Crowdfunding Kent: KCC supports community-led recovery

As part of our commitment to supporting communities and Kent’s recovery from the pandemic, KCC has launched Crowdfund Kent with crowdfunding platform Spacehive. Crowdfund Kent will support community groups and projects that aid recovery from the Covid crisis, such as improvements to community facilities or initiatives that address financial distress or social isolation. KCC is contributing £500,000 in total and will allocate up to £20,000 or 50% of the project cost (more in exceptional circumstances in deprived areas) to individual schemes. 

I will be taking part in a webinar launch of the initiative on 17 March (details in the KCC media hub press release) and there will be further workshops to help develop schemes in March and April. The deadline for submitting schemes in this funding round is 28 April.