# Persimmon Homes creates £750k community fund

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/03/18/persimmon-homes-creates-750k-community-fund/
- Published: 2015-03-18T09:03:05+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Housebuilder Persimmon Homes has created a £750,000 community fund to support 
local groups and charities across the UK. These organisations can apply for up to
£1,000 each to match money they have already raised themselves.**

[The first grants](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/11/15/google-grants-for-charities/)
from **Persimmon Community Champions** will be made this month.

Jeff Fairburn, Group CEO, said:

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> “We want to hear from all types of groups and charities. You may be a small scout
> group looking for funding for a trip, a school PTA looking to create a vegetable
> patch or a community swimming club looking to offer further classes to the local
> community.
> “We want to hear from everyone as we’re determined to invest our money where it
> will help the most. All we ask is that the group or charity has already worked
> hard to raise money themselves, and we will then match this effort with funding
> of up to £1,000”.

 

**Editor’s note:** _the video previously embedded here (https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=zpjXN5JxY30) is no longer available._

 

## Largest sum to date from Persimmon Homes

![persimmon-homes-charity-winner](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/
files/images/news/persimmon-homes-charity-winner.jpg)

Persimmon Homes donated a [new house to The Harley Staples Cancer Trust in Leicester](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2012/09/27/leicester-charity-wins-250000-house/)
worth £250,000 in 2012.

You might remember the company’s charitable campaign from three years ago when it
[donated a new house to one charity](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2012/09/27/leicester-charity-wins-250000-house/).
Before that it had made substantial donations to charities, including a [£250,000 gift to Marie Curie](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/2008/02/28/persimmon-homes-donates-250000-marie-curie-cancer-care/)
in 2008.

But this is the largest sum that it has made available to charities so far.

![Persimmon Community Fund is offering £750,000 to charities and local groups.](
https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/persimmon-homes-fund-800.
jpg)

Persimmon Community Fund is offering £750,000 to charities and local groups.

Fairburn added:

> “This is an extremely proud day for the whole business. We have always supported
> charities but we have never come together with such a large pot of money. We hope
> that our funding of £750,000 can make a huge difference across every community.
> “Every one of our businesses has two grants of up to £1,000 each to give away 
> every month. That’s £2,000 a month from 24 regional teams plus a further £2,000
> from our PLC head office and Space4 timber frame business”.

Applications to [Persimmon Community Champions](http://www.persimmonhomes.com/charity)
are now open.

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