Harlow Council has now given out £5,970,000 in grants to support 469 local businesses during the coronavirus crisis. Grants are being processed as soon as businesses make contact with the council following letters and emails sent to 840 businesses on 8 April. Grants continued to be...
A new initiative to rescue plants from British growers that are unable to be sold due to the Covid-19 lockdown and deliver them directly to homes throughout London, has been launched. Plant Pack is stopping thousands of plants being scrapped by wholesalers that currently have no...
Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) is asking the people of Essex and Hertfordshire to help its crews continue delivering a 24/7 life-saving Helicopter Emergency Medical Service during the Covid-19 pandemic by making sure they have the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) they need to work...
A 7-year-old boy whose life was saved by the NHS after he suffered six cardiac arrests has asked for the public's support to help get his film thanking the NHS entered into the British National Film Archives during the Coronavirus pandemic. Joshua Newman from Chelmsford was...
Over the past week Basildon Council staff have more than doubled the total number of business grant applications they have processed to help keep businesses going through the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the total value to more than £13 million. Leader of the Basildon Council Cllr Gavin...
Childline can today reveal it has seen large numbers of children getting in touch due to Coronavirus (COVID-19), carrying out over 1,700 counselling sessions about the issue in the last three weeks alone – bringing the new total to over 2,200 since the end of...
Historic England has launched an emergency fund to help tackle the impact of Coronavirus on the heritage sector. The aim of the fund, which will be up to £2m, is to extend the safety net as far as possible for the sector by helping small heritage...
"We have just had our busiest ever day at the foodbank" Mike Beckett, the Chief Officer of Colchester Foodbank charity, explained: "March was our busiest month ever, at times with as much as a 300% increase in demand. With some foodbanks reporting up to 1000%...
Bromley and Lewisham based charity, The Brun Bear Foundation, is joining the efforts to support NHS Heroes by donating all pre-sales of its second children’s book, Trouble at the Zoo, to help protect healthcare workers in the community. Trouble At The Zoo is the second children's...
EDF is continuing its efforts to support local communities during the Covid-19 pandemic; partnering with the UK’s largest pharmacy support network, Avicenna, to deliver essential prescription medicines to those in need. Avicenna provides support to over 1,000 independent pharmacies across the UK. Pharmacists, at the heart...
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