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Park Wood Connects Project

Fusion have successfully secured three years of funding from the National Lottery Community Fund

The Park Wood Connects Project is a three year engagement and support initiative co-designed with the local community to support people struggling with the combined effects of the cost-of-living crisis, the mental health crisis, and high levels of social isolation/loneliness in one of the South East’s most deprived communities.

To address the growing numbers of vulnerable local residents we propose to do two things through the Park Wood Connects project:

  • Reach out better across the community to make more people aware that we and our partners are here to help
  • Make more services available locally by encouraging more people and organisations begin delivering support locally

As part of this funding we will have both job and volunteer opportunities available as well as new exciting projects.

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A Message from our Chairman

Covid-19 is all over

No it isn’t, it’s coming back in a new variant, and striking all ages.

If you are entitled to a booster jab, don’t be foolish and think you have had enough already, take it. Most surgeries are offering to give Flu and Covid-19 jabs at the same time. Check with your surgery, or on something like Patient Access for the details. Having the jab may not stop you having Covid-19, but it is likely that you will get a much milder attack.

DON’T TAKE A CHANCE WITH YOUR HEALTH

Don

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A Message from our Chairman

It is with great sadness that I have to advise you all that the KCC has confirmed that our Adult Social Care Grant of £29,000 will be reduced to £14,500
for the first 6 months of this year and then permanently cancelled.

 

This will obviously put enormous pressure on our budget, and it may well
be that we will have to discontinue some of the functions we hold.
Next year the pressure will be even more acute.

 

The situation could have been even worse if Clair Bell a Cabinet Member
and Gary Cooke our local KCC Member had not fought our corner.

 

This brings into focus just how much the local community must step up to the mark to help its local charities, or lose them.

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Fusion Review of 2022

Fusion Review of 2022

This is an excerpt from the Fusion Review of 2022 booklet.  The entire four page booklet can be downloaded in .PDF format by simply clicking on this link HERE

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