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.
Stamford Kiwanis, Burghley Park Golf Club, Stamford Bridge Club and BGL Group donate laptops and funds to The Bluecoat School
The community has rallied to help pupils in Stamford with lockdown learning.
At the beginning of lockdown, staff at The Bluecoat School discovered that not every family had access to the necessary equipment for online home-schooling, so appealed to the community for support.
As a result, almost £12,000 and a number laptops were donated to the school in Stamford by businesses, charities and individuals.
Pupil at The Bluecoat School, Lola, and her mum receiving a laptop
Ben Bloor, interim headteacher of The Bluecoat School, said: I canât thank everyone enough for their kindness and support, it really will make a difference to the lives of our young people.