# Five projects across UK to benefit from Abbey funding

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/08/24/five-projects-across-uk-benefit-abbey-funding/
- Published: 2007-08-24T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Abbey has announced £150,000 of charitable funding for affordable credit projects
across the UK. 
Projects supported by the funding include an initiative by Train
2000, a community development finance institution (CDFI), targeting financially 
excluded women thinking of starting up a small business. The Abbey funding will 
facilitate the provision of loans under £1000 for the first time as well as fund
support services for the participants. The project is being run in conjunction with
Speke Advice Service and Riverside Credit Union.

Funding will also support a scheme led by Places for People, one of the UK’s largest
property management and development groups, in conjunction with Milton Keynes Council
and Midsummer Housing. The scheme will use the Abbey funding to provide affordable
credit to users of their Haste Project which supports people with drug and alcohol
problems by providing temporary accommodation and supporting them into secure tenancies.

Organisations interested in receiving future submission criteria for Abbey’s affordable
credit funding can email their contact details to [co*******@***ey.com](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/mailto:co*******@***ey.com)
to be added to the distribution list.

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