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Grant giving charity helps grow sexual abuse support service in response to COVID-19
| Author: Online Stories | Published: 4th November 2020 17:19 |
Talbot Village Trust donated £10,000 to Acts Fast to help the charity provide an increased level of support to children and families throughout lockdown and beyond.
Between April and July, the charity took on 14 new clients, in addition to the 45 already in progress. Many of the individuals that the charity helped were already vulnerable and isolated, and the lockdown exaggerated this. Acts Fast needed to provide extended support outside of its usual operating hours to cover evenings and weekends, in order to cope with the increase in demand for its services. The Trust's donation enabled the organisation to fund this increase in operation and allowed staff's wages to be supplied.
Acts Fast provides support, resources and counselling services for children and their families who have been exposed to sexual violence. Commenting on the support Acts Fast received from the Trust, Chief Executive, Mandy Gulliver, said: "We are eternally grateful for the generous donation which has enabled us to continue providing crucial emotional support during this difficult time to our already fragile clients."
Russell Lucas-Rowe, Trustee at Talbot Village Trust, added: "I would like to thank Mandy and her team for providing such necessary support during these difficult times.
"The lockdown has greatly impacted our communities in so many ways and it was imperative that we supported as many charities as we could with our COVID-19 Fund, to ensure an increase in services could be met."
Talbot Village Trust's COVID-19 Support Fund was launched in response to the need for funding to help organisations that were adversely affected by the pandemic. Applications for the fund have now closed, but the Trust is now accepting grant applications for its usual fund, before the Trustees meet in spring 2021. Please go to www.talbotvillagetrust.org for more information
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