Newton Abbot CIC and Buckland Support celebrate after receiving £300,000 National Lottery funding

Newton Abbot Community Interest Company and Buckland Support are celebrating after being awarded more than £300,000 National Lottery funding to support their work with individuals and households in need of debt advice and support.

The two organisations, based in Newton Abbot, will use the money to continue the highly successful Buckland Hub Project, based at the Buckland
Centre. The scheme has been running since 2020 and was established after identifying a growing need for support among local residents.
Each Tuesday morning anyone from the Buckland Estate community can pop in for advice and support. Throughout the rest of the week the centre hosts a variety of groups and activities while paid support staff, Teignbridge Citizens Advice, Teign Housing and other agencies offer home visits.
The new funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, which distributes money raised by National Lottery players for good causes and is
the largest community funder in the UK, will see the project continue for a further five years. Buckland Support will also be looking at how they can offer additional support to the local community Emily Farrell from Newton Abbot CIC said: ‘We’re delighted that The National Lottery Community Fund has recognised our work in this way. ‘Now, thanks to National Lottery players, we will be able to continue to provide this brilliant project for a further five years.’
 

Rosemary Whitbread, Chair of Buckland Support added: ‘The Hub provides advice and support which is much needed within this community.
‘Over the last four years our project has delivered advice to more than 400 local people and has achieved benefit awards of more than £150,000.’
The National Lottery Community Fund recently launched its strategy, ‘It starts with community’, which will underpin its efforts to distribute at least £4 billion of National Lottery funding by 2030.  The funder has four key missions which are to support communities to come together, be environmentally sustainable, help children and young people thrive and enable people to live healthier lives. National Lottery players raise over £30 million a week for good causes across the UK. Thanks to them, last year (2023/24) The National Lottery Community Fund awarded over half a billion pounds (£686.3 million) of life-changing funding to communities across the UK, supporting over 13,700  projects to turn their great ideas into reality. 
To find out more visit www.TNLCommunityFund.org.uk