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Join our Surviving Winter appeal to help support vulnerable people
We all know that winter can be a difficult time for many people, especially those who are older or vulnerable. This year is set to be even more challenging. With your support we can help older people, struggling families and vulnerable people stay warm, well and supported through winter.
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Quartet Community Foundation achieves Quality Accreditation
We’re delighted to announce that this month we successfully completed the fifth round of Quality Accreditation. The rigorous process has been designed to promote excellent practice across the community foundation network, ensuring that we utilise our resources effectively to listen, support and advocate for our communities.
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A Behind the Scenes look at Bristol youth work
Last month 18 of our fund holders came along to our autumn Behind the Scenes event ‘Supporting young people in Bristol’. The event speakers were Rachel Robinson from LPW, pictured, and Darren Lynch-Burton from ACE.
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Bristol Local Food Fund
Did you know that over 13,000 families in Bristol experience moderate to severe food insecurity? Community food projects in Bristol play a crucial role in improving access to good quality, affordable food, but can lack access to enough funding to support their work. This is where the Bristol Local Food Fund will make a difference with its new crowdfunding campaign.
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18 months into Covid, we ask what are the needs of local charities?
23 September 2021 marks 18 months to the day since Quartet made its first Covid Emergency Response Grant. It was a time of enormous upheaval and uncertainty. It was a time when so many of you stepped up to help us and the communities in your midst. We thought you’d like to hear from some of the organisations who received those early grants.
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Great Big Green Week and funding
It’s Big Green Week and we are delighted to have been part of Bath & North East Somerset (B&NES) Climate & Biodiversity Festival, sharing our environment-related funding opportunities with groups in B&NES. Find out more and read about our funding for environmental causes.
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Funding available now
This autumn we have 10 grant programmes open. Thousands of local people benefit from support thanks to the great work of local charities awarded our grants, such as Community Scrapstore North Somerset pictured here.
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Working together to support local people
The West of England has a vibrant community and voluntary sector. We’re so pleased that last month we could award grants worth over £420,000 to 46 groups to support their great work.
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Join us as a Philanthropy Officer – applications now closed
Do you have a strong committment to the values of a community foundation, have experience of community philanthropy and grant-making? If so we would like to hear from you.
