Recent Grants

Introduction

The Foundation’s financial year runs from 1 October until 30 September and during the year to 30 September 2007 a total of £1,169,697 was donated. This total is largely split between the Foundation’s main areas of interest, namely Education, Health and the Elderly but a small percentage also went to general causes which the trustees felt were of benefit to the residents of Bristol.

The breakdown for the year to 30 September 2007 is:

Education: £562,013

This included £300,000 towards Bursary Funds held in Bristol Independent Schools and £85,000 for Prizes and Awards donations spread over both state and independent Bristol Secondary Schools.

Other significant donations under this category were:

Barton Hill Settlement: £27,003
Bristol Children’s Help Society: £25,000
Circomedia: £10,000
Feed the Children: £14,055
Henbury School: £10,000
The Wheels Project Ltd:  £7,500
Withywood Community School: £25,000

Health: £479,548

Significant donations included:

Barnardo’s Bristol Base: £23,448
Burden Neurological Institute: £45,000
Church Housing Trust: £8,500
Hammer Out: £10,000
Marie Curie Cancer Care: £14,000
Motability: £10,200
Penny Brohn Cancer Care: £200,000
St John’s Family Resource Unit: £50,000
Salvation Army - Bristol: £8,500
The Jessie May Trust: £20,000
Victim Support: £10,000

The Elderly: £117,686

Significant donations included:

Age Concern - Bristol: £7,848
Bristol Care & Repair: £7,500
Burma Plaques Commemorative Appeal: £10,000
Little Sisters of the Poor: £21,000
162 Christmas Party donations totalling: £32,330

General: £10,450

Few grants are made under this heading but during 2007 the main ones included:

Caring at Christmas (Bristol Nightstop): £1,000
Kuumba: £3,500
Missing People: £2,500
Severn Four Credit Union: £1,000
The Canynges Society: £1,000

Recent Past Giving

Major donations in recent years included:

Bristol University Bowel Cancer Research: £800,000
Bristol Urological Institute – BioMed Centre: £250,000
Children’s Hospice South West: £1,000,000
New Bristol Children’s Hospital: £1,259,530

Total giving in the previous five years was:

2006: £1,130,807
2005: £1,070,395
2004: £1,190,023
2003: £1,188,426
2002: £1,130,496