Winter Support Fund 24/25 Grantees
In December 2024, we launched the Winter Support Fund 2024/25 which awarded grants to community organisations to support those most in need in the local community. This was through direct support to residents needing immediate support or experiencing financial hardship.
The £213,000 Winter Support Fund was administered by H&F Giving on behalf of H&F Council (with funding provided by Department of Work & Pensions). We wanted to distribute £180,000 to local Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations to support households, including older residents, in Hammersmith & Fulham which otherwise might face crisis and to provide them with food, fuel and support for other essential living costs. We, along with the community organisations we support in Hammersmith & Fulham are very grateful to H&F Council who, due to the quality of applications and size of demand, were able to increase the size of the pot to £213,000.
In January 2025, a panel decided on 28 organisations to award. We are happy to share the successful grantees below:
Active Successful Engagement (ASÉ) CIC
£10,000 awarded to provide groceries, food vouchers, utility payments and essential items as part of their mission to reduce inequalities, combat poverty, and address worklessness, striving to transform lives and empower communities.
Age UK Hammersmith & Fulham
£5,448 awarded to fund the chef who provides a heavily subsidised hot meal every weekday at their Activity Centre to support older people to thrive in later life.
Barons Court Project
£8,000 awarded to provide food, a chef, winter clothing, phone top-ups and utility vouchers to support people are homeless, on low income and/or living with long-term mental health conditions.
Dad’s House
£8,000 awarded to provide food, utilities and winter essentials to support single mums and dads, their children and families who are struggling to cope.
Flow Happy CIC
£10,000 awarded to provide period product parcels to 200 households and educational materials to engage the community.
Fulham Good Neighbours
£10,000 awarded to provide lunch, subsidised meals, food vouchers, utilites and extra warm thermal tops to older people and people with illnesses and disabilites.
Hammersmith and Fulham Foodbank
£7,541 awarded to provide fuel bill support, electric radiator heaters and basic cooking equipment to address the prevention or relief of poverty in H&F.
Kulan Foundation
£10,000 awarded to provide food vouchers and to cover heating, energy and water bills, supporting ethnic minorities.
Lets Unite for Autism
£6,400 awarded to provide food, utilities and winter essentials to support those on the autism spectrum and their families.
Living with Equal Opportunties (LEO’s)
£7,680 awarded to provide food vouchers and help with energy bills for vulnerable young people with disabilities and their families.
Lunch Club + 4 The Blind
£2,000 awarded to provide food, cover heating bills and transport for those who are blind, partially sighted and/or have a disability.
Minaret Community Centre
£7,984 awarded to provide food vouchers, utilities, a project coordinator and volunteer expenses in able to provide family support, isolated individuals and East & North African communities.
Mother and Child Welfare Organisation
£8,000 awarded to provide cultural food parcels, utility bill payments, budgeting advice, emotional support and help with applying for benefits to families, women and children living in poverty.
Nourish Hub, UKHarvest
£8,000 awarded to provide ‘Meal Deal Vouchers’, a three-course meal to residents at their Community Lunch in order to tackle social isolation and food insecurity.
Our Lady of Fatima Church
£9,750 awarded to provide fresh food for the food hub, food and fuel vouchers and households items to alleviate food poverty in W12.
People Arise Now
£10,000 to provide food parcels, white goods and energy top ups to struggling families and individuals, including young people who may be impacted by crime.
River House Trust
£1,760 awarded to provide foodbank supplies and 100 free lunches to help make a better life for people with HIV, particularly as they move into older age.
Sands End Arts & Community Centre
£7,360 awarded to provide weekly free hot meals, food vouchers and on-site advice sessions with art activities and essentials to those living with disabilities, learning disabilities, mental health issues, those facing economic instability, homelessness and older adults.
SEAPIA
£10,000 awarded to provide food vouchers to families, the elderly and isolated residents and self-care packages to young people.
Shepherds Bush Families Project
£7,040 awarded to provide food vouchers, cash donations, utility bill cover, essentials and white goods to economically disadvantaged families coping with housing stress.
Solidarity Sports
£10,000 awarded to provide supermarket vouchers and school uniforms to support families and disadvantaged children and young people.
Somali Parents CIC
£4,000 awarded to provide food, utility bill payments and winter essentials to Somali families and other vulnerable groups struggling with financial difficulties.
St Paul’s Money Advice Centre
£8,000 awarded to provide Tesco vouchers to almost 200 households who are suffering poverty, whilst supporting residents to reduce debt-poverty.
Sudanese Association
£8,000 awarded to provide food and groceries, utility bill payments and winter clothing, bedding and heaters to reduce poverty and social exclusion among Sudanese and ethnic minority communities.
The Creighton Centre
£8,000 awarded to provide food vouchers, utility vouchers and essentials such as fridges and heated throws to support disadvantaged people with who have a learning disability or socially isolated older people.
The Violence Intervention Project
£4,100 awarded to provide food drops, support with bills and warm clothes & essentials to young people and their families.
Women Aid and Empowerment CIC
£8,000 awarded to provide cookery demonstration and community meals and shopping vouchers to BAME, low income women and young people.
Urban Flyers C.I.C.
£7,999 awarded to provide food during half term tech camps, after school tech provisions and the E Cycle Cafe in order to help children and young people have access to STEM.
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