• Quality Accreditation is a programme run by CFN to endorse and encourage best practice in the network. It is based on a set of standards developed by members for members, and formally endorsed by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Achieving Quality Accreditation demonstrates that community foundations are serious about quality and accountability. It specifies what we do and how we do it in a way that other quality systems cannot ensure.

• Standards include seven key performance areas plus a corporate assessment.

• Definition
• Governance
• Finance
• Donor services and development
• Grant-making
• Community engagement
• Communications

• 80% of the network is accredited and the remaining 20% are working with CFN to finalise accreditation. Community foundations accredited by CFN are entitled to use the special network logo shown here. CFN accreditation of members runs until the end of 2009.

• Quality accredited community foundations

  Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation
  Berkshire Community Foundation
  Birmingham Community Foundation
  Buckinghamshire Community Foundation
  Cambridgeshire Community Foundation
  Capital Community Foundation
  Community Foundation for Calderdale
  Community Foundation for Greater Manchester
  Community Foundation for Merseyside
  Community Foundation for Northern Ireland
  Community Foundation for Shropshire and Telford
  Community Foundation for Wiltshire and Swindon
  Community Foundation in Wales
  Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland
  Cornwall Community Foundation
  County Durham Community Foundation (includes Darlington)
  Cumbria Community Foundation
  Derbyshire Community Foundation
  Devon Community Foundation
  East London Community Foundation
  Essex Community Foundation
  Gloucestershire Community Foundation
  Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Community Foundation
  Heart of England Community Foundation (covers Coventry & Warwickshire)
  Hertfordshire Community Foundation
  Kent Community Foundation
  Leeds Community Foundation
  Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Community Foundation
  Lincolnshire Community Foundation
  Milton Keynes Community Foundation
  Norfolk Community Foundation
  Northamptonshire Community Foundation
  Nottinghamshire Community Foundation
  Oxfordshire Community Foundation
  Quartet Community Foundation (covers Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bath and North East Somerset)
  Scottish Community Foundation
  Somerset Community Foundation
  South Yorkshire Community Foundation
  St Katharine & Shadwell Trust
  Suffolk Foundation
  Surrey Community Foundation
  Sussex Community Foundation
  Tees Valley Community Foundation
  Thames Community Foundation
  York and North Yorkshire Community Foundation
  

More information

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• Finding UK community foundations Find out more about your local community foundation
• What is a community foundation? Community foundations explained
• Quality Accreditation How community foundations demonstrate quality and accountability
• Community Foundation Network (CFN) The role of the national association
• Frequently asked questions about community foundations and CFN
• Looking for funding? Essential information for community groups
• History Landmarks in the development of UK community foundations
• Links to information on the wider community foundation movement and philanthropy, and press coverage of community foundations
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