Setting up your own charity or trust can be overwhelming – with many administrative and legal requirements.

A named fund with Hertfordshire Community Foundation is a simple and effective alternative.

We offer a tailored service and work closely with you to ensure that your giving objectives and parameters are met and are matched with local needs.

We deal with all requests for support and manage all grant awards made.

We ensure that any projects you support have been approved by our independent grants panel.

A named fund with Hertfordshire Community Foundation is a tax-efficient way to give with minimal administration whilst helping you to achieve maximum impact through your giving.

Download our Named Fund brochure for further information below alternatively please contact us and we would be happy to answer any questions that you may have.

NAMED FUND BROCHURE

Make your donations go even further through Gift Aid at no extra cost to you. Download our Named Fund Gift Aid declaration form here.

I didn’t realise quite how many voluntary groups get together every week, all throughout Hertfordshire, with the pure intent of helping others. I find the selfless giving of time and energy by so many in our county for the benefit of others to be truly inspiring. If my involvement in HCF can help some of these amazing initiatives to keep on doing what they are doing, or even better expand their work, then I will be very happy.

Simon Tilley – Fund Holder

I am delighted to have started an endowment fund with HCF. As Lord-Lieutenant (and President of HCF) I get to meet a good number of the wonderful charities supporting the community of Hertfordshire in so many different ways and my wife and I felt it very important to offer our support to those charities on an ongoing basis. What better way to do it than to establish an endowment fund and let HCF take over all the hard work and pressure at the same time as ensuring that our funds will reach those most in need-especially the smaller charities and even individuals suffering great hardship.
It is a great honour to be President of HCF and now to be able to give back to the community adds to that honour.

Robert Voss, CBE CStJ Hon.LLD HM Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire

We wanted to mark the 20th anniversary of the passing of my wife and the mother of my three sons by setting up a charitable fund focusing on her home county. We wish we had set it up earlier! Administratively it’s been very easy to establish and then generously enhanced through a matching gift by a HCF supporter. We are happy to have focused our giving using the HCF platform.

Mark Titcomb

We chose HCF because we wanted to support smaller, local charitable organisations, which can find it harder to raise funds than the large high-profile charities. Having met members of the HCF team, we were confident that their local knowledge and experience would ensure that our donations would be directed to the people and organisations where the need was greatest.

HCF donor

HCF has a proven record of helping and supporting charities in Hertfordshire and we are delighted to use their knowledge and expertise to contribute to local communities.

Suzy and David Harvey

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