The WHSmith Group Charitable Trust is an independent registered charity (registered charity no. 1013782) that works to support local charities in communities across the UK, and to promote literacy and a love of reading.

The Trust has two principal objectives which focus its activities:

• To support the local communities in which WHSmith staff and customers live and work; and
  • To support education and lifelong learning, helping people of any age to achieve their educational potential.

Supporting local charities across the UK

We encourage our employees to be actively involved in their local communities and many of our staff fundraise or volunteer their time for charities, community groups and other local good causes. To support and encourage staff involvement, the Trust matches employee fundraising and volunteering. During the Trusts’ 2017 financial year, it made 60 grants as part of the programme, worth over £30,000 in total.

These grants go to match employee fundraising for charities our staff feel passionate about. These include small local charities such as hospices, playgroups, Scout and Brownie packs, as well as big national campaigns such as Save the Children, Help for Heroes, the British Heart Foundation and the National Autistic Society.

The Trust also recognises the time that employees spend volunteering for charities and matches the value of the time they spend. This may be time spent volunteering for a local care centre, for example, or the time many of our employees spend volunteering in local schools. The Trust also makes grants to employees who are members of a school parent-teacher association or Board of Governors.

Promoting a love of reading

The bulk of our grant funding goes towards projects to promote literacy, working in partnership with WHSmith PLC and the National Literacy Trust. Research findings show that children who read for pleasure have significantly better life chances than those who don’t. We are proud that over 50,000 children have taken part in our literacy projects since 2010. Each year, we make donations to hundreds of schools across the UK to enable them to improve their library facilities. In addition, we have been working in partnership with the National Literacy Trust since 2005 delivering projects to promote a love of reading, working in schools where many of the children struggle with their reading.

Applications can be made to your local store.

http://www.whsmithplc.co.uk/corporate_responsibility/community/benefit_to_local_communities/

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The grants are one-off sums and you have to spend them within 3 months.

There’s a maximum allocation of £10,000 for primary schools and £20,000 for secondaries.

They always encourage schools to apply for the maximum amount, and every application is carefully considered by the RTM UK Board of Trustees.

Restore The Music UK – Official UK charity website

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Persimmon has 30 offices across the UK that will each make a donation of up to £6,000 every quarter to those local organisations who are the lifeblood of our communities. Smaller donations are also available. Building Futures scheme gives away £1 million to support children’s health, sport and education and arts.

https://www.persimmonhomes.com/charity

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Catalyser Fund
Grants of between £30,001 and £300,000 for established organisations that support children and young people to make, learn and earn in music.

Trailblazer Fund
Grants of between £2,000 to £30,000 for organisations that support children and young people facing barriers to make, learn and earn in music.

NextGen Fund
The Youth Music NextGen Fund offers young creatives (aged 18 – 25, or 18 – 30 if they identify as Disabled) grants of up to £2,500 to make their ideas happen. We’ve launched the NextGen Fund to help emerging musicians and behind the scenes creatives take a step forward in participating and changing the music industries.

Energiser Fund
Grants of up to £120k for organisations experienced working with early years children. The Energiser Fund aims to celebrate and energise creative practice with 2-4-year-olds. Centring children’s voices, views and lived experience, the fund will explore co-design and participation in creative projects for early years.

FFI: https://network.youthmusic.org.uk/i-need-funding

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• Elderly people
• Children and young people aged 5 – 25
• People with disabilities or mental health problems
• People trying to overcome life-limiting problems of a social, rather than medical, origin – such as addiction, relationship difficulties, abuse, a history of offending
• Education and learning (with a particular interest in people who are educationally disadvantaged, whether adults or children)

Applicants must have a total expenditure budget of less than £40,000 a year and they will only fund running costs.
For further information contact: info@yappcharitabletrust.org.uk or phone: : 0191 3893300
or visit: www.yappcharitabletrust.org.uk

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• HEALTH AND WELLBEING – We believe no child should miss out on the health and wellbeing benefits of sport.
• SENSORY ROOMS AND GARDENS – We want to enthral, engage and excite young minds by stimulating children’s senses.
• SPECIALIST EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES – We provide firm foundations for brighter futures by backing building works and tackling transport and activity aids.
• PLAYGROUNDS AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES – We value the power of play in learning new skills.
• EDUCATION PROJECTS – We actively engage socially disadvantaged children and young people not in education, employment or training.

For further information please visit their website at: https://woodenspoon.org.uk/apply-for-a-grant/

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• blind care
• long term care of people with learning disabilities
• cancer care

We give both project and, in some circumstances, unrestricted grants.

How to apply: There are no deadlines. For further information visit www.willcharitabletrust.org.uk, telephone 01932 724148 or email

grantsoffice@willcharitabletrust.org.uk

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They have three funds that will support our communities:

• The Environment Fund
• The Community Fund.
• Avonmouth Area Community Fund

Please find more information about each fund at the link below.

https://www.wessexwater.co.uk/community/apply-for-funding

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• It is something new for this particular area
• It is small
• It does not employ staff
• It is not well established
• It has the potential to become self supporting
• It is outward looking and helps a lot of people
• It has a UK charity number, or can find a charity to accept funds on its behalf

By Post:

WAKEHAM LODGE
ROGATE
PETERSFIELD
GU31 5EJ

Phone:

01730821274

How to apply: www.thewakehamtrust.org

or email: The WakehamTrust@icloud.com

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