Bennelong Foundation UK

Please keep scrolling to read about the local charities we have supported in the last few years.

The Bennelong Foundation

Bangarra Family Office established the Bennelong Foundation in 2002 and the Bennelong Foundation UK in 2020, with the aim to enhance community wellbeing and provide opportunities for positive and lasting change in our community. The Foundation is the driving force of the Bangarra Family Office’s work, its reason for being. Its continued success relies upon an ever-evolving understanding of community needs, an innovative approach to tackling our most significant social challenges and the deep passion and commitment that the Bangarra team delivers.

Lighthouse Community Centre is based in Liskeard, one of the UK’s top 20 most deprived areas, providing vital support services for people of all ages, running a varied program that inspires, educates and helps develop skills and confidence for future life.

Bennelong Foundation UK is supporting the development of a membership based, user led “Food Club” to include a “Tailored Support Programme” that will enable Lighthouse Community Centre to provide long term help and support to people experiencing tough times, giving people choice and dignity whilst also addressing food waste.

Trelya is a registered charity with 20 years’ experience of working with children, young people and families to break cycles of poverty and deprivation. They operate out of a 3 story, purpose-built community centre in Penzance East – the second most deprived community in Cornwall.

Trelya’s services include an early years provision, family work, youth work, mentoring & training and employment services.

Realising Ambition’ is a revolutionary mentoring programme that works with young people experiencing the greatest challenges in the poorest communities. Each child is allocated their own mentor who works with them week in week out, year after year, to develop their core assets and support their transitions into adolescence and adulthood.

The Dracaena Centre serve the towns of Falmouth and Penryn and surrounding rural hinterland. They promote physical activity, wellbeing, health, training, advice, guidance and restorative and social justice targeting to support young people, early years, families, older people and the wider community.They believe that providing a safe and supportive environment is key to the facilitation of activities promoting social and intergenerational interaction and community cohesion.

Many of the families who are referred to the programme are struggling with issues such as domestic violence, abuse, debt, homelessness, emotional, metal, and physical illness, school truancy, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, dysregulation in the home and school environment, isolation, poverty and loneliness. The Link Up programme works with vulnerable families through a variety of support methods, including 1:1, group work, positive activities, collaborative working with professionals, partner agencies and other organisations and providing internal and external referral pathways moving forward

Devon and Cornwall Food Action Charity is a Registered Charity which strives to eradicate food poverty in Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall. The Charity has found that it is an unfortunate fact that food poverty exists within the shores of the UK. The Charity is staffed by a brilliant volunteer workforce and we deliver food boxes of food provision to local families, referred from partners and identified as struggling financially and deemed as being in financial poverty in the unmarked delivery vehicles/cars, which are owned by the Charity, directly to the doorsteps of those individual families in need. This discreet delivery service reduces stigma and embarrassment of those requiring additional support from services such as ours.

Performance Plus Sport UK aim is to get the best out of young people through sport and are committed to supporting young sportspeople with the right attitude, creating opportunities for those who wouldn’t have had the chance otherwise to advance and create career pathways and make young people more employable.

BFUK-PPS support through sport is the program where they work with trusted delivery partners in the most deprived areas of London to deliver programmes to groups and rely on coach recommendations to offer further support to the most deserving and in need young people.

Livewire is an independent long-standing youth charity based on the banks of the River Tamar in Saltash, Cornwall, offering support to young people through music and traditional youth work, helping steer them through the trials and tribulations of growing up.

The Livewire Youth Project charity offers a safe space for young people, using contemporary music to help unlock creativity and provide support. With charitable donations they are able to provide FREE music lessons and a stage to perform in their fully equipped live music venue in Saltash. Livewire Youth Project help young people across Cornwall and Devon to conquer challenges through music whilst offering mental health support services.

The WILD Young Parents’ Project's mission is to provide whole-family services for young Mum’s and Dad’s and their children, working with the families to meet their individual needs to create a positive start to family life.

They check that families are able to meet their basic needs and understand key health messages, supporting with finances, food and staying connected through 1:1 sessions, in-person and online activities.

Over the last 26 years they have reached 13,000 Mum’s, Dad’s and children!

Liskeard & Looe Foodbank was started in 2010 as a direct response to the poverty seen in the streets of our towns and villages in South East Cornwall.

Our foodbank is a project founded by local churches and community groups, working together towards stopping hunger in our local area.

Food is donated by churches, chapels, schools, businesses and individuals; it is brought to our new warehouse at Trevecca Industrial Estate, Liskeard, where it is sorted, stored and packed into emergency food boxes by volunteers, to be distributed throughout much of South East Cornwall from our client office at 21 Dean Street Liskeard.

As well as our Foodbank Centre in Liskeard which is open three mornings a week Mon/Weds/Fri for clients to collect their food help, we have a distribution point in Torpoint at St James Church Hall which is open on Monday and Wednesday mornings.