The Amazon Powerhouse Community Fund will make grants to grassroots charitable organisations across southern Oxfordshire, supporting Amazon’s commitment to help foster communities in the areas in which it operates.
Oxfordshire Community Foundation (OCF) has signed up to the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) Open and Trusting grant-making commitment, marking the latest step as it strives towards being a gold-standard grant-maker. Bringing together funders from across the UK, the initiative encourages more accessible and effective grant-making. For OCF, this builds on work already in…
31 charities have received grant funding from OCF’s Living Essentials Fund, working to help the most disadvantaged in our county who are struggling to afford the basics to live a stable and safe life.
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.
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.