Grants made in 2024

Prevention or Relief of Poverty

Spitfire Advice and Support Services LTD £3,000
Karis Neighbour Scheme £1,000
Total £4,000

Advancement of Education

Birmingham Boys and Girls Union £6,000
Total £6,000

Advancement of Religion

No grants within this category.
Note: The Saintbury Trust no longer accepts applications under this heading.

Advancement of Health or the Saving of Lives

The Air Ambulance Service £5,000
The Myriad Centre £2,000
Alzheimers Research UK £10,000
University Hospitals Birmingham £5,000
Total £22,000

Advancement of Citizenship or Community Development

The Dorothy Parkes Centre £2,000
Fair Shares £1,000
Total £3,000

Advancement of Arts, Culture, Heritage or Science

Midlands Arts Centre £5,000
Services for Education Limited £2,000
Birmingham Royal Ballet £3,000
Legacy West Midlands £2,000
Orchestra of the Swan £5,000
Birmingham Hippodrome £5,000
Birmingham Repertory Theatre LTD £4,000
Big Brum Theatre in Education Company Ltd £2,000
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists £2,000
B:Music LTD £50,000
The National Youth Orchestra £3,000
Birmingham Bach Choir £3,000
Broadway Arts Festival £1,000
Longborough Festival Opera £2,000
Ex Cathedra £8,000
Fierce Festival £2,000
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra £10,000
The Royal Shakespeare Company £10,000
Gloucester Civic Trust £2,000
Gloucester Cathedral £5,000
Garden Organic £2,000
Total £128,000

Advancement of Amateur Sport

Sandwell Asian Development Association £2,000
Total £2,000

Advancement of Human Rights, Conflict Resolution or Reconciliation or the Promotion of Religious or Racial Harmony or Equality of Diversity

The Women and Families Resource Centre £2,000
Total £2,000

Advancement of Environmental Protection or Improvement

Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust £5,000
The Heart of England Forest £4,000
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust £2,000
Worcestershire Wildlife Trust £2,000
Warley Woods Community Trust £2,000
Total £15,000

Relief of those in Need by reason of Youth, Age, Ill-Health, Disability, Financial Hardship or other Disadvantage

Care of the dying

Shipston Home Nursing £2,000
St Richards Hospice Foundation £8,000
The Shakespeare Hospice £2,000
Acorns Childrens Hospice Trust £2,000
Birmingham Hospice £6,000
Longfield Hospice Care £3,000
Total £23,000


Childhood and youth

Ecobirmingham £2,000
Beyond the Horizon Charity £2,000
Jericho £2,000
Birmingham Settlement £5,000
Meriden Adventure Playground Association £2,000
Sport 4 Life UK £3,000
Bentley Beginnings £1,000
Missing People Ltd £2,000
Total £22,000


Community

Home Start South Warwickshire £3,000
Solihull Moors Foundation £3,000
BIRCH Network £5,000
Total £11,000


Disability and ill-health

Waterloo Community Counselling £3,000
Foundation for Conductive Education (NICE) £5,000
CASBA £3,000
Where Next Association £2,000
Disability Challengers £5,000
Wild Goose Rural Training £2,000
Castel Froma Neuro Care £3,000
Resources for Autism £2,000
Cotswold Friends £2,000
Norton Hall Children and Family Centre £2,000
National Star £5,000
Perdiswell Young People’s Leisure Club £2,000
Martineau Gardens £2,000
Options for Life £5,000
James Hopkins Trust £3,000
Acacia Family Support £3,000
Art Therapies UK £3,000
ASPIE £2,000
Birmingham Disability Resource Centre £3,000
Better Understanding of Dementia for Sandwell £3,000
Total £60,000


Homelessness

St. Anne’s Hostel £4,000
Total £4,000


Old age

Cape Community Care Day Centre £2,000
Total £2,000

Advancement of Animal Welfare

The trust is precluded by the terms of the settlement from making grants to animal charities.

Promotion of the Efficiency of the Armed Forces of the Crown or the Efficiency of the Police, Fire and Rescue or Ambulance Services

No grants within this category.

Other purposes that are currently recognised as charitable or are in the spirit of any purposes currently recognised as charitable

No grants within this category.

Total grants awarded 2024: £304,000