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To celebrate its 60th anniversary this year, the Garfield Weston Foundation has set up the Weston Anniversary Fund, as part of a series of special activities. The capital fund is designed to benefit local community facilities across the […]

A grant of £2,000 from the Leicestershire Fund has helped the Market Harborough Cricket & Squash Club to replace their outdoor cricket nets, with a result that they now have some of the best in the county, allowing […]

With £800 contribution from the Sir Timothy Brooks Fund, Falcon Support Services was able to fund equipment and materials for a project customising and de-branding counterfeit goods seized by trading standards. The project is designed to up-skill homeless, […]

During winter, when there is a focus in particular on the elderly and vulnerable in society, Leicestershire & Rutland Community Foundation is delighted that five of their most recent beneficiaries work with elderly people across the counties of […]

A grant of £4,209 from the Children on the Edge Fund to the Centre for Fun & Families enabled the delivery of two corresponding group work programmes: “Overcoming Your Anxiety”, for young people aged 11-16 and “Supporting Your […]

Funding of £1,500 from the John Laing Foundation and Hill Osborne Fund contributed towards the cost of setting up an ‘Emergency Cadets’ group in Market Harborough, including equipment for practical exercises and uniform. Market Harborough Emergency Cadets is […]

A grant of £700 from the Bobby Dhanjal Foundation helped fund a residential break to Dukes Barn in Derbyshire, organised by SNIPS (Special Needs Integration Projects). SNIPS works with young people between the ages of three and seventeen […]

Shepshed Amateur Boxing Club provides training facilities and professional coaching for men and women of all ages above 13. Activities are bespoke depending on personal needs, and range from socialising with other lovers of boxing to low-level exercises; […]

Three charities have been named as beneficiaries of fundraising efforts by East Midlands Chamber in 2018. Chamber President Rob Mayo announced the three charities at the Chamber’s Christmas Lunch, in Leicester, on Friday. The charities are Langwith, Derbyshire-based […]

Attune Music Therapy provides high quality, evidence based Music Therapy for adults and children, specialising in working with Acquired Brain Injury and Neurodisability. They provide individual and group sessions and work within the Health and Social Care sector […]