Local charity Daisy Chains IW has launched a ‘basic essential fund’, supporting families who have been financially affected by COVID-19.
The charity aims to provide basic food/household items parcels, baby parcels or gas/electric top-ups to vulnerable families that are living in COVID-19 related poverty.
Granting is open to not only children living with a disability or life-limiting condition but to any Island family with a child that is struggling to survive financially.
Daisy Chains will be looking to prioritise the most vulnerable families such as those who rely on a school meal to feed their children, families who have lost employment and those who without this support will struggle to keep their heads above water. In addition, the charity will be looking to support those families with children that are having to isolate for 12 weeks due to illness or disability are struggling for food and essentials.
The grants will be to the value of £40 and will be offered by way of a basic food box, or basic baby box (nappies, wipes, milk). Morrisons in Lake are supporting the project. Daisy Chains will also consider topping up electric or gas meters if this is what the family needs, but this must completed online.
Applications are being welcomed from schools, children’s centres, health visitors and any professional who knows of families that desperately need this support. A self referral system is also being established but proof of financial difficulty will be required.
The project organisers will work through applications on a first come first serve basis as and when funds come in. The number of grants issued will be based on how much funding is received
To apply for support visit https://daisychainsiw.wixsite.com/daisychainsiw.
To donate to the fund head to https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/covid19familysupport.
While we do our best for our people during this crisis you can bet that Labour (who have done NOTHING but criticise) will no doubt be demanding that African countries debts be abolished using our taxes (like last time under Gordon Brown) so that they can then take out another load of loans – Then Labour will insist on more foreign aid for them with our taxes.
So suffer and go without you white English mugs!
Fully agree Richard. The BBC will with their clear P.C propaganda will make the rest of the world think it hasn’t suffered at all as soon as Africa gets such.
Can’t understand the bias to a nation which has had more charity for longer than any other, and yet never sorts itself out, having endless children, ensuring poverty, hunger and crime thrive, and now has exported it’s ever growing population to do similar to most of Europe.
They can’t still be using the same old excuses once in the West of needing large families to support the old, as they have the same rights (wrongly imo) as those who have paid in for generations to all pensions and benefits.
Most odd, lets hope a vaccine is found soon that works, then we can all benefit and be able to help such more easily.
@suezee
The UK provides foreign aid to these countries, that much is true, however, that foreign aid is in British pounds sterling and not their own local currencies or US dollars. The only place these countries can spend that aid is in Britain – so they have to purchase goods and services from this country – thus recycling that money back into the UK, which provides support to our own economy.
At least that is the idea – do not be under the misguided impression that the UK supports other countries out of some high minded, moralistic view – it is all about cash, more cash and the continual circulation of that cash, which is also, happily siphoned off by all those involved, along the way.
example – £3m charitable aid money given to a country to support local farmers – everyone along the way takes their cut, for facilitating the deal, transferring the money, administering the disbursement of the cash, paying out those performance bonuses and admin fees/salaries – you get the idea. Eventually, some poor peasant farmers in some backwater somewhere get 25 shovels that were purchased and imported in from B and Q in the Uk, that they bought with what was left of the £3m charitable aid money – nice pictures of farmers using shovels in some report somewhere, that someone got paid for from the £3m to create.
Everyone involved now has new cars and new clothes, with the money they “earn’t” from this charitable work they did, peasant farmers got new shovels, everyone is happy. – it is a right old racket.
Just do the right thing and help others.