A Better Tomorrow celebrates National Lottery funding to provide vital new support worker in Telford

A Better Tomorrow is today celebrating after being awarded £20,000 in National Lottery funding to support its life-changing work. The charity, which supports people affected by addiction, homelessness, mental ill-health and domestic abuse, will use the funding to recruit an additional support worker, a role that is central to everything the organisation does.

A Better Tomorrow has been delivering supported accommodation and recovery programmes since 2014, supporting 3,742 clients to date and welcoming around 20 new people every month. In March 2026, A Better Tomorrow Charity was formally established to expand and strengthen the delivery of programmes, education, training and enrichment activities across the wider ABT group.

The new funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, which distributes money raised by National Lottery players for good causes and is the largest community funder in the UK, will enable A Better Tomorrow to appoint an additional support worker. This role is central to the charity and pivotal in every client’s journey, providing the consistent, compassionate presence that makes recovery possible.

Scott Morgan, our CEO, said:

“Addiction, homelessness and mental ill-health rarely exist in isolation. They are often intertwined with trauma, poverty, domestic abuse, family breakdown and social isolation. Without the right intervention at the right time, the consequences can be severe and long-lasting. Woodside and the wider Telford area continue to face significant socioeconomic challenges, and demand for ABT’s services remains high. Recovery is possible – but only when safe housing, structured support and meaningful community are available together.

“This funding means the world to us. Every day, we see people at some of the hardest moments of their lives, and we see the difference it makes when people come together to support each other. Having The National Lottery Community Fund – and the players whose support underpins every grant – believe in our team means we can now increase our reach and impact across Telford.

“Our support workers are the centre of everything we do: without them, we simply could not meet the needs of the people who join the ABT community. From me, from our team, and most of all from our clients, thank you.”

The National Lottery Community Fund – which awarded almost £700m in grants to more than 13,700 projects in 2023/24 – recently launched its strategy, ‘It starts with community’, which will underpin its efforts to distribute at least £4 billion of National Lottery funding by 2030.

As part of this, the funder has four key missions: to support communities to come together, be environmentally sustainable, help children and young people thrive, and enable people to live healthier lives.