Sevenoaks food bank The Community Cupboard has received £13,500 from the Wards Emergency Support Fund. The Wards Emergency Support Fund, administered by Kent Community Foundation on behalf of Wards Estate Agents, has helped food banks across the county. One of the recipients of this new funding is the charity The Community Cupboard in Sevenoaks. Having…
On 6 March the Taxi Charity hosted an event at the RAF Club in London for veterans and serving personnel to celebrate International Women’s Day. The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans’ event at the RAF Club in Piccadilly was attended by over 90 guests including veterans, serving personnel and Taxi Charity volunteers. The guest list…
On 17 February grant makers from Kent Community Foundation volunteered their time to support the community group Families Eating And Sharing Together to deliver a hot meal to families whose children receive a free school meal during term time. The community food project Families Eating And Sharing Together, known as FEAST, is run by a…
On 21 March, grant makers Kent Community Foundation will be offering advice and information about funding at a clinic in Sevenoaks. Experienced grant makers Kent Community Foundation will be holding a funding advice and information clinic at Mencap Hall in Sevenoaks on 21 March for community groups and charities who need financial support. Natalie Smith,…
2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans. One man who has been associated with the charity for almost all of those years is Len Sheppard, 93 from Albany Park. The Taxi Charity was formed seventy five years ago in 1948 and just a few years later London cab driver Len…
On 30 January, eleven members of the Kent Community Foundation team, spent time volunteering with Celebration Church in Maidstone to help with creating some new systems and packaging food boxes to support local families. The team, who in their day jobs award grants to community groups and charities across the county helped Scott and Lydia,…
The Wards Charitable Fund, which is administered by Kent Community Foundation, has donated £49,000 to fourteen foodbanks across the county. The foodbanks each received £3,500 the week before Christmas to provide food for those struggling to feed their families. This donation is part of a pledge from Wards and their parent group Arun Estates that…
A new report from Kent Community Foundation details the positive impact grants totalling £4 million have made across the county in the last year. A report from grant makers Kent Community Foundation reveals that the grant makers distributed over £4 million to community groups and charities across the county in the financial year 2021/2022. A…
2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans 2023 will mark the 75th anniversary of the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, a remarkable milestone for a small charity which supports veterans throughout the UK. Founded in 1948 by three London Cab drivers who wanted to arrange for friends who had been…
Kent Community Foundation has awarded funding to provide Christmas food hampers for families living in poverty in Edenbridge. In October Kent Community Foundation received an impassioned plea from Friends of Holcot for an additional £1,000 to provide Christmas hampers for disadvantaged families in the Edenbridge community. The charity Friends of Holcot has been working with…