Community support

Woking Community Focus Ltd (WCF) supports local communities. Amongst other activities it provides grant funding for local charities, voluntary groups, schools and special projects. WCF has sponsored over 30 charitable organisations over the years details of which are set out in the list opposite. In addition, for several years from 2015, WCF held a Volunteer Awards Ceremony at the WWF Living Planet Centre in Woking. The aim was to celebrate and reward the many and diverse charities and organisations in Woking and their volunteers, who provide much needed support to local residents. The annual events were a great success and they also provided an opportunity for the charities to exhibit and to exchange ideas and information leading to collaboration on some services.

In addition to the Volunteer Awards, WCF has previously sponsored:

  • Food vouchers for families with children during school holidays
  • Various literacy schemes with primary schools providing a range of teaching material and reading books.
  • New Monument School to refurbish an outdoor quiet area and pond
  • Send Women’s Prison to provide reading books for mothers to share with their children during visits
  • Catalyst sponsorship to establish and develop a recovery cafe in Woking for people who suffer through addictions
  • Woking Foodbank
  • York Road Project donation plus mobile phones and top-up credit to keep in touch with clients and funding during Covid crisis
  • Citizens Advice donation during Covid crisis
  • Your Sanctuary to help support the provision of a new Women’s Refuge.
  • Cornerhouse Donations for urgent mental crisis groups
  • Surrey Choices Direction Radio station equipment to enable users to improve confidence, gain independence and learn new skills and work experience
  • LinkAble Woking project to enable service users to undergo work experience, to improve their outside area and provide soft toys
  • Greenoak Housing: Grant for older people’s services for living support and activities
  • Woking Hospice new build appeal and nurse’s equipment wish list
  • First Responders, Woking to provide kit and training for two additional Responders
  • Woking Furniture Project
  • Freemantles School: I pads for pupils with autism
  • Goldsworth Park Rangers ‘Under 6s’ football team: annual team kits
  • Let’s Read – Literacy Project in Sheerwater: annual support funding
  • Schools: Books and teaching aids to keep children safe
  • Woking Street Angels: uniform, kits and training to fund an extra night’s service
  • Surestart/Busy Bees: trips to the seaside and family days
  • Woking’s The Lighthouse building project: security doors and works
  • The Mayor’s Picture a story competition: publicity and book prizes