About the Trust
The trust supports organisations that serve three groups:
- Disadvantaged children and young people
Those isolated, at risk of exclusion, involved in anti-social behaviour and those who have been in the care system.
Those susceptible to becoming involved in gangs/ victims of gang violence and knife crime.
Support for education and mentoring projects, projects that raise self-esteem,
foster employment opportunities and encourage an involvement in the local community.
Separately, the Trust funds summer playschemes for children.
- Disadvantaged families
This covers parenting support and guidance, mental health, food poverty, refuges and domestic violence projects.
- Prisoners, ex-offenders and their families
Organisations that rehabilitate and resettle prisoners post-release, and projects that maintain contact with prisoners’ families while inside.
The Trust was established in 1988 and brought under the umbrella of The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts in 1997.
For more information, visit the Woodward Charitable Trust website.
The Trust does not fund
- Charities whose income exceeds £200,000 for general grants.
- Charities whose income exceeds £100,000 for the children’s summer playschemes.
- Charities whose demographic does not make up at least 50% of one or more of the above groups (children and young people, disadvantaged parent-child families, prisoners, and ex-offenders).
- Charities registered overseas.
- Charities working overseas.
- Charities that are not inclusive.
- Charities not registered with the Charity Commission/OSCR/ The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland/ Companies House.
- Arts based charities with no social purpose.
- Medical condition-specific organisations.
- Individuals in any capacity.
- Exclusively education-based charities and
- Charities applying for capital and construction projects such as playgrounds, village halls, and disabled accesses.
We publish open grants data. To find out more about what we fund, please visit 360Giving.
Grantmaking process
To apply, please visit our website.
Staff
- Karin Hooper – Trust Executive
- Vanessa Lye – Assistant Trust Executive
Contact us
To get in touch, please visit the Woodward Charitable Trust website.