About
Cornwall Community Foundation is a charitable organization that has been supporting local communities across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly since 2003. The foundation connects philanthropic individuals and businesses with grassroots organizations changing people's lives across the region. Since its establishment, CCF has awarded more than £23 million in small grants to charitable groups making a positive impact in their communities, supporting over 8,000 organizations and helping more than 105,000 beneficiaries in 2024 alone. The foundation provides financial support to not-for-profit organizations working to combat disadvantage and deprivation in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Their impact strategy addresses key social challenges including Cornwall's housing crisis, local economy and employment, rural isolation, education, and environment. CCF offers multiple ways for individuals, businesses, and trusts to contribute to Cornish causes through personal memberships, business giving, legacy gifts, and fund establishment or transfer.
Funding Opportunities
The Boardmasters Foundation Fund
The Boardmasters Foundation was set up to give back to the local communities that host the festival each August. Established in 2017, the Foundation has distributed nearly £700,000 to date. The Foundation supports individuals, groups, charities, and organisations that align with two key pillars: Culture and Community. Funding is focused on projects based in the immediate vicinity of the festival site including Newquay, Porth, Whipsiderry, Tregurrian, Watergate Bay, and surrounding areas. Under Culture, the Foundation prioritizes recipients or organisations that are heavily involved with and promote surfing, music, creativity, education and/or Cornish culture. Under Community, projects that enhance the lives of individuals in the local community are supported, with special consideration given to projects involved with diversity and inclusion and improving and raising awareness of societal issues. Applications demonstrate clear community benefit and long-term impact, with preference for locally rooted initiatives with measurable outcomes.
Lyskerrys Fund – Business Funding
The Lyskerrys Fund is focused on unlocking opportunity and supporting potential in Liskeard and its surrounding villages. The fund helps people to help themselves, nurturing aspiration, and investing in ideas that strengthen the local community and economy. It supports micro businesses, sole traders, social enterprises, or cooperatives where there is a clear benefit back to the community. This fund specifically supports business growth and entrepreneurial initiatives in Liskeard, Cornwall, including equipment, training, digital improvements, and testing or launching new ideas. The fund is about empowering local people and community initiatives to create lasting positive change in the area.
Lyskerrys Fund – Community Funding
The Lyskerrys Fund is focused on unlocking opportunity and supporting potential in Liskeard and its surrounding villages. The fund is about helping people to help themselves, nurturing aspiration, and investing in ideas that strengthen the local community and economy. This fund supports a wide range of initiatives from established community groups and charities to new, entrepreneurial ideas. Grants of up to £5,000 are available to support young people through projects or activities that improve opportunities, wellbeing, skills, or outcomes, as well as community development including work that brings people together, strengthens local networks, or addresses local needs. Collaborative bids are particularly encouraged. This fund is only available to charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs), or volunteer-led organisations operating in South East Cornwall.
Young and Talented – Creative Writing Awards
The Young and Talented Creative Writing Awards empowers young writers across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Offering up to £1,000 and mentorship from professional writers, it nurtures potential, develops skills, and opens opportunities, ensuring aspiring authors, poets, journalists and screenwriters can pursue their careers and achieve their dreams in this challenging field. The awards support budding young writers with both financial support and professional mentoring to foster their potential, skills, and career development in the literary field. Launched in 2005 as The Lord Lieutenant's Fund for Youth, the fund now operates as Young & Talented Cornwall and is led by Colonel Edward Bolitho KCVO OBE, the current Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall. Priority is given to young people with backgrounds of economic hardship.
SWEF (South West Enterprise Fund)
The South West Enterprise Fund (SWEF) aims to support a variety of young Cornish people aged between 18 – 30 years old who do not have the initial starter funds to get their business ideas off the ground. SWEF welcomes applications from young entrepreneurs for starter funding of up to £2,000. The fund is designed for two sets of young people: those who have already shown some initiative in getting their new business off the ground, and those who have an idea and need some funding to get their idea off the ground. Eligible uses of funds include equipment that will help bring in a second revenue stream or increase production, materials or stock for a new product line, prototypes, website or booking system builds, training, and product development. Applicants must be resident in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly, aged between 18-30 years old, and be able to demonstrate their business idea. The fund looks at what young people are already doing for themselves and backs them with grant funding, with most businesses already up and running in some form.
At a Glance
- Total Funding Opportunities
- 11
- Active Now
- 5
- Source Domain
- cornwallcommunityfoundation.com
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