CFN is delighted to announce that they have been chosen as a recipient of a 50th birthday gift from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. The Foundation wants to mark the occasion by making an award to CFN to celebrate the life and work of Ian and Esmée Fairbairn with an initiative that is both significant and enduring.

Community Foundation Network (CFN) welcomes the recommendations and initiatives in the Government’s White Paper on Giving launched today and calls on the government to make sure that increased levels of giving reach local community based organisations as well as the large national charities that currently dominate the fundraising market.

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The Big Lottery Fund announces  that it will be supporting the Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund with up to £1 million, as part of ‘People Powered Change’.