Tag: Kent Community Foundation

“Knock and Check” campaign launches with lunch for a WWII veteran

Stuart Mitchell

WWII veteran Peter Smoothy, 95, ran the Four Fathoms in Herne Bay for over forty years for Shepherd Neame. Peter lives alone and like many elderly men and women he can feel lonely and isolated. Shepherd Neame wanted to get involved with the Kent Community Foundation Knock and Check campaign and invited Peter to one of their pubs for lunch. A small act of kindness which is at the very heart of the campaign. Josephine McCartney, Chief Executive, Kent Community Foundation, said, “Figures from Age UK tell us that almost…

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Kent Community Foundation Receives Additional Support for Good Causes Affected by the Pandemic

Stuart Mitchell

Kent Community Foundation has received £470,000 from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to support organisations across Kent and Medway. This new funding will be used to award grants to those who had previously applied to Kent Community Foundation’s COVID-19 Fund and were initially unsuccessful as the Fund was oversubscribed. The £470,000 from central government will be awarded by Kent Community Foundation as grants of up to £20,000, to cover essential running costs to organisations with an annual income of less than £1m, who are continuing to support…

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Kent Community Foundation distributes almost two years funding in under two months

Stuart Mitchell

In a typical year, Kent Community Foundation would normally award around £50,000 to food distribution projects as well as £40,000 to cookery projects including those supporting healthy eating. By comparison, since the county went into lockdown, on 23 March, the Foundation has awarded £200,000, more than twice the usual amount awarded in a year, to projects helping to feed families in Kent and Medway Natalie Smith, Director of Grants and Impact, Kent Community Foundation, said “Kent Community Foundation has made fifty emergency grants to groups involved in food distribution. As…

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Kent Community Foundation launches new Emergency Fund

Stuart Mitchell

With immediate effect Kent Community Foundation will be supporting charities and community groups facing extreme difficulties or closure, as the impact of government measures to reduce the spread of the virus, affects their crucial fundraising activities. The KCF Coronavirus Emergency Fund will take applications for grants of up to £10,000, from charities, with an annual income of £200,000 or less, to fill the gap that not being able to fundraise during the Coronavirus restrictions, will inevitably create. The KCF Coronavirus Emergency Fund will initially give priority to applications from charities…

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Women and Girl Projects in Kent and Medway Receive Major Funding Boost

Stuart Mitchell

Grassroots groups working in Kent and Medway get much-needed grants worth £89,000 to help support women and girls. This is the second time Kent Community Foundation has awarded funding from the Tampon Tax Community Fund to local groups supporting women and girls experiencing issues such as period poverty, domestic and sexual abuse and poor mental health. Natalie Smith, Director of Grants & Impact at Kent Community Foundation, said, “This funding supports the groups on the ground that are making a huge difference to the lives of women and girls. We…

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