February 2017 grant making
The trustees met on 9th February to assess applications received between October and December 2016. A total of 21 grants were awarded, totaling £95,000, to some fantastic charities including Demelza Hospice, Coram Adoption Services and Music in Hospitals. Read on for the full list of grantees.
- Action for Sick Children
- Alzheimer’s & Dementia Support Services
- Alzheimer’s Society
- Blind Veterans UK
- Coram Adoption Services
- Demelza House Hospice
- Disability Law Service
- Dream Holidays
- Heart of Kent
- Homestart Kent
- Hospice in the Weald
- Kent, Sussex and Surrey Air Ambulance
- Kids Out Ridegview School
- Little Hearts Matter
- Motor Neurone Disease Association
- Music in Hospitals
- PSPA
- RNC
- The British Stammering Association
- The Foreland School
- Wetwheels
Lawson House
The Lawson Trust awarded a grant to Rapport Housing & Care, a registered charity that provides care and housing to over 400 over 55s at various locations across the south east. The charity operates a number of supported homes, residential homes, extra care housing schemes and a domiciliary care service.
The Lawson Trust funding has funded...
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Endowment with Sussex Community Foundation
The Lawson Trust is excited to announce an endowment collaboration with Sussex Community Foundation (SCF). We have entrusted SCF with a donation of £2.5 million which will be invested as an endowment for Sussex.
Our fund with SCF will make grants in each of SCF’s three grant-making rounds and the first deadline for applications is Friday...
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An encouraging story to begin 2018 with!
Back in November I attended The GAP Project’s annual general meeting. As well as covering the formalities of the project’s operations it was an engaging celebration of the project’s achievements over the past year.
Kent Community Foundation connected The Lawson Trust with this dynamic project in February 2017. The organisation plays an active role in the...
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Spotlight on St George's Community Project
St George’s Community Children’s Project
One of the organisations recently funded through The Lawson Endowment for Kent is St George's Community Project, a wonderful example of how Kent Community Foundation connects The Lawson Trust to impactful grass roots organisations. Ellie Stewart, fundraising and development coordinator from St George's explains what the project is all about.
"St George’s...
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Changing Lives – The Lawson Trust
by Martin Phillips
Serve On is extremely grateful to the Trustees of The Lawson Trust for entering into a unique partnership with us to support our humanitarian international response work abroad.
With the...
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Most recent awards!
May's trustee meeting saw another batch of amazing organisations receive funding from The Lawson Trust.
Launch and recovery exercise of the Dungeness Shannon class lifeboat The Morrell 13-02.
Breast Cancer Care
British Polio Fellowship
Chailey Heritage Foundation
ClearVision
Combat Stress
Compaid
Crossways
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Fields in Trust
Interact
Let's Face...
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February awards!
February 2017 grant making
The trustees met on 9th February to assess applications received between October and December 2016. A total of 21 grants were awarded, totaling £95,000, to some fantastic charities including Demelza Hospice, Coram Adoption Services and Music in Hospitals. Read on for the full list of grantees.
Action for Sick Children
Alzheimer's &...
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New Fund: The Lawson Endowment for Kent
The Raymond and Blanche Lawson Trust has donated £5,000,000 to Kent Community Foundation to set up a new grant-making Endowment Fund for local charities in Kent and Medway.
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