Social Enterprise Support Fund delivers £18.7m of vital support to 618 social enterprises

Discover the impact of the fund and meet the grantees

The Social Enterprise Support Fund was established in partnership by The National Lottery Community Fund and five social enterprise support agencies: Big Issue Invest, The Key Fund, Community Land & Finance CIC (also known as Resonance), the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) and UnLtd with support from CAF Venturesome, the Young Foundation and Ashoka.

£18.7 million of National Lottery funding was committed to the fund, made possible by National Lottery players. This National Lottery funding is part of The National Lottery Community Fund’s wider COVID-19 emergency response for communities.

After three rounds of applications in August, July and September, the Social Enterprise Support Fund has been able to support over 600 social enterprises across the length and breadth of England. £18.7 million in grant funding has been distributed at a crucial time for social enterprises.

Committed to inclusion

Research shows that this crisis is disproportionately hurting communities who already experience social and economic inequalities. The fund made a commitment to ensure that the grants reach businesses that were most impacted. (Read our commitments to inclusion.)

Of the total amount funded:

Over 36% went to organisations supporting the UK’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities
29% of social ventures were led by a CEO who identified as Black, Asian or from a minority ethnic background
46% of the total amount funded went to those enterprises whose work is with disabled communities
16% went to social enterprises supporting LGBTQ+ communities.

Explore the impact of the Social Enterprise Support Fund

Meet some of the social enterprises

A full breakdown of the awards can be found below.

Social enterprises are using the grants to keep critical services running, meet additional demands, or adapt to new circumstances as a result of COVID-19.

Some of the organisations funded include:

Nimbus Disability Nimbus exists to reduce inequality for disabled people whilst supporting organisations/employers to exceed in meeting their legal obligations to disabled people. Nimbus is one of the country's leading providers of disability-related advice and support to professional organisations. It provides provide a wide range of training and consultancy services and have also developed the national schemes CredAbility Quality Assurance and The Access Card.

Vision 21 is an environmental social enterprise on a mission to make Gloucestershire more sustainable. The enterprise runs a number of community-based sustainability projects including a monthly Regeneration and Repair Café. They also take donations of furniture and electrical items from local residents which are then made available at an affordable cost to people on low income in the area.
Activating Creative Talent (ACT) works with young people, families, and their communities to reduce youth violence, gang related activity and youth crime across the West Midlands, with a focus in Birmingham. During the pandemic, ACT moved community-based training online, enabling the team to continue to support young people - particularly from Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic groups - who are at immediate risk of becoming involved in youth violence.
Pimms & Needles are a Community Interest Company (CIC) that runs fun and friendly ladies’ groups, across the North East, Teesside and North Yorkshire. Their grant is being used towards office costs, insurance and salaries. In the last six months during lockdown restrictions, they’ve reached over 2,500 people, helping tackle social isolation and loneliness as well as supporting the most vulnerable elderly.
Opportunities With Experience C.I.C create training and employment opportunities for women in the construction industry in South East England. They offer a course introduction to manual trades in interior decoration, work experience, and apprenticeships. The funding they received will be used to offer an online delivery of their training programme for CSCS card and other construction qualification. They wanted to be able to offer a way for those completing or interested in their courses to keep learning; to keep going, and achieve, so being able to provide all the technology resources their beneficiaries would need was vital.”

The grantees of the Social Enterprise Support Fund

2 Way Tenancy Solutions CIC
7E Youth Academy
AALFY ltd
Access Plymouth Ltd
Access To Business
Act for Change
Action to Prevent Suicide Community Interest Company
Action West London
Activating Creative Talent CIC (ACT)
Active Successful Engagement (ASÉ) CIC
Adapt (North East)
ADHD Foundation
Africawad Recycling CIC
Age Concern East Cheshire
Age UK Lindsey
Age UK Trafford
Aidem Digital CIC
Alex, The Leukodystrophy Charity
ALPHA TUTORIALS
AL'S ACTIVITY & RESPITE CENTRE C.I.C
Ambur Community Radio Limited
apple pie enterprises
Argonaut Community Enterprises CIC
Arkbound Foundation CIO
Art4Space
Asperger East Anglia
Aspire 2 Inspire Dyslexia CIC
Aspire Community Works CIC
Aspire4U CIC
Aspiring Futures CIC
Athena Education Support CIC
Autism Dogs CIC
Awesometistic CIC
Axe Valley & West Dorset Ring & Ride Service Ltd
AYUDANTE CIC
B Active N B Fit CIC
Baby People Ltd
Back on Track Liverpool Ltd
Bath City Farm
Beatsabar Music Project CIC
Beautifully Made Foundation CIC
Bell View Care Limited
Bellview Help at Home Ltd
bemix c.i.c
Bermondsey Community Kitchen
Betknowmore UK
Beverley Cherry Tree Community Centre
Beyond Psychology Ltd
Bicester Green
Big Creative Community CIC
Big Local Venture Ltd
Bikeworks CIC
Bilston Resource Centre
Bizzie Bodies CIC
Blackburne House
Blacktent Consultancy Ltd.
Bodmin Way
Bodster Equine Assisted Learning Community Interest Company
Bounce Forward
Bounceback Food CIC
BP Learning UK
Bradford Organic Communities Service Ltd
BrazUKa International
Bread n Butter London CIC
BREADWINNERS
Breckfield & North Everton Neighbourhood Council ltd
Breeze Creatives CIC
Bridge Community Wellness Gardens
Bright Box Makerspace
Brighter Opportunities for Special People
Brighton & Hove Food Partnership
Bringing Words to Life Limited
Bristol 247 CIC
Bristol Braille Technology CIC
bthechange CIC
Building People CIC
Built By Us Ltd
C4 Studios CIC
Cabasa CIC
Caenhill Countryside Centre
Café Art (UK) Community Interest Company
Calvert Trust Exmoor
Camden Disability Action
Can Cook (Food) Ltd
CANCER-EDUCATION
Capoeira for All CIC
Caramel Rock
Career Camp CIC
Carers Forward C.I.C
Carers4Carers Ltd
Caring Connections Ltd
Carn Brea Leisure Centre Trust
CAS Community Solutions CIC
CASSPLUS
Catalyst Counselling CIC
Catalyst Psychology Community Interest Company
CELLS Project CIC
Chailey Heritage Enterprise Centre
Challenge Academy CIC
Change Please CIC
ChangeKitchen CIC
CHANGING MINDS WITH PICK UP A PENNY COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
CHAOS Cornwall CIC
charter house resource centre cic
Chocolate Films Workshops
choices foundation CIC
Chrysalis at Tynedale
Circle Sports CIC
Circling Cornwall CIC
Citizen Coaching CIC
CIVIC SQUARE BIRMINGHAM CIC
Claremont Project (Islington)
Clart About Ltd
Cliff House Community Support Services
Cobalt Too CIC
Collaborative Women UK CIC
Collage Arts
Colorintech CIC
Come Play With Me CIC
Commons Law Community Interest Company
COMMUNITY ARTS BY ZK CIC
Community Catering Initiative CIC
Community Driving School CIC
Community Education Academy of Leadership
Community Furniture Store (York) Ltd
Community mentoring and support CiC
Community Stepping Stones CIC
Community Works CIO
Compaid Trust
Compass Project 2012
Connected Routes CIC
connector media cic
Conservation Management Services CIC
Core Music CIC
Cornwall Adult Health & Social Care Learning Partnership
Cornwall Yoga Centre CIC
Cowlersley Community Out of School Club CIC
Cracking Good Food Manchester CIC
Creative City England CIC
Creative Futures Midlands C.I.C.
Creative Optimistic Visions
crheart comunity interest company
Crossroads (Barnsley) Ltd
CUP Ceramics Community CIC
Custom Folkestone C.I.C.
Dalmar Heritage and family Development
Dangerous Dads CIC
Dare North East CIC
Defiant Sports
Devon and Cornwall Furniture Reuse Project Ltd
Devon Antenatal & First Aid CIC
Devon Disability Collective Ltd
Devon Wheels 2 Work CIC
Didsbury Good Neighbours
DigiBridge CIC
DigiKick CIC t/a DigiKick
DINN ENTERPRISE CIC
Disability Experts CIC
Diverse Voices Entertainment C.I.C
Diversiti UK Learning and Development CIC
Doncaster Refurnish
Don't Tone Alone CIC
Double Elephant CIC
Double T Energy CIC
Dynamic Adventures south west CIC
Earth Doctors Ltd
East Bristol Advice & Information Centres (EBAIC)
Easton and Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Management
Effervescent Social Alchemy
Eidgah Academy CIC
Element Society
Elephant Rooms (Draycott) C.I.C
ELOQUENT PRAISE AND EMPOWERMENT DANCE COMPANY
EMERGE 3Rs
Emmaus Hastings and Rother
Emmaus Hull & East Riding
Emmaus Suffolk
Enable Unity CIC
Enabled Works limited
Enter CIC
Enterprise Homes Group
Erya Community Interest Company
Escape Intervention Services Ltd
Eudaimonia
Evenbreak
Exceptional Individuals
Exercising People In Communities (EPIC) Norfolk Ltd
Exim Dance Company CIC
Express Tuition Ltd
Factory of Creativity CIO
Fall into Place Theatre
Family Gateway
Farm Urban Ltd.
FAZAKERLEY COMMUNITY FEDERATION
Federation of Disability Sports Organisations Ltd.
Feelgood Communities CIC
Find Your Voice CIC
Fiorentini Arts School Ltd
Fir Vale Children's Centre
Flourish Together CIC
Footprints On The Moon (Family Centres) Limited
Footprints Project Ltd
Fordhall Community Land Initiative Limited
Foresight North East Lincolnshire Ltd
Forest of Hearts
Forward Thinking Movement and Dance CIC
Fotonow SW CIC
Foundation Futures Community Interest Company
Foundation School of Martial Arts
Foundervine CIC
FREE YOUR MIND CIC
Freshrb C.I.C.
Full Circle @ Docklands Ltd
Fullcircle nw CIC
Fulwell Community Library CIC
Future Regeneration of Grangetown
Future Roots Ltd
Future Wolverton Limited
Futureworks NY CIC
Gaydio Community Interest Company
Gendered Intelligence
GET CYCLING COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
Giving World (GW)
Globalmama Enterprises Ltd
Gmax Trackstars
"Go the Distance" GTD
Going For Independence Community Interest Company
Goldfinger Factory One C.I.C.
Golf in Society (CIC)
Grassroots Enterprise for Social Inclusion and Poverty Relief
Green Sky Fitness CIC
Greenscape ( Charity name St Peter's Partnerships)
Greenwich Cooperative Development Agency Ltd
Greenwich Music School
Gro-Organic CIC
Grow & Achieve Together CIC
Growing Better CIC
GT Scholars CIC
Hackney Co-operative Developments CIC
Hackney Herbal CIC
Hallbankgate Hub Limitd
Hammersmith Community Gardens Association
Happy Days ministries uk
Happy Times Activities
Harry Specters Ltd
Hart Club C.I.C.
HARV Outreach Team
Haslingden Community Link (HCL)
Hastings Furniture Service
Haswell & District Mencap
Hay Farm Heavy Horse Centre Ltd
Hearts Together
Heel and Toe Ltd
Hereford Make Community Interest Company
Hexham and Tynedale Community Trust
Higher Rhythm Ltd.
Highfields Community Association
Hilda Lane Community Association
HoardingUK Ltd.
Holder House Garden CIC
Hollywell Housing Trust
Home Community Cafe
Homebaked Cooperative
HOPE ENTERPRISES (NORTHAMPTON) COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
Horsham Matters Ltd
HR Sports Academy CIC
Huddersfield Harambee Association Limited
Human Values Foundation
Hustle Eats Limited
HYPE MERSEYSIDE
I.M.P.A.C.T Northeast CIC
ICAN HEALTH AND FITNESS CIC
ICM Foundation CIC
Iconic Steps Film Academy C.I.C
Ignition Brewery Limited
Ilderton Motorvehicle Project
IMO Charity
Impact Brixton CIC
In Harmony Food Revolution cic
In The Mix Youth Project
Inclusion in Action CIC
Inclusive Graduates CIC
InCommon Living Ltd
Incredible Farm CBS Ltd
Innovating Education CIC
InPower Academy CIC
Insider Access Ltd
Inspirative Arts Derby CIC
Inspire Women Men and Children
Inspired Neighbourhoods CIC
Intergenerational Music Making
International Mixed Ability Sports c.i.c.
IntraQuest Community CIC
Investing in Children CIC
Invictus Wellbeing Services CIC
Involve Leeds
Ji-reh Resettlment Services
Joss Searchlight
Just Psychology Community Interest Company
Kai-zen Change for Good CIC
Karrek Community CIC
Keep Active (NE) CIC
Kineara CIC
King Edward VII School Swimming Pool Trust Limited
Kingfisher Treasure Seekers
Kingshurst Caterpillars CIC
Kippax & Chong CIC
Kirklees Local Television Ltd
Lancashire and Region Dietary Education Resource
Lancashire Community Finance (IPS) Limited
Latin American House
Leading Lights Education and Wellbeing Community Interest Company
Leep1 CIC
Legacy School Sport Community Interest Company
Leicester Community Benefit Society Ltd
Leicester Riders Foundation
Leicester Social Economy Consortium Limited
Lilys Social Kitchen CIC
LionMouth Community Interest Company
Listening Ear (Merseyside)
Little Gate Farm
Little Learners (NE) Community Interest Company
Live Well North East C.I.C.
Liverpool Community Launderette ltd
Local Works Ltd
Lockleaze Sports Centre Trust Ltd
London Basketball Association
London Community Land Trust
Longridge On The Thames
Lotus Brook Limited
Loud Arts CIC
LUNG Productions CIO
Made By Mortals CIC
Make Your Way Community Interest Company
Making Families Count C.I.C.
Making It Out CIO
Manav Seva Community Centre Community Interest Company
Mapis Project CIC
Marsden Community Trust Ltd
Maths with Parents
MBC Arts Wellbeing CIC
me again cic
Media Savvy Training Solutions
Memory Matters South West CIC
Migrant Support
Millmead Childrens Centre Partnership Limited
Mindful Gifts CIC
Mindfulness Based Therapies c.i.c.
Minds Ahead CIC
Money A+E UK
Move It Studios Community Interest Company
Music and Arts Production Leeds
Musical Memories
MySupportBroker CIC Ltd
National Centre for Integrative Medicine Community Interest Company
National Institute for African Studies
NEMI Teas Limited
Neo Community
New Leaf New Life Business Solutions CIC
New Meaning Centre Bucks Limited
Newcastle Community Asset Trust
Newcastle Wood Recycling CIC
NewStarts
Nickel Support Community Interest Company
NIMBUS: THE DISABILITY CONSULTANCY SERVICE LTD
Noah's A.R.T.
Nonsuch Theatre Ltd.
Norfolk Centre for Social Development
North Doncaster Development Trust
North East Dance CIC
North East Specialist Therapeutic Services CIC
Northern Film + Media
Northern Powerhouse Boxing Academy
Northern Shape t/a Equal Arts
Northern Soul Kitchen CIC
Not Waste CIC
Now Charity Group Ltd
Oasis-Talking Therapies CIC
OBM ONELAB CIC
Off the Scale cic
Offploy Community Interest Company
Older People's Action in the Locality
Oldham Greenhill Community Sports & Recreation Club
One Voice Blackburn CIC
Oomph Wellness Training Limited
Open Barbers CIC
Opportunities with Experience O-W-E - C.I.C
OrganicLea CIC
Our Place (Barnsley) CIC
PALADIN National Stalking Advocacy Service
PAPER Artistice Development CIC
PAPI'S PICKLES LTD
Par Track LImited
Parkside High CIC
Participate Projects
Peat Rigg Outdoor Training Centre CIC
Peer2Peer Education CIC
People First Services
People to Places
People, Place and Participation Ltd.
Phase 1 Enterprise Training CIC trading as My OutSpace
Phoenix Health and Wellbeing
Phoenix Place
Pimms and Needles CIC
Plymouth Play CIC
Pony Partnerships CIC
Positivity Inc
Pottery Bank Community Centre Ltd
Preston Road Enterprises Limited
Project Cosmic
Project Zero WF cic
Proof Community Projects CIC
Proper Job Theatre Company
Prosper 4 Business CIC
PSBreastfeeding CIC
Pulp Friction Smoothie Bar CIC
Purbeck Youth & Community Foundation
Radcliffe Market Hall Community Benefit Society Limted
Raised in Bristol Commuity Interest Company
Rap Therapy CIC
Raw Ingredients CIC
RAW Workshop
Recovery Hub (Cambridge) Community Interest Company
Reprezent Ltd.
Repton Community Trust
Restart Enterprise
Revolving Doors Housing Trust
RHUBARB FARM CIC
RIFT Social Reform CIC
Right Development Sports
Right Track Social Enterprise Limited
Rising Stars Support CIC
Rites for Girls CIC
Road Farm Countryways Community Interest Company
Rochdale Circle CIC
Romila Limited
Root Connections CIC
Roots and Shoots Ltd
Ruby's Fund
Ruff Sqwad Arts Foundation
Rummage Rescuers CIC
Running Deer CIC
SAAFI CIC
Sahara Day Care Centre CIC
Saltash Gateway CIC
Salvere Social Enterprise CIC
SAMEE
Second Shot Coffee CIC
Seed of Hope CIC
Self Made Studios CIC
Seniors Helping Seniors (UK) Limited
Sexplain Ltd
Shropshire Youth Support Trust (SYST)
SIEVEMK GATEWAY LTD
Sirlute
Skills and Training Network
SLCP THUNDER CIC
SMART WOMEN COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
Sociability Care CIC
Social Ark
Solidarity in Tech CIC
Somali Development Services CIC
Somerville Youth & Play Provision
Somewhere House (Somerset) Limited
Sona Tech C.I.C.
South Bristol Sports Centre
South East London Community Energy Ltd
Southern Holderness Resource Centre
Southmead Development Trust (SDT) Ltd
Sow the City CIC
Spiral Skills C.I.C
Spirit and Soul Equine Assisted Activity Centre CIC
SportInspired
St Austell Leisure Limited
St Blazey Recycle Reuse Resale CIC
St Peters Pavilion
St Sidwell's Centre
Stand Against Violence
Starting Point Community Learning Partnership
STATES OF MIND CIC
Step Up (West Midlands) Community Interest Company
Step up Support Ltd
Stephen Harrison Academy
Stiltskin Arts & Theatre C.I.C
STRAWBERRY FIELDS TRAINING CIC
Street factory CIC
Sunderland Bangladesh International Centre
Sunderland Home Grown CIC
Sunderland Young Peoples Bike Project Community Interest Company
Supporting Well-Being and Nurturing Strength
Surrey Disabled People's Partnership
Sussex Bears CIC
Swan Kitchens CIC
SXT Health CIC
Symbiont CIC
TALKBACK-UK LTD
Tameside Arts Limited
Tapestry Care UK Limited
Team Up for Social Mobility
Tees Music Alliance Ltd.
Thanet Iceberg Project
The 180 Programme CIC
The ALIVE Project
The Art Works Gallery CIC
The Barn Owl Centre
The Bevendean Community Pub Limited
The Bike Project
The Bobath Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy
The Bread Kitchen CIC
The Bridge Project Sudbury
The Canopy Housing Project Limited
The Centre for Ecotherapy
The Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action
The Cooke E-Learning Foundation
The Core Skate Hereford CIC
The Creative Seed CIC
The Devon Clinic CIC
The Edlington Hill Top Centre Associates Limited
The Employers Forum For Sharrow,Heeley & Norfolk Park Ltd
The Filo Project CIC
The Foundry Sheffield
The Green Oak Foundation Community Interest Company
The Greenhouse Multi-Cultural Play and Arts Project
The Growing Club CIC
The Horticulture Industry Scheme CIC
The Human Milk Foundation
The Jericho Foundation
The Junction Foundation
The Launch Project Greater Manchester CIC
The Laurels Childcare Company Ltd
The Laurie Brewis Trust
The Liberty Kitchen Project
The Life of Reilly NE CIC
The Link (Redcar) CIC
The Motherhood Plan
The Music Works (Charity)
The New Leaf Initiative C.I.C.
The Pioneers Project Community Interest Company
The Platform project CIC
The Plymouth Lighthouse Project CIC
The Quest for Gay Men CIC
The Real Junk Food Project Brighton CIC
The Ross-on-Wye Horizon Centre CIC
The Screen Film Community
The Selby Trust
The Smile Brigade CIC
THE SWEET PROJECT CIC LIMITED BY GUARANTEE
The Talk for Health Company Ltd
The Therapeutic Forest CIC
The Turning Tides Project Community Interest Company
The Umbrella Cafe CIC
The Way of the Horse
The Wishing Well Project Ltd
Think2Speak CIC
Tools4change CIC
Tourettteshero CIC
TREE SHEPHERD LTD
Trinity Community Arts Ltd
TRIP Community Transport Association
Triple A Project (All About Autism)
True Access CIC
Turtle Dove Cambridge Community Interest Company
Tutors United
Twining Enterprise
Twinkleboost CIC
Ujima Radio
Ultra Education C.I.C.
UNI CONSULTING, UNIQUE IMPROVEMENTS LTD
Unique Voice CIC
United Borders
UpBEAt Social Enterprise CIC
Upturn Enterprise Limited
Urban Biodiversity CIC
Urban Heard: Youth Engagement Specialist CIC
User Voice
Vana Trust
VAUXHALL (CITY) FARM LTD
Venture Community Association
Veterans Woodcraft CIC
Vida Active Club CIC
Vision 21 Gloucestershire
Wakefield Theatre Trust
Waltham Forest Community Transport
Warehouse Trust
Waterloo Community Counselling
Ways into Work CiC
We Are Not Saints
We Rise
Wednesday's Child
Well Grounded Jobs C.I.C
Wellbeing Improvement Fitness Initiative NW
West Faversham Community Assocation
West Midlands Creative Alliance Limited
What's Your Point?
What's Your Problem CIC
Where Next Association
White Rock Neighbourhood Ventures Ltd
Wild Earth
Wild Oyster CIC
Wildgoose Rural Training & Nature Reserve
WISE UP WORKSHOPS CIC
With Insight Education C.I.C.
Wolverton Community Energy Limited
Woodland Tribe CIC
Woodshed Workshop CIC
Woodthorpe Development Trust Ltd
WORKSHOP 305 COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
World Heart Beat Music Academy Ltd
Yeadon Town Hall (Management) Community Interest Company
Yes Futures
Yes2Ventures Ltd
York Family Mediation Service
Young People Matter
Younger People with Dementia (Berkshire) CIO
Youth Enquiry Service, Brixham Limited
Youth League UK
Zion Bristol Ltd
Zync Digital Ltd

A word from the delivery partners

Mark Norbury, Chief Executive, UnLtd, explains, “I’m incredibly proud that our sector came together so collaboratively and has been able to achieve the ambitious goals we set out for with this fund. Our partnership has distributed close to £19 million of funding to more than 600 outstanding grantees in just a few months. In a difficult time we’ve been able to offer a critical lifeline swiftly to those who need it the most. "I’ve been amazed and humbled by how social entrepreneurs are responding to COVID-19, and this injection of financial support to keep them going has been sorely needed. It’s now time to support social entrepreneurs towards an inclusive recovery, and this is where UnLtd will be stepping up our efforts in the next few months.”

Danyal Sattar, CEO, The Big Issue Invest said: “I am pleased to confirm that, with the support of the National Lottery Community Fund, Big Issue Invest has been able to commit over £3 million over 118 grants to trading social enterprises and enterprising charities across England to support the vital work they do that makes such a difference in this time of crisis and uncertainty.

“We would like to offer a special thanks to our external panel members Richard Currie and Thecla Fellas, who provided valuable support and quality insight to help us issue as many grants as possible in a short space of time.”

Matt Smith, CEO, Key Fund said: “We are incredibly grateful for the support from the National Lottery Community Fund, which has enabled us and our Partners to provide £18.5M of essential funding to almost 600 social enterprises operating across England. Many of these organisations are delivering important services to people in real need, whilst also trying to deal with the impact of COVID-19 on their own staff and business model, in a very uncertain operating environment. We have been truly moved and inspired by some of the stories that we have heard whilst assessing applications, and know just how important this funding will be over coming months for people and communities”

Alastair Wilson, CEO, SSE said: “Social entrepreneurs have been hit hard by this crisis. They’ve faced the double whammy of losing income from trading, just as the people they support and employ need them more than ever. We’re proud that this partnership has been able to deliver emergency funding to those with greatest need, on the frontline of fighting COVID-19. We’re especially proud to have met our inclusion targets here at SSE. The money is now supporting people from our most marginalised, minoritised and deprived communities.”

Daniel Brewer, CEO, Resonance said: “The Social Enterprise Support Fund has proved a massive success, we have seen applications from a diverse range of enterprises, from across England, that were in critical need of funding to help them recover from COVID-19. We know that the funding we have given to deserving social enterprises will enable them to continue their vital work supporting the communities they serve and helping some of the most vulnerable people in society. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the National Lottery Community Fund and National Lottery players.”