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F U N D I N G
What We Fund
What we want to support and why, plus how you might match our ambitions
Are You a Match For The Trust?
O U R A I M S
We aim to fund charities that align with our three areas of focus: The Arts, Education & Women’s Health.
G R A N T S R A N GE
We expect our grants to be generally in the range £1,000 - £10,000, though we may go outside that range by exception. We will typically make a one-year grant in the first instance, but as we build confidence in what our grants are able to achieve, we expect to make multi-year grants (usually for a maximum of three years) to a limited number of charities.
M A K E A
D I F F E R E N C E
We will favour charities for whom a grant from us would make a material difference to what they are able to do. Our intention is to be actively supportive of the charities we fund, hence we are open to opportunities to visit and meet with you or see your work. We are, nonetheless, conscious of not putting undue demands on charity volunteers and staff, who we know from experience are often working under many constraints.
O U R F O C U S A R E A S
Education
Education is the first gateway to opportunity, but at every stage – before school, at school or college, and beyond – too many people never get the chance to find their talents and develop them. We want to support organisations that can give people a better start or give them a second chance if they missed out the first time.
The Arts
We believe experiencing the arts as participants or audience enriches the societies in which we exist; the arts are part of what makes life worth living. Yet the arts are struggling for funding and many young people, particularly in schools, are denied any meaningful access to them. We want to support organisations that open the door to the individual and collective benefits that appreciating or participating in
the arts can bring.
Women's Health
Women face many barriers to opportunity in life, among them women-specific health issues which have suffered historically from insufficient policy and public attention. Health issues can present a daily challenge to quality of life, education and work. We want to support organisations which are addressing this important and under-recognised area of women’s well-being, through awareness raising, intervention, research and advocacy.
