Welcome to the CCF website
Cambridgeshire Community Foundation makes grants to local voluntary and community groups.Companies, individuals, national and local government make this possible by setting up funds with us.
To find out more please browse through this web site or call us on 01223 410535 to talk through the options on how you can apply for a grant or help us support local good causes and make a difference.
Our vision is of a thriving culture of local giving to effective local causes - made possible by a thriving and effective Cambridgeshire Community Foundation.
Our purpose is to make philanthropy more compelling through well targeted strategic and sustainable grant making for the benefit of stronger communities in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
The Benwick Forget-Me-Not Club for the over 55’s arranges monthly meetings and outings.
The club received a grant to enable them to enjoy a summer outing – the picture shows their visit to the Ramsey Rural Museum.
St. Mary Youth Club in Wisbech received a Grassroots Grant to purchase a digital projector. The projector will be used for interactive physical sporting activities, presentations, training/awareness programmes, occasional films etc. It is hoped that the new activities will increase interest in the club and the numbers attending.
Kym Valley Carpet Bowls Club meets twice a week to play bowls and provides an important social activity for less mobile, older residents of the village. A grant from Grassroots Grants allowed the club to purchase a new bowls carpet.
Needingworth Cricket Club used a Grassroots Grant to help fund a new scorebox on wheels.
The 1st Offord Guides received a Grassroots Grant in March 2009 to buy new equipment for a camping trip in Nottingham in May 2009. This trip will be the first one out of the County for the group. Some of the group are pictured checking one of the new tents.
A Grassroots Grant meant Eaton Socon Bowls Cub were able to repair and replace damaged paving slabs around the club green and other areas which were causing a hazard to both players and spectators. The work was completed at the start of the new playing season.
Cambridge Freedom Club Timebank received a Grassroots Grant to help with their garden project which allowed intensive garden clean-ups by existing Timebank members and other local groups (mainly young people pictured hard at work). The project provided basic tools to help clearing, seeds and plants to set up kitchen gardens to help residents reduce food miles and eat healthily and child care so parents could help with the work.
A Grassroots Grant enabled St Ives Rowing Club to buy two Wintech Competitor Single Scull rowing boats. The boats are primarily for use by the younger members of the club and will help to ensure there is the opportunity to row even when demand for boats is high in the school holidays.
The Christie Hall Management Committee maintain their local village hall for renting for activities and functions by local groups for the benefit of the whole community of three adjacent villages; Wansford, Thornhaugh and Stibbington (all within Peterborough Unitary Authority)A Grassroots Grant was awarded to install new roof insulation to keep in the heat and also install new, more energy efficient lighting.
Outbreak provides positive activities for local young people in Millfield, Peterborough.A grant from the Baker Tilly Peterborough Fund enabled 20 young people to go on a day trip to Grafham Water to participate in activities designed to improve skills including communication, leadership, team work, planning and confidence.
Libra Theatre support abled and disabled adults to experience drama, mime, dance, singing and music for film or live performances.Grassroots Grants enabled them to take 2 members of their film-making group with carers to the Oska Bright Film Screening and workshop in Leicester in Dec 08. Oska Bright have been making films with adults with learning difficulties for several years and showed Libra what is being achieved by similar groups.
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