Support your local community
Community Resource is a local charity supporting people across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. We rely on grants, tenders, and the generosity and fundraising efforts of individuals, families, clubs, community groups and the local business community to deliver our services. Securing funding is becoming increasingly challenging, so your support in 2026 is more important than ever.
Every pound you raise stays local and helps people to live well, enjoy a good quality of life and feel empowered to help their communities thrive. Whether that support comes through individual fundraising activities, staff challenges, workplace giving, donations or sponsorship.
Ways to fundraise
Take on a challenge
Choose a personal challenge and raise sponsorship to support our work. You could:
- run a 5k, 10k, half marathon or marathon
- climb Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon)
- complete a triathlon or sponsored cycle
- take on a parachute jump
Schools, scouts, brownies, guides and youth groups – young people are fantastic fundraisers and can get involved through:
- bake sales
- sponsored silences
- dress up or dress down days
- fun runs or sponsored walks
- loose change collections
Individuals, clubs and community groups – bring people together with inclusive fundraising activities such as:
- coffee mornings
- quizzes
- garden parties
- seasonal fundraising events
Businesses and organisations
Partner with us to support local people
Community Resource welcomes partnership working with businesses and organisations that want to make a meaningful difference. As a local charity, we rely on a mix of grants, contracts and community support, and corporate charity partnerships play an essential role in helping us sustain and expand our services.
Your involvement helps us tackle challenges including health inequalities, loneliness, sensory loss, financial hardship and rural isolation across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
Why work with us?
Demonstrate a difference
Every donation, event or partnership directly supports local people and helps us deliver practical services that make a tangible difference.
Collaborate for change
Partner with us to show your commitment to wellbeing, social value and responsible business practice. Working together strengthens community resilience and creates long‑lasting change.
Invest for impact
Align your organisation with a trusted charity delivering measurable outcomes. Your support helps us reach more people and increases the long‑term impact of our work.
Ways to get involved
You can make a real difference locally by getting involved in a way that suits your team. You can sponsor events, including our 2026 Open Gardens, or offer volunteering and skills‑based support to strengthen community groups and projects. Whether it’s sharing expertise, providing time for team volunteering, or partnering with us on local initiatives, your organisation can play a key role in helping communities across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin thrive.
Make us your Charity of the Year. Choose Community Resource as your Charity of the Year and build a year‑round programme of fundraising, awareness and team engagement. Encourage your staff to get involved through fun and motivating activities such as:
- running events
- Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) climbs
- triathlons or sponsored cycles
- parachute jumps
- office fundraising events
How your support helps
The funds you raise directly support vital services across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, including sensory support for people with sight and hearing loss, financial resilience and fuel poverty advice, and advocacy, information and practical help.
Your generosity also strengthens local communities through rural support, community development and small grants for local groups. It helps us provide community and voluntary sector infrastructure support, giving local organisations the guidance, training and networks they need to grow stronger and help their communities thrive.
Every fundraising effort, whether large or small, creates real and positive change in local lives.
Let's work together
Let’s work together to strengthen communities across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
Whether you are an individual looking to fundraise, a community group wanting to make a local impact, a business interested in partnering with us, making us your charity of the year, or interested in sponsorship or volunteering we would love to hear from you.
Get in touch to explore how you can help create real and positive change for people across Shropshire.
Start the conversation about supporting us
📧 enquiries@community-resource.org.uk
📞 01743 360641