Companies and trusts

Giving money away can be the simplest thing, and we don’t mean to overstate how tough it is to write a cheque to your favourite charity.

What can be tricky is taking it to the next stage and adopting a structured, focused approach to achieving social change. This is one of the motivations for setting up a charitable trust.

A fund with the CCF offers all the benefits of a charitable trust – flexibility, donor involvement and contact with beneficiaries – without any of the administrative burdens or prohibitive costs.

It exists for people who want to engage in philanthropy, or who want to target a particular problem with their giving. We try to make philanthropy accessible, and encourage collective action and the sharing of knowledge, experience and resources.

Setting up a Fund is quick, easy and rewarding. It takes one meeting of less than one hour.

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that’s the tough part in life.