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As a Community Interest Company and social enterprise, we are committed to supporting charities and community groups in the communities we serve through Governors’ donations, community grant giving initiatives, and match funding

Our pledge to reinvest our surpluses to worthy causes means that as our business grows and thrives, we can do even more. In 2022 alone, we have been able to treble our donations, grants and match funding to more than £500,000.

In 2022 Provide Community has trebled community grants and donations to more than £500,000

As an employee-owned business, our members can request donations and match funding for the causes that matter to them

In May 2022 we donated £2,250 to organisations supporting Ukraine on behalf of our members

In May of this year, one of our Governors, Lindsay Partner, visited Community360 to deliver a £5,000 Governor donation to the Essex Family Support Service, a charity that provides low-level preventive care and support to disadvantaged families.

Michael Glassock, our Vice Chair of Governors up the day job and joined Nita Jhummu on Chelmsford Community Radio to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week and talk about Provide Community’s £5,000 Governor donation to the Assure Pregnancy and Baby Loss Support charity.

Assure Pregnancy and Baby Loss Support charity

Colchester-based St Helena Hospice received a £5,000 Governor donation to contribute towards its palliative care services.

Headway Essex, a charity supporting people with acquired brain injuries, received a grant of £19,231 to help establish a permanent day-care centre in east-Essex.

Our Chair of the Council of Governors, Nicola Yarnall, visited The Peaceful Pony, an equine animal therapy centre in Benfleet, to present founder Holly Lockwood-Waduge with a donation of £5,000 Headway Essex