How To Give to The Derbyshire Community Foundation

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Charitable giving by individuals and families can make a real difference to the local community. Derbyshire Community Foundation can help to set up your own charitable fund to support local causes that you care about.

The Foundation will handle the administration of you fund and work with you to make your giving more rewarding.

Unlike other charities, we have the versatility to assist a wide range of causes, from children to the elderly, from the arts to the environment. We have a professional dedicated staff team to advise you on your charitable giving.

About Us
Derbyshire Community Foundation is dedicated to improving quality of life and helping to build stronger communities across the county by building an endowment fund to benefit Derbyshire people in perpetuity. The Foundation also distributes funds across Derbyshire on behalf of local, regional and national government agencies, through a variety of grant-making programmes.

Setting up your own Charitable Fund
Derbyshire Community Foundation makes it possible for all people to have their own charitable fund, which works just like a charitable trust. Setting up a fund with the Foundation offers you a cost-effective alternative to establishing and/or managing your own charitable trust. The Foundation handles all legal and administrative requirements and works with you to make your charitable giving easier and more rewarding.

Your fund can be established with a one-off gift or built up over time. We never forget that each fund is different and prefer to set the criteria for the fund in consultation with you.

• A quick and easy process for setting up a fund
• Proven grant-making expertise
• Guidance on the most tax efficient ways to give
• A way to keep in touch with our work and local community issues
• Targeted grant making to projects that meet your criteria
• A service to deal with appeal letters
• Professional management of investments
• An opportunity to make a gift that will benefit the community forever

Leaving a legacy to Derbyshire Community Foundation offers a lasting way to put something back in to the county. Your donation can go on making a difference as grants are made year after year to meet the needs of future generations. Such gifts are usually free from inheritance tax and make a huge difference to local charities. A charity legacy may even reduce the tax payable by your family on your estate.

Derbyshire Community Foundation welcomes donations of any size to support our grant making programmes. Regardless of the size of your donation, you can be sure that it will be used to improve the quality of life for the people of Derbyshire and distributed in response to local needs. Our grants are distributed to grass roots projects making a real difference to the local community.

Every general donation is pooled with others in the Foundation’s discretionary capital fund and the income used to support communities now and for years to come.