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This year’s sell-out Cornwall Christmas Fair raised a record-breaking £79,500, smashing through the £1 million total since the Fair began. The critical funds will help change lives across Cornwall by supporting community and grassroots non-profit organisations through Cornwall Community Foundation.

We are over the moon to have reached this incredible all-time record for CCF and are thrilled to announce that we have awarded over £2,700,000 to hundreds of local organisations, charities and community groups so far this year alone.

The Police & Crime Commissioner’s Fund is open for applications. This Fund focuses on projects related to anti-social behaviour, drugs and victims of crime.

Cornwall Community Foundation (CCF) are appealing to anyone who receives the Winter Fuel Payment or will receive the new Pensioner Cost of Living Payment, but does not need some or all of it, to donate the payment to the CCF Surviving Winter appeal.

To mark Wildanet’s support of Young & Talented Cornwall and to celebrate Cornwall’s emerging talents, young sportspeople, musicians, dancers, actors and fashion designers who have benefited from the latest round of grant funding came together at Wildanet’s Liskeard-based headquarters. They each received a grant certificate from Lord Lieutenant Colonel Edward Bolitho OBE.

On 19th October, the Cornwall Community Foundation (CCF) co-hosted a fundraising afternoon with the Charlie Sumption Memorial Fund (CSMF). The event brought local people and professionals together and raised an incredible £1,850 for the charities.

The countdown is on for this year’s Cornwall Christmas Fair; the county’s ultimate festive shopping event with a doing-good difference.

On the evening of Tuesday 10th October, we welcomed Cornwall Club members, Trustees, Fundholders and out of county supporters of CCF to a celebratory drinks party at the Fishmonger’s Hall in London, kindly hosted by Kim Conchie, Chair of Trustees, and Sam Galsworthy, Vice-Chair and Fundholder.

Our Poverty Hurts campaign has reached £1 million in donations. This appeal is designed to help those struggling with the rising cost-of-living crisis by providing grants to charities and community organisations who provide a vital lifeline to communities and individuals across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

With thanks to new funding from the Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly we are welcoming applications to the newly created Commissioner’s Community Grant Scheme. The first round is open Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly on with a theme of “Resilience to crime and disorder”.