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2 May 2018

Purple Privacy Policy

At the Purple Community Fund, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy, we wanted to explain to you when and why we collect personal information about people and how we use it. How do we collect information from you? We obtain information about you when you use our website, for ...

25 January 2018

Christmas Gift For All Day 2017

Thank YOU so much for helping us give the gift of food again this Christmas. Thanks to your generous donations we were able to give 1042 Purple Centers students, 50 livelihood workers and youth volunteers and 16 students in our education mentoring programme a bag of food to take home and share with ...

26 July 2017

Invite your friends & family to sign up for the Purple Press

We want to spread the word about all things Purple and tell more people about our amazing community projects in the Philippines, UK and elsewhere so they can Join the Purple Movement. The best way for us to do that is by signing them up to receive our monthly edition of the Purple ...

27 June 2017

The Story of How The Philippine Community Fund Became Purple

When we first started our Philippine project in 2002, it was always our hope that we would be able to raise money in the Philippines to support the work we started and eventually turn over the management of the project to the local board of trustees. In 1996 Jane Walker (founder and CEO) was ...

5 June 2017

PAWA Life Transformation Program

This excellent programme has been designed by PCF Philippines in partnership with Pan-Asia Women’s Association (PAWA) and it is a resounding success. The programme began in April and will finish at the end of July. 50 female public school students living in Baguio have been enrolled onto the ...

5 June 2017

Thank you, Margaret Curness & PCF Scotland

To celebrate Volunteers Week and show our gratitude, this month we wanted to feature some of the amazing work done by Margaret Curness and her family and our growing number of supporters up in Scotland. Margaret is a long standing supporter of PCF and has been making it her mission to spread the ...

5 June 2017

Please stop collecting Food Tin Ring Pulls

We wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued and valued efforts collecting ring pulls and other items for us. However, we most highlight again that we are NO longer accepting food tin ring pulls - this includes pet food tins. Unfortunately we have had to cease ...

27 April 2017

Awards for All – Big Lottery Funding for Cross Border Stitchers UK

We are pleased to confirm that we were successful in receiving a grant from Awards for All (Big Lottery) to fund our Cross Border Stitching project in Southampton. This project enables us to support 17 female asylum seekers and migrants develop new skills and gain qualifications. Although our ...

27 April 2017

Garden Opening for PCF

We would like to extend our thanks to Mary Cooper of the Inner Wheel of Crewkeme who as well as being a PPS (Purple Product Seller) for us will also be opening her garden to raise funds for PCF under the Hardy Plant Society 60th Anniversary Gardens Open scheme. Mary as International Service ...