Poverty Support

Page updated on: 30/11/2022

Are you a charity, community or voluntary group or social enterprise that needs help?

The Bureau will help community, voluntary and charitable groups and social enterprises in Carmarthenshire to access support and advice.

We have pulled together a funding directory which provides information on various funding programmes to support those in need.

Carmarthenshire Community Carers Fund

This fund aims to promote the wellbeing of unpaid carers in Carmarthenshire by funding community groups to support carers projects across Carmarthenshire.

West Wales Care Partnership

Cost of Living Boost

Projects aligned with the Financial Wellbeing funding area will receive match funding from Aviva. We'll match donations pound for pound up to £250 between 4 Oct and 31 Dec.

Aviva

Cost of Living Grant

Grants are being made available to help UK Armed Forces veterans and their families who are struggling to pay their bills due to the cost-of-living crisis.

Royal British Legion

Hardship Grants

Hardship Grants will only be made available for: Household items, Basic Living Expenses, Work or education-related expenses, Rent arrears and Council tax arrears.

Cosaraf

Bernard Sunley Foundation

Supports charities in England and Wales working to raise the quality of life and provide greater opportunities for the young, the elderly, the disabled and the disadvantaged.

Bernard Sunley Foundation

Crisis UK

Crisis UK offer grants in relation to education, employment, housing and well-being services to address individual needs and help people to transform their lives.

Crisis UK

Garfield Weston Foundation

The foundation aims to be responsive to where the need is greatest, there is a preference to support services to those in need and in regions of economic disadvantage.

Garfield Weston Foundation

Coalfields Community Grant Programme

To receive a grant, groups must be in an eligible coalfield Community and demonstrate that a grant will impact positively on people in United Welsh Communities.

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust

Pilotlight

Will support a Community Centre with a range of services, especially those supporting vulnerable people or those in need.

Pilotlight

Tesco Community Grants

Tesco will support voluntary organisations working with families to run a food bank or a healthy eating project that supports families to cook a healthy meal on a budget.

Tesco

The Gibbs Charitable Trust

Supports initiatives taken by Methodist churches and organisations. There has been an increasing concentration to support projects in South and East Wales.

The Gibbs Charitable Trust

The Henry Smith Charity

Aims to support small, grass roots organisations embedded in the community, working within the most deprived areas of the UK, addressing the needs of the people living in it.

The Henry Smith Charity

The Moondance Foundation

The Moondance Foundation offers grants to organisations and causes that provide transformational changes in communities in Wales and beyond.

The Moondance Foundation

The Boodle and Dunthorne Charitable Trust Grants

Grants awarded for general charitable purposes to registered charities and voluntary organisations in the UK

The Boodle and Dunthorne Charitable Trust

Veterans’ Foundation

Support a wide range of projects that reduce homelessness, welfare and medical support and increase confidence and social integration

Veterans’ Foundation

The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust

The Fund is open to applications from foodbanks for funding to help meet costs such as the purchase of additional food items and increased running costs.

The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust

Arnold Clark Community Fund

Helping UK charities and local community groups at a time of crisis. The funding must provide immediate relief for the organisation.

Arnold Clark Community Fund

Persimmon Community Champions

Persimmon Homes supports local groups and good causes around the UK that make a difference to the lives of people in the community.

Persimmon Community Champions

Matthew Good Foundation

Every three months, £10,000 is shared between 5 shortlisted projects that have a positive impact on communities, people or the environment

Matthew Good Foundation

Barchester’s Charitable Foundation

Gives grants to help reduce isolation and loneliness, promote group activities and generally improve people’s independence, mobility and quality of life

Barchester’s Charitable Foundation

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Rural communities

Carmarthenshire Community Carers Fund

Cost of Living Boost

Cost of Living Grant

Hardship Grants

Bernard Sunley Foundation

Crisis UK

Garfield Weston Foundation

Coalfields Community Grant Programme

Pilotlight

Tesco Community Grants

The Gibbs Charitable Trust

The Henry Smith Charity

The Moondance Foundation

The Boodle and Dunthorne Charitable Trust Grants

Veterans’ Foundation

The Julia and Hans Rausing Trust

Arnold Clark Community Fund

Persimmon Community Champions

Matthew Good Foundation

Barchester’s Charitable Foundation