Child poverty innovation and supporting communities grant: grants awarded

The following lead organisations have been awarded funding under the grant scheme in 2024 to 2025: 

• Positive Programmes C.I.C Positive Programmes Child Poverty Initiative will collaborate between various sectors and regional partnerships to create a comprehensive support network for young people in Bridgend.
• Valleys Gymnastics Academy ‘Family engagement volunteer role to develop a family engagement programme in the local community’will form a collaborative approach to improving families’ wellbeing for the longer term with funding used to develop and deliver a volunteer programme to undertake community consultation on improving the wellbeing of families in Markham, Caerphilly.
• Area 43 ‘Ceredigion Safe Spaces Partnership Co-ordinator’to manage partnership arrangements in Aberystwyth and Lampeter and develop a model of partnership working that can be replicated through a Partnership Toolkit which will detail governance arrangements.
• Carmarthenshire County Borough Council ‘Maternity and Early Years Transformation for Carmarthenshire’ to provide integrated services for children 0 to 4 years old and their families, targeting areas where there are health inequalities, disadvantage and deprivation. 
• Ceredigion County Council ‘Connecting communities to boost financial wellbeing’ will improve the way that Ceredigion Public Service Board Poverty sub-group engages with and co-produces solutions with staff, volunteers and users of warm welcome spaces, community cafes and food banks.
• Citizens Advice Pembrokeshire ‘Turning Words to Action’will take forward key recommendations of recent research with Pembrokeshire people that have experience of poverty, piloting some of the ideas put forward by participants, encouraging co-production with those with lived experience.
• Hayaat Women’s Trust ‘Cardiff Partnership Alliance of Somali led organisations to impact child poverty’ aims to create a sustainable impact on child poverty in Cardiff's Somali communities through targeted, integrated support services, establishing satellite hubs, this project will empower families, enhance access to essential services, and build community resilience.
• Monmouthshire Housing Association ‘Child Poverty and Cost of Living Confident Scheme’ project seeks to leverage collective knowledge and best practices to develop comprehensive face-to-face and e-learning training programmes centred on child poverty. 
• Swansea Council for Voluntary Service ‘Swansea Solution Focused Schools’will work with three secondary schools and aims to demonstrate that through relationship-building and genuine listening, the experience of learners in low-income households can be improved. 
• Trivallis ‘Rise Strong: Thriving Families and Communities with Money, Learning, Health, and Confidence’ will work with communities to co-produce a ‘Rise Strong’ programme of support, sharing resources with communities, and enabling communities to tap into public and other assets in Rhondda Cynon Taf.
• Wrexham County Borough Council ‘Partnerships Officer Prevention and Early Help’ will recruit a partnership officer to conduct a mapping exercise and to identify the gaps in support that have the highest priority need of collaboration.
• Actif North Wales ‘Actif North Wales Placed Based Approach Pilot’will take an Asset-Based Community Development approach, working closely with communities to identify and build on what is strong in their place to address local challenges and tackle inequality. The aim of the project is to use being active and movement as a tool to support children facing poverty, providing low cost or free fun and accessible opportunities in the local community.
• Bevan Foundation ‘Cross-sector collaboration to reduce poverty amongst children with no recourse to public funds (NRPF)’will consolidate the new NRPF Coalition, enabling effective and innovative engagement between charities, local authorities and community groups to improve responses to poverty in children and families with restricted access to the welfare system and produce resources to support this.
• Breastfeeding Network (BfN) ‘Partnership approach to enhancing breastfeeding awareness and culture in low-prevalence socially deprived areas’ BfN will collaborate with Public Health Wales Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) and Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) to deliver breastfeeding advice and support in the low-income communities in Rhondda and Newport.
• Citizens Advice Cardiff & Vale ‘Advice for Families: early intervention advice from Citizens Advice in Schools’will extend the reach of welfare advice services in schools across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. 
• EYST ‘Generating and sharing new and existing knowledge about how services can effectively address child poverty in minority ethnic communities’will collaborate with a research partner to identify existing successful initiatives in addressing child poverty amongst ethnic minority communities in Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Wrexham and produce  a Toolkit to help organisations improve their practice.
• Pobl Group ‘No Wrong Door’ will engage people with lived experience of poverty in two regeneration areas, Penderi in Swansea and Pillgwenlly in Newport. Identify what works well and why, where services can better work together, where gaps exist in provision and where collaboration is strong.
• Powys County Council ‘Collaborating for change: Responding to Child Poverty in Powys’ and PAVO will collaborate to undertake pilot initiatives based on evidence gathered from across the County that has helped to design the Powys Child Poverty Task Force Action Plan.
• Save the Children Cymru ‘Cymunedau Ymarfer: Communities of Practice extending the impact and sharing learning will bring partners together to regularly discuss issues affecting children in poverty and share good practice, embedding the voices of children and families within networks and coordinating action across organisational boundaries.
• Swansea Council Tackling Poverty Service ‘A new governance model to capture and promote lived experience for children and young people experiencing poverty in West Glamorgan’ will bring partner together and co-produce and establish a new governance model which provides a forum to capture, share and promote the voice of lived experience for children, young people, families and carers who are experiencing or have experienced poverty.
• Swansea Law Clinic ‘Swansea Neath Port Talbot Community Advice Network (SNPTCAN) Referral System’ will extend the reach of an inter-agency online referral system which allows organisations to make warm referrals to other organisations in place of signposting. This innovative technology encourages agencies to apply good referral practice by ensuring professional, accurate and timely referrals, lifting families out of poverty.
• Voices from Care Cymru ‘Supporting financial resilience of Care Leavers to prevent entry into poverty’will collaborate to create a financial resilience toolkit co-produced by the care experienced young people, supported by the delivery of face-to-face training for professionals.