William A Cadbury Charitable Trust (Birmingham and the West Midlands – Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire & Herefordshire) – Deadline: Rolling
The William A Cadbury Charitable Trust is a Birmingham based grant-making charity which provides funding to
other charitable organisations working principally in the West Midlands. The Trust provides funding for the following areas:
• Community Action – community based and organised schemes (which may be centred on a place of worship) aimed at solving local problems and improving the quality of life for community members,
• Vulnerable Groups – including the elderly, children, and young people, the disabled, asylum seekers and similar minorities,
• Advice, Mediation and Counselling – applicants must be able to point to the rigorous selection, training and monitoring of front-line staff, particularly in the absence of formal qualifications, as well as to the overall need for the service provided,
• Education and Training – trustees are particularly interested in schemes that help people of working age develop new skills in order to re-enter the jobs market,
• Environment and Conservation – projects which address the impact of climate change and projects to preserve buildings and installations of historic importance and local interest,
• Medical and Healthcare – hospices, self help groups and some medical research which must be based in and be of potential benefit to the West Midlands,
• The Arts – music, drama and the visual arts, museums and art galleries, 85
• Penal Affairs – restorative justice, prison-based projects and work with ex-offenders aimed at reducing reoffending (penal reform used to be supported on a UK wide basis but, because of the volume of appeals received, the programme is now restricted to the West Midlands. Trustees will consider applications for core costs as well for development/project funding. If the Trust has supported you in the past, please briefly describe the outcome of the most recent project to receive our support. Applications are considered by trustees on a regular basis and small grants (up to a maximum of £2,000) are awarded monthly.
Trustees meet in May and November to award approximately 20 large grants at each meeting with an average value of £20,000, and an occasional maximum of £50,000. The cut off for applications to the May meeting is early March while for November the cut off is early to mid-September.