SWEF Enterprise Fund grant helps market garden to blossom
A SWEF Enterprise Fund grant from Dorset Community Foundation is helping young grower Lily Brett’s market garden business to thrive. The £1,900 grant from the fund, which helps young people aged 18 to 30 who have been running their own business, or who are self-employed, for under two years, with costs such as tools, stock
SWEF enterprise grants are helping young people’s businesses take off
YOUNG people are being helped to turn dreams into thriving businesses through enterprise grants from Dorset Community Foundation – and now it wants to see more applying. Its SWEF Enterprise and Business Fund is fuelling the ambitions of young people who are developing a business idea by awarding grants of up to £2,000 to help
Surviving Winter appeal plea as cold weather snap prompts fears for elderly in fuel poverty
CITIZENS Advice energy experts fear for the health of older people living in fuel poverty in Dorset as temperatures drop below zero during the latest cold spell. Dorset Community Foundation’s annual Surviving Winter appeal raises money to fund £200 energy grants to older and vulnerable people in the county, but its appeal partners at Citizens
New fund will help groups and charities boost wellbeing and mental health in communities
GRANTS of up to £40,000 a year are available to grass roots charities and voluntary groups helping to support wellbeing and mental health, thanks to a new partnership between Dorset Community Foundation, Community Action Network and NHS Dorset. The Community Wellbeing and Mental Health Fund, which is open for applications until March 1, will offer
National Lottery Community Fund partnership will bring £500,000 funding for BCP ethnically diverse groups
ETHNICALLY diverse communities in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole will benefit from a £500,000 grant over three years from The National Lottery Community Fund (NCLF) to four Dorset organisations who were successful in jointly bidding for the money. A partnership led by Community Action Network (CAN), along with Dorset Race Equality Council, Dorset Community Foundation and
£102,000 from BCP Food and Energy Support Fund keeps people warm and fed
MORE than £100,000 has been awarded to grass roots groups and charities who will be helping families stay warm and fed over winter, thanks to a partnership between Dorset Community Foundation and BCP Council. The community foundation’s BCP Food and Energy Support Fund, using money allocated to the council from the government’s Household Support Fund,
Trustees’ Week 2023: Chairman Tom Flood’s salute to vital volunteers
FOR me, being a trustee is first and foremost about service. As you get older it’s very easy to lose social contact and I think what being a trustee does is allow you to use your life experiences to the benefit of the community. Secondly, it’s about being identified with a cause that you’re passionate
Experts’ energy debt warning as Dorset Community Foundation launches Surviving Winter appeal
CITIZENS Advice experts are warning that more people than ever could find themselves in arrears with their energy bills as Dorset Community Foundation launches its annual Surviving Winter appeal. The appeal, run in partnership with Citizens Advice in Dorset, distributes £200 grants to pensioners and vulnerable people aged 50 and over living in fuel poverty
Support for communities thanks to ongoing partnership with Wessex Water
GRANTS of up to £4,000 are available to voluntary groups and charities working to improve the lives of people living in their communities thanks to the continuing partnership between Dorset Community Foundation and Wessex Water. The Wessex Water Foundation Community Fund is part of the water and sewage company’s mission to fund projects which bring
Dorset Community Foundation Superior STEM Bursary sets student on path to Cambridge degree
MATHS student Nathan McKeown-Luckly says a grant from Dorset Community Foundation helped fulfil a childhood dream of graduating from Cambridge University this summer. The 23-year-old, from Highcliffe, near Christchurch, received two Superior STEM Bursary Grants that made it possible for him to study A-levels in maths, further maths, physics and computing at Brockenhurst College. He
Dorset Community Foundation and Lord Lieutenant boost sports stars with grants
https://www.dorsetcommunityfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/YT-Video-1.mp4 A GROUP of young sporting stars whose prospects are threatened by the cost of living cost have been given a boost to their careers with £9,400 worth of grants from Dorset Community Foundation. Its Lord Lieutenant’s Fund for Young and Talented has supported 13 exciting talents to help them continue making their mark in
Groups feeding families get almost £300,000 from Food and Energy Support Fund
ALMOST £300,000 has been awarded to grass roots groups and charities feeding families, thanks to a partnership between Dorset Community Foundation and BCP Council. The community foundation set up the BCP Food and Energy Support Fund with money allocated to the council from the government’s Household Support Fund. The fund has supported 32 groups across