The Ray Wind Fund’s Covid Hardship Fund is due to continue for the foreseeable. The emergency, fast-track funding began at the start of the pandemic last March, and will continue as long as Covid-19 restrictions are in place. Their fund is able to award grants to businesses, charities, and organisations that are within their area of benefit, a 10Km radius surrounding the Ray Windfarm at Kirkwhelpington. This includes the parishes of Bavington, Bellingham, Birtley, Elsdon, Corsenside, Kirkwhelpington, Otterburn and Wallington. The fund has helped local businesses, such as the Northumberland Log Bank founded by Kate Thick and The Demesne Farm Campsite and Bunk Barn, in Bellingham, run by Robert and Margaret Telfer, deal with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.