Three London cab drivers have successfully rowed the Atlantic to raise funds for charity. London cab drivers Daren Parr 56, Bob Barber 56 and Stuart Lockhart 50 swapped their iconic black taxis for a Scud Ocean Rowing boat and set off from Lanzarote on 3 January to row the 3200 miles across the Atlantic to…
Charities and Community groups in Kent are invited to apply to Kent Community Foundation for grants of up to £75,000 from a new Infrastructure Support Fund. The funding for the new Infrastructure Support Fund has been provided by Kent County Council and will be awarded to charities, community groups and CICs to support existing, dormant…
A grant from Kent Community Foundation has enabled Bower Grove School in Maidstone to install an adventure play area. The Parents and Friends Association of Bower Grove School, applied to Kent Community Foundation for funding to install a new adventure play area for junior-aged pupils. Bower Grove is a special school in Fant Lane, Maidstone,…
Kent Community Foundation is delighted to have received a £15,000 donation to support young adults in Ashford Ashford Youth Trust which has been supporting local youth clubs and enabling young people to become community leaders has donated £15,000 to Kent Community Foundation to support projects that empower young people in Ashford. The Trust recently took…
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 International Women’s Day Kent Community Foundation is celebrating women working in the charitable sector across Kent On 8 March the world celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Kent Community Foundation is celebrating the thousands of women who work in the charitable sector across the county and has chosen six inspirational…
The Taxi Charity for Military Veterans was delighted to receive an £18,000 grant from ABF The Soldiers’ Charity to fund its programme of special trips and activities. ABF The Soldiers’ Charity supports partner charities which improve the wellbeing of armed forces veterans, especially those who are elderly or disabled. The £18,000 grant will go towards…
To commemorate International Women’s Day, the charity Diagrama is highlighting some of the many incredible achievements by women who have chosen to foster and change the life of children and young adults. Kristin Nevins share’s her home with her husband Peter, their four biological children and their 11-year-old foster child ‘Jack’. “Our foster son ‘Jack’…
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,…