Project
Connect Project
Funding
£310,388 from 2014 to 2015 from the Big Lottery Fund's Support and Connect programme
Background
Buttle UK provides financial assistance to struggling families, including grants of up to £300 for equipment including beds, cookers and washing machines.
In 2014, the charity decided to investigate the potential of larger grants of up to £2,000, combined with support from a frontline worker, to enable longer-term improvements in families' lives. The pilot ran in Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire between June 2014 and June 2015.
Action
Statutory and voluntary support workers were invited to apply for grants for families they worked with. This was done after working with clients to draw up a realistic plan to achieve the changes they wanted, combining the grant with other support. "Often a variety of agencies were working with these families, but not working together as closely as they wanted," says Buttle UK's director of grant programmes and project development, Olu Alake. "Putting an offer of money on the table allowed us to broker closer working, making the money go further."
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