Research and analysis

Covid-19 Loneliness Fund evaluation

Presenting the findings of the evaluation of the Covid-19 Loneliness Fund

• From: Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, The Rt Hon Oliver Dowden CBE MP and Baroness Barran MBE
• Published: 12 August 2021

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

Covid-19 Loneliness Fund evaluation

PDF, 945 KB, 106 pages

Details

The £5m Loneliness Covid-19 Fund was launched in May 2020 to support 9 national organisations working to tackle loneliness and build social connections to help them to continue and adapt their critical work during the pandemic.

The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) was appointed as evaluator for this fund. This report presents the results of a process evaluation of the fund, to see how it supported the delivery and adaption of services aimed at addressing loneliness during COVID-19 restrictions.

In December 2020, the value of the Covid-19 Fund was increased to £7m as part of wider work on tackling winter loneliness. However, the evaluation scope was not increased and only covers the original funding, for activities until end-December 2020.

Published 12 August 2021