Named Funds

We have a number of Funds here at the Northamptonshire Community Foundation.  Our fund holders have worked with us as they know we can set up a fund extremely quickly and efficiently with a minimum of bureaucracy, fuss and cost.

Anonymous Fund - set up by a donor and his family from the North of the County, this fund has an emphasis on empowering disadvantaged young people from Northamptonshire, with a specific focus on providing educational opportunities to the underpriveleged.

High Sherriff Initiative Fund for Northamptonshire - this fund supports children and young people's projects in Northamptonshire with particular emphasis on crime prevention. The High Sheriff of Northamptonshire chairs the grants panel with past and future High Sheriff's.

The Jonathan Pearson Fund - has been set up to support a wide range of projects across the county and beyond.

Diversey Fund - Funds a wide range of projects, including community events and activities, small scale training costs and small or large pieces of equipment for community projects across Northamptonshire.

Cecil Petitt Fund - thjs fund distributes grants for the particular benefit of people with disabilities living in Northamptonshire.

Let Yourself Grow Community Fund - The Fund will make grants for the particular benefit of the people of Northamptonshire. It will aim to help community groups to:
Engage with and celebrate their local heritage and cultural identity
Support local initiatives to develop projects concerned with social cohesion
Support projects that demonstrate positive economic impact in social communities
 
David Laing Fund - a general fund set up to help support community groups in Northamptonshire

Henry Martin Centenary Fund - grants to support and develop disadvantaged young people in Northamptonshire to provide a better future through training.

BlueBird Fund - funds for the community groups and projects within the county of Northamptonshire

Arts and Music Fund for Northamptonshire - grants for disadvantaged individuals and community groups to develop and pursue artistic and cultural activities in Northamptonshire.

Elders Fund (Norman Taylor Trust) - working with the trust to administer grants to elderly and frail people, groups and projects in Northamptonshire.

Constance Travis Charitable Trust Fund - working with the trust to adminster grants to a wider range of smaller, grassroots groups in Northamptonshire.

Vulnerable Families Fund - Goldsmiths charity - working with the trust to adminster grants to those organisations working with vulnerable families in deprived areas of Northamptonshire.

Genesis Housing Funds - develop and support community activity for new communities at Great Billing Way and Ladybridge Drive areas of Northampton.

Cave & Sons - set up to distribute funds for the benefit of grassroots groups and projects within the county of Northamptonshire.

Northamptonshire Champions Fund for sporting excellence - small grants to individuals who are showing potential in the lead up to the 2012 Olympics. This also includes funding for Paralympians.

Woodenspoon Fund - a community fund to benefit disadvantaged young people and the Spoon's community rugby projects within Northamptonshire

As a fund holder you can have as much or as little say in how your fund is used as you wish including making the decisions over who to support. With the added security of knowing that each grant given is backed up by a detailed assessment process delivered by us to you, using our professional expertise and knowledge of the local community to ensure that your support only goes to those that really need it.

To make a real difference, it's easy to set up your own fund, either in your life-time or by leaving a legacy. You can have:

• an endowment fund, where we invest your money using an expert investment manager to generate an annual income, which is then distributed in grants

• a revenue fund, where we give one-off support to specific good causes

• or a combination of both the above.

Who to support

As a fund holder you can choose to support to any charitable, benevolent or philanthropic cause. You can also support individuals as well as groups or projects (they do not have to be a registered charity). It’s also easy to change annually what you wish to support without the lengthy or costly legal work this would involve if you set up your own trust.

Fund holders now use our professional knowledge and expertise to make a real difference to the people they care about locally. Contact Chief Executive Victoria Miles or Jessica Pilkington on 01604 230033.