The Gloucestershire Community Foundation has been granted £10,000 as part of the Benefact Group's Movement for Good Awards.

The latest phase of the Movement for Good Awards will see more than £500,000 in funding be awarded to 31 charities working across the climate change and environment, education and skills, heritage and arts and rural and community sectors.

The Cheltenham-based charity supports and funds hundreds of community projects and initiative all over Gloucestershire.

The £10,000 funding will go towards the charity's INVEST Leadership Programme, which will link charity leaders with expert mentors to help them work through challenges they are having at work together, using Action Learning Sets, a proven method of problem-solving.

The Movement for Good Awards are designed to help charities make a real difference in their communities and beyond. More than 500 charities applied for the funding, with the winning projects selected against four criteria: impact and effectiveness; sustainability; innovation; and care and compassion.

Another charity - Cathedrals' Workshop Fellowship - which funds the education and training of skilled heritage craftspeople, which is vital for conserving and repairing Gloucester Cathedral among other projects, also landed a donation as part of the latest round of charitable funding.

Mark Hews, group chief executive of Benefact Group, said: "At Benefact Group, we believe business should be a force for good. More than ever, charitable causes need sustained support and a sense of financial stability. Through our Movement for Good larger-grant awards, we are championing a more imaginative way of supporting charities, so that they can have some certainty in these challenging times.

"We know our funding can be a lifeline to those who are struggling with cost-of-living increases and a grant of this scale can make a huge difference to the incredible work that charities do.

"Benefact Group is the fourth largest corporate donor in the UK and has an ambition to be the biggest. Owned by a charity, all our available profits go to good causes, and the more the group grows, the more the group can give. As a company whose purpose is to contribute to the greater good of society, charitable giving is at the heart of what we do."

A spokesperson from the Gloucestershire Community Foundation, said: "Gloucestershire Community Foundation has been a lifeline for funding and community leadership support to many charities in the county. In the last two years alone, we have supported over 350 Gloucestershire charities, positively impacting around 184,000 people.

"The funding we have received from the Movement for Good Awards will be vital in supporting our INVEST programme, which provides unique and much needed personal support to our charity leaders. This is needed now more than ever as their organisations lurch from crisis to crisis, and we cannot afford for the sector to lose such an important human resource."