Every charity depends on donations from generous individuals, businesses or companies. In addition, grant funders like local government bodies, and charity Trusts and foundations, are an invaluable help.
Generous support from Trusts and Foundations
Below, with the most recent at the top, is a list of our grant funders. Each makes our existence and progress possible. We are grateful for every one.
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The LHC Procurement Group‘s Community Benefit Fund empowers and delivers social value to communities. In Cornwall, it is managed by Locality. Their generous grant is helping us refurbish our walled garden as a wellness space for our community members’ use, as well as for classes to be held.
Its raised beds for growing vegetables will also provide vegetables for the use of our strategic partner, the St Ives Food Bank (community meals; cookery classes, etc), and give opportunities for teaching our community members about planting and growing.
The Norman Family Trust provides funding for Westcountry charities, community groups and schools. Set up in 1979 by Mr W K Norman after he sold and retired from his Norman’s Cash & Carry business, and wanted repay the local support of his customers. The Trust especially favours smaller, local charities. With our thanks to its Trustees for this grant.
In October 2024 we were one of 3 local charities nominated for the Co Op Community Fund grant. Thanks to votes from our community members, the EHC was awarded the largest grant in our locality! This will help us with core funding, which includes our utilities and general upkeep.
The Co-op also recently awarded us an unexpected £150 bonus! We are thankful for their generosity.
In August 2025 we were once again awarded a grant by the The National Lottery Community Fund. (See below for the first, a contribution to our start-up costs.) This is a much more significant grant which contributes to core costs, as well as pays for 2 part-time staff members who provide, respectively, business and social media support, and maintenance/caretaking.
The St. Ives Town Deal board is part of St. Ives Town Council. The grant, funded by the government, is distributed by Cornwall Council. It paid for renovations and repairs, enabling more service provision for the community.
The Albert Hunt Trust supports a wide variety of health and well-being causes. In late 2025 we received a second generous grant from them – the first having come in 2024 – which will help enormously with running costs as we expand into our next phase of growth.
The support of Volunteer Cornwall allows us to offer community workshops at no cost to participants. Examples include the weekly Knit & Natter group and various training sessions.
The Antony Estate belongs to the Carew-Pole family. Their Carew Pole Charitable Trust focuses on projects that help people in need, in particular those aiming to have long-term impact. Priority is given to causes in Cornwall.
The Baltic Exchange Charitable Foundation usually provides grants for maritime services. Capt. Edward Hain was a member, and is listed on their 1914-1918 Honour Roll. They very kindly voted us a discretionary grant.
Cornwall Community Foundation‘s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSE) grant helps pay our core funding costs. It is distributed by Cornwall’s Voluntary Sector Forum (VSF).
St. Ives Town Council’s Community Organisations Core Funding Grant: This grant helped us with running costs in our crucial start-up period.
Cornwall Council‘s Community Chest gives small grants to not-for-profit groups across Cornwall. Each Councillor has a small budget to support projects in their area. We are lucky enough to have received two of these to contribute to core running costs. The first was from Cllr. Linda Taylor ; the second from Cllr. Andrew Mitchell.
The National Lottery Community Fund‘s Awards For All was the first grant we received, in August 2023. It included funding for our Open Weekend launch in September, and startup costs.
