A grant-making charity dedicated to supporting people in need
Over £250,000 in grants announced
17 May 2011
The first installment of The Freemasons’ Grand Charity Minor Grants Programme is assisting twenty-six charities, with a total of £67,850. Grants range from £1,500 to £4,350 and are given in the areas of youth opportunities, support for vulnerable people and medical research.
Air Ambulance and equivalent rescue services around the country will receive a total of £192,000 in 2011 – bringing the full amount spent in this category since 2007 to nearly £1 million. Every Province and Metropolitan Grand Lodge has received £4,000 to give to an Air Ambulance (or equivalent) service of their choice and presentations are currently taking place around the country.
FIRST GRAND CHARITY MINOR GRANTS APPROVED IN 2011:
1 | ALD Life | £1,500 |
2 | The Arthrogryposis Group | £2,000 |
3 | Bath Institute of Medical Engineering | £3,500 |
4 | Blind Business Association Charitable Trust | £1,500 |
5 | British Tinnitus Association | £4,500 |
6 | The Cirdan Sailing Trust | £3,000 |
7 | Child Brain Injury Trust | £2,500 |
8 | Children’s Heart Federation | £3,500 |
9 | Cardiomyopathy Association | £3,000 |
10 | Encephalitis Support Group | £3,000 |
11 | Housing the Homeless Central Fund | £2,000 |
12 | Grand Parents Association | £3,000 |
13 | Maytree Respite Centre | £2,500 |
14 | No Panic | £2,000 |
15 | Perthes Association | £1,500 |
16 | Prisoners, Families and Friends Service | £2,000 |
17 | Rarer Cancers Foundation | £2,000 |
18 | REMAP | £4,000 |
19 | Straight Talking Peer Education | £2,000 |
20 | The Sequal Trust | £2,500 |
21 | Sibs | £2,000 |
22 | The Respite Association | £2,500 |
23 | Theodora Children’s Trust | £4,350 |
24 | Transplant Sport UK | £3,500 |
25 | The Wheelyboat Trust | £1,500 |
26 | Unique, Rare Chromosome Disorder Support Group | £2,500 |
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TOTAL |
£67,850 |
If you have any questions about these grants please contact Katrina Baker on 020 7395 9314 or via email at: kbaker@the-grand-charity.org
