Help Create Lasting Local Change
There are many ways to support Nelson Community Foundation. When you support our work, you are not only helping someone through a crisis—you are helping create a pathway towards stability, wellbeing, employment, enterprise and community contribution.
Whether you want to volunteer, donate, fund a programme, make a referral or work with us as a partner, your support helps people move from hardship towards hope and opportunity.
Volunteer
Use your time and skills to make a real difference across food support, mentoring, events, or street improvements.
Donate
Help us provide practical emergency support, essentials, counselling, and long-term economic opportunity.
Fund a Programme
Invest in measurable, audited outcomes across food security, employment coaching, counselling, and local enterprise.
Partner With Us
Work together across schools, councils, health providers, and businesses to strengthen support networks.
Use Your Time and Skills to Make a Difference
Volunteers are an essential part of our work. By giving your time, you can help support people in need, strengthen local services, and build a more caring community.
Ways You Can Help
Fund a Programme: Invest in Measurable Impact
Funders can support one or more specific areas of our work. Your support fuels audited outcomes such as food parcels, hot meals, counselling sessions, employment coaching, business mentoring, and pathways into sustainable work.
Transparent Reporting: We provide detailed updates, impact data, and anonymised stories of change to show exactly how your grant or corporate support creates lasting social value.
Working Together for Stronger Communities
Nelson Community Foundation welcomes partnerships with organisations that share our commitment to supporting people, strengthening families, and creating lasting local change. Hardship is complex—no single organisation can meet every need alone.
Who We Partner With
How Organisations Can Partner With Us
Why Partner With Nelson Community Foundation?
We are a trusted grassroots organisation with strong local relationships and direct access to communities that are often underserved or hard to reach. Our connected model brings together immediate relief, emotional support, employment coaching, enterprise development, and community action.
Together, we can reduce hardship, strengthen wellbeing, increase opportunity, and build more resilient communities across Nelson, Pendle, and Burnley.
Be Part of the Change
Together, we can help more people move from hardship towards hope, stability and opportunity.