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Trusts and foundations

Working together to create lasting change

Trusts and foundations play a vital role in helping Cambridge Cyrenians provide safe homes and specialist support for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness in Cambridge. Your funding enables us to deliver stable, person-centred services and respond to complex needs with care, dignity and long-term impact.

We value strong, transparent relationships with our funders and work closely with trusts and foundations to ensure funding is used effectively and responsibly.

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Why fund Cambridge Cyrenians?

We are a well-established local charity with over 55 years experience local charity with over 40 years’ experience supporting people who are homeless or vulnerably housed in Cambridge. Our work focuses on long-term solutions, not short-term fixes, combining safe accommodation with tailored support that helps people rebuild their lives.Funding from trusts and foundations allows us to:

  • Provide safe, supported housing across Cambridge
  • Deliver specialist services, including mental health and older people’s support
  • Develop innovative, preventative approaches to homelessness
  • Respond flexibly to individual needs and emerging pressures

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Support from trusts and foundations helps us deliver a wide range of services, including:

Support from trusts and foundations helps us deliver a wide range of services, including:

  • Supported accommodation in small shared houses and self-contained flats
  • Mental health support delivered alongside housing
  • Support for older people experiencing homelessness
  • Community projects, such as our therapeutic allotment
  • Staffing, training and service development, ensuring high-quality support

We welcome both project-specific funding and unrestricted funding, which allows us to respond where need is greatest.

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Our approach to funding partnerships

We see funding relationships as partnerships built on trust, openness and shared values. We are committed to:

Clear communication and realistic outcomes

Robust monitoring and reporting

Learning and continuous improvement

Demonstrating impact through both qualitative and quantitative data

Current funding priorities

If your trust or foundation has specific areas of interest, we’re happy to discuss alignment.

Core service delivery

Supported accommodation

Mental health support

Older people’s homelessness prevention

Community and wellbeing projects

Building strong, sustainable services

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Our impact

Each year, we support over 100 people through our accommodation and specialist services. Our impact goes beyond numbers — it’s about helping people find stability, improve wellbeing and move forward with confidence.We can provide case studies, outcomes data and impact reports to support funding applications and reporting needs.

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What we're currently applying for

  • Homes for the homeless
  • Therapeutic community allotment
  • Older Homeless Service
  • Meaningful Activity Service
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If you are a trustee, grants officer or advisor and would like to discuss funding opportunities, we’d welcome a conversation.Please fill out the form to request further information, discuss priorities, or explore how we could work together.

Or give us a call on: 01223 712501

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