Give to your Surrey community
Looking for a charity to support in Surrey? Need help to find local community organisations to support?
At the Community Foundation for Surrey, we specialise in helping people who are passionate about Surrey to support their local communities by giving back locally.
Worried that your donation won’t be large enough to make a difference? Not feeling like a ‘philanthropist’?
We work with over 80 different funds – hardly anyone we work with calls themselves a philanthropist! Yet they are all making a massive difference locally. We also work to bring donors together – our collective funds enable several donors to club together to support a cause they care about.
Together, we work towards building a stronger, fairer Surrey for all, where no one is left behind.
Thank you for considering a donation and supporting our work
At the Community Foundation for Surrey, our expert grants team understand the hidden need in Surrey – the pockets of poverty and deprivation that can go unnoticed. They also work closely with grassroots organisations who are supporting local people – the sort of organisations who don’t have a PR team.
With our help, you can ensure that your money makes the maximum difference to your local community.
Make a donation
Donations can be made at any level, either as one-off donations or spread over a period of time. They can be donated as gifts of cash, legacies, shares, property or land.
You can choose to give directly to the main Community Foundation for Surrey Fund or support a particular cause or area important to you.
Our main, unrestricted Fund awards grants to a wide range of projects addressing priority and emerging needs across the county. It enables us to respond swiftly to urgent issues while also providing vital crisis support to charities facing unexpected cash‑flow challenges.
The easiest way to give is via the button to donate, which will direct you straight to our online giving page where you can donate to our main Community Foundation for Surrey Fund or view the range of funds currently open to donations.
If you have any questions or would prefer to make a bank transfer, ensuring a fee free gift, please contact us.
Don’t forget Gift Aid! Using Gift Aid means that for every pound you give, CFSurrey will receive an extra 25p from HM Revenue & Customs, helping your donation go further. Gift Aid can be taken via our online giving page or use the button below if you will be sending your donation via bank transfer or cheque.
“To be able to give and enable other people to enjoy the things I have been privileged to enjoy is wonderful.”
— Catenum Fund Donor
Become a Friend of Surrey
You can help support our local community with vital funding and make Surrey a better place for everyone
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You're in control of how much you give, becoming a Friend and making an impact in Surrey starts from as little as £2.
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You’ll receive a pack including:
Introduction to the Community Foundation for Surrey, our latest Impact Report about the issues facing disadvantaged people in our county, email bulletins and funding literature. -
We would love to welcome you to our exclusive annual “Friend” event.
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We will send you quarterly updates after each grants round with updates on where your donation has made an impact.
For more information on how to become a Friend, contact our Development Managers, Zoe Coltart or Amy Lee at giving@cfsurrey.org.uk or by calling us on 01483 478092.
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We guarantee that your funds will be used to support the local community in which you live and work.
You can visit projects you fund and see for yourself the positive impact being made. -
We invite applications from within the community, carry out excellent due diligence, arrange for grant payments to be made and carry out end of grant reporting on your behalf. Our team of experts mean that you can focus on the joy of giving.
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We have unrivalled knowledge and expertise around local community needs and provide expert advice and support in grant giving.
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We’re building endowment funds to enable us to give to local communities forever.
Why you should give to your local Surrey community through us:
Other ways you can help us…
You can support us by using easyfundraising when you shop online. Much like cashback sites you might have heard of, easyfundraising works because brands pay a commission when you start your purchase from the portal, and easyfundraising pass that on as a donation to the charity of your choice (Community Foundation for Surrey!).
If you are an organisation, you can also sign up using the registration link below and we will receive a 20% bonus on amounts raised at no detriment to you!
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