Great Big Green Week celebrates community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. Kent Community Foundation is committed to supporting projects which protect Kent’s beautiful countryside and coastline and address social issues which are intertwined with environmental impact. During Great Big Green Week, they are highlighting the financial support that is available for charities…
Kent Community Foundation is holding a free advice clinic for voluntary organisations and community groups who support children and young people in Thanet. Kent Community Foundation has been funding organisations across Kent and Medway for over twenty years. Last year they awarded funding totalling £4m to charities and community groups across the…
On 16 August the Edensor Care Home in Clacton on Sea held its annual fete. For the last eleven years, Edensor, Diagrama Foundation’s Care Home in Clacton has held a summer fete for residents and their families. After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the care team at Edensor was delighted to be able…
Four fundraising cab drivers have secured the future of a Tanzanian orphanage with £2,000 to help to buy the land the home is built on. Four London cab drivers Daren, John, Stuart, and Bob have presented Asha-Rose Migiro the Tanzanian High Commissioner with a cheque for £2,000 which will help to buy the land that…
Malcolm Dean, 76, from Downton near Salisbury has raised £3,700 for the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans. The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans was delighted to receive a donation of £3,700 from Malcolm Dean who this summer made his first parachute jump in France. Malcom Dean, 76, from Downton near Salisbury has been…
On Thursday 4 August Edensor Care Home residents from Clacton-on-Sea spent a day at the beach thanks to specially adapted beach wheelchairs. On Thursday 4 August, Diagrama Foundation’s Edensor Care Home in Clacton-on-Sea took six of their residents to enjoy a day by the sea with two specially adapted wheelchairs which allow users to go…
During National Allotments Week, Kent Community Foundation is highlighting their Amity Allotment Fund. The Amity Allotment Fund, forms part of Kent Community Foundation’s environmental strategy and distributes grants of up to £7,500 to encourage the expansion of existing allotments or the creation of new sites throughout Kent. Opened in March 2022, the Amity Allotment Fund…
The latest gift to the Port of Dover Community Fund takes their total pledge to support good causes to over £1million. Kent Community Foundation has been funding organisations across Kent and Medway for over twenty years, one of the Funds they administer is the Port of Dover Community Fund. Since 2015, when the fund opened,…
This September two Taxi Charity volunteers plan to cycle 115k across The Netherlands on WWII gearless bikes and then walk 40k to commemorate the battle fought by the allies during Operation Market Garden in 1944. Taxi Charity volunteer’s Chris Willmott and Seb Philp have set themselves an impressive two-day challenge to raise £10k for the…
On Thursday 14 July, 70 guests attended Kent Community Foundation’s Summer Garden Party at Doddington Place Gardens near Sittingbourne. Guests enjoyed strawberries and cream and a selection of tempting cakes in a marquee within the beautiful private gardens. Guests heard about the positive impact funding has made to the…