A unique opportunity with two parts: A challenge to build a £1m endowment by 2011. For every donation the OTS will increase it by 100%!
A fund to help strengthen local groups to build stronger communities over 3 years.
When the fund is finished, the endowment will take over grantmaking!
Welcome to Buckinghamshire Community Foundation!
Buckinghamshire is a very special place to live and work. People want to see community life in the county continue to thrive. There are twice as many charities per head of population in Buckinghamshire compared to the national average. Community matters here.
The Foundation offers you the most efficient and effective way of supporting local community groups. We are the vital link between donors and local projects, enabling both to achieve far more than they could ever by themselves. Helping dreams become reality.
Since January 2000 we have helped over 800 projects and given over £2.6 million in grants. The Foundation has over 200 Friends, Corporate Friends and Patrons who enable us to have a Grants team that's out and about in touch with local communities. We're here for the long term.
You can join the growing number of donors who've started an endowment fund in their own name to help build a secure financial foundation for Buckinghamshire's communities in the future.
Let us help you help others
to make a difference in Buckinghamshire!
Click here to see our listing on the Charity Commission website which details all our statistics and access to our published accounts for the past 5 years.
Latest news
Last few places available for Golf Day at Sonning
Local businesses and teams of golfers are encouraged to take up the last few places available for the Foundation's Golf Day at Sonning Golf Club on October 8th.
Fundraising Training organised by Aylesbury Vale District Council
AVDC is organising a series of 8 fundraising workshops, from September 2010 to March 2011.
Two projects supported by the Foundation are shortlisted for Regional Health Awards
Two ground-breaking projects supported by the Foundation that are making far-reaching improvements to the health of local Buckinghamshire people are shortlisted in the 2010 Health and Social Care Regional Awards.
Two new funds available for local communities
The deadline for the first applications to the new Windhill Trust and Buckinghamshire Masonic Grassroots Funds is 8th September
Buckinghamshire Community Foundation encourages local people to join The Bucks Debate
Have your say in September about how the County Council should respond to the need to make huge cuts in funding.
Helping build "Big Society" in High Wycombe
Foundation staff join local community representatives in High Wycombe to identify local needs and plan for community-led solutions.