Pandemic programme evaluation findings

Hackney Giving distributed funding throughout the pandemic on behalf of the City and Hackney Public Health team: the Covid-19 Information Grants and Covid-19 Information Small Grants were a large part of our grant-making in 2020 and 2021. These programmes have

Maxine from HYPU stands in front of noticeboards with healthy eating information on

Healthy meals on a budget

Hackney Young People’s University received a grant of £4,996 to run healthy eating sessions with young people. The group learned about different vegetables and the variety of ways they can be cooked and saw how to make healthy foods on

Funded projects

Reducing the digital divide

Hackney Chinese Community Services (HCCS) was founded in 1985 and continues to serve the local East and South East Asian communities in the borough. As a charity, they provide a number of services for the local community.  Hackney Chinese Community Services received grant from Hackney Giving in 2020 during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.  The […]

Supporting vulnerable people

MRS Independent Living helps people from communities that have been marginalised and excluded, take action and find solutions to challenges they are facing. The organisation received project funding from Hackney Giving for their Side By Side project. The funding for

Providing food and supplies

Hackney Giving funded Turkish Cypriot Community Association (TCCA) through its coronavirus response round. TCCA is the biggest Turkish-speaking charity in the country and has been supporting older people since 1976. At the start of the pandemic, TCCA started to receive calls

Puppets
Funded projects

Puppetry for young people

Activiteens was set up in 2004 to relieve the needs of disadvantaged young people by providing out-of-school clubs, mentoring services, day and overnight trips and vocational training courses. They successfully applied for a grant from Hackney Giving during the pandemic to run a puppetry project to support the wellbeing of young people from the Orthodox […]

The entrance to Hackney City Farm in summer

Garden therapy group

Hackney City Farm was funded to deliver a six week therapeutic gardening group in collaboration with Gaia Therapy offering weekly activities that brought together a group of people struggling with acute mental health difficulties. Hackney City Farm had partnered with

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