At Oxfordshire Community Foundation (OCF), we are continually evolving how we support local charitable organisations through our grant-making, with a streamlined application process and supportive approach. We strive to be a gold-standard grant-maker, working to ensure that funding is more than just a transaction. Putting communities first The last two years have seen the Grants…
Oxfordshire Community Foundation’s Thriving in Nature Fund is open for applications from charitable organisations in Oxfordshire working to improve lives through green spaces.
OCF unveil their grant-making plans for the year ahead, offering a wide variety of grants to support Oxfordshire’s grassroots charities.
Grants totalling £36k have now been made to the hard-hitting charities, which tackle issues as diverse as mental health for young people, genetic health conditions, homelessness, sexual abuse, unemployment, cancer support, loneliness and isolation, and palliative care.
Grants totalling £347,000 have been awarded to charitable organisations across Oxfordshire to help people to live well and healthily in their communities for as long as possible. The Community Capacity Fund has been able to fund a total of 30 grassroots charitable organisations.
Thanks to the support of a committed cohort of donors and funders, OCF’s first ever round of Thriving in Nature grants were paid in August 2024, with multi-year grants totalling £494k given to 14 small local charities.
OCF is pleased to announce the allocation of £210,000 in grants aimed at fostering mental wellbeing and addressing mental health inequalities across the county, in partnership with Public Health Oxfordshire and West Oxfordshire District Council.
OCF’s Living Essentials Fund opens for applications from Oxfordshire’s grassroots charities. Grants will support charitable organisations that are helping people with unaffordable essentials such as homelessness, food insecurity and warmth as well as debt advice.
We are delighted to be launching a third round of Community Capacity funding, thanks to £341,250 from Oxfordshire County Council. Grants will be made to help Oxfordshire’s residents to live independently and healthily for as long as possible in their lives. Community Capacity Fund applications are now invited from charitable groups in Oxfordshire. The Community Capacity grants support the Council’s Oxfordshire Way vision: “to support the people of Oxfordshire to live…
On International Women’s Day, we want to celebrate four amazing charitable organisations in Oxfordshire that are transforming the lives of women in our county.