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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.

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Volunteer

Use your time and skills to make a real difference across food support, mentoring, events, or street improvements.

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Donate

Help us provide practical emergency support, essentials, counselling, and long-term economic opportunity.

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Fund a Programme

Invest in measurable, audited outcomes across food security, employment coaching, counselling, and local enterprise.

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Partner With Us

Work together across schools, councils, health providers, and businesses to strengthen support networks.

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Volunteer

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

Food supportHot mealsCommunity kitchen supportGood in the Hood projectsMentoringEmployment supportAdministrationEventsFundraisingCommunity outreach
Funders & Sponsors

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.

Foodbank & Community Kitchen
Hardship Fund
Ansaar Project
Counselling
Addictions Support
Employment Coaching
The Prosperity Hub
Good in the Hood

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.

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Partnerships

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

Schools, colleges and training providers
Local authorities and public services
Health and wellbeing organisations
Housing providers
Charities and community groups
Businesses and employers
Funders and grant-making organisations
Faith organisations
Advice, legal and specialist support services

How Organisations Can Partner With Us

✓ Referring individuals and families for support
✓ Funding or sponsoring one of our programmes
✓ Providing employment, training or volunteering opportunities
✓ Sharing specialist knowledge or professional expertise
✓ Supporting our Foodbank and Community Kitchen
✓ Helping refugees, asylum seekers and newly arrived families access services
✓ Supporting counselling, addictions support or wellbeing pathways
✓ Mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs through The Prosperity Hub
✓ Joining community action through Good in the Hood

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.

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Be Part of the Change

Together, we can help more people move from hardship towards hope, stability and opportunity.