Corporate Giving with Hampshire & Isle of Wight Community Foundation
Supporting your local community
We partner with Hampshire and the Isle of Wight businesses to help achieve their charitable and Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) goals. Together we build stronger businesses and stronger communities through partnerships that change the lives of local people every day.
We see many examples of local businesses or developers seeking to support their local community but often struggling to manage all the requests for donations they receive from local charities, or the due diligence and processes of grant giving.
We can set up named Corporate Funds or Community Benefit Funds for your business or development, and with our local knowledge and grant giving expertise we help deliver a strategic grants programme, with real impact.
What are the benefits of setting up a Fund with us?
- We support you to ensure your giving is active, planned and tied closely to your business values and goals.
- We manage all requests for support, the applications and grant making, letting you get on with growing your business activities.
- Your fund can be relevant to the geographical area in which your business operates, or a theme that is relevant to your industry.
- We manage and promote PR and communications relating to the set up or your Fund and grants awarded.
- We can involve your staff in deciding which charities to support and arrange visits to the projects that have been funded, creating opportunities for enhanced staff engagement.
- For Community Benefit Funds, we can involve the local community in decision making to ensure the fund is spent in the way they would like.
- We provide regular reports on your charitable giving, supporting staff and stakeholder communications.
Working with local developers to deliver Community Benefit Funds
We also deliver community benefit funds for renewable energy, housing and other developments. Being an independent grant maker with no vested interest in the planning process can be invaluable.
The UK network of Community Foundations has extensive experience delivering these funds and our hyper local knowledge of communities is what makes the partnerships so successful. If you would like to find out more please get in touch.
