£150K for Breakfast Charity thanks to national lottery funding. And that’s a lot of bacon butties!
The National Lottery Community Fund grant, spread across three years, is a huge boost for the charity. BBP offers a cooked breakfast seven-days-a-week to homeless and hungry people in the town.
BBP has its base in the Pilgrim Centre on Regent Circus. It’s run be volunteers aided and abetted by a mere handful of staff and a committed board of trustees. The charity provides around 100 breakfasts a day. And offers a warm, welcoming, safe environment for homeless and hungry people.
James Puttick, chair of trustees, said: ‘This is a fantastic level of funding. It’ll enable us to continue to offer fresh cooked breakfasts to those who are hungry in Swindon all provided in a warm and welcoming environment.’
James said the funding would also help support investment in the charity’s longer term strategy, as well as pay for day-to-day costs, like the food and equipment.
‘In recent times, we’ve seen the need for our service grow due to rising food and energy costs. This funding will enable us to keep up with that demand. It”ll also let us expand on some of our wider initiatives, like our giveaway fruit bags, and other nutritional projects.’
National Lottery Community Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund recently launched its strategy, ‘It starts with community’. That underpins its efforts to distribute at least £4 billion of National Lottery funding by 2030.
As part of this, the funder has four key missions. They 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. That supported over 13,700 projects to turn their great ideas into reality.
To find out more visit www.TNLCommunityFund.org.uk. For more information about Big Breakfast Plus, visithttps://bigbreakfastplus.org.uk/
