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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.
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A COVID emergency fund is keeping a local, family business stay afloat and connected to its community during lockdown. Elsdon s historic Bird in Bush pub has benefited from Vattenfall UK’s Ray Wind Funds Covid Emergency Fund and now, mine host Stephen Shaw explains the crushing constraints applied across the hospitality industry and their knock-on effect on small businesses and family life. “After the first lockdown,we moved tables from the beer garden onto the village green and people - particularly visitors passing through - began to call in again , he said. Then, when the second lockdown was imposed, we discussed doing take-away meals but there are several outlets in the Rede Valley already doing a good job with a loyal following. With no catering left to do, our chef left us, so we had to dispose of all our perishable goods, beers and foodstuffs.