The Cornwall Community Foundation helps communities in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly by awarding small grants to grassroots, front line, volunteer-led organisations who are making a positive impact in their area, helping to overcome these challenges of disadvantage, exclusion and poverty for all ages.
Cornwall Community Foundation
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About The Foundation
We believe in a positive life for all in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, free from poverty and social isolation. To achieve this, we raise funds from individuals and businesses and distribute them to community and grassroots non-profit organisations who are changing lives across the county.
Cornwall Community Foundation has been at the forefront in supporting vulnerable Cornish communities. Since 2003, they have awarded more than £16 million, supporting more than 7,000 local organisations.
For more information please take a look at our website: www.cornwallcommunityfoundation.com
Where The Money Goes
Thank you to all of the attendees, sponsors, stallholders, and volunteers who helped make the 2024 Cornwall Christmas Fair such a success. We raised a record-breaking £68,000 helping the Cornwall Community Foundation to help charities and good causes through Cornwall.
The money raised has now been distributed to various voluntary organisations across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly who are working tirelessly to improve lives and make the Duchy a wonderful place for all via the CCF.
The money raised has been donated as following:
- £14,256 to Newquay Foodbank (enabling it to be open an extra two days per week – Jan – April 24)
- £5,000 to The Women’s Centre Cornwall
- £10,000 to St Petrocs
- £15,000 to Young &.Talented Cornwall
- £5,000 to WILD Young Parents
- £5,000 to WithYou drug and alcohol support
- £10,000 to CCF's Surviving Winter appeal
For more examples of community projects supported by CCF, please click here. click here. click here.
How You Can Get Involved
The Friends
The Friends of Cornwall Community Foundation are supporters who, through their membership donations, enable us to continue our vital work strengthening Cornish communities.
How the Foundation works
We believe in a positive life for all in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, free from poverty and social isolation. To achieve this, we raise funds from individuals and businesses and distribute them to community and grassroots non-profit organisations who are changing lives across the county.
Our network of community groups, who responded amazingly during the pandemic, now require additional funding both to meet continuing and future needs.
The benefits of becoming a Friend of the Foundation, you will be:
- contributing regularly to the many good causes supported by the Cornwall Community Foundation.
- kept up-to-date with CCF’s news via our monthly News from Cornwall e-newsletter.
- invited to exclusive events like ‘Seeing Is Believing’ and the ‘Friends Drinks party.’
- invited for a complimentary Tregothnan Cream Tea at the Royal Cornwall Show.
- contributing to the Friends’ fund which awards grants on an annual basis to community groups. In 2020 the fund supported our Cornwall Emergency Fund to alleviate the effects of the pandemic.
Join the Friends of the Foundation here.
Membership donations start at £30 per year (by direct debit), or more if you wish and Gift Aid could add 25% to your donation.
For more information about how you can help through joining us or donating please visit our website:
https://www.cornwallcommunityfoundation.com/give-to-your-community/
How To Donate
Support the Cornwall Christmas Fair Committee in raising funds for the Cornwall Community Foundation's Poverty Hurts Appeal.
The Cornwall Community Foundation is raising funds for it's Poverty Hurts appeal. This appeal is designed to help those struggling with the rising cost-of-living crisis by providing grants to charities and community organisations who are facing increased demand due to the rising household costs and continuing to provide a vital lifeline to communities and individuals across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Perhaps you would consider donating the £15/£25 that you would have spent on your Christmas Fair ticket instead safe in the knowledge that you will be supporting our community that needs you now, more than ever.
£15 could give a family peace of mind that they will not go hungry for 5 days
£25 could provide a Christmas lunch and tea for a family
£50 could provide a session to help a person manage their debts, reduce anxiety and regain control of their lives
£100 could provide two counselling sessions for a person struggling with mental wellbeing due to the cost of living crisis
Please donate now to support communities in need.
To donate please follow the link below
Donate now - Christmas Fair 2025 - Cornwall Community Foundation
