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About us

The Community Foundation for Lancashire helps individuals and organisations give to causes that matter to them, providing a strategic approach to charitable giving and a robust grant making service, which combined with our insight into community need, ensures that together we achieve maximum impact – reaching those who need it most. 

We have the knowledge and networks to connect those who are passionate about supporting their communities to those grass roots community groups who are best placed to make a real difference. 

Working together we can build a thriving and inclusive community, where everyone can grow, flourish and prosper, now and in the future. 

We work as part of a national network of 47 UK Community Foundations, and are part of a global movement, which started in the USA in 1914, and continued to then spread worldwide.   

OUR IMPACT

£ 20.3 m+

Total amount awarded since being established

£ 400 k+

Total amount awarded
2024/25

85 +

Grants Awarded
2024/25

40000 +

Number of people helped
2024/25

What’s new?

Mental Health Awareness Week: CFL’s Ongoing Support for Lancashire’s Mental Health 

Mental health continues to be a significant public health challenge across Lancashire, including the unitary…

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Dig In: How One Veteran-Led Garden Is Transforming Mental Health Support in Lancashire 

For Mental Health Awareness Week, the Community Foundation for Lancashire (CFL) visited Dig In, a…

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Lancashire Investors in Community: Harnessing Business for Social Good 

Each year, our members come together at the LIiC Annual Dinner – the event brings…

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Reflecting on a Year of Impact: Our Grant Making in 2024/25

Throughout the year, we have managed a blend of existing funds while forging new partnerships…

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International Women’s Day: Celebrating Female-Led Organisations

For 25 years, Aawaz has been a vital grassroots organisation in Blackburn, dedicated to supporting…

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Children’s Mental Health Week: Celebrating Flowhesion Foundation

Flowhesion Foundation has been supported by The Christal Foundation to deliver their ‘Hugs Not Drugs’…

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Ram Gupta Joins the Board of Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside

We are thrilled to announce that Ram Gupta, Managing Director of nybble.co.uk Ltd, has joined…

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Seeing is Believing: Your Support Matters

Lancashire Investors in Community members recently benefited from a visit to the Lower House Sensory…

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Ruj Dev, New Trustee Appointment

New Trustee Appointment Announced

We are delighted to announce that Ruj Dev, Chief Financial Officer at Mills & Reeve,…

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Who we work with

We help individuals and organisations give to causes that matter to them. Click the logos to learn more about them.

Your support matters and we thank each and every one of you. Together we can make a difference.

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Department for Culture Medio
Enterprise Vision Awards (EVAS) logo
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Fylde Council Logo
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North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce
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“Some of the most impressive businesses have been founded by people who have known deprivation and hardship that has driven them to succeed. Lancashire Investors in Community provides business with the pathway to supporting the many voluntary organisations throughout our county that help to give hope to those who might, one day, be the employers of the future”

Edwin Booth CBE, DL, Executive Chairman E.H Booth & Co Ltd, Founding Investor & Ambassador Lancashire Investors in Community