FREEDOM 2 bags £1,000 from Tesco’s community grant scheme. FREEDOM 2 is delighted to announce it has bagged £1,000 from Tesco’s Bags of Help community grant scheme. Bags of Help is run in partnership with community charity Groundwork, and sees grants awarded to thousands of local community projects every year. Since launching in 2015, Bags of Help has provided more than £68 million to almost 30,000 local community projects across England. Tesco colleagues have come together virtually up and down the country to vote and it can now be revealed FREEDOM 2 has been awarded £1,000. Work will now begin on bringing the project to life. FREEDOM 2 Create 'We run a 6 week art programme with our beneficiaries called FREEDOM 2 Create, focusing on important topics such as self-worth,…

We are so pleased to announce that we have been awarded a grant of £6,200 by the Sebright Fund, EWAG Charitable Fund and the Nicki Alvey Bazlinton Trust, which are managed by Essex Community Foundation to adapt our current FREEDOM 2 Create Programme in order that other organisations and individuals can access our workshops online. We will be working with local artists to produce content that will be created into our 6 week programme. We will also have some free online content that you will be able to access on our website and social media. We will keep you posted on any developments, but we are hoping that we can launch it in September 2021. We heavily rely on funding and donations to carry on our important work, so we…