: Grant to help charity address mental health for homeless in Swansea, Port Talbot and Neath

Crisis UK have just received a £470,981 grant from The National Lottery Community Fund for their four-year project.  The charity will be recruiting volunteers who are or who have experience of being homeless and train them for them to provide one-to-one support to obtain housing.  The project will also take a proactive role in addressing mental health issues.   Participants with complex mental health issues will be offered professional support. The service will be provided Neath, Swansea and Port Talbot, Crisis will work closely with Skylight South Wales to deliver this project.

Karen Grunhut, Director of Crisis Skylight South Wales said:

‘Crisis is absolutely delighted to receive this grant from the National Lottery Community Fund to support our services in South Wales. The new volunteer roles created by this project will offer a great opportunity for people with lived experience of homelessness to use their experiences in a positive way and ensure that all involved in the project are more able to fulfil their potential.

“The funding will also enable us to offer greater psychological support to the people we work with, where the effects of previous trauma or undiagnosed mental health conditions pose real barriers for people who want to move away from homelessness.‘

Two other organisations in Swansea are celebrating:

Gendros Baptist Church in Swansea will use their £9,880 grant to run a mobile youth centre, designed to reach young people in their neighbourhoods.  They will also provide mentoring support for people experiencing isolation and loneliness, and help to address criminal behaviours.

Townhill Community Centre in Swansea successfully bid for a grant of £3,875 to improve the facility for the groups who use the Centre and the wider community, they will continue tackling poverty and loneliness.

The name may have changed, but it’s business as usual at The National Lottery Community Fund in Wales (formerly the Big Lottery Fund) who distributed £484,736 to the three communities in Swansea , part of the £3.2 million in grants shared by 37 organisations across Wales this month.  Grants are made possible thanks to people playing the National Lottery.  The full list of grants is available on our website by following this link: https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/media/documents/news-documents/Feb-A4A-PnP-E-press-summaries-embargo-07.2.2019-E-final.pdf