{"id":2718,"date":"2020-06-17T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2021-07-16T18:09:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T17:09:34","slug":"community-carers-and-the-homeless-are-among-those-to-be-supported-by-businesses-using-funding-delivered-by-the-university-of-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2020\/06\/17\/community-carers-and-the-homeless-are-among-those-to-be-supported-by-businesses-using-funding-delivered-by-the-university-of-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Community carers and the homeless are among those to be supported by businesses using funding delivered by the University of Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Community carers and the homeless are among those to be supported by businesses using funding delivered by the University of Kent during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Nadia Esi used its \u00a3500 grant to donate 100 hand sanitizers to community care companies.<\/p>\n<p>Nadia Esi is a start-up founded by Kent Business School student Nadia Simpson.<\/p>\n<p>Nadia, who is studying Accounting and Finance, said: \u201cWe should all applaud the work being done by our amazing key workers to care for high risk elderly people during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased Nadia Esi was able to support them during this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Canterbury, Ambrette staff used their funding to provide 275 hot healthy meals for people being supported by the Catching Lives homeless charity and hot meals for NHS hospital staff.<\/p>\n<p>The funding came through emergency response grants provided by Santander Universities, one of the University of Kent\u2019s key partners.<\/p>\n<p>Ambrette owner and chef, Dev Biswal, said: \u201cWe are together in supporting the amazing work being done at Catching Lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant, which pivoted into home delivery during the lockdown, has also been working with the Porchlight charity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2020\/06\/ambrette-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2724\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2020\/06\/ambrette-2.jpg\" alt=\"Dev Biswal at Ambrette restaurant in Canterbury.\" width=\"252\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2020\/06\/kofi-nadia-esi-covid-19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2723\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2020\/06\/kofi-nadia-esi-covid-19.jpg\" alt=\"Kofi of Sincere Care Limite\" width=\"252\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Community carers and the homeless are among those to be supported by businesses using funding delivered by the University of Kent during the COVID-19 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2020\/06\/17\/community-carers-and-the-homeless-are-among-those-to-be-supported-by-businesses-using-funding-delivered-by-the-university-of-kent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56138,"featured_media":2722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177089,118123],"tags":[229024,167396,877,187315,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}