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We areCommunities East
Founded in 2015, we are a VCSE Consortium, with over 60 members across the East of England. Our goal of the consortium is to safeguard and grow high-quality VCSE service provision across the East of England. Working with the communities to identify need and opportunity and in turn, unlocking funding for organisations of all sizes, across a wide range of areas from poverty to arts and heritage, environment, children and young people, adult social care, community safety… and much more.
Over the past 5 years, we have secured £2.9m of funding!
About Us
Areas of Expertise
Poverty
Arts
& Heritage
& Heritage
Environment
Adult Social Care
Community
Safety
Safety
Children &
Young people
Young people
What we do
Communities East has been working with Commissioners, local and national funders, National Council for Voluntary Organisations and the UK voluntary sector lead for Local Enterprise European Funding, to ensure that our consortium can supply high quality services through large scale contracts.
We aim to deliver across a wide range of areas from poverty to arts and heritage, environment, children and young people, adult social care, community safety… and much more.
Our Aim
The mission of the consortium is to:
“Enable local organisations to secure significant funding to deliver excellent services to the local community.”
Working With
Building Better Opportunities is a project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund and European Social Fund. The project supports projects in England that tackle poverty and promote social inclusion across Peterborough, Fenland, and West Norfolk.