Everton in the Community has received £1.5million from Steve Morgan Foundation and the government’s Community Match Challenge initiative to further support the charity’s essential work in supporting the city’s most vulnerable people during – and post – Covid-19.
Introduced in July 2020 by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), the Community Match Challenge invited Os filantropistas, as fundações e as organizações de concessão para apresentar novos aplicativos de financiamento com uma oferta generosa para corresponder aos fundos arrecadados com uma base de libra por libra a partir de um pacote de suporte de 750 milhões de libras para instituições de caridade com o objetivo geral de apoiar aqueles que são mais vulneráveis e mais vulneráveis e mais atingidos por parte do jogo de partida do Coronavirus. O Everton na comunidade depois de aprender como a instituição de caridade planeja aumentar seus serviços essenciais para pessoas vulneráveis por meio de um apoio aprimorado da comunidade, com um holofote específico sobre saúde e educação mental. De perto com seu parceiro oficial para oferecer ainda mais intensos programas de apoio ao longo dos próximos seis meses, para impactar positivamente milhares de vidas de pessoas que foram diretamente afetadas pela pandemia. coronavírus. O financiamento permite que a instituição de caridade lide com a pior das desigualdades da educação para os jovens em toda a região da cidade de Liverpool - que aumentou ainda mais a pandemia - e trabalhará para inspirar e motivar os jovens a alcançar os níveis de atingimento para acessar as oportunidades de criação de emprego e riqueza. Participa Imagine o evento de seus objetivos. A necessidade de apoio à saúde mental segura e eficaz nunca foi tão essencial, com evidências afirmando que os impactos diretos e indiretos do covid-19 aumentaram o risco de suicídio, que já se refletiu tragicamente nos dados de Merseyside mostrando um aumento de 30,5% em suicídios de março-agosto 2020 em comparação com os mesmos meses em 2019..
Steve Morgan Foundation is participating in the Community Match Challenge initiative, and has awarded match-funding of £1.5m to Everton in the Community after learning how the charity plans to increase its essential services to vulnerable people through enhanced community support, with a specific spotlight on mental health and education.
The Club’s official charity has recently partnered with the Foundation to collaboratively deliver an early intervention programme in South Liverpool to tackle the barriers facing young people in attaining a good education and this new Covid-19 focused match-funding will see Everton in the Community able to work closely with its Official Partner to further deliver intense programmes of support over the course of the next six months to positively impact thousands of lives of people who have been directly affected by the pandemic.
Monitored and evaluated by Edge Hill University, the funding will enable Everton in the Community to further develop its life-changing and life-saving interventions to those engaged through its work – as well as those facing new and increased challenges due to the impact of coronavirus. The funding allows the charity to tackle the worsening education inequality gap for young people across Liverpool City Region – which has further widened as a result of the pandemic – and will work to inspire and motivate young people to achieve attainment levels to access meaningful employment and wealth creation opportunities.
HOW EVERTON’S MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME HAS SAVED LIVES
It will also allow the charity to build on its award-winning mental health provision and introduce an accreditation framework to ensure people in need are accessing support that is safe and effective. The need for safe and effective mental health support has never been more essential, with evidence stating that the direct and indirect impacts of Covid-19 have increased the risk of suicide, which has tragically already been reflected in data from across Merseyside showing a 30.5% increase in suicides from March-August 2020 in comparison to the same months in 2019.
Este trabalho de saúde mental aprimorado e focado acelerará o Everton na ambição da comunidade de atender às necessidades significativas e crescentes de saúde mental na comunidade local e evitar uma crise de saúde mental profunda e prolongada, além de complementar os planos da instituição de caridade. A pandemia amplificou muitos dos fatores de risco associados a problemas de saúde mental e suicídio, como depressão, ansiedade e estresse pós-traumático e, com graças a esse novo financiamento, o braço de caridade do clube é capaz de se aproximar de uma etapa mais próxima da construção e da construção do spot-lheft, em que o Spellow é o spot-lheart, em algum lugar, o que é um dos principais etanos do que o Spellot, o que está no início de 2021. Das desigualdades sociais em nossa cidade de frente e nos permitem ajudar mais pessoas necessitadas. Graças à Steve Morgan Foundation e à Iniciativa de Desafio da Comunidade do Governo, o Everton na comunidade pode ter um impacto positivo ainda maior na vida de milhares de pessoas em toda a região da cidade de Liverpool. with Steve Morgan Foundation we are committed to addressing the inevitable increase of mental-health related issues as a result of the pandemic.”
The need for a dedicated facility is greater than ever before as the pandemic has amplified many of the associated risk factors for poor mental health and suicide such as depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress and, with thanks to this new funding, the Club’s charitable arm is able to move a step closer to construction and hope to begin work on the Spellow Lane site in early 2021.
Everton in the Community Chief Executive Officer Richard Kenyon said, “This funding will enable us to tackle some of the social inequalities in our city head-on and allow us to help more people in need. Thanks to Steve Morgan Foundation and the government’s Community Match Challenge initiative, Everton in the Community can have an even greater positive impact on the lives of thousands of people across Liverpool City Region.
“The funding will also move us closer to bringing our much-needed mental health facility, The People’s Place, to Liverpool 4 and we are more committed than ever to providing first-class support relating to suicide prevention and positive mental health. Together with Steve Morgan Foundation we are committed to addressing the inevitable increase of mental-health related issues as a result of the pandemic.”
Steve Morgan, Founder and Chairman of Steve Morgan Foundation, said, “My trustees and I have seen first-hand the wide-ranging grassroots support that Everton in the Community delivers across Liverpool City Region and are proud to be working with this charity with which we have so many aims in Comum. Thanks to the match-funding opportunity offered by Community Match Challenge and DCMS we are able to double the support for this vital work and, most importantly, help Everton in the Community realise their ambition of The People’s Place mental health facility.”
Minister for Civil Society, Baroness Barran, said: “The commendable work of Everton in the Community to address social inequalities in Liverpool and to help those struggling with their mental health has never been more Importante. Saúde, empregabilidade, demência, educação, incapacidade, pobreza e falta de moradia. Desde a entrega do programa Premier League Primary Stars a crianças em idade escolar até apoiar os membros idosos da comunidade de Liverpool que sofrem de isolamento social, o Everton na comunidade é aberto e inclusivo para todos. A fundação está comprometida em mudar a vida, financiando projetos que apóiam as pessoas que lidam com deficiência, violência doméstica, problemas de saúde mental, pobreza e combate ao isolamento social. Ele também suporta projetos que melhoram as chances de vida dos jovens do berço a carreira e adultos que precisam de ajuda para entrar no trabalho. Downtown in Business
“I am delighted that through the Community Match Challenge, part of our £750million support package for charities, we can partner with generous individuals like Steve Morgan and his foundation to look out for our communities.”
Founded in 1988, Everton in the Community delivers more than 40 programmes a year, specifically designed and developed to tackle social challenges that are prevalent across Merseyside, including mental health, employability, dementia, education, disability, poverty and homelessness.
The charity’s programmes support people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds from over 130 venues across the city region. From delivering the Premier League Primary Stars programme to school children to supporting the elderly members of the Liverpool community who are suffering from social isolation, Everton in the Community is open and inclusive to all.
The Steve Morgan Foundation was created in 2001 by Steve Morgan CBE and since then it has designated over £300million for charitable funding. The Foundation is committed to changing lives by funding projects that support people coping with disability, domestic violence, mental health problems, poverty and tackling social isolation. It also supports projects that improve the life chances of young people from cradle to career and adults who need help to get into work.
Born in Liverpool, Steve Morgan, 67, is the founder of Redrow plc and Chairman of the Bridgemere Group of Companies – which has significant land and commercial development interests – and Carden Park Hotel.
