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Helping Build Thriving Communities

Surviving Winter is a campaign run by UK Community Foundations and partnered by Saga. Through local Community Foundations, it matches donations from people who wish to give their Winter Fuel Payment or other funds to elderly and vulnerable people who are at risk during the winter.

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Community Foundations Network

We help individuals, families, entrepreneurs, companies, charitable trusts and public sector bodies connect with, support and invest in their local communities right across the UK.
 
We have one simple objective: to help build thriving communities. This defines what we – and the donors that our community foundations support – want our nations, regions, cities, towns and villages to be.  
 
Our vision is that everyone should aspire to and enjoy living in a thriving community: a place where people are able to use the resources available to them to meet the needs of a community and to create a finer quality of life for all.
 
To achieve this community foundations:
  • Provide philanthropic services to our donors -  helping people invest their time money and skills; matching their values, passions or interests to the needs of their community to give delight, surprise, fun and a sense of real achievement.
  • Provide finance by developing grant and social investment programmes that work at national, regional and local level, involving the widest range of local community groups and organisations in providing essential services; supporting local amenities and investing in future opportunities
We learn from our donors and those that they fund, and we bring people together as partners to share ideas and plans to guide and enhance the future of the places that they care about.  
 
UK Community Foundations - one promise, one powerful focus - to build thriving communities
 
 
 

Latest News

UK Community Foundations Appoints New Chair

23 April 2013

UK Community Foundations has today announced the appointment of David Sheepshanks CBE as Chair, succeeding Matthew Bowcock who has retired after six years, having served the maximum two terms as an elected trustee.

Philanthropy in the UK shines a beacon for next generation giving

08 February 2013

  • 2013 Beacon Award Fellows announced in recognition of philanthropic giving.
  • 33 Beacon Fellows have collectively donated over £100 million to good causes and raised over £21 million.
  • Fellowship will celebrate and share good philanthropy practice through series of networking events.
  • J.K. Rowling among those commended with a Special Award.       

“I feel much more fulfilled as a social entrepreneur than I ever did in the years spent making money. Having earned it, I now return it. Giving and the service of others is making my fortune significant, and it seems as if the more I give away, the richer my life seems to become.”
Dame Stephanie Shirley, UK Ambassador for Philanthropy

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