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£900k funding available for dementia help projects

A £900k fund has been made available to North Eastern and Cumbrian projects that aim to help people living with dementia.

The partnership between Comic Relief, Northern Rock Foundation and Ballinger Charitable Trust is now looking for organisations to support in developing new ways of supporting people with dementia and their carers to identify models of best practice that could be adopted more widely across the United Kingdom.

The North East and Cumbria Dementia Fund also aims to support carers and applications are being sought from projects that either equip them with the skills to carry out their caring role or aim to challenge stigma and improve the way people with dementia are perceived.

Programme manager Louise Telford from Northern Rock Foundation said: “We want to support projects that are working with people with dementia who are living in the community either in their own homes or in sheltered accommodation and work that changes the way people with dementia are viewed and treated by society.”

For further information, or to apply for funding through the North East and Cumbria Dementia Fund contact Louise Telford at Northern Rock Foundation on tel: 0191 284 8412 or email generaloffice@nr-foundation.org.uk

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .