How we raise and spend our money
How we raise and spend our money
We rely on donations from individuals and businesses. We also administer statutory funding and Community Benefit Funds.
We are grateful to everyone who donates to us and it’s important our supporters know that we are spending our money wisely.
That’s why we are transparent about how we are funded and managed. Skip to:
How we raise funds
We are extremely grateful for the generosity of our personal and corporate donors as well as statutory bodies who entrust us with their funding.
We work hard to ensure our money comes from lots of different places allowing us to be completely independent.
Thanks to the continued generosity of our supporters our income for 2023 was £3.6million.
How we use your donations
In 2023 we spent approximately 82p of every £1 received on charitable activities. We distributed 686 grants, totalling £2,965,294 and have already distributed over £3mil in grants in 2024.
We also work to build up our endowmentMoney that is invested for the long-term. to ensure our grant funding can continue in perpetuity.
Find out more by reading our accounts for year ending 2023.
Young Parents become peer support mentors with the Support of the WILD Voices project and a grant from the ICB Health and Wellbeing fund
WILD Young Parents are working towards a fair start for young parent families. WILD VOICES has given young parents the […]
Two CCF grants help The Old Bank, Camelford complete essential maintenance and restore their community food larder
A volunteer-led charity, The Old Bank in Camelford has seen membership of its community larder increase by 50% and reports […]
The Isles of Scilly Charity Trust kept families warm over the winter funded by a £2,000 grant from the Surviving Winter Fund.
The Isles of Scilly Charity Trust supports those living across the five Scilly islands since before they were established in […]
Registered and regulated
Governed by a Board of Trustees, the Foundation is a registered charity (Charity No 1099977) and company limited by guarantee (Company No 04816191).
We are an accredited member of UK Community Foundations.
Financial statements
Please click on the links below for our Annual Reports and Accounts, which run December to December.
If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact us at office@cornwallfoudnation.com or call 01566 779333.
Summary information about the Foundation is also available via the Charity Commission website.
Responsible investing
We want Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to be a great place to live for everyone – a place where people work together to address disadvantage and build strong, resilient communities. We inspire philanthropy and giving to meet local needs, building equitablePromoting equality - Equal, fair, unbiased, impartial. and strong communities. We seek to build our endowment and ensure that the fund holders’ donations entrusted to us generate a growing income that can be distributed as grants.
In doing so we select specialist charity or similar funds managed by professional fund managers. We expect the managers to use ‘responsible’ criteriaSpecific terms that a project has to meet to be eligible to receive funding. For example, grants in a specific geographic location. when selecting stocks and engaging with the management of companies that they invest in, ensuring that they uphold suitable standards on behalf of all their investors. In selecting and reviewing investment managers, we ensure adherence to these criteria as being non-negotiable. In particular we require that they pursue Net Zero 2050 climate change policies and UN Sustainable Development Goals at all times.
At present, we believe that this stance is not consistent with investment in companies whose principal business is the extraction of fossil fuels; as a result our Endowment funds have no holdings in this sector. Other funds are available that have other criteria and should a fund holder wish to use such a vehicle, we would be happy to invest their donations in a way that meets their own definition of responsible investing.
Open data - grant making
The Cornwall Community Foundation is committed to transparency and we work with 360Giving to publish information about our grants, using the 360Giving data standard. Here you will find our Open Data Policy that includes our open data code of conduct, which sets out how our data should be used.
To view our grant making to date, as published through 360giving, please click on the links below:
