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Focus on Grants The Openwork Foundation uses your generous donations to provide grants to charities that help vulnerable people of all ages, from babies and children to adults and those in later life.
Grants can be nominated by colleagues and advisers from all businesses in The Openwork Partnership. The grants we award range from smaller unrestricted amounts to larger restricted funding to support capital projects or core running costs, helping charities provide their life changing services in our communities.
Sponsored Grant Committee dates for 2022: We are finalising the 2022 committee dates, in the meantime please email the foundation team for more details.
All sponsored applications must be received by the Foundation team three weeks prior to a Grant meeting.
Sponsored Grants If there is a UK registered charity you would like to support for a particular project or service, they can apply for a grant of up to £10,000 to help develop or maintain their valuable support in our communities. The applications are assessed each quarter by our Grant Committee, made up of advisers and colleagues from across The Openwork Partnership.
If you are a member of The Openwork Partnership and would like to nominate a charity, simply contact us for the Sponsored Grant guidance booklet to pass on to your contact at the charity. This includes a link to our on-line application form for the charity to complete. We will work with the charity to prepare their application pack for the Committee and keep you updated on the progress and final decision.
Discretionary Grants We also make smaller grants to UK registered charities that have a special meaning or importance to a member of the Openwork Partnership.
You can nominate the charity to receive a grant of between £100 and £250 and these are processed by the Foundation Team throughout the year.
National Charity Partners Cruse Bereavement Support and Dementia UK are our national charity partners from 2021, for three years. You can hear more about how we are supporting them under charity partners
Read on to see details of the grants that have recently been approved.
Aching Arms brings comfort to parents after a pregnancy baby loss, a still birth, miscarriage, or neo-natal death. The charity work with health professionals to improve the care they provide parents who have just a baby.
Sahara UK supports the Sahara Academy, based in Pokhara, Nepal. It was initially set up to take underprivileged children, mostly orphans off the streets to give them an education and a home. Funds are now being used not just for the academy, but also for schools, children and families affected by the earthquakes of 2015.
Swindon and Wiltshire Pride is an Annual LGBTQ+ festival to promote equality and diversity for the public benefit and in particular the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity by raising awareness, engaging with the community, celebrating the diversity of LGBTQ+ communities and advancing education.
Kids Cancer Charity, nominated by Malcolm Issacs
Prostate Cancer UK, nominated by Paul Pronini-Fisher
Mencap NI, nominated by Casey Graham
The Harbour Project, nominated by Sara Winslow
Dressibility, nominated by Lee Jennings &
Woking & Sam Beare Hospice, in memory of Ken Bray
Cash for Kids North East, nominated by Ian Sanderson
Invisible Traffick, nominated by Casey Graham
George's Rock Stars, nominated by Sandra Berry
Funding towards the Wellbeing Project to support the health and wellbeing of people aged 50+ throughout the pandemic and thereafter.
Funding to contribute to a Lead Neuro Physiotherapist salary costs, providing people with neurological conditions specialist exercise classes, physiotherapy technical advice and treatment plans and access to physio-assisted gym.
The charity provides loving, compassionate care to veterans and their partners living with disability or dementia in their friendly and modern homes. This funding will go towards dementia care in the Surbiton Home supporting resident's health and wellbeing.
The funding will be used to ensure the continued education of 140 disenfranchised children at the Feed My Lamb School in Uganda and offer them vocational skills to support themselves in the future.
To cover core costs for the Social Inclusion, Engage, Engage+ and Hitz Programmes, currently supporting 117 students aged 10 - 18 who have struggled in, or excluded from mainstream education.
Funding will be used to run a Covid inspired peer to peer support group for mums with a pre-existing mental health condition who have had a baby during the pandemic, working with Homestart Sutton.
The grant will contribute to the Active Lives' employment project, Let's Work Together. Supporting adults with learning disabilities to gain valuable work experience and skills training to increase their employment opportunities.
To contribute towards the costs of Lifespace's commitment to early intervention in Warwickshire's primary schools, working with children aged 8-11 including transition work into Y7 at secondary schools.
The project purpose is to create opportunities for disadvantaged and disabled children in Leicestershire to break the cycle of poverty and social deprivation through education.
The charity provide teaching, residential care, plus a range of therapies and enrichment activities for children, young people, and adults with profound and multiple disabilities. This funding will be used to purchase a number of iPads to facilitate greater communication between the children, young people and adults and their families.
To part fund a new Roald Dahl Transition Specialist Nurse for East Sussex supporting 96 young people living with complex neuro disabilities and part fund a Roald Dahl Transition Specialist Nurse helping children in Newham East London.
This grant will cover a full year of the Foundation Scholar programme for 4 particularly disadvantaged students. This would cover all tuition, staff costs, travel, food, concert costs, one-to-one instrumental lessons and special trips.
To part fund the parent/carer service which complements the work of Holding On Letting Go with bereaved children and young people.
To enable Over the Wall to adapt services for children with serious illness and their families, by delivering a remote, online, version of camp. ‘Camp in the Cloud’ in 2021.
