News | ERSF - Part 30 ERSF

UnLtd India 2009

A £20,000 ERSF grant has been used to provide financial and non-financial support of ten start-up social entrepreneurs in Mumbai, through UnLtd India’s incubation support programme. A spokesman for the organisation said: “It is often hard to raise funding for early-stage organisations. The fact that ERSF gave UnLtd India this support from the start has […]

Water and Sanitation for Urban Poor (WSUP)

A £25,000 grant to WSUP was used to help co-finance the £193,000 development phase of the WSUP Dhaka project which demonstrates improvements in water supply, sanittaion and hygiene services to low income communities people in Mirpur area of Dhaka, Bangladesh. This was achieved through building capacity of Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority and the Dhaka […]

Youth Action Wiltshire (Wiltshire Young Carers)

Some £19,800 was used to improve young carers’ health, and support 48 young carers to have respite time, following an ERSF grant to Youth Action Wiltshire. The money was used to fund 18 healthy living activities for young carers aged five to 16 years-old. It also funded a support worker to work 15 hours a […]

Halcrow Foundation/ Health and Water Foundation

Two new classrooms were built at Sengera Primary School in Kenya with a little help with a £5,639 grant from ERSF to the Halcrow Foundation and Health and Water Foundation. The money also helped provide new classroom furniture to ensure good quality teaching facilities to some 100 pupils. Previously the classrom blocks in the school […]

All Souls Primary School playground

A £10,000 grant from ERSF to All Souls Primary School was used to improve the school’s playground. It helped to pay for re-surfacing of the inner play area, new furniture, paint, plants and seating.