Thank you from all of us at Hope for the grant notice received today, for £5,000 from the Iron Fund towards our new Ledbury project.

The project officially kicked off last week, and we’re excited to be starting our first youth bereavement group this month, alongside our under-11s and 11+ groups. We have now secured funding for almost the entire project budget, allowing us to move forward at full pace.

This project will be a real game changer for children and young people in the Ledbury area who need support, providing them with a safe, welcoming space where they can connect, express themselves and receive the support they need.

Hope Support Services – Iron Fund

My family created the Charles & Anna Saunders  Family Fund of the Herefordshire Community Foundation after I visited the Foundation offices in 2015. I was immediately impressed with the dedication and great intentions of the staff and the Board. My family wanted to contribute to their good work.

We are continually adding to the capital of the fund so that we can help the Foundation do all the good it can in Herefordshire. Among our most gratifying grants have been those to provide coaches to take school kids to the Hay Festival.

We are certain that Charles and Anna Saunders, as well as our parents Charles and Betti Saunders, would be thrilled with our fund’s contribution to HCF’s great charitable work. We are very grateful to HCF for all of their help to us and their work to improve and enhance life in Herefordshire.

Stephen Saunders, Austin Texas

Thank you so much for this wonderful news. We are absolutely delighted that Herefordshire Community Foundation has awarded LEAF £20,000 from the Friends of Ledbury & District Health Care Fund.

This grant will make a real difference. It will fund our integrated adult mental wellbeing pathway, bringing together Listening & Guidance, Kintsugi Hope, and adult counselling into one coordinated route of support.  Support at scale simply wouldn’t be possible without funders like the Friends stepping in, and we’re enormously grateful for your confidence in the project.

LEAF – Friends of Ledbury & District Healthcare Fund

I am truly overjoyed by your decision to honour my appeal and I cannot wait to begin my course. This opportunity is both an honour and a privilege, and words can hardly capture the depth of my gratitude.

My heartfelt thanks go out to everyone at the Hereford Community Foundation. It means so much to feel acknowledged—to have past experiences, which can sometimes carry a sense of shame, instead be met with understanding, and for my commitment to be recognised. For me, this gift is more than just a computer; it represents the chance to carve out a new path for myself.

Grant for BA Student in Visual-Communication – Herefordshire Education Fund

We would like to express our sincere gratitude for your generous grant of £3,000 towards our Stage Bright project. Your support is helping us continue our mission of supporting and empowering disadvantaged children, giving them opportunities to learn, grow and achieve.

 

Through regular sessions, the children will learn to express themselves, work together and discover abilities they didn’t know they had. We hope to see children who were once too shy to speak finding the courage to take on roles, join in with friends and perform with confidence.

 

On behalf of every child who will benefit, thank you!

Sparks of Success – Joanies

I am pleased to say that since receiving the Richard Bulmer grant, I have purchased a Roland Td-50 electronic drum kit, second hand, including flight cases for protection.  Since purchasing it I was booked for a professional contract at a pantomime where I have been performing daily. This has been the first professional contract I have received, and I was only able to accept because of my Roland TD-50 kit due to the specific request for an electronic drum kit. 

Individual Electronic Drum Kit – Herefordshire Education Fund and Richard Bulmer Fund