Exciting news… we’re being funded by Emerging Futures Fund - National Lottery!

Midaye receives £49,711 in National Lottery funding to support research project: “Voices from the Lockdown: The pandemic experiences of BME migrants in West London”

 We are so pleased to announce that Midaye has received £49,711 in funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to build on and amplify the creativity and compassion seen in communities and across civil society during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The funding, made possible thanks to National Lottery players, will enable Midaye and Musawa Consortium to work with, to listen to and to share the different experiences and stories of BME Migrants in West London affected by the current pandemic.  The partnership will use ‘enquiries’ to invite new thinking and imagination and support a place to experiment with community and people-led ideas!

The project is focussed on supporting BME migrant communities in West London to tell their stories about the pandemic – their experiences and reflections, hopes and fears. It will create a multi-vocal narrative reflecting the disparate voices of BME migrants. Midaye engages, through its BME migrant consortium Musawa, with the most marginalised community members living with poor health and wellbeing, social exclusion, and poverty.

Midaye is one of 51 organisations across the UK to receive a grant of up to £50,000 through the Emerging Futures Fund. The funding, from the largest funder of community activity in the UK, will help harness the creativity of civil society and amplify the voices of communities through stories, narratives and public imagination projects.

Cassie Robinson, Senior Head of UK Funding at The National Lottery Community Fund, said: “The COVID-19 pandemic has presented new challenges to communities across the UK and The National Lottery Community Fund has focused on getting much-needed emergency support out to communities and the sector. But it has also demonstrated the very best of civil society, which has met this huge challenge with creativity, commitment and a desire for change. We are now seeing new ways of doing things that we might not have thought of before. 

“Thanks to National Lottery players, these new grants will support communities to consider how they can face the immediate impact of COVID-19 but also look to the future. The activity conducted by these community groups and organisations will generate learning and insights, and create space and capacity in communities so that they are able to anticipate, imagine and shape the future.”

The Emerging Futures Fund is a key part of The National Lottery Community Fund’s commitment to enabling civil society to be fit for the future – supporting organisations and the voluntary sector to create opportunities to help local communities thrive.

Thanks to National Lottery players, up to £600 million has been made available to support communities throughout the UK during the Coronavirus crisis. The National Lottery is playing a critical role in supporting people, projects and communities during these challenging times. By playing The National Lottery, you are making an amazing contribution to the nationwide-response to combatting the impact of Covid-19 on local communities across the UK.

To find out more visit www.TNLCommunityFund.org.uk