Welcome to your Community Foundation

We are the registered, recognised and accredited Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire.  Since 2008 we have awarded more than £22m to local charities and community groups across Staffordshire and Shropshire.   We are accredited to UKCF standards, who are our membership body and represent us on a national level.  We also hold accreditation to ISO standards.

Every county in the UK has access to a community foundation.  Some community foundations cover two or more counties, such as Heart of England (Birmingham, the Black Country, Coventry and Warwickshire); Two Ridings (North and East Ridings of Yorkshire); Sussex Community Foundation (East and West Sussex); Liverpool & Merseyside; Tyne and Wear & Northumberland; and us here in Staffordshire & Shropshire.  There are national community foundations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Effective giving to your local community

Every year many people decide to give something back to their local community.  This could be through personal giving as an individual or as a family, or by giving as a business.  Often there is an assumption that giving is easy; that your gift will be effective and will change people’s lives for the better as you had intended. However, there are many pitfalls, and if not done properly giving can be very time consuming, inefficient and ultimately ineffective, not meeting your giving objectives.

We are here to help.  The Community Foundation is a specialist in giving to the local community, and we make the process quick, easy and cost effective.  We ensure that your gift has the impact that you want it to; transforming lives and creating opportunities for people that would otherwise never experience them.