Funding from Kent Community Foundation has helped Shapeshifter Productions to provide Smiling Sessions at Care Homes in Dover and Folkestone. Kent Community Foundation was approached by Shapeshifter Productions for funding for their “Smiling Sessions” initiative which combats loneliness bringing senior citizens together through song. Funding for the project meant the charity was able to deliver…
The High Sheriff of Kent, Dr Gill Fargher and Kent Community Foundation celebrated Kent’s charitable organisations at an event in Ashford. A ‘Causes That Matter’ event on Monday 11 November, hosted by The High Sheriff of Kent, Dr Gill Fargher and Kent Community Foundation celebrated the strengths of the voluntary sector in Kent and Medway. At the…
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…
A charitable fund set up in name of an Ashford entrepreneur passes the £500k funding milestone. The Frank Brake Community Fund, which was established through Kent Community Foundation in 2019, has over the last five years awarded more than half a million pounds in funding to small charitable organisations across the district of Ashford. …
The Medway Corporate Giving Fund, which is administered by Kent Community Foundation, recently awarded vital funding to three groups working in Medway. The Medway Corporate Giving Fund is a collective fund which pools donations from generous Medway businesses and organisations to support their local community. The Fund, which is administered by Kent Community Foundation recently awarded…
Funding from Kent Community Foundation allows volunteers to transform neglected spaces into community gardens Wilderness to Wonderland tidies, plants and maintains neglected public spaces in Margate. Funding from Kent Community Foundation has helped them to transform unused spaces into wonderful, colourful enticing areas which have brightened up the town and improved the feeling of civic…
Grant Makers Kent Community Foundation hosted a garden party in Egerton to thank its supporters. Professional grant-maker Kent Community Foundation hosted a garden party on 16 September to thank its supporters for contributing nearly £60 million in funding since 2001, which has been awarded to charitable organisations across Kent and Medway. Trustee and fund-holder Hugo…
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…
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’…
Windmill Community Garden Margate received funding from Kent Community Foundation for their composting project. Thanet based charity Windmill Community Garden Margate received funding of £4,642.00 from Kent Community Foundation in December 2023 for their community compost scheme. This August, Kent Community Foundation visited the initiative to see how the funding has been used. Now in…