The Brelms Trust - Yorkshire
The Brelms Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), originally set up as a Charitable Trust in 2007, offering grants to a wide variety of charities operating in the community. Funding is given exclusively to charities based in Yorkshire and directly benefitting only Yorkshire communities.
Priority in our grant giving is given to charities working at the heart of communities to tackle disadvantage and to provide sustainable benefit to the community. Applications are welcomed from a diversity of charitable organisations and can cover staff salaries, volunteer expenses and running costs, as well as direct service provision.
To advance the following purposes for the benefit of the public in Yorkshire:
the alleviation of poverty;
the preservation and protection of health, and the advancement of health education and training in particular but not exclusively amongst groups in the community who are in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage;
the development of the capacity and skills of the members of the socially and economically disadvantaged communities in such a way that they are better able to identify and help meet their needs and to participate more fully in society;
the advancement of education, the arts, and amateur sport by supporting community-based projects;
the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment;
such other charitable purposes as the Trustees shall deem appropriate from time to time.
What do we fund?
Organisations with charitable status and MUST be registered with the Charity Commission.
Charities based and embedded in Yorkshire with direct benefit to Yorkshire communities. We may fund projects run by national charities ONLY if the project is specifically benefitting the Yorkshire Community, and with clear evidence of embedded local management by a board of Trustees and local control of financial budgets and grants, usually evidenced by a set of published Financial Accounts. Yorkshire branches and offices of charities controlled by a Head Office outside Yorkshire are unlikely to be successful.
Core costs and specific projects for small and medium-sized charities with a current annual income of less than £300,000, and usually with unrestricted reserves of 6 months or less.
Charities enabling disadvantaged people to play a fuller role in the community, which may enhance their quality of life and extend their opportunities.
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