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2 May 2019

Fathers New Shoe Making Project

The Fathers New Shoe Making Project has been a project in the making for 12 months and the men are now making really good quality sandals. The dump site where the men worked collecting plastic and cardboard for recycling closed late 2016/2017 and hundreds of men lost their already meagre ...

17 April 2019

Celebrating 70 years by running 26 miles for Purple!

We would like to introduce you all to our rather extraordinary marathon runner Rod Sharp. Rod decided that to celebrate his 70th birthday he was going to fulfil a lifelong ambition of running the London Marathon (his third and he has promised his wife final marathon!) luckily for us he will be ...

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 ...

25 January 2018

Purple Highlights of 2017

As we enter the new year it is always a great opportunity to reflect on the achievements of the previous one. So much happend for PCF in 2017 it was hard to make a bullet point list but we have done our best, here are our Purple Highlights of 2017 all of which would not have been possible without ...

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 ...