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Impact Report 2025

Cornwall Community Foundation connects donors with grassroots groups across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, funding work on health, poverty, community, the arts and the environment. Its Impact Report 2025 looks back on 2024, its highest grant-making year on record, with £3.2 million awarded.

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About

Cornwall Community Foundation brings local giving together and directs it to the groups making a difference in their communities. Funds such as the Health Improvement Fund, the People In Mind Community Wellbeing Fund, the Crisis Fund and the Cost of Living Crisis Fund support projects across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Its Vital Signs research identifies local needs, from housing and rural isolation to employment and climate resilience, and its outreach team offers one-to-one support to help local groups apply for funding.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Cornwall Community Foundation awarded £3.2 million in grants in 2024, its highest grant-making year on record.
Key Metric 2 More than £22 million has been awarded since 2003, supporting over 8,000 local organisations.
Key Metric 3 Grants by theme were Health and Wellbeing 38%, Addressing Poverty 32%, Making Communities Stronger 9%, Arts, Culture and Heritage 8%, Climate and Environment 6%, Learning and Education 6%, and Safety 1%; 70 one-to-one outreach support sessions were completed.

Key Outcomes

  • 27,833 people reported improved mental health and 10,031 took part in sport or exercise through funded projects.
  • 7,359 people reported an increased sense of belonging, and 6,543 volunteers enabled funded projects to run.
  • Funded projects helped avoid 11 evictions, provided emergency supplies to 3,582 people, gave 9,546 people access to healthier food and created 100 new allotments.

Geography

South West

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
8,033 children, adults and families affected by a disappearance helped in 2022/23
Key Metric 2
35,064 TextSafe® messages sent to missing children and adults; 2,960 Suicide Risk TextSafe® messages to high-risk individuals
Key Metric 3
40% of Lost Contact tracing cases successfully resolved; 1,000+ multi-agency professionals trained
30th anniversary year: over 10 years and £10 million raised by players of People's Postcode Lottery for Missing People's services
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
CHF 3 million+ total programme funding raised in 2025 — a record — with CHF 1.3 million redeployed directly to YMCA National Movements
Key Metric 2
2.5 million people reached through digital skilling initiatives via HP partnership across 30 YMCA partners since 2021
Key Metric 3
37,000 people directly reached per Community Wellbeing project (1.3 million indirectly); 85 new Change Agents enrolled from 44 countries
5,000 jobs to be created under Igniting Youth Futures (USD 5.2 million Accenture/Macquarie-funded); 750+ young people already reached at year-end
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
95 individual young people in under-16s groups; 85 in over-16s groups; 42 in Transformers (trans/non-binary); 114 young people supported through 385 one-to-one sessions
Key Metric 2
149 parents and carers supported across 44 online and in-person groups; 3,500+ participants in training and workshops across 97 sessions
Key Metric 3
96% of young people said Allsorts groups had been of help; 75% said coming to Allsorts improved their overall wellbeing
Won Investing in Children's Member of the Year Award for extensive youth voice integration; 100% of Summer Programme participants enjoyed activities
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
More than 12,000 New Yorkers served in calendar 2025
Key Metric 2
More than 9,000 diverted from unnecessary jail stays with support and treatment
Key Metric 3
83% of new 32-week employment programme graduates completed an industry-standard credential
91% of young people had no new arrest after participating in alternatives to incarceration.