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Last year’s Cornwall Christmas Fair at the Eden Project raised a record figure of £74,000 for the Cornwall Community Foundation. Funds will be shared between Young & Talented Cornwall, St Petrocs, Wild Young Parents CIC and the network of Foodbanks across Cornwall.

We have been allocated £300,000 from the NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board, to support community groups and organisations through a new ICB Mental Health & Wellbeing Programme. We are welcoming applications from organisations providing and promoting new initiatives to develop the emotional health and mental wellbeing of children and young people up to 25 years old across Cornwall.

We have once again carried out our Vital Signs research and published a report on the findings. Vital Signs is a detailed analysis of a wide range of social measures across Cornwall that we commission every few years in order to direct the grant-giving where it is needed most.

Last month’s Cornwall Christmas Fair at the Eden Project raised a record high of £74,000 for communities across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The critical funds will go towards changing lives across Cornwall by supporting community and grassroots non-profit organisations. Thank you!

Thanks to the Police and Crime Commissioner of Devon, Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly funds collected under the Police Property Act are now available as grant funding. Over £40,000 will be available from the newly launched Police Property Act Fund to be distributed between voluntary organisations providing diversionary activities from drugs-related anti-social behaviour.

The recent Young & Talented Cornwall grant panel awarded over £16,000 to more of Cornwall’s rising stars. A cello player, dinghy sailor, pentathlon athlete and sabre fencer were among the young talent to be awarded. These bright hopes for the future are the second cohort of the year to benefit from the fund which gives a helping hand to youngsters who may otherwise lack the means to reach their potential.

We have launched our Surviving Winter 2022 campaign and are appealing to anyone who receives the Winter Fuel Payment but does not need some or all of it, to donate their payment to our campaign. It is a sad reality that due to the cost of living crisis many vulnerable people are facing one of their bleakest and most challenging winters. Donations are very welcome from all people wishing to support our campaign.

We are delighted to have administered another round of grant-awarding from the Commissioners Community Grant Scheme. This funding round saw sixteen community groups across Cornwall awarded, with grants ranging from £1,500 to £5,000. This round was created to support activities tackling anti-social behaviour in local communities across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

For two days in November, the Eden Project will play twinkly host to the Cornwall Christmas Fair. A glorious array of Christmas gifts, home accessories, fashion, ceramics, jewellery, skincare, children’s clothes and toys will be available between the biomes with a diverse and delectable range of artisan food and drink produce in the Ginsters Food Hall.

In the spirit of reuse and recycle, visitors to this year’s Cornwall Christmas Fair are being asked to bring a favourite vintage Cornwall Christmas Fair shopping bag to the festive event. All those sporting an old bag at the annual Christmas fundraiser will be entered into the Lillicrap Chilcott prize draw to win a limited edition signed print kindly donated by Jim Moir.