Anchor Butter launches new £100,000 community fund

Leading British butter brand Anchor has joined forces with the UK Community Foundations (UKCF) to launch a new fund to encourage community connections across the country.

The brand will be donating £100,000 to establish the Anchor Community Connection Fund which will support local organisations that use food to bring people together and strengthen local connections.

The new fund will initially be distributed in three areas of the UK by their local community foundations, Leeds Community Foundation, Heart of Bucks Community Foundation and Wiltshire Community Foundation.

“Food has always been at the heart of community life in Britain and cooking and enjoying food should be accessible for everyone. This is why we’ve partnered with the UK Community Foundation to connect local communities and ensure that as many people as possible have access to cooking skills, food education and friendship,” Stuart Ibberson, spokesperson for Anchor, said.

“Through the partnership, we aim to spread a bit of food positivity in neighbourhoods across the nation.”

UK Community Foundations is the membership organisation for the UK’s 47 accredited community foundations, the only national network of charitable funders with a physical presence in every part of the UK.

“We are delighted to be working with Arla and Anchor to set up this new fund which will bring people together over shared food and strengthen community connections,” Rosemary Macdonald, UKCF chiefr executive, commented.

“UKCF’s national reach means that we can help our corporate partners make a difference right across the UK and we look forward to sharing the stories of the groups and projects that the Anchor Community Connection Fund will support.”

Owned by farmer-cooperative Arla Foods, Anchor is made in Westbury, Wiltshire, with 100 per cent British milk. The Anchor Community Connection Fund will launch in July and the participating community foundations will award grants of up to £5,000 to groups using food to bring communities together.