Since 2021, Ashford Leisure Trust Fund, managed by Kent Community Foundation, has distributed over £300,000 to vital sports initiatives across the Ashford borough. The Ashford Leisure Trust Fund is dedicated to supporting community sports projects that genuinely make a difference in people’s lives. The purpose of the fund is to support local charitable projects delivering…
Leading grant maker Kent Community Foundation has partnered with SWEF to support Kent and Medway’s young business entrepreneurs. Kent Community Foundation is working in partnership with SWEF to provide business grants to entrepreneurs aged 18-30 in Kent and Medway. Grants are available to cover essential costs as applicants turn their business idea into reality or…
The charity Mind of the Student received funding from Kent Community Foundation for a series of mental health workshops Students from the Longfield Academy, attended mental health workshops on 27 March provided by Mind of the Student, after the Channel Ports Fund, administered by Kent Community Foundation, awarded them £1,500. Mind of the Student is…
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…
Charity Diagrama Foundation, which has pledged to support an African school visited Kenya to see what help was needed. David McGuire, Chief Executive, Diagrama Foundation accompanied by Marina Rubio, Head of Professional Standards took two eight-hour flights to Kenya, followed by an eight-hour drive from Nairobi, to visit the Rusinga Friends Spotlight School in Homa…
Outdoor Studios CIC received funding from Kent Community Foundation to provide art sessions for young carers. Outdoor Studios CIC facilitates artist-led workshops for creative experiential learning exploring environment, landscape and place, and the advancing impact of climate change. They received a total £4000 towards art sessions for young carers, in Ashford, Folkestone, Sittingbourne and Canterbury,…
Grant-Maker, Kent Community Foundation has supported a marine conservation educational project for young people in Folkestone. Big Blue Foundation received £4,449.00 from Kent Community Foundation’s Environmental Fund to deliver a marine conservation educational project to young people in Folkestone and purchase seven kayaks. The charitable organisation applied for funding for their conservation project, in the…
The charity Diagrama Foundation is delighted that Janice, one of the adults they support, has gained a place on a pottery course at the Bexley Learning and Enterprise College. Janice a huge fan of Channel 4’s Pottery Throw Down, who is supported by the charity Diagrama Foundation to live semi independently in Bromley, is delighted…
Centre Stage Theatre Academy’s Frankie Fitzgerald who played Ashley Cotton, Nasty Nick’s son in Eastenders is hosting a 24 hour dance-a-thon in Gravesend Kent to raise funds for charity, The Friends of Centre Stage, that helps children and young adults get access to musical theatre and the arts. Students and staff from the Centre Stage…
During March participants of the €80,000 Erasmus+ funded European E-PROFID project from the UK, Spain, Italy and Belgium met in Murcia for its final international collaboration to develop a training programme for care workers. The E-PROFID event was hosted by Spanish partner, Fundación Diagrama, and was attended by project partners from the UK and Belgium…