New funding has been made obtainable for group teams in Lanarkshire that present quick breaks and companies to carers.
The Artistic Breaks programme is now open to purposes and gives a 12-month grant to 3rd sector organisations to create and develop initiatives for each carers of adults and younger carers and the individuals they look after.
Artistic Breaks is a funding programme of the Quick Breaks Fund operated by Shared Care Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Authorities.
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The programme has a £1million finances obtainable for 2022-23.
Purposes for grants are being accepted till Thursday, Could 19, and the year-long grants can be handed out in October 2022.
Amanda Moffat, Quick Breaks Fund Grants Officer, instructed Lanarkshire Dwell : “Over the course of the final funding spherical Artistic Breaks supported a complete of 44 initiatives – with a mean grant of £13,000 - to ship quick breaks to greater than 4000 unpaid carers throughout Scotland.
“Breaks from caring are an important a part of unpaid carers with the ability to take care of their very own well being and wellbeing and having appropriate quick break companies obtainable domestically is a vital a part of this.
"We encourage organisations in Lanarkshire to think about making use of to the Artistic Breaks funding programme for a grant to ship quick breaks initiatives in 2022/23.”
Extra info on how one can apply could be discovered right here.
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