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The charity Mind of the Student received funding from Kent Community Foundation for a series of mental health workshops Students from the Longfield Academy, attended mental health workshops on 27 March provided by Mind of the Student, after the Channel Ports Fund, administered by Kent Community Foundation, awarded them £1,500. Mind of the Student is…

John Christie, from Folkestone, challenged himself with a 722-mile solo walk from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea to raise funds and awareness for Abigail’s Footsteps. His epic challenge raised enough to donate an Abi Cooling Cot to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent.  Abi Cooling Cot’s keep babies at a cooler temperature…

Diagrama Adoption joins agencies across the country to encourage more people to consider adoption. On Wednesday 15 January 2025, Kent based Diagrama will be among the voluntary adoption agencies taking part in Big Adoption Day 2025; a day designed to highlight the importance of finding loving adoptive families while sharing the benefits of adopting through…

Elderly residents at the Edensor Care Home in Clacton have used their art and craft sessions to make Christmas cards for underprivileged orphans and schoolchildren in Africa. The Edensor nursing and dementia care home in Clacton on Sea is run by care providers Diagrama Foundation who support vulnerable children, young people, and adults to live…

Diagrama the not-for-profit fostering and adoption agency hosted a picnic and family fun day in Purley for their foster carers, adopters and their children. On Saturday 7 September, foster carers, adopters and their children enjoyed a family fun day picnic in Purley, with Diagrama the not-for-profit agency. The event was attended by 50 foster carers…

Funding from Kent Community Foundation has been used to purchase a lift to assist children and adults with disabilities to mount ponies. Thanet Disabled Riding Centre provides individual tailored riding and therapy sessions to children and adults with many different physical and mental disabilities, vulnerabilities and special educational needs. They applied to Kent Community Foundation…

Charity Diagrama Foundation, which has pledged to support an African school visited Kenya to see what help was needed. David McGuire, Chief Executive, Diagrama Foundation accompanied by Marina Rubio, Head of Professional Standards took two eight-hour flights to Kenya, followed by an eight-hour drive from Nairobi, to visit the Rusinga Friends Spotlight School in Homa…

Outdoor Studios CIC received funding from Kent Community Foundation to provide art sessions for young carers. Outdoor Studios CIC facilitates artist-led workshops for creative experiential learning exploring environment, landscape and place, and the advancing impact of climate change.  They received a total £4000 towards art sessions for young carers, in Ashford, Folkestone, Sittingbourne and Canterbury,…

A family has donated an Abi Cooling Cot to the Chestnut Tree House Hospice in Arundel in memory of baby George. Families who suffer the tragedy of stillbirth will be able to spend precious time with their baby at the Chestnut Tree Children’s Hospice in Arundel thanks to the donation of an ‘Abi Cooling cot’…

Grant-Maker, Kent Community Foundation has supported a marine conservation educational project for young people in Folkestone. Big Blue Foundation received £4,449.00 from Kent Community Foundation’s Environmental Fund to deliver a marine conservation educational project to young people in Folkestone and purchase seven kayaks. The charitable organisation applied for funding for their conservation project, in the…