Funding from Kent Community Foundation has allowed charities and community groups to spread a little Christmas cheer. Experienced grant-makers Kent Community Foundation has awarded £3.8 million in funding to charities across the county this year. This Christmas their vital funding will help many charitable organisations spread some Christmas cheer. Two groups that successfully applied for…
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…
A Bristol home bedecked with Christmas lights will raise vital funds for the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans. Richard Iles from Winterbourne Down in Bristol has been covering his family home with Christmas lights for the last six years. This year the lights display will be bigger than ever as in excess of 150,000 lights…
On 11 December residents at the Edensor nursing and dementia care home in Clacton on Sea enjoyed a Polish Christmas feast of Ryba Po Grecku and wished each other Wesołych Świąt. Christmas came early for the fifty Edensor care home residents and the on-site team of carers, when the award winning home in Orwell Road…
This December the ‘Guardians of the Goats’ at Duckyls Farm have enlisted their fellow residents help to provide scarves for their herd. Residents Jason and Simon are very proud to be ‘Guardian of the Goats’ for the eight goats who live at Duckyls Farm, a home for adults with learning disabilities in West Sussex. This…
Kent Community Foundation recently awarded £4,000 to the Angel Tree initiative to buy Christmas presents for the children of inmates at HMP Swaleside, HMP Elmley, HMP Rochester and HMP East Sutton Park. The annual Angel Tree project was developed by the Prison Fellowship to give parents in prison the opportunity to send a Christmas present…
Kent Community Foundation has awarded funding to provide Christmas food hampers for families living in poverty in Edenbridge. In October Kent Community Foundation received an impassioned plea from Friends of Holcot for an additional £1,000 to provide Christmas hampers for disadvantaged families in the Edenbridge community. The charity Friends of Holcot has been working with…
Volunteer Cab drivers from the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans are taking Chelsea Pensioners to see the London lights. The Taxi Charity and the Royal Hospital Chelsea have a very long relationship so when the Hospital asked if any of the charity’s volunteer cab drivers might drive some Chelsea Pensioners to see the lights, to…
Father Christmas took time out his busy schedule to share breakfast with the residents of the Edensor Care Centre in Clacton on Sea There was a real buzz at the Edensor Care Centre in Clacton this week when Santa and one of his Elves managed to make the time to share breakfast with the residents…
Kent Community Foundation was delighted to make a £500 donation towards a Christmas Dinner for stroke survivors in Dartford. The Thames Gateway YMCA asked the Kent Community Foundation team for financial support for a Christmas Lunch for twenty stroke survivors, many of whom are over fifty and vulnerable and attend a weekly YMCA fitness class…
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