Welcome to your Community Foundation
We are the Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire. We started in 2001 as the Community Foundation for Staffordshire, awarding our first grant in 2008, and since then we have awarded more than £20m to local charities and community groups across Staffordshire. Since 2016 we have also covered Shropshire, operating under the name of the Community Foundation for Shropshire in the county, and awarding more than £2.5m to local organisations across the local authority areas of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. Since then, we have been the officially recognised community foundation for both counties. We are accredited to UKCF standards, who are our membership body and represent us on a national level. We also hold accreditation to ISO standards.
Every county in the UK has access to a community foundation, with national community foundations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Although every county has access to a community foundation, not every county has it’s own. Some community foundations cover two or more counties, such as Heart of England Community Foundation which covers the West Midlands Combined Authority area (Birmingham and the Black Country), Coventry and Warwickshire; Liverpool and Merseyside Community Foundation; Two Ridings Community Foundation, which covers the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire; Sussex Community Foundation, which covers both East and West Sussex; Tyne and Wear & Northumberland Community Foundation; and us here in Staffordshire & Shropshire.
Effective giving to your local community
Every year many people decide to give something back to their local community. This could be through personal giving as an individual or as a family, or by giving as a business. Often there is an assumption that giving is easy; that your gift will be effective and will change people’s lives for the better as you had intended. However, there are many pitfalls, and if not done properly giving can be very time consuming, inefficient and ultimately ineffective and not meet your giving objectives.
We are here to help. The Community Foundation for Staffordshire is a specialist in giving to the local community, and we make the process quick, easy and cost effective. We ensure that your gift has the impact that you want it to; transforming lives and creating opportunities for people that would otherwise never experience them.