Endowment Funds

Individual Named Funds

Unrestricted Funds:

Grants from these funds are awarded to projects throughout Wiltshire & Swindon at the discretion of the Community Foundation’s grants committees.

Clayton Fund
Cleland Family Fund
Giles Family Fund
Hescott Fund
Hiscox Fund
Ian Mactaggart Fund
Jane Mactaggart Fund
John and Tessa Manser Fund
Alastair and Lindsey Muir Fund
David and Carolyn Newbigging Fund
Sir Charles and Lady Nunneley Fund
Paws On Fund
John and Valerie Rendell Fund
David Rogers Fund
Sutton Fund
William and Madeline Wilks Fund

Geographic Funds:

Grants from these funds are awarded to projects operating in the donors’ area of interest.

Abotts Fund - Central
Handy Fund – Swindon
Kilcreggan Fund – Central Wiltshire
Kitty O’Connor Fund – Kennet Valley
Michael Wilson Fund – Swindon
Restricted Funds:
Harrison Fund supports projects tackling,poverty in Wiltshire
Kestrels Fund supports projects providing activities for young people or for disabled children
Maples Family Fund supports disadvantaged older people
Paul Osborne Fund for projects supporting young people, including mentoring and homelessness
Shuker Educational Fund for individuals higher educational needs in West Wiltshire
James Smith Fund supports projects for young people and for rural projects including transport in the Salisbury area

Foundation Funds:

Jack and Shelagh Ainslie Fund
David and Joan Airey Fund
Peter & Nicky Alberry Fund
Ancram Fund
Sir Martyn Arbib Fund
Nicholas and Diana Baring Fund
The Best Fund
Lord and Lady Cairns Fund
Clare Evans Fund
David Fitzwilliam-Lay Fund
Michael and Annabel Gibb Fund
Moyra James Fund
James and Lucilla Joll Fund
Walter and Barbara Marais Fund
Anna Marsden Fund
Matthews Family Fund
R.A. and V.B. Reekie Fund
Peter & Sarah Troughton Fund
Steve and Pam Willcox Fund
Ian and Daphne Wilson Fund

Organisation Named Funds

Unrestricted Funds:

Grants from these funds are awarded to projects throughout Wiltshire & Swindon at the discretion of the Community Foundation’s grants committees.

APT Electrics Ltd
Barclays Bank plc
Bluemay Ltd.
Boris Karloff Fund
Cardinal Health
Clark Holt Commercial Solicitors
Dolby Laboratories Inc.
Enterprise Inns plc (Gibbs Mew)
European Metal Recycling Ltd.
A.W. Gale Fund
Gcap Media (previously GWR Group plc)
Hannick Homes & Developments Ltd.
Harrier Logistics (previously Fiege)
HSBC
Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd.
Intergraph (UK) Ltd.
KPMG
RWE npower
Sangster Group Limited
Tyco Electronics UK Ltd.
Uniq Prepared Foods
Wadworth & Co. Ltd.
Wansbroughs
Withy King Solicitors Fund

Geographic Funds:

Grants from these funds are awarded to projects operating in the donors’ area of interest.

Stanley Security Solutions - Europe Ltd. – Swindon
Castrol Ltd – Swindon
Edwards Ford – Salisbury
Samuel William Farmer Fund – Central Wiltshire
Fuelforce – Swindon)
Haydon Wick Fund – Haydon Wick & area
Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems – 15km radius of Melksham
Ottons Land Rover – Salisbury
Rotary Club Of North Wiltshire – Swindon)
Tithegrove Ltd – Swindon
Wilsons Solicitors – Swindon Restricted Funds:
H & P Blagrave Fund grants for projects that support elderly people
Greenacres Fund supporting young people’s education
Peter Holmes Fund grants to support individuals or groups in Blunsdon, for musical education
JPMorgan Foundation supporting projects that tackle rural deprivation through education
Nationwide Building Society supporting young people, carers, and projects tackling homelessness
QinetiQ Boscombe Down support for young people’s educational projects
Triumph International Ltd for projects in Swindon supporting disadvantaged women and children

Donor Advised Funds:

Grants from our Donor Advised Funds are awarded at the donors’ discretion to projects assessed by the Community Foundation

Avon Rubber Plc
Friends Provident Life
Honda Of The UK Manufacturing Ltd.
Honda Logistics
Motorola
Nationwide Building Society Thomas Grace Fund
Thomas Grace Fund

Wiltshire Gazette & Herald (small grants)
Wiltshire Times

Themed & Pooled
Endowment Funds

The Wiltshire & Swindon Fund an unrestricted fund
Friends Fund an unrestricted fund
Gold Fund a fund supporting projects
for disadvantaged older people
High Sheriff’s Fund a fund to support
Wiltshire Crimebeat initiatives
Millennium Youth Fund a fund supporting
young peoples’ projects
Central Wiltshire Fund a fund supporting
projects operating in Kennet, North Wilts &
West Wilts
Salisbury Fund a fund supporting projects
operating in Salisbury & District
Swindon Fund a fund supporting projects
operating in the Borough of Swindon

Parochial Funds
held in the Endowment

Richard Bennett School Master and School Mistress Fund
Richard Bennett Hospital Fund
Kents Almshouses
Meyrick Trust
Isaac Tyler Charity

Record number of grants made during 2009/2010

Our final calculations for our end of year accounts have shown that we distributed £913,000 in grants to 255 groups during 2009/2010.
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The Community Foundation Demonstrates Quality

Wiltshire and Swindon are one of the first two Community Foundations to receive enhanced quality accreditation as part of a pilot project for the Community Foundation Network.
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