Purpose

This report seeks approval to continue to fund VCS organizations
Families4Peace and HealthProm for their ongoing
provision of community-based support to Ukrainian refugees in
Camden, especially those living in the borough as part of the Homes
For Ukraine (HFU) sponsorship scheme.
 
Families4Peace and HealthProm have been providing
valuable advocacy and specialist support for Ukrainian refugees in
Camden since 2022. The options they provide include 1-to-1
case-work which is culturally tuned and trauma informed.
 
They have also proved adept at working collaboratively and
constructively with Council and statutory services, and have
emerged as leading VCS partners in the Council’s Ukrainian
refugee response. Both organizations are able to reach the most
vulnerable Ukrainian refugees and have established relationships of
trust across the Ukrainian refugee community, through their
Ukrainian language and cultural expertise.
 
There will be continued presence of Ukrainian refugees in the
borough, arising from the prolonged conflict in their home country
and uncertainty about the future. This situation presents an
ongoing need for access to specialist support built on trust and
meaningful engagement via safe-spaces.
 
This report recommends that both organizations continue to be
funded and seeks approval for interim funding for each organization
for the period 1st April – 30th September 2024, in the
amounts of a total award of £20,000 to Families4Peace and a
total award of £15,000 to HealthProm, for a
combined total for both grants of £35,000, as outlined in
sections 2 and 3.
 
A separate report is being submitted to the Executive Director
of Corporate Services to approve funding for the full financial
year with an option for the next financial year.
 
 

Content

THAT the Director of Equalities & Community Strength agrees
interim grant funding to Families for Peace and Health-Prom as
follows:
 
1.      
£20,000 to Families4Peace for the period 1st April –
31st September 2024, and
 
2.      
£15,000 to HealthProm for the period 1st April - 31st
September 2024.