Posted 11:10am
Lazza and Dean had a very good meeting yesterday afternoon with Matt, the Head of Service for Hackney Public Health.
We first met Matt in January, and it was he who recommended us to Anchor Hanover. It is terrific that he sees our potential, and we thank him very much for the faith in us and allowing us the chance to show our outcomes.
We talked about Hackney supporting our lottery bid, with a view to coming to work in Hackney for at least one day a week, with various service users, including the Job Centre, and more work with over 55s. In principle he is happy to do so, but there are more meetings to arrange and people to meet.
We also mentioned about doing some more work in Hackney while we are doing the bid. He suggested a fund we could apply for, and I will be working on that over the next two weeks as the deadline is May 14th - ironically the same deadline as the Local Initiatives Fund (yesterday's blog entry). This one is around Hackney Community Grants, but would enable us to do some program work. No guarantees of course. We can apply up to a maximum of £5000. It could help us very much at the moment.
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