Helps UK communities to thrive, focusing on children, young people and the most disadvantaged through grants for education, employability, homelessness, poverty and mental health charities.
Forms part of a national movement of community foundations that makes strategic social investments and grants to achieve positive social change in communities.
Supports research-led treatment, care and support for patients and families affected by cancer, and others who donate blood or stem cells.
Advances health and relieves sickness for the public benefit, including by supporting veterans in the UK, and pursues other charitable purposes.
The organisation improves access to competitive professions for people from under-represented ethnic minority backgrounds through training, mentoring and networking.
The charity provides good quality accommodation to vulnerable adults in towns including Barrow, Ulverston, Askam and Kendal who are homeless or struggle with health or learning difficulties.
The charity works to secure a future for elephants and the places where they live, and to build tolerant relationships between people and elephants.