£8.8m FUNDING REACHES FIFE TO TACKLE IMPACT OF PANDEMIC

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£8.8m FUNDING REACHES FIFE TO TACKLE IMPACT OF PANDEMIC

Published date : 12 Jun 2020

Mid Fife and Glenrothes MSP Jenny Gilruth has welcomed new figures outlining the scale of Scottish Government funding to tackle the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

As part of £3.8 billion in extra spending to tackle coronavirus, the Scottish Government has committed to a £350 million package of emergency funding for communities to help tackle harms caused by the pandemic.

One notable beneficiary in the Mid Fife and Glenrothes area has been the Collydean Community Centre who received a £60,000 funding allocation from the Supporting Communities Fund.

A new online dashboard, published this week, has outlined the financial support so far allocated to Fife Council.

The Scottish Government funding has included:

£2.3m from the Food Fund, to support those who would otherwise be unable to access food through the usual routes.

£538,000 from the Wellbeing Fund, to support organisations providing important services to people most affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

£566,000 from the Supporting Communities Fund, for community anchor organisations to help support local responses to the pandemic.

£579,000 from the Third Sector Resilience Fund, to support third sector organisations that deliver services and products but find themselves in financial difficulties directly as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Commenting, SNP MSP Jenny Gilruth said:

“The pandemic has caused enormous pressure on households and communities across Scotland.

“The Scottish Government has provided swift and substantial financial help to households in Fife – supporting frontline organisations and access to food.

“We now know that change can happen rapidly – and we must build on that momentum to achieve our long-term goals of reducing poverty and inequality.”

ENDS

Notes:

Community Funding mapping hub is available here: https://community-funding-mapping-1-1-scotgov.hub.arcgis.com/

These dashboards are provided for general information purposes only and use data from various sources. The data will be updated as frequently as its available, however due to its nature it cannot be guaranteed that at any particular instance it is complete, accurate or up to date.

LclAthr

Third Sector Resilience Fund

Hardship Fund

Scottish Welfare Fund Top-Up

Supporting Communities Fund

Food Fund

Wellbeing Fund

Total

Aberdeen City

642371

1758000

596000

310440.55

802000

702061

4810872.55

Aberdeenshire

577269

2404000

497000

313313

1023000

431116

5245698

Angus

211621

1088000

383000

125000

602000

290190

2699811

Argyll and Bute

755898

895000

293000

469802

440000

243739

3097439

City of Edinburgh

1480392

3910000

1531000

1009142

1651000

2227536

11809070

Clackmannanshire

149019

465000

243000

109303

312000

137293

1415615

Dumfries and Galloway

298824

1480000

579000

297882

890000

270148

3815854

Dundee City

371673

1389000

809000

67500

1152000

309415

4098588

East Ayrshire

208752

1139000

631000

181390

838000

331681

3329823

East Dunbartonshire

70985

1042000

251000

72750

436000

144351

2017086

East Lothian

184795

965000

334000

187614

447000

249535

2367944

East Renfrewshire

47675

987000

221000

134266

348000

116177

1854118

Falkirk

210357

1447000

615000

152480

878000

197468

3500305

Fife

578717

3407000

1514000

566316

2254000

538092

8858125

Glasgow City

2476973

5596000

4076000

3671921.6

4799000

3564534

24184428.6

Highland

1052399

2373000

738000

1580742

1199000

650417

7593558

Inverclyde

157145

749000

447000

242990

565000

270141

2431276

Midlothian

328879

841000

326000

282911

446000

263892

2488682

Moray

431185

853000

261000

260894

448000

214914

2468993

Na h-Eileanan Siar

366785

384000

94000

280636

147000

310689

1583110

North Ayrshire

315430

1324000

785000

235029

1038000

278502

3975961

North Lanarkshire

353677

3181000

1744000

400019

2114000

515864

8308560

Orkney Islands

119234

350000

49000

211576

99000

169063

997873

Perth and Kinross

486346

1378000

410000

285206

621000

259113

3439665

Renfrewshire

279070

1632000

782000

388012

1063000

378554

4522636

Scottish Borders

375936

1100000

365000

385135

576000

293357

3095428

Shetland Islands

232111

388000

44000

245165

104000

115491

1128767

South Ayrshire

138246

1053000

474000

142987.48

625000

154873

2588106.48

South Lanarkshire

365080

2979000

1389000

315847.31

1937000

398999

7384926.31

Stirling

312798

878000

275000

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