£400,000 from the John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust will allow Kent Community Foundation to offer multi-year funding to thirteen organisations across Kent and Medway. Thanks to the generosity and vision of the John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust, £400,000 has been made available to Kent Community Foundation to be used to support thirteen organisations. With running…
In September 1944, at the age of 19, Frank Ashleigh was the youngest airman to take part in Operation Market Garden. Frank Ashleigh from Kingsbury, who served in WWII with the Glider Pilot Regiment died on 18 June 2023 after a short stay in hospital, he was 98. Frank is survived by his wife Mavis…
Kent Based charity Diagrama Foundation is hosting a fostering event to recruit foster carers in the Maidstone area. Diagrama Foundation is asking people in the Maidstone area to consider choosing a career that makes a difference to children’s lives. With many children in care urgently requiring foster placement the charity is hosting a free fostering…
During Foster Care Fortnight, Diagrama Foundation invited their foster carers to a fun family picnic to strengthen their fostering community and thank them for everything they do. On 20 May a group of foster carers joined the Diagrama Fostering and Adoption team for a Hawaiian themed picnic in Croydon. The foster carers, their natural families…
East Kent Freemasons donate an Abigail’s Footsteps’ Abi Cooling Cot to Medway NHS Foundation Trust. A vital piece of equipment that allows parents to be able to spend precious time with their baby after they have died has been donated to Medway NHS Foundation Trust by baby loss charity Abigail’s Footsteps following a donation from…
Silverback Projects CIC in Dover has received £1,975 to offer woodland activities to help families under stress. Kent Community Foundation has awarded Silverback Projects CIC a grant of £1,975 for a series of eight family Silverback Wild Ways sessions that will help them develop knowledge of the woodland and work on improving their self-awareness. The…
The Kent baby loss charity Abigail’s Footsteps has donated an Abi Cooling Cot to Poole Maternity hospital in memory of baby Andrew thanks to his mum Natalie Warren. Families who suffer the tragedy of stillbirth will be able to spend precious time with their baby at Poole Maternity Hospital thanks to an ‘Abi Cooling cot’…
A £5,000 grant from Kent Community Foundation will enable The Princess Project to expand its services into Tonbridge. The Princess Project has been successfully working with and supporting disadvantaged mums and their families in Kent for the last 11 years. A Kent Community Foundation grant of £5,000 will enable them to help more mums by…
The Diagrama Foundation Care Centre in Clacton on Sea has appointed Sabina Mach to the post of Care Home Manager. Sabina is well known to the residents, their families and the Edensor staff as she joined the care home in February 2010. The fifty-bed care home for the elderly with nursing and dementia needs is…
Kent Community Foundation has awarded £45,000 from the Ukrainian Support Fund to organisations that are supporting Ukrainian Refugees in Kent. The Ukrainian Support Fund launched in 2022 with funding from the Masonic Charitable Foundation to help local charities and community groups supporting Ukrainian refugees’ social integration into the UK. Kent Community Foundation has distributed £45,000…