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Rochdale Council awarded £500k for Community Champions to give Covid-19 advice and boost vaccine take up Date published: 28 January 2021
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Rochdale Borough Council is to receive just short of £500,000 of a £23m government fund to support people who are most at risk of the long-term impacts of Covid-19.
The government has allocated £494,567 to Rochdale Borough Council, to establish a network of Community Champions to provide advice about the illness and the vaccines.
Sixty local authorities will benefit from the funding, and through the Community Champions scheme, councils and voluntary organisations will deliver a wide range of measures to protect those most at risk - communicating accurate health information and ultimately helping to save lives. This will include developing new networks of trusted local champions where they don’t already exist.