On Thursday 14 July, 70 guests attended Kent Community Foundation’s Summer Garden Party at Doddington Place Gardens near Sittingbourne. Guests enjoyed strawberries and cream and a selection of tempting cakes in a marquee within the beautiful private gardens. Guests heard about the positive impact funding has made to the…
Ashford and Tenterden Umbrella has received £5,000 from Kent Community Foundation to cover some of the associated costs of keeping their vital service in the heart of Kent open. Ashford and Tenterden Umbrella has been supporting elderly, vulnerable, disadvantaged, and disengaged members of the local community for 31 years and although they aim to keep…
On 5 July, after a break for the past two summers, 60 black cabs once again made the journey from London to Worthing with a group of veterans. Every year since 1948, (apart from during the pandemic) The Taxi Charity has been taking veterans to Worthing for the day, to spend time with their friends…
Kent Community Foundation is hosting a special funding event for charities and community groups that haven’t previously received their support. Kent Community Foundation has been funding voluntary organisations across Kent and Medway for over twenty years. Last year they awarded funding of £4m to charities and community groups across the county’s thirteen districts. On 11…
Kent Community Foundation is holding a free advice clinic for voluntary organisations and community groups based in Ashford. Kent Community Foundation has been funding organisations across Kent and Medway for over twenty years. Last year they awarded funding totalling £4m to charities and community groups across the thirteen districts, with over £370,000 being awarded to…
Kevin who is supported by the charity Diagrama was delighted when his Care Support Worker told him that he would be going to see Soccer Aid. On Sunday 12 June, Kevin from Diagrama Foundation’s Supported Living Service in Bromley was delighted to join the crowd of 54,000 in the London Stadium to see the Soccer…
Diagrama Foster Carers Peter and Kristin Nevins share their home with four biological children and their 11-year-old foster child ‘Jack’. Kristin Nevins and her husband Peter, from Surrey, foster with the charity Diagrama. For the last four years they have shared their family home with their foster child ‘Jack’. Kristin Nevins,…
On 3 June Alec Hall will be celebrating his 100th birthday with family and friends at his home in Southend Weather permitting, on 3 June Alec Hall will be in his garden in Southend, surrounded by his family, including his children Anne and Sue and grandchildren Dominic 25, Millie 16 and twins Edward and William…
Kent Community Foundation has awarded £5,500 to the charity Learn and Thrive, to support their Learning for Life project. Based in Maidstone, the charity Learn and Thrive was established last year to support children and young people with Down’s syndrome. They applied to Kent Community Foundation for a grant towards the costs of filming the…
On 18 March, three Taxi Charity Volunteers took WWII Royal Navy Veteran Ernie Davis from Hornchurch, out for lunch to celebrate his 97th Birthday. Volunteers, London Cab Driver Brian Heffernan, Taxi Charity Vice President Dick Goodwin, and charity graphic designer Susy Goodwin took Ernie and fellow WWII veteran John King out for a birthday lunch,…