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Strummer Calling Community First Fund

The Strummer Calling Community First Fund provides grants for small voluntary and community groups to address local needs and create opportunities that make a real difference in their communities. The fund prioritizes volunteer-led grassroots groups that support their community, with particular focus given to groups in the Carlisle and Eden areas. Supported projects include community cinema initiatives, camping activities for Scout groups, expenses for volunteers and room hire for radio broadcast training, and improvements to village halls. Grants are administered by Cumbria Community Foundation through an anonymous donor and are designed to strengthen grassroots community organizations throughout the region.

Eden Rural Community Fund

The Eden Rural Community Fund provides grants for charitable and not-for-profit organisations to deliver services benefiting residents of Eden District and surrounding rural areas who are in need due to frailty, age, ill health, mental or physical disability. The fund supports projects that enable people over 18 years old to live independently and safely in their own homes, improving quality of life for beneficiaries, their families, and carers. Priority is given to projects supporting older people (particularly vulnerable and isolated older people), adults aged 18 or over with physical disabilities, mental health needs, and/or learning disabilities, carers, and community and volunteer-led initiatives to deliver or improve access to services for rural areas. The fund was established by Eden Housing Association using charitable funds held following the dissolution of Eden Community Alarms.