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Essex Community Foundation is playing a leading role in the development of local philanthropy and resources to sustain communities.Your interest in finding out more about us is appreciated. Click on About us to find out more of what we do.

ECF Achieves Quality Standard.....Again!

Essex Community Foundation has achieved Community Foundation Network’s Quality Accreditation (QA) for 2010 - 2013.  Formally endorsed and recognised by the Charity Commission for England and Wales, QA is a programme which endorses and encourages best practice by Community Foundations.  Achieving QA demonstrates that a community foundation is serious about quality and accountability. It specifies what we do and how we do it in a way that other quality systems cannot ensure. You can find out more at  the Community Foundation Network website

Civil Society Minister Champions Work of Local Community Organisation in Chelmsford

Minister for Civil Society, Nick Hurd, visited the Melbourne Project in Chelmsford to see first hand how the local grassroots project is providing vital services for their community.

The project has received significant funding from Essex Community Foundation and has been able to expand its services to include a homework club, mother and toddler group, an older people’s club, holiday activities and a cookery project. Read more

“Big Society is all about empowering local people and communities to bring about the changes they know their community needs"

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