Urgent: Cornwall's Housing Action Appeal

Prioritising lasting change:
Grant-making for a fairer, more equitable Cornwall.

Cornwall Community Foundation (CCF) is embarking on its most ambitious strategy yet, fostering thriving communities, preventing hardship and rising to the critical challenges of our time: growing inequality, climate change and the lack of affordable housing.

With a bold and must-win vision to make Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly a great place for everyone, CCF is committed to driving positive change, empowering grassroots organisations, and fostering place-based giving that builds stronger communities.

Cornwall Community Foundation strategy 2025-30

 

The case for support

Our Vital signs papers allow us to find the statistics behind the stories of the support we know is needed across our communities.

In 2021 26.5% of the Cornish population earned under the real living wage

In Cornwall disadvantaged pupils are, on average, 20.7 months behind

In Cornwall in 2021 the average home cost 10.99 times average earnings

Over a fifth of children in Cornwall were living in relative poverty in the year to March 2023

Measuring our impact

All of our grants are subject to a monitoring report to enable us to measure their outcomes and impact.

The impact measurement tool that we use enables CCF, and community foundations across the country, to capture and demonstrate the value of the broad range of grants given out. Alongside data, stories of change and case studies bring to life the impact of funding. The themes, outcomes and indicators of the framework enable us to capture the kind of change that groups are achieving, to track transformation, and communicate this to current and potential donors, and the wider community.

I think it is fair to say that CCF grants have completely changed the lives of many we help and have given people a new purpose in life. By funding things that are so important – hot meals, exercise, simple projects etc people’s lives are changed.

Pat Walton - Oasis Centre

Grants distribution