Testimonials:

“I have found OCF excellent to work with, your funding process is well thought out, easy to navigate and supportive throughout the process, much easier than others.”

“Thank you for this funding opportunity. Your team is always extremely helpful, understanding and professional in any dealings we have with you.”

“The wellbeing of OCF is fundamental to the wellbeing of the charitable sector in Oxfordshire. This is why I would like Jane’s legacy to support OCF as a Patron.”

“I am delighted that via our fund with OCF we can join together with other donors to support causes we are all passionate about. It means we can do more good by working as a collective.”

“Oxfordshire Community Foundation was our seed funding and absolutely key to our development as an organisation. I feel indebted to OCF for believing in the model and supporting us – particularly in the early days.”

“OCF has been a key partner in delivering efficient, effective and independent rounds of community funding. Their evidence-based approach and broad reach into the community sector has helped us deliver support across Oxfordshire’s communities in a way that is transparent as well as fast.”

Nervous is the word used most by children from the villages when asked how they feel about moving to secondary school in September. “I just need people to be kind to me.” The Didcot Powerhouse Fund enabled a community support project for around 100 children and their families.

“Rose Hill Junior Youth Club provides meals to children who would otherwise go hungry, alongside weekly food packages, activities for families, pastoral and practical care. I love how all team members have a great rapport with all the children and seeing how each child is cared for, protected, loved and provided for, taking into account and working with all their abilities (or disabilities), genders, socio-economic backgrounds, religions and cultures.”

“This grant has made a difference by enabling us to regularly open our beautiful green community space for volunteers and visitors. For many, these outdoor opportunities for connection have been the only social space they have felt safe to enter and as such it has been a real life line for their well-being.”

“I can’t thank you enough for what you have done for me and my daughter. Watching her health decline over lockdown, her anxiety and depression increasing to the point where she was cutting herself, was the most painful thing I have ever experienced. Taking part in BOOST has changed our lives.”