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…
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…
A new book ‘A Chance for Change’ explores the important topic of what fair justice could mean for children and young people, through a collection of thought-provoking essays and creative reflections. Published by the charity Diagrama Foundation, with funding from the Monument Fellowship, it is hoped that ‘A Chance for Change’ will open important dialogue…
Grants from the Kent Community Foundation Care Leavers Fund will be available for charities and community groups which provide frontline services to care leavers Grants of up to £7,500 from the new Kent Community Foundation Care Leaver Fund will focus on supporting care leavers aged between 16.5 and 25, as they move from foster or…
Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust is proud to announce a new scheme that will enable free school visits to The Historic Dockyard Chatham for up to 900 students from high pupil premium schools in Medway. This has been made possible through the generosity of £14,213 from The Charles Burnett III Memorial Fund, administered by Kent Community…
Diagrama Foundation is working closely with an Australian Government Agency to demonstrate how their unique juvenile programme is improving the outcome for young offenders in Spain. Diagrama Chief Executive David McGuire is working closely with an Australian Government Agency to show them the successful Spanish blueprint for alternative juvenile detention which has flipped youth recidivism…
As the UK faces an overwhelming fostering crisis with over 100 children a day entering the care system, Diagrama Foundation is appealing for new foster carers. The UK is facing an unprecedented fostering crisis as current foster carers are simply not able to meet the daily demand to support the number of children entering the…
Kent Community Foundation recently awarded £4,000 to the Angel Tree initiative to buy Christmas presents for the children of inmates at HMP Swaleside, HMP Elmley, HMP Rochester and HMP East Sutton Park. The annual Angel Tree project was developed by the Prison Fellowship to give parents in prison the opportunity to send a Christmas present…
Herne Bay based Ruben Harris is being supported in his quest to become a wheelchair tennis Paralympian by philanthropists working with Kent Community Foundation. Ruben Harris, who was born with congenital talipes equinovarus which is more commonly known as clubfeet and had both feet removed, is determined to reach the top in wheelchair tennis. Ruben’s…