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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.