UK Community Foundations
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Collaboration with the Office for Counter Extremism
In its 2017 report the UKCF noted:
- During the year, UKCF partnered with M&C Saatchi to deliver the grants element of the Home Office’s counter extremism programme ‘Building a Stronger Britain Together’ (BSBT). This is a significant programme for UKCF and the network. The Home Office’s objectives are to support civil society and community organisations who work to create more resilient communities, stand up to extremism in all its forms and offer vulnerable individuals a positive alternative, regardless of race, faith, sexuality, age, and gender. UKCF is working with 9 community foundations, who are acting as regional leads to deliver grants across England and Wales.
- The Home Office gave initial approval for grants of over £1.3 million to 44 groups across the UK in Round 1 of BSBT, launched in September 2016. Grants have now been awarded to almost of all these groups, with a few held back pending further due diligence.
- In Round 2, launched in January 2017, community foundations put forward 87 eligible groups, applying for over £2.7 million for consideration from the Home Office. At the time of writing applications were undergoing review by the Home Office.[1]
The nine regional foundations were not identified in the 2017 report. In 2021 the UKCF listed them on its website, though by reveal that they were: Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation | County Durham Community Foundation | County Durham Community Foundation | County Durham Community Foundation | Heart of England Community Foundation | Heart of England Community Foundation | Leeds – managed by UKCF | London Community Foundation | Quartet Community Foundation.[2]
Funding of the Foundations by the Home Office
Members
Milton Keynes Community Foundation | Nottinghamshire Community Foundation | Northamptonshire Community Foundation | Northamptonshire Community Foundation | Leicestershire and Rutland Community Foundation | Foundation Derbyshire | Lincolnshire Community Foundation | Suffolk Community Foundation | Norfolk Community Foundation | Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation | Hertfordshire Community Foundation | Essex Community Foundation | Cambridgeshire Community Foundation | London Community Foundation | East End Community Foundation | County Durham Community Foundation | Community Foundation Tyne Wear and Northumberland | Forever Manchester | Cumbria Community Foundation | Community Foundation for Merseyside | Community Foundation for Lancashire | Cheshire Community Foundation | Community Foundation for Northern Ireland | Foundation Scotland | Sussex Community Foundation | Oxfordshire Community Foundation | Kent Community Foundation | Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Community Foundation | Community Foundation for Surrey | Heart of Bucks Community Foundation | Berkshire Community Foundation | Berkshire Community Foundation | Somerset Community Foundation | Quartet Community Foundation (Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire) | Gloucestershire Community Foundation | Dorset Community Foundation | Devon Community Foundation | Cornwall Community Foundation | Community Foundation for Wiltshire and Swindon | Community Foundation Wales | Worcestershire Community Foundation | Herefordshire Community Foundation | Heart of England Community Foundation (covers Coventry, Warwickshire, Solihull, Birmingham & The Black Country) | Community Foundation for Staffordshire | Two Ridings Community Foundation (North, East Yorks, York, Hull) | South Yorkshire Community Foundation | One Community Foundation (The Community Foundation for the People of Kirklees) | Leeds Community Foundation (includes Bradford) | Community Foundation for Calderdale
Overseas members
Jersey Community Foundation | Community Foundation for Ireland | Bermuda Community Foundation
See also
BSBT | Office for Counter Extremism | M and C Saatchi
