The Mountsorrel Community Support Fund helps residents of Mountsorrel who find themselves in need, hardship or distress.
The Mountsorrel Community Support Fund was created specifically to support local people by providing financial assistance in the form of grants, which do not have to be repaid. Grants are also made to organisations for specific projects to benefit the people we support.
We are able to help in a variety of ways and over the years have helped members of the community with electrical household products, decorating, carpeting, mobility equipment (e.g. mobility scooters that are not supplied by Social Services), hospital travel expenses, footcare, gardening and many other items and services.
The organisation is funded from investments managed by Mountsorrel United Charities, which was set up in 1874.
For more information about the Mountsorrel Community Support Fund (which is the working name of the Mountsorrel Relief in Need Charity), as well as Mountsorrel United Charities, see the online Charity Commission Register.
Click the link below to read our easy-read guidance on how to apply. This guide was kindly created for us by Homefield College. See their website here.
Our vision is to be at the heart of the Mountsorrel community supporting those in hardship.
Our values are to act and communicate in an open, transparent, and non-judgemental way • Show respect for other people’s decisions and beliefs • Challenge ourselves and are respectful of challenge from others • Trust our democratic processes and respect the outcomes • Respect privacy and maintain confidentiality across the organisation • Work to help people in need and to protect the financial future of the charities • Continually seek to improve our reach to our current and future beneficiaries in the community
The Mountsorrel Community Support Fund evolved from several smaller charities which have been caring for people in the Mountsorrel community since 1874. The oldest of these was the “Charity of Ralph Smalley for the Poor” which dates back even further to the seventeenth century.
We occasionally have vacancies for co-opted trustees, especially for people who have lived experience of living in need, hardship or distress; and for people with relevant professional experience. Please contact info@mountsorrelcsf.org.uk if you would like to be considered when we next have a vacancy.