Compassion

The Outhouse

£5,000

Happy Hill offers a range of trips and activities to children with special educational needs and disabilities, both in its local hall and out in the community. Provide Community gave Happy Hill a £5,000 donation which will be put towards the purchase of extra buses to enable the charity to continue taking its children on valuable trips and days out.

£5,000

One of our charitable donations this year was in aid of Colchester Foodbank. One of our Governor’s, Joelle Leilich, visited the local foodbank to donate a cheque for £5,000 amid the cost-of-living-crisis.

£2,000

The Outhouse, Essex’s only LGBTQ+ charity, which provides a safe space for members of the LGBTQ+ community, received a donation of £2,000 that will contribute towards materials such as posters, brochures, and a self-help kit for young transgender members of the community.

£368,466 in Community Grants

This year our community grant-giving initiative gifted a total amount of £368,466 to a variety of local causes. Charities that wished to apply for a grant completed an application form detailing their main aims and activities as an organisation, telling us what a grant would enable them to do. Grants ranged from £3,000 to £20,000 and covered a wide range of charities and community services including Age Well East, MIND in West Essex, Chelmsford Mencap and Halstead Day Centre.

£368,466

Autism Anglia

Nominated by Provide Community’s Learning and Development Administrator Sarah Newman, Autism Anglia delivers outreach programmes and supported living services. The charity also carries out essential training and educational programmes to help educate the public about autism and its common misconceptions. The charity plans to use the £5,000 donation to continue delivering care services to new and existing patients.