Funding from Kent Community Foundation has allowed charities and community groups to spread a little Christmas cheer. Experienced grant-makers Kent Community Foundation has awarded £3.8 million in funding to charities across the county this year. This Christmas their vital funding will help many charitable organisations spread some Christmas cheer. Two groups that successfully applied for…
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…
Funding from Kent Community Foundation has been used to purchase a lift to assist children and adults with disabilities to mount ponies. Thanet Disabled Riding Centre provides individual tailored riding and therapy sessions to children and adults with many different physical and mental disabilities, vulnerabilities and special educational needs. They applied to Kent Community Foundation…
Funding from Kent Community Foundation will allow charities to participate in a free session about Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) is driving change both within organisations and across wider society. Many organisations are finding it difficult to keep up with the change, and understand how AI tools can benefit them, and what risk exist to…
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,…
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’…
On Thursday 18 July guests attended the opening of the Lend A Hand exhibition in the crypt of Rochester Cathedral. After two years casting sports stars’ hands, international award-winning body-cast sculptor and Abigail’s Footsteps Vice President, Louise Giblin opened her exhibition ‘Lend A Hand’ in the crypt at Rochester Cathedral on 18 July. The fundraising…
As the Euros create football fever across the country, one charity knows football is so much more than a beautiful game. The charity ‘Head in The Game’ uses experienced football and talking therapy coaches, to run sessions designed to prioritise positive mental health and overall wellbeing for men in the Tonbridge, West Malling, East Malling,…