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Domestic abuse safe accommodation: COVID-19 emergency support fund

This prospectus provides prospective bidders with information on how to apply for funding and how the assessment process will work.

Updates to this page

From:
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)
Published:
7 May 2020
Last updated:
16 September 2020
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  1. Added list of successful bidders for the final stage.

  2. Added outcome of the second cycle of the rolling fund.

  3. Added outcome of the first cycle of the rolling fund.

  4. We are now re-opening the remaining £1.85 million fund for applications on a rolling ‘first come first served’ basis. The Fund Prospectus remains the same, with minor updates and clarifications to help bidders in submitting their applications. Added list of successful bids, and added vendor form.

  5. Revised deadline for applications to 21 May 2020.

  6. First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Re-opened: domestic abuse safe accommodation: COVID-19 emergency support fund prospectus

PDF, 1.14 MB, 28 pages

Application form; Leadership form; and Vendor registration form

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Vendor form

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Successful bids announced on 5 June 2020

PDF, 178 KB, 3 pages

Successful bids announced on 26 June 2020

PDF, 114 KB, 1 page

Successful bids announced on 2 July 2020

PDF, 115 KB, 1 page

Successful bids announced on 16 September 2020

PDF, 117 KB, 1 page

Domestic abuse safe accommodation: COVID-19 emergency support fund dataset

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Details

MHCLG secured £10 million for domestic abuse safe accommodation charities as part of a £76 million government package of support to charities supporting vulnerable people including domestic abuse victims.

The fund closed on 20 July and final assessments have been made on the bids received.

On 16 September we announced the results of the final stage of the fund, with an additional £971,207 allocated to 25 successful charity bids. This will re-open a further 45 bedspaces and create an additional 253 bedspaces.

Overall, the £10 million Domestic Abuse COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund is providing £9.7 million to 147 charity bids, supporting 166 organisations including consortium partners. In total the fund will also re-open up to 344 bedspaces that were closed due to COVID-19 and will create up to 1,546 additional bedspaces.

Over a third of those who were successful in their applications were specialist service providers, supporting diverse groups. This fund will protect this critical provision.

The list of successful bidders for the final stage and all previous stages can be found above.

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