Survey of Voluntary Sector in Rutland
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…
2023 President of The East Midlands Chamber of Commerce
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…
Charitable giving can be complex!
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…
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Business and Community Award
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…
Volunteering at the Commonwealth Games!
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…
‘The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others’ Mahatma Gandhi
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…
Platinum Jubilee Community and Business Award for Leicestershire & Rutland Community Foundation!
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…
Mental Health and Well-being – support for local groups
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…
Reaching People Environmental Fund – CLOSED
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…
East Midland’s Chamber Fund – supporting new charitable groups
East Midlands Chamber’s President Lindsey Williams has selected three local charities to support throughout 2022 via the East Midlands Chamber Fund, looked after by the Community Foundation. They…