Funding Update Summer 2024

We are delighted to receive recent grants from –

The National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund awarded KiB £150,000 over three years to help us:

• build our Teaching Programme in Warwickshire and West Midlands
• consolidate our intergenerational work in the region, including training courses and volunteering projects for young people aged 15-25
• and expand our popular primary schools project ‘When Great Granny Came to Stay’.

The funding enables a real step change for KiB over the next three years and will help us reach thousands more isolated older people to reduce loneliness and bring the generations closer together.

The Garfield Weston Foundation: £25,000 towards our intergenerational training and volunteering programmes.

The Wesleyan Foundation: £9,000 towards developing our ‘Great Granny’ workshops and KiB Clubs in new areas.

The Coventry Building Society: £1,900 to support our ‘Great Granny’ workshops and KiB Clubs for primary schools in Coventry.

WPH Charitable Trust: £5000 towards our intergenerational work in Warwickshire and West Midlands

Shanly Foundation: £2000 towards our monthly Bishops Stortford ‘What’s On’ community calendar

A big shout out to students at Aylesford School who have raised an incredible £1200 for KiB, and King Edward VI High School for Girls Birmingham students for their recent fundraiser. Warm thanks also to regular supporters Warwick School and King’s High School, for their continued support.

Thank you Priors House Care Home (Care UK) in Leamington for their kind donation of £400.

And a huge thanks to all our long-term supporters, including Pargiter Trust and The Rank Foundation, and our private donors – every gift means so much to us.