Newton Abbot CIC and Buckland Support celebrate after receiving £300,000 National Lottery funding to continue debt and wellbeing support service based at The Buckland Centre
NEWTON Abbot Community Interest Company and Buckland Support are celebrating after being awarded more than £300,000 National Lottery funding to support their work with individuals and households in need of debt advice and support.
The two organisations, based in Newton Abbot, will use the money to continue the highly successful Buckland Hub Project, based at the Buckland Centre.
The scheme has been running since 2020 and was established after identifying a growing need for support among local residents.
Each Tuesday morning anyone from the Buckland Estate community can pop in for advice and support.
Throughout the rest of the week the centre hosts a variety of groups and activities while paid support staff, Teignbridge Citizens Advice, Teign Housing and other agencies offer home visits.
The new funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, which distributes money raised by National Lottery players for good causes and is the largest community funder in the UK, will see the project continue for a further five years.
Buckland Support will also be looking at how they can offer additional support to the local community
Emily Farrell from Newton Abbot CIC said: ‘We’re delighted that The National Lottery Community Fund has recognised our work in this way.
‘Now, thanks to National Lottery players, we will be able to continue to provide this brilliant project for a further five years.’
Rosemary Whitbread, Chair of Buckland Support added: ‘The Hub provides advice and support which is much needed within this community.
‘Over the last four years our project has delivered advice to more than 400 local people and has achieved benefit awards of more than £150,000.’
The National Lottery Community Fund recently launched its strategy, ‘It starts with community’, which will underpin its efforts to distribute at least £4 billion of National Lottery funding by 2030.
The funder has four key missions which are to support communities to come together, be environmentally sustainable, help children and young people thrive and enable people to live healthier lives.
National Lottery players raise over £30 million a week for good causes across the UK. Thanks to them, last year (2023/24) The National Lottery Community Fund awarded over half a billion pounds (£686.3 million) of life-changing funding to communities across the UK, supporting over 13,700 projects to turn their great ideas into reality.
To find out more visit www.TNLCommunityFund.org.uk
Photos show attendees at a celebration event held at Buckland Community Centre on July 21 2025.
At the front left – right are Emily Farrell, Rosemary Whitbread, John Lewis of the National Lottery Community Fund witjh Buckland Support helpers Yvonne Cogavin and Alison Pomeroy.
About The National Lottery Community Fund
We are the largest non-statutory community funder in the UK – community is at the heart of our purpose, vision and name.
We support activities that create resilient communities that are more inclusive and environmentally sustainable and that will strengthen society and improve lives across the UK.
We’re proud to award money raised by National Lottery players to communities across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and to work closely with government to distribute vital grants and funding from key Government programmes and initiatives.
As well as responding to what communities tell us is important to them, our funding is focused on four key missions, supporting communities to:
- Come together
- Be environmentally sustainable
- Help children and young people thrive
- Enable people to live healthier lives.
Thanks to the support of National Lottery players, we distribute over £600 million a year through 13,000+ grants and plan to invest over £4 billion of funding into communities by 2030. We’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of local groups right up to UK-wide charities, enabling people and communities to bring their ambitions to life.
National Lottery players raise over £30 million each week for good causes throughout the UK. Since The National Lottery began in 1994, £49 billion has been raised and more than 690,000 individual grants have been made across the UK – the equivalent of around 240 National Lottery grants in every UK postcode district.
Posted by Website Admin on July 22nd 2025
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