On 22 June, The Mayor of Maidstone visited the Diagrama Foundation recruitment event to learn more about the urgent need for additional foster carers. On 22 June, the Diagrama Foundation Fostering team was delighted to welcome Mayor of Maidstone, Cllr Gordon Newton and his wife Carol Newton to a fostering event at the Maidstone Community Support…
Kent Based charity Diagrama Foundation is hosting a fostering event to recruit foster carers in the Maidstone area. Diagrama Foundation is asking people in the Maidstone area to consider choosing a career that makes a difference to children’s lives. With many children in care urgently requiring foster placement the charity is hosting a free fostering…
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,…
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,…
A £5,000 Kent Community Foundation grant will enable The Countryside Alliance Foundation to provide their Fishing for Schools initiative in three Kent schools. Thirty students from three schools will be nominated to participate in The Countryside Alliance Foundation Fishing for Schools scheme thanks to £5,000 funding from Kent Community Foundation. Thirty disadvantaged young people aged…
The Kent Community Foundation Needs in Kent Conference gave charities, community groups and funders the opportunity to look at the county’s needs and discuss how collaborative action might affect change. On 15 June, two hundred delegates met at the Village Hotel in Maidstone to attend the first Kent Community Foundation Needs in Kent Conference. The…
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…
January is on average the coldest month of the year and the Maidstone Churches Winter Shelter will be open to offer a hot meal and a bed for the night The Maidstone Churches Winter Shelter has been supporting the homeless for the last eight years. In December, Kent Community Foundation awarded them £5,000 towards their…