# Allchurches Trust launches Covid-19 grants programme

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/07/17/allchurches-trust-launches-covid-19-grants-programme/
- Published: 2020-07-17T09:28:57+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Allchurches Trust has launched a grants programme to help churches and Christian
charities meet changing needs within their communities as the longer-term impact
of Covid-19 becomes clearer.**

 

In developing the [Hope Beyond](https://www.allchurches.co.uk/what-we-fund/hopebeyond/)
programme, Allchurches Trust carried out an [online consultation](https://www.allchurches.co.uk/news/coronavirus-grant-programme-hope-beyond/)
to better understand what its beneficiaries felt the key needs of people of all 
ages in their communities would be as a direct result of the Coronavirus pandemic.

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It found that more than two-thirds of church respondents expect loneliness and isolation
to be the most pressing need in the next three months, with 58% of churches predicting
the same when looking a year ahead. The issue of mental health and wellbeing was
the second highest rated concern for around half of churches, while many also reported
feeling limited by a lack of digital knowledge and/or technology – both within the
church and in the wider community.

 

The Hope Beyond grants programme will, therefore, look to address these three themes:

 

 * Projects responding to the issues of loneliness and isolation exacerbated by 
   the Coronavirus pandemic where new and/or enhanced support is being proposed.
 * Projects focused on growing community resilience and promoting mental and emotional
   health and wellbeing
 * Projects focused on growing technological capability and resilience and supporting
   those without online access to get online through training and support.

 

Hope Beyond will provide grants of up to £50,000, and the amount received will depend
upon the project’s cost and the level of need in the community, ranging from 10%
of project cost through to 80%.

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