The Community Engagement Fund (CEF) is a £150,000 grant fund to support grassroots and community organisations to engage communities and raise awareness of priority Home Office policy areas and the support available. The fund is offered by the Home Office.
This fund is best suited to support short and easy-to-deliver projects, rather than a programme of work, as all allocated funds needs to be spent within the financial year 2025-2026.
Some nationality groups, including Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana and India, despite possibly having been impacted, may not be coming forward for compensation to the Windrush Compensation Scheme.
The fund is looking to address these issues.
The purpose of the Community Engagement Fund 2025/2026 is to:
1. Raise awareness of and address any misinformation about the Windrush Compensation and Windrush Schemes (Documentation) with a focus on non-Caribbean communities and encourage them to apply to these Schemes.
2. Build on the insights and learning taken from our existing work on Windrush (e.g. the Windrush Community Fund and Windrush national communications campaigns) to understand:
(a) why individuals are not applying for the Windrush Compensation Scheme and/or the Windrush Scheme (Documentation); and
(b) how best to encourage eligible individuals to apply to these Schemes.
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