Grants support community work

More than £20m in grants has been awarded to charities and community groups across the region since the creation of the Northamptonshire Community Foundation in 2001.

The grants have helped to improve the lives of Northamptonshire’s most in-need residents, setting up food banks, maintaining multi-use green spaces, providing counselling and wellbeing sessions, and various other vital services.

Most recently, a grant has been awarded from the Poverty Hurts Appeal Fund to Weston Favell Centre Foodbank, to support the running of their warehouse and delivery of food parcels. Rachel McGrath, CEO of Northamptonshire Community Foundation, said: “As the leading independent grant-making charity in the county we are proud to have delivered vital support to our communities for more than 22 years. Since its inception, Northamptonshire Community

Foundation has funded 3,700 projects and invested £20m in local charities and community groups on behalf of 120 corporate, private and public donors during its lifetime. We could not have achieved this without the overwhelming generosity of our supporters and donors.”

If you’re looking to apply for a grant, or need more information about the funding available, visit www.ncf.uk.com