The government has released an additional £150 million to support charities during the pandemic.
Oliver Dowden MP, Minister for Culture, Media and Sport announced that the additional funding would come from dormant bank and building society accounts and will be used to help charities, social enterprises and vulnerable individuals during the coronavirus outbreak.
The funding will be used to help tackle youth unemployment, expand access to emergency loans for VCSE organisations and to help improve the availability of fair, affordable credit to people in vulnerable circumstances.
Of the £150 million: