📋About
Grant-making (health/wellbeing, education, mental health, poverty, domestic violence); Together for Women and Children Fund (IDVA hospital-based advocates with DASH and PACT); Last Resort Fund (food, essential baby goods, emergency transport, hygiene products); Vital for Berkshire Fund; Surviving Winter Fund; Warm Welcome Hub grants (84 providers, £233k, 69,768 people); community events (Charity Symposium, Annual Awards, Meet the Funder); Derby Health Inequalities Partnership; Charitable Trusts and Funds management
Custom geography from upload: Berkshire (Reading, Slough, Wokingham, Bracknell, Windsor and Maidenhead, West Berkshire)
📊Key Metrics
£1,061,931.34 awarded to 249 projects supporting 169 organisations in 2024/25; 120,000 people supported
Key Metric 1
Four consecutive years of £1m+ granting — fourth most successful granting year ever; 120,894 total beneficiaries across Berkshire; top beneficiary groups: children and young people, victims of crime/violence/abuse, older people
Key Metric 2
Last Resort Fund supported 27 charities and community groups; Together for Women and Children Fund awarded £1.29m to 224 projects reaching 35,000+ vulnerable women and children since 2019; IDVA hospital-based domestic abuse advocates funded
Key Metric 3
✅Key Outcomes
- Won 2024 LGC Award for Diversity and Inclusion for exemplary work reducing health inequalities; Former PM Baroness May of Maidenhead spoke at Together for Women and Children event; Amanda Stephens (Olly's Work) addressed supporters on children's online safety
- IDVA case study: patient who was homeless and without a phone, previously unable to stay in touch with police — IDVA recognised her name at hospital, provided phone, helped move to refuge; 'she called to say thank you and that she was grateful for the opportunity of a fresh start'
- Member of UK Community Foundations (UKCF) network of 47 accredited Community Foundations; established 1985; 50th anniversary approaching; 2026 pilot with DASH and Learning To Work — healthy relationships sessions for Year 7 students; Lord-Lieutenant of Berkshire is President