{"id":57651,"date":"2015-06-08T10:23:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T10:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=468c449fde050b12a5ee54ea7877b088"},"modified":"2015-06-08T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T10:23:17","slug":"news-story-alternative-ways-to-support-your-community-or-a-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=57651","title":{"rendered":"News story: Alternative ways to support your community or a good cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>There are over 160,000 registered charities in England and Wales and many more unregistered charities. Setting up and running a charity takes a lot of work.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to help your local community but don\u2019t have lots of spare time to run a charity, you could consider setting up a fund with a Community Foundation instead.<\/p>\n<p>UK Community Foundations are local grant-making organisations. They can help you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>work out where your local community needs support<\/li>\n<li>identify local groups that are already meeting these needs<\/li>\n<li>decide how to use donations strategically and effectively<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Community Foundation trust may be more appropriate than a charity if the cause you\u2019re helping will be relatively short-lived, for example restoring a forest after a storm. <\/p>\n<p>To set up a Community Foundation trust, contact:<\/p>\n<div class=\"address\">\n<div class=\"adr org fn\">\n<p>Mark Doherty<br \/>\n<br \/>UKCF Operations Manager<br \/>\n<br \/>mdoherty@ukcommunityfoundationms.org<br \/>\n<br \/>020 7713 9326<br \/>\n\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>If you want to support an international cause, such as raising funds for a disaster outside the UK, a new charity might not be the best option. Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/donate-volunteer-humanitarian-disaster\">how to donate and volunteer to aid humanitarian disasters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Community Foundation trusts can be an alternative to starting a charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}