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Public Engagement Grants – Opens 27th May 
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Public Engagement Grants – Opens 27th May 

May 21, 2025May 22, 2025

Voluntary and community organisations in Leicester are being invited to apply for grants of up to £2,000 to support public engagement around NHS services and help reduce avoidable…

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Survey of Voluntary Sector in Rutland
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Survey of Voluntary Sector in Rutland

March 24, 2023March 24, 2023

Citizens Advice Rutland has launched the first ever survey of the voluntary sector in Rutland. They need your help to map all charitable and voluntary groups offering services…

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2023 President of The East Midlands Chamber of Commerce

March 1, 2023March 1, 2023

The East Midlands Chamber of Commerce, which supports 4,000+ businesses, has a new President for 2023: Stuart Dawkins, who also happens to be the Chair of our Board…

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Charitable giving can be complex!
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Charitable giving can be complex!

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023

Thank you to Mehmooda Duke for this lovely mention on a recent Linked-In post: Charitable giving can be complex. No doubt, everyone who has ever given money to…

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Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Business and Community Award
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Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Business and Community Award

August 25, 2022August 25, 2022

We won a Lord Lieutenant’s Platinum Jubilee Community and Business Award!   Giving good grants, working with donors and charitable groups, genuinely is its own reward…still, we’re finding…

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Volunteering at the Commonwealth Games!
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Volunteering at the Commonwealth Games!

July 26, 2022August 2, 2023

Louise our Grants Manager applied along with 41,000 other people to be a volunteer at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Doesn’t she look great in her uniform! After…

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‘The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others’ Mahatma Gandhi
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‘The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others’ Mahatma Gandhi

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022

Mehmooda Duke MBE DL, the High Sheriff of Leicestershire is looking to celebrate the unsung heroes of our city and county by giving them a High Sheriff’s Community…

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Platinum Jubilee Community and Business Award for Leicestershire & Rutland Community Foundation!
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Platinum Jubilee Community and Business Award for Leicestershire & Rutland Community Foundation!

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022

We are thrilled to have been awarded a Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Community and Business award instigated by the Lord Lieutenant, to recognise and celebrate the achievements of organisations…

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Mental Health and Well-being – support for local groups
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Mental Health and Well-being – support for local groups

June 9, 2022June 9, 2022

Some really great grants to some amazing local groups from the NHS CCG’s Getting Help in Neighbourhoods, part of a transformation of mental health,  Better Mental Health For…

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Reaching People Environmental Fund – CLOSED
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Reaching People Environmental Fund – CLOSED

October 27, 2022February 23, 2023

About the Fund The Reaching People Environmental fund was set up to give Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland access to a greener life and leave an environmental legacy. Reaching…

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