The West Yorkshire Combined Authority is offering grants of up to £50,000 to support organisations to become a hub for active travel engagement work, to help more people to walk, cycle, scoot, and wheel for leisure and recreation, for health, and to make more journeys, actively, more often. The Community Active Travel Hubs will be…
We were invited to speak at the Yorkshire STEP (Society of Trusts and Estate Planning) Meeting at the Hilton and it was a brilliant event. There were some fantastic people there who as well as being absolutely full of knowledge, were genuinely nice people. It’s going to be nice to keep in touch and work…
Following the fire at Ash Green Primary School, we launched an online fundraiser through Local Giving and coupled with other offline donations, we have raised nearly £17,000. As this was arson, the schools’ insurance company have covered the cost to replace the building work, fixtures and fittings. The additional money that has been raised will…
CFFC donor Sarah Jones of Full Circle Funerals is inviting staff and trustees to join her and others to spend some time appreciating the beautiful Calderdale countryside and to learn about the work of Happy Days. If you would like to join us, please email Steve@cffc.co.uk so we have an idea of numbers. If you are not free…
CFFC fundraiser, Christine Gow made 250 cream teas for family and friends and raised over £1750.00. CFFC match funded this taking the amount to £3,500 and smashing her target to raise money for local children’s charity Mothershare. Lord David Shutt of Greetland, OBE PC founded the Community Foundation for Calderdale (CFFC) over 30 years ago…
Christine Gow is making Cream Teas again to raise money again, this time for CFFC and Mothershare. Christine would like to make it a bigger fundraiser and raise more money than she did previously, that’s over 300 cream teas! It’s taking palace on Saturday 2nd April 2022. About Mothershare Mothershare’s mission is to provide disadvantaged…
CFFC Welcome New Trustees, Preet Sandhu and Nigel Cliffe The Community Foundation for Calderdale are pleased to welcome Nigel Cliffe and Preet Sandhu as Trustees on the Board overseeing over £1 million worth of grants each year being given out to not-for-profit organisations in Calderdale. Nigel Cliffe explained, “It has been a privilege to support…
You may have read the devastating story of the fire at Ash Green School in the Halifax Courier Following the fire at Ash Green School, we have launched a fundraising appeal. We will add £5,000 and if you would like to donate, please visit https://localgiving.org/appeal/AshGreenSchAppeal/
Award winning Lawyer Jodie Hill from Thrive Law was the speaker at the Professional Advisors event where we were discussing handing employees returning back to the office and considerations you might want to make. To catch up with what we discussed and have access to some valuable insight, you can watch this short video
We’ve had a busy year at The Foundation. Catch up with what has been happening by reading our Annual Report. It’s not just finances and facts and figures. Yes, we gave out 330 grants totalling £1,423,878, but we try to include stories in there of how the money made a difference. Read about Calderdale SmartMove,…
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