Support from community organisations, HSF
These are the organisations that have received grants so far.
IW Carers
What is on offer?
Support to unpaid carers on the Island is available through the IW Carers charity to support with essential clothing items, travel, medical equipment promoting independence and kitchen appliances that will help to reduce energy costs.
How do I apply?
Contact IW Carers on 01983 533173 or info@carersiw.org.uk
When is it available?
1 June 2023 to 31 March 2024
Age UKIW
What is on offer?
Pensioners already supported by Age UK or those requesting support will be provided with hygiene packs to assist with essential items such as incontinence products, soap and wipes.
Who is eligible?
Island residents of pensionable age can request support if you are not already supported by the charity.
How do I apply?
Contact Age UK by telephone: 01983 525282
When is it available?
19 June 2023 to 31 March 2024
Organisations that have received funding
These organisations have received funding to deliver schemes up to March 2024. Contact them directly to find out more.
| Organisation | Area | Funding received | Offer of support | Contact details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aspire Ryde | All Island | £3,092 | Working alongside Two
Saints, Aspire Ryde will be supporting rough sleepers, those that are
sofa-surfing or at risk of homelessness with a daily provision of hot meals and
hot drinks. They will also be supporting them with thermos flasks, a
camping cooker and warm clothes in emergency situations, along with washing
powder, oral hygiene packs, shower facilities and personal hygiene items. | 01983 716020 |
| Aspire Ryde | All Island | £11,508 | Aspire Ryde will be running
a community kitchen that will continue to assist those in need with a warm meal
and a hot drink on a twice-weekly basis. They would also like to provide
twice-weekly cookery sessions for groups of up to 4 people using conventional
ovens, microwaves and pan hob cooking. Meals will be taken home by
participants. | 01983 716020 |
| Aspire Ryde | All Island | £15,750 | The ‘Wheels2Work’ scheme
hires electric bikes out to members of the public requiring transport to
interviews, education or work. The bikes can be hired on a daily, weekly
or monthly basis. | 01983 716020 |
| Aspire Ryde | All Island | £9,000 | Deliver several forms of support over the winter months including 400 precooked frozen meals to individuals unable to cook for themselves, in addition to 100 precooked frozen meals to families in need, ensuring they have a good quality, nutritionally balanced meal each day. They will also provide 100 hampers, with a value of £20 each, containing essential items such as food, toiletries, sanitary products and essential household items. Their warm space will offer a hot drink and meal one day per week over the winter period to around 30 residents which will run alongside the provision of their Bags of Warmth scheme which would see 100 residents provided with items such as hats, gloves, thermal mug and hot water bottle helping to benefit recipients not only this winter but over winter for several years. | 01983 716020 |
| Aspire Ryde | All Island | £5,830 | Providing a series of 10 sessions on how to make your own baby food. Blender and other equipment also provided. Delivered from their central hub in Ryde. | 01983 716020 |
| Aspire Ryde | All Island | £12,757 | Offering a course of cookery sessions showing how to make healthy meals using a slow cooker. All ingredients and slow cooker provided. Delivered from their central hub in Ryde. | 01983 716020 |
| Baby Box | All Island | £10,000 | Offering Island households
essential items such as baby formula, food nappies and clothes. | babyboxiow@gmail.com |
| Breakfast in the Bay | Sandown, Shanklin and Ventnor | £3,000 | Providing breakfast essentials to school for pupils in need, in addition to food packages during school holiday periods. | |
| Bridges at the Apex Church | Cowes | £4,000 | A series of cookery sessions teaching how to cook on a budget. Food will be provided along with the recipe cards. | bridges@theapexchurch.org 07859 365586 |
| Community Rail Partnership | Sandown, Shanklin and Ventnor | £27,000 | Delivering food boxes and hot meals to those that can’t access the gaslight café Lunch Club. The Café lunch club has also been funded. | 07595 670101 |
| Community Spirited | East Cowes | £41,049.21 | Providing struggling households in East Cowes with food parcels, clothes and shoes, heat retaining products such as fleece blankets and draught excluders in addition to slow cookers, air fryers, soup /smoothie makers and microwave appliances, alongside cookery sessions to help them use the equipment and fresh fruit and vegetables to use at home. They will also provide females of menstrual age with hygiene packs and run a bereavement support group to support recently bereaved residents become self-sufficient and reduce costs. Identified residents will also receive a series of community pantry vouchers. | 01983 296592 |
| Cowes Town Council | Cowes | £5,000 | Providing food vouchers to residents living in Cowes. Application needed. | 01983 209022 |
| Daisy Chains | All Island | £8,675 | Assisting financially
vulnerable families of pre-term infants or children with a long-term or
life-threatening illness or disability with the cost of ferry travel to the
mainland and helping some of those families with an air-fryer for a quick,
healthy meal on return from their travel. | 07801 424645 |
| Daisy Chains | All Island | £3,800.00 | The Charity will provide a Christmas hamper, containing essential food items, hats, scarves and fluffy socks to the families they work with. | 07801 424645 |
| Dover Park Primary School | Ryde | £2,000 | Purchasing weather
appropriate clothing that can be used in school by pupils who turn up without
appropriate provisions. |
office@doverparkpri.iow.sch.uk
|
| Friends Hotel | Sandown | £400 | Providing a Christmas dinner to those placed at the hotel over the Christmas period. | 01983 403429 |
| Green IOW | All Island | £19,162.50 | Offering cookery sessions aimed at cooking on a budget where small kitchen appliances such as an air fryer will be issued following the lesson.Home visits are available to discuss energy saving techniques. Drop in advice clinics are being run in community buildings. | 07725 999487 |
| IW Learning Zone | All Island | £3,000 | Supporting families who
electively home educate their children with cookery sessions, teaching them to
cook healthy, affordable meals and provide fruit and vegetables fir them to use
at home, along with a bean-bag ‘wonder bag’ cooking utensil. A
swap-shop will also be established allowing these families to swap clothes and
shoes. | Iwlearningzone@outlook.com |
| Isle of Wight College | All Island | £13,668 | Multiple week community pantry vouchers are provided to those in receipt of Free College Meals. Emergency food and hygiene packs will be provided to vulnerable students. | 01983 526631 |
| Newport and Carisbrooke
Community Council | Newport & Carisbrooke | £17,500 | Renewing their food voucher
scheme, providing a voucher to vulnerable residents in Newport &
Carisbrooke that are not eligible for a centrally issued voucher. | clerk@newportwight.org.uk |
| Newport Congregational Church | Newport | £16,000 | Extending the heat hub provision and kindness cupboard, providing food hampers, hygiene packs and warm clothing. The Living on the Veg project run in conjunction with the neighbouring Catholic Church will also be expanded over the winter months. | 07300 329610 |
| Northwood Parish Council | Northwood | £10,000 | £50 ALDI vouchers are available to residents in need living in Northwood - application needed. | |
| Oakfield CE Primary School | Ryde | £19,860.75 | Providing breakfast to children in receipt of Pupil Premium. Also offering a selection of winter coats, air fryers and £25community pantry vouchers to eligible households. | 01983 563732 |
| Osel Enterprises T/A Way Forward | All Island | £6,027 | Providing food hampers, warm packs and weekly cookery sessions to identified households. | 01983 520128 |
| Ryde Town Council | Ryde | £19,775 | Providing food vouchers to eligible residents in Ryde via an application process. | 01983 811105 |
| Sandown Town Council | Sandown | £6,000 | Supporting 3 warm spaces in the area with funding for food and refreshments. | 01983 408287 |
| Sensory Space | All Island | £5,250 | Providing food and hygiene hampers. Evidence of DLA is required. | 07773 570505 |
| Southern Housing Group | All Island | £16,632 | Through partnership with the Footprint Trust, cooking lessons will be run for tenants, also providing a free appliance and the food relating to items used in recipes in the lessons. | 07764 405019 |
| Sovereign Network Group | All Island | £24,940 | Supporting the Community Pantry network by providing funding for 6weeks membership to 156members across the Island, at a cost of £10 per member helping to provide sustainability to the pantries as well as support their residents. Also providing energy saving packs including window film, draught excluders and lightbulbs along with advice from their Energy Outreach Project Officers. An additional 78households are able to receive a warm pack including hot water bottles and thermal socks etc. | 0300 500 0926 |
| St Helens Community Centre | St Helens | £7,900 | A community fridge will be established in the village to help reduce food waste and the community centre will also expand their warm space coffee afternoons to provide light lunches. | |
| SupperReady | All Island | £17,830.89 | Providing IW College students, eligible for
Free College Meals with weekly food packs, approved by nutritionists.
These packs will provide an evening meal for
students after a day at college. | team@supperready.com |
| SWAY | Ventnor | £1,979.25 | Cooking classes for young people aged 11-18yrs with their parents and siblings. Ingredients are delivered to each participating house and the lessons undertaken via zoom. | 07552 236067 |
| Two Saints | All Island | £22,640 | Providing start-up packs to Island residents who have been moved back in independent living accommodation following homelessness. Packs include a bed, beddings, microwave, cutlery and crockery among other items. | 07725 413576 |
| Two Saints | All Island | £24,576 | Supporting rough sleepers across the Island with items such as a tent, sleeping bag, bus tickets, launderette tokens, a mobile phone in addition to food grab bags and ID applications and items to help if emergency accommodation is provided. | 07725 413576 |
| Vectis Housing Association | All Island | £2,000 | Offering food vouchers or food parcels to tenants of Vectis Housing Association struggling with the cost of living | Vectis Housing 01983 525985 |
| Ventnor Foodbank | Ventnor | £10,000 | Funding has been provided to help meet demand, through the purchasing of food, toiletries, and sanitary products. | 07862 247694 |
| Ventnor Town Council | Ventnor | £5,000 | Providing food vouchers to residents living in Ventnor. Application needed. | 07932 890679 |
| Westridge Adult Learning | Ryde | £1000 | Any adult learners attending a course, can take a free meal bag if required. Toiletries and sanitary products are also supplied. | 01983 817280 |
| West Wight Timebank | West Wight | £4,175 | Offering households in the West Wight a weekly delivery of food using rescued food, and a monthly hygiene package. Families are identified via a referral process. | 07872 304294 |
| Wroxall Woolies | Sandown, Shanklin and Ventnor | £1000 | Knitting items such as blankets and warm items for residents at an Island care home. Funding has also been granted to purchase food for the warm space in Wroxall. | 01983 854219 |
| Wroxall Food Bank | Ventnor | £3,000 | Funds provided to help with the demand for food at the village food bank. | 07443 569577 |
| Wroxall Parish Council | Wroxall | £4,200 | Supporting 47 households in the community with a range of food, hygiene and warm items made into hampers dependent on the resident’s individual need. | |
| YMCA | All Island | £1,281 | Assisting new residents with a moving-in pack including items such as a duvet, pillows, bedding, baby toiletries etc. They will also be providing in-house cookery sessions along with the ingredients to their residents. | 01983 862441 |