Page 7 - OCF - Pandemic Year Impact Report

In the summer of 2020, we closed our more responsive emergency grants to ensure that we could continue to support the local charitable sector in tackling the longer-term fall-out of the virus, and be prepared for a second wave.
This proved to be astute, and along with further backing from our national and local funders, enabled us to offer support during the second wave. As lockdown 3 began in early 2021, funding focused on providing support to a range of communities struggling with the continued impact of the pandemic, lockdown and associated educational, social and economic challenges.
“K has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and sadly it has had a huge impact on her mental health and her outlook on life. But then she found CTC and has blossomed. K has joined the vast majority of online sessions, building confidence and developing a strong voice.”
Cherwell Theatre Company
“The child now has a reasonably sized screen to spend her school day actively taking part in school lessons without having to share the screen with her sisters. It also meant that they were able to keep in contact with their friends and ease the isolation of being a young carer at home 24/7 with the person they care for.”
Be Free Young Carers
£250,000 £200,000 £150,000 £100,000
£50,000
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August
• Eat out to help out scheme introduced
• OHM partners collaborate to provide 124 rooms of interim housing for former rough sleepers
• OCF’s COVID-19 small grants open
A full list of COVID-19 grants made can be found at
www.oxfordshire.org/coronavirus
September October
• ‘Rule of six’ introduced
• Total OCF COVID grants reach £585k
• Zoom share price up 611% from the beginning of the year
• OCF publishes research suggesting that nearly 10,000 school pupils in the county cannot get online
• Local tiers system introduced
• Lockdown 2 announced, but schools kept open
• OCF awards £58k in small COVID recovery grants
Oxfordshire Community Foundation 5
Amount awarded by month
£11,000 £233,157 £164,829 £99,410 £180,561
£71,714
£12,001
£59,562
£85,592 £56,356
£40.288