Kent Community Foundation has awarded £9,180 to Sport On Your Doorstep CIC to support families in the Stanhope area. Community focussed organisation, Sport on Your Doorstep, applied to Kent Community Foundation for funding to provide residents of Stanhope in Ashford with a weekly youth programme and a Fit and Fed initiative during the school holidays.…
A Kent Community Foundation grant of £5,000 has enabled Thanet Iceberg Project to provide 35 beds for disadvantaged children who had previously been sleeping on the floor. Thanet Iceberg Project applied to Kent Community Foundation for funding to help provide beds for low-income families in the Thanet area as part of their Loft Project and…
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…
Robert Sackville-West, DL, speaks about why charitable giving today is more important than ever before, and how working with Kent Community Foundation is the easiest way to make a difference to local communities across Kent. Like many philanthropists, Robert is very concerned about the developing cost of living crisis affecting people across his home county. …
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…
A £5,000 Kent Community Foundation grant will enable The Countryside Alliance Foundation to provide their Fishing for Schools initiative in three Kent schools. Thirty students from three schools will be nominated to participate in The Countryside Alliance Foundation Fishing for Schools scheme thanks to £5,000 funding from Kent Community Foundation. Thirty disadvantaged young people aged…
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…
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…