotional support, mental health and bereavement support
Comic Relief are actively encouraging applications from prospective partners who can reach grassroots organisations who work with communities identified as ‘higher risk’, due to intersecting issues that sharpen the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic such as:
- Domestic abuse
- Poor or worsening mental or physical health
- Interrupted or limited access to advice and services
- Homelessness and insecure shelter
- The increasingly hostile environment faced by migrants, undocumented groups, people seeking asylum and refugees
- Communities with no recourse to public funds
The funding is for organisations applying to distribute and manage funding on our behalf to a diverse range of locally led and focused organisations in the United Kingdom only.
For more information and to apply click here
Deadline: 30 November 2020, 12pm