News & insights

Here you’ll find the latest news on all things philanthropy and funding, as well as updates on our research and blogs written by our team.

19 December 2024

Somerset Community Foundation awards over £350,000 to local community-led businesses to help boost rural economy

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4 December 2024

£25,000 funding for Ilminster: Celebrating local projects and community spirit

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20 November 2024

Stacked Wonky young performers light up Sadler’s Wells main stage

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30 October 2024

Partnership Fund helps to stop waste and grow community connections

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23 September 2024

Bridgwater station converts new room for community use thanks to HPC Community Fund

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12 September 2024

Safeguarding: Why it’s crucial in our funding decisions

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23 July 2024

Ilminster family transfers their Charitable Trust to Somerset Community Foundation

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21 June 2024

Somerset Freemasons mark 15-year charitable partnership with Somerset Community Foundation

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4 June 2024

Charity creates recycling bin storage shelters for social housing tenants in Bridgwater

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10 November 2023

Charity to transform a vacant Shepton Mallet town centre property thanks to social investment funding from Somerset Community Foundation

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19 October 2023

Somerset Community Foundation awards over £150,000 to help local community groups survive cost-of-living crisis

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17 August 2023

£220,000 funding boost ‘energises’ Bridgwater Baptist Church

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4 July 2023

Funding summer fun in Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge

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23 May 2023

Funding boost for young people living in Wembdon

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12 May 2023

Up to £200,000 to be awarded to community organisations thanks to Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner

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21 April 2023

£1.25 million grant towards Bridgwater Carnival redevelopment programme

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21 March 2023

Power of youth work celebrated at special event thanks to £25,000 grant funding

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13 March 2023

Funding boost for performance and career training in west Somerset

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19 January 2023

Intergenerational workshops create understanding and compassion thanks to funding from Hinkley Point C Community Fund

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18 January 2023

Provisional award of £1.25 million made to the Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival

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16 November 2022

Bridgwater’s outdoor spaces to improve thanks to new funding

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20 July 2022

Below the Radar: Cultivating the growth of community groups

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19 July 2022

More grants to help prevent crime in Somerset

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12 July 2022

Burnham & Weston Energy Sunshine Fund awards £35,000 to local communities

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24 May 2022

Compass shows the way thanks to flexible funding from Somerset Community Foundation

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11 April 2022

Somerset Community Foundation awards £44K to local community and voluntary organisations from the Arts Council’s Let’s Create Jubilee Fund

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3 March 2022

Community arts hub gets a makeover thanks to HPC Community Fund grant

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20 January 2022

People living with dementia in Sedgemoor helped thanks to the Hinkley Point C Community Fund

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9 December 2021

SCF to distribute Arts Council England fund helping communities celebrate Platinum Jubilee through culture and creativity

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4 November 2021

Somerset Sight offers vital services to vulnerable people in our communities with help from the Hinkley Point C Community Fund

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