STEAMpunk Orchestra summer holiday after school club
With a grant from The Leicestershire Fund, Drum and Brass CIC have run their STEAMpunk Orchestra summer holiday and after school club for 80 hours. 8-12 year olds…
Community Arts and performance festival
With support from The John Salmon Fund, The Spark Arts for Children were able to carry out an art and performance festival at The BRITE Centre in Braunstone,…
Free basketball taster sessions improve health and wellbeing for young people in Leicester
Warriors Basketball Club funded 72 hours of facility hire and bought new equipment for young people to join free basketball sessions, thanks to a grant given by the…
The King’s Award for Voluntary Service
The King’s Award for Voluntary service is the highest award that can be given to voluntary groups across the UK, and you could help more Leicestershire groups win…
Measham and District Youth Club continues with help from the Sir Timothy Brooks Fund
Measham and District Youth Club delivers essential support to young people offering a varied programme run by youth leaders Ellie and Lauren with help from Jess and volunteers…
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…